LA CENDRA ÉS PAISATGE DE MEMÒRIA / ASH IS A LANDSCAPE OF MEMORY
Amnesty, from the Greek amnestia = oblivion. Oblivion is the final act of the Franco dictatorship in which we live. The dictators go and the organizers of oblivion leave . Juan Gelman
I focus on the issue of the missing from the Spanish Civil War. The forgotten of the forgotten. There are 115,000 of them in Spain. 2 of them from my family.
This conceptual framework is that of the starting point and the return point of the performance. Between these two points, a deep personal artistic work of dialogue between the intimate and the universal on this subject. A coming and going between the present and the past. An animist ritual of memory repair. A raising of awareness about where we come from, where we are and where we are going, from my voice, as a daughter of the Amnesty law and granddaughter of war.
· Creation, dramaturgy and direction:
Alba Torres (2015-16)
· Assistant directors and producers: Angeles Lopez / Daniel Pascual
· Duration: 25 minutes
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FERIDA (WOUND)
Wound: a fragile, vulnerable place, a place of pain
Each artist who participates in the piece shows the creative work on a personal wound at the moment of life that they find themselves in. Each artist, from their creative singularity, elaborates a transition, in an attempt at healing. Artists and languages that intersect and dialogue in this space of pure metaphor about the human condition.
Multidisciplinary "site-specific" show
· Artistic Direction: Julieta Aurora Santos · Creation and performers: Quim Girón, Alba Torres, Pau Masaló Llorà, Rui Paixao, Catarina Campos · Musician: Tiago Inuit · Coordination: Eva Marichalar-Freixa
· Production by FiraTàrrega and Festival Imaginarius, with the support of the Institut Ramon Llull · Year of creation 2016-17
Origin: Catalonia - Portugal · Duration: 1h
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CUIRASS
Def: Armor, shell, shield, hard layer, protection.
Emotional armor: when faced with danger or an emotional situation of pain or fear, the body and mind react unconsciously to protect themselves and survive, creating muscular tension and a series of defensive thoughts and emotions.
If the situation does not change or if the way of facing it does not change; if a channel and support is not found to express and elaborate on the situation, the muscular tension will be repeated over time and will keep or imprison the emotions experienced, which will be "frozen" and "stored" within the body, the receptacle and memory of all our experiences, conscious and unconscious.
Performance that explores this human condition.
Original idea and creation: Alba Torres
Collaboration and co-creation of the performance SÓC·COS, which interweaves the visual and performative language of CUIRASSA
with the visceral poetry written from the body that also explores the same boundaries, by the poet Ester Pardo, creating a new
experimental piece.
Year of creation: 2019 and staged in the OFF space of FiraTàrrega 2019.
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Year of creation: first confinement 2020
CONFINE:
A TERRITORY WHERE ONE TERRITORY ENDS AND ANOTHER BEGINS
Work initiated during confinement, as a response and exploration of its impact on the individual and collective unconscious. Unconscious that manifests itself in dreams. Dreams as a manifestation of what remains in the shadow of consciousness. I welcome them into my active imagination through a scenic and pictorial language.
6 scenes 6 videos. Click here:
I work with the language of the shadow, as a metaphor for the unconscious and plastic intervention in dialogue with the shadow. Music and pre-recorded audios as a story of pandemic dreams, poems in response to them and the philosophical analysis of Victor's situation. J Krebs, Jungian pop philosopher and professor of Humanities at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
INSPIRATION: I am inspired by research work on the impact of a crisis on the collective unconscious, such as the work of C. Beradt, who collected hundreds of dreams from a diverse German population during the first 5 years of the Nazi regime, published in the book "The Third Reich of Dreams". Or the current American project https://www.idreamofcovid.com/ , a website that is collecting the dreams of people from all over the world during this pandemic.
Year of creation: 2021-2023
Presentation: 2 passes to the old ice well in Tàrrega, July 7, 2023, capacity of 30 people on each pass.
IGNOTA PELL (UNKNOWN SKIN) performance
Solo-performance. Go down with me into the well, there I will share with you the alchemy I do with my dreams, specifically with a few of the 50 dreams I wrote down while traveling alone for 3 months through black Africa last 2021, on a journey of research and creation.
( I )GNOTA PELL /(UN)KNOWN SKIN
archaeology of a creative process
Audiovisual and sculptural installation. A retrospective tour of the key pieces of my research and creation career. A tour that ends in the oracle of dreams with a collective happening. #mourning rituals #africa #anthropology of art and health #dreams #oracle
Year of creation: 2023
Installation at Sala Marsà. Tàrrega. From October 13 to November 3, 2023. Collective happenings from Thursday to Sunday. (I)gnota Pell welcomed 300 people.
(I) GNOTA PELL / (UN)KNOWN SKIN a dreams oracle
Art show IGNOTA PELL oracle of dreams. a multidisciplinary happening. a book that unfolds with the public. but a handmade book, limited edition to 30 units, a book that is the third version of the same book, a living book of dream work...that mutates with me and I with it.
a live musical creation that sounds with @dubix_sel_hector!
a journey into dreams... an oracle where to find answers...
thanks to the eyes and camera of @nanimiras
thanks to the unconditional support of @angeleslopezteruel thanks to @ateneutarrega for being home
Thank you/Aniché @balaremusic for the co-creation of the song Dounia Tanka qui sonne