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Concha Jerez-José Iges: Journey to Nowhere
Concha Jerez – José Iges: Journey to Nowhere
Prod. Kunstradio-Radiokunst, 2015
Since this title taken from a film by Fernando Fernán Gómez about traveling theater comedians, we invite you to a journey to issues belonging to the “Great Teatre of the World” (as Calderón de la Barca wrote) in which all of us perform daily: time of individual and collective history, definition of identity, laws versus utopias, no man’s lands, media in the construction of reality, electronic surveillance… in our advanced societies. These are issues that interlace the public and the private and that are undertaken from fragments of seven of our works* (made between 1993 and 2015, so somehow we also propose a journey to our own work and our concerns as artists and as citizens.
It is the spoken word, something so radiophonic, the main vehicle chosen to do so, while several sounds -false national anthems, dice rolls, time signals, babbling, steps, drag or broken objects- are laying out the course. “They walk but they don’t advance”, Beckett said. Something similar happens on this journey, and also by that becomes a Journey to nowhere.
All those works take part of the retrospective exhibition Concha Jerez-jose Iges: Media_mutations (http:mediamutaciones.com), which is presented in Tabacalera Madrid until June 21, curator Karin Ohlenschläger.
Desde este título tomado de un film de Fernando Fernán Gómez sobre los cómicos del teatro ambulante, invitamos a un viaje hacia temas que son del “Gran Teatro del Mundo” (como escribió Calderón de la Barca) en el que todos actuamos a diario: el tiempo de la historia individual y colectiva, la definición de la identidad, las leyes versus las utopías, las tierras de nadie, los media en la construcción de la realidad o la vigilancia electrónica en nuestras sociedades avanzadas. Son temas que entrelazan lo público y lo privado, y que se abordan desde fragmentos de siete de nuestras obras, realizadas entre 1993 y 2015, así que de algún modo planteamos también un viaje hacia nuestro propio trabajo y a nuestras preocupaciones como artistas y como ciudadanos.
Es la palabra hablada, algo tan radiofónico, el vehículo fundamental elegido para ello, mientras diversos sonidos -falsos himnos nacionales, tiradas de dados, señales horarias, balbuceos, pasos, arrastre o rotura de objetos- van jalonando el recorrido. “Ellos caminan pero no avanzan”, dijo Beckett. Algo parecido sucede en este viaje, y también por eso se convierte en un viaje a ninguna parte.
Las obras empleadas forman parte de la exposición retrospectiva Concha Jerez-José Iges: Media_mutaciones (http://mediamutaciones.com) que se presenta en Madrid hasta el 21 de junio, comisariada por Karin Ohlenschläger.
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