Mar Arza, Pedro G Romero, Adriano Galante, Lucía Egaña, and Max de Esteban have participated in the Master's Degree in Research in Art and Design (MURAD) at EINA-UAB in the workshops on contemporary thought and artistic research, coordinated by Andrea Soto Calderón.
MURAD's collaboration with established artists and designers working in different languages will take place in each of the editions of this programme with the aim of sharing with students the different creative processes and research methodologies to explore different artistic research practices and to deepen critical visual thinking through theoretical and practical workshops, collective exercises, debates, and discussion forums.
"It is not so much about having new ideas but, as Vilém Flusser argued in The Gesture of Making, creation means elaborating new ideas during the process of making, forms and relations that have their own agency and appear during this specific process of production," says Andrea Soto Calderón, Ph.D. in philosophy, professor of aesthetics and art theory.
The workshops held have been:
Mar Arza – Parcelas inexploradas
The use of language and its blind spots represent important tools for naming unexplored plots. Among the themes developed by the visual artist Mar Arza are the use of time, the conflict of the present and its historical memory, the artist's labour and material relationship, the questioning of the unintelligibility of art.
Pedro G Romero – Un conocimiento por montaje
The work of Pedro G Romero, a multidisciplinary artist, has not ceased to explore the unconscious of the history of art and the popular, his central problem is the reflection and investigation of the image as a point of resistance to time, be it historical, biological, psychological or verbal time. In his work there is a constant preoccupation with the disappearance of authorship.
Adriano Galante – Alteraciones por el sonido
Adriano Galante, singer, founder, and musician of the sound action, performance, and free song collective Seward, explores the different ways of opening that music, sound, breathing, moments that move us and transport us to a place from which to create and open up a field of possibility.
Lucía Egaña – Poner el cuerpo: el cuerpo como campo de batalla
From her own body as a battlefield, Lucía Egaña, Ph.D. in Audiovisual Communication, unfolds different ways of using the body to explore the skeins of devices and discourses that run through our bodies and their affective geographies.
Max de Esteban – Infraestructuras
The work of Max de Esteban, an artist who works primarily with photography and video, proposes that the 20th century cannot be understood without the infrastructures that made it possible, his project aims to examine the key organisations that will define the 21st century and reveal their ideological nature. Infrastructures as technologies that generate specific conditions that enable certain circulations and meanings of power.
