sábado, 5 de octubre de 2024

TWINS





TWINS is an ongoing series that reinterprets the city as a fragmented, dual reality, where each element is mirrored or contrasted with its counterpart. This "unstable installation" unfolds across various urban spaces, transforming locations into transient frames. Each city—whether Madrid, Mexico City, or Berlin—becomes part of a larger hyperplastic landscape, where urban textures and forms are duplicated, compressed, and synthetically altered. The project explores the tension between symmetry and rupture, using diptychs and doubled perspectives to create a dialogue between structure and instability. TWINS is not just a visual exploration, but a conceptual investigation into how cities can be simultaneously familiar and alien.




Taranto Aleatorio _______ María del Mar Suárez ***** La Chachi

 




On an ordinary Thursday afternoon in a modest neighborhood hall, two young women dressed in tracksuits sat almost inconspicuously close to the audience—one savoring sunflower seeds, the other rolling a cigarette. No microphones, lighting effects, or accompanying musicians were present—just two bodies, their voices, and the pure essence of their art. What unfolded in this intimate setting was a raw, daring reinterpretation of flamenco: a form that thrives on tradition yet boldly challenges its boundaries, like a salmon swimming upstream.

For a full hour, María del Mar Suárez, La Chachi, took us on a journey into the heart of contemporary flamenco, a version stripped of its folkloric trappings. She sang while her partner danced, their performance a brave, minimalist act of resistance against the conventions often associated with flamenco. This was a cappella flamenco, devoid of guitars or polka-dot dresses—just the rhythm of voices and bodies in space, challenging what flamenco could be.

In Taranto Aleatorio, La Chachi moves beyond mere preservation of flamenco’s roots, using her performance to mutate and evolve the genre into something distinctly modern, neighborhood-driven, and yet avant-garde. The lack of conventional instruments and the standardized wardrobe give the performance an edge—a futuristic flamenco that thrives on the tension between tradition and innovation.

The audience, deeply connected to this exploration of form, responded with spontaneous olés, reinforcing the symbiotic relationship flamenco requires with its spectators. Taranto Aleatorio pushes flamenco into the experimental, without ever losing sight of its essence. La Chachi, through her irreverence and creative audacity, forces flamenco into new territory. She has become a symbol of how this deeply rooted art form can evolve, living on the edge of innovation.

Flamenco, when it becomes a mere relic of the past, loses its power. But when artists like La Chachi step forward to push its boundaries, it becomes a living, breathing entity capable of constant transformation. This performance was a bold statement—a call for flamenco to embrace its future. La Chachi is not just an artist; she’s a brand, a force ready to lead flamenco into uncharted waters.


 


LLOVERAS 20 11 23
María del Mar Suárez / La Chachi ‘Taranto Aleatorio’, Spain

COPOS 578








Overall, COPOS is not merely a documentation of cities but an ongoing experimentation with the textures and chromatic densities of urban life. The works reflect a dispersed chromatic landscape, where each piece—whether video or installation—contributes to a serialized, open-ended dialogue of color, form, and space. Through its minimalist, almost cryptic language, COPOS challenges the viewer to reimagine the city as an ever-shifting, hyperplastic organism.

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John Divola




 

A Transdisciplinary Practice Spanning Art, Architecture, and Conceptual Research


Anto Lloveras is a Transdisciplinary artist, architect, and researcher who has developed an extensive body of work that spans over 300 projects across multiple fields, including conceptual art, architecture, performance, and urbanism. His practice, marked by a blend of critical inquiry and experimental methodologies, explores the intersections of space, identity, and social dynamics. From ephemeral installations to urban interventions, his approach integrates diverse mediums and disciplines, creating a dynamic framework that bridges theory and practice. Lloveras's projects, developed in cities like Madrid, Mexico City and Lagos, engage deeply with local contexts, using art as a tool for reimagining spaces and fostering new dialogues around presence and transformation.

Relational Art and Architecture

Each discipline interweaves with its context, generating dynamic encounters that challenge permanence and perception. In architecture, projects like the Trole Building transform industrial structures into adaptable workspaces that dialogue with their surroundings. In the field of installation art, series such as YELLOW BAG use a simple everyday object to mark transitions and presence across urban settings like Madrid and Lagos. From the perspective of science and technology, projects like Psicología Ambiental Hoy delve into human interaction with space through perception and memory, analyzing how environments shape behavior. In conceptual art, SOCIOPLASTICS acts as a framework merging physical and relational elements, emphasizing collaborative processes. In film, the COPOS comprises over 500 videos documenting urban interventions, exploring the idea of an unstable archive. For performance, works like DOBLE CARA investigate duality and perception through choreographic movements and installations. 

Projects are often situated at the intersection of urban space and social dynamics, using subtle interventions to shift perceptions. Works like Spanish Bar capture the fading essence of traditional community hubs, transforming familiar locations into contexts for reflection on cultural shifts. In the ongoing series TWINS, the city becomes a fragmented reality of mirrored elements and contrasts, creating a dialogue between symmetry and rupture across urban landscapes. The textile-based project Re(T)exHile, presented at the IV Lagos Biennial, explores sustainability and memory through fabric, addressing the dualities of preservation and transformation. In Conversation Installation, ephemeral dialogues become the core medium, turning the spoken word into an art form that evolves with each participant’s input, challenging the traditional stability of exhibitions.

Materiality and Absence

Many projects focus on material transformation and the poetics of absence. The Subtraction Series involves precise cuts and removals from natural landscapes, revealing the fragility of human intervention and the resilience of the environment. With MUDAS, ephemeral sculptures created from fresh banana leaves slowly decay over time, symbolizing cycles of change and cultural identity. In the collaborative and site-specific Restoran Splendid, the idea of rotating authorship dissolves the hierarchy between artists, creating a visual dialogue on equality and presence. Similarly, The Light in Cádiz is a meditative exploration of form and color, using minimal interventions to alter the perception of coastal landscapes and urban boundaries. Artistic expressions often delve into the tension between form and formlessness. In the KINGDOM SERIES, temporary landscape interventions subtly alter natural surroundings to explore the fragility of ecosystems and the transient impact of human presence. The MEAT SERIES uses precise cuts in everyday objects, such as sofas and chairs, to transform them into sculptural forms that evoke themes of fragmentation and restoration. The drawing project KING DREAM consists of raw, unfinished forms that embrace imperfection, capturing primal emotions through a continuous line, as part of the ongoing STONE GARDEN series. 



Lapieza Relational Agency emerged in Madrid in 2009 as a response to the need for alternative artistic platforms outside traditional gallery circuits. Founded by Anto Lloveras, it initially took the form of a fluid exhibition space, focusing on creating ‘unstable installations’ that combined urban interventions, architecture, and ephemeral actions. Early projects such as EXIT and SUPERMARKET set the tone for a practice centered on questioning the boundaries between space, body, and context. As a collaborative endeavor, Lapieza established itself as a forum for artists, architects, and researchers to experiment with new forms of expression, exploring the tension between permanence and transformation in art.

Over time, Lapieza evolved from a physical gallery to a Relational Agency that traverses different geographies and disciplines, expanding its focus to include large-scale interventions and research-based projects. The concept of Socioplastics —a term coined to define its dynamic approach to blending material, social, and symbolic elements—became a guiding principle. Series like TWINS, FRESH MUSEUM, and COSMOTIDIANO reimagined conventional exhibition formats, using public spaces in cities like Madrid, Lagos, and Mexico City as shifting canvases for collective narratives. These projects transformed the agency into a site of ongoing experimentation, where Lloveras’s own work often intersected with the broader context, contributing to a shared language of spatial disruption and relational aesthetics.

OBJETOS DINÁMICOS - LLLL LAPIEZA #819


LLLL ART AGENCY presenta un concepto híbrido y en red. 
La ciudad como instalación total y el objeto como partícula dinámica suficiente. Una nueva serie de VIDEOESCULTURAS que representan el concepto inestable.  
El cuerpo de Paula Lloveras, TOMOTO FILMS, con la música de El intruso. En reestreno contante en la red.

BANANA 
BLANCA
AGUJERO
CHAIR
CONO

DM
DOTS

LEGS
METAL
PORESPÁN
TUBO

WAR

RELATED VITAMIN 019 (III/-) 

No hay duda de que tales esquemas, ejemplos de una poesía moderna capaz de traer consigo vivas reacciones afectivas -en este caso la indignación de que se pueda vivir de esta forma- e incluso la teoría, avanzada por Burgess a propósito de Chicago, del reparto de las actividades sociales en zonas concéntricas definidas, tienen que servir al progreso de la deriva. El azar juega en la deriva un papel tanto más importante cuanto menos asentada esté todavía la observación psicogeográfica. Pero la acción del azar es naturalmente conservadora y tiende, en un nuevo marco, a reducir todo a la alternancia de un número limitado de variantes y al hábito. Al no ser el progreso más que la ruptura de alguno de los marcos en los que actúa el azar mediante la creación de nuevas condiciones más favorables a nuestros designios, se puede decir que los azares de la deriva son esencialmente diferentes de los del paseo, pero que se corre el riesgo de que los primeros atractivos psicogeográficos que se descubren fijen al sujeto o al grupo que deriva alrededor de nuevos ejes habituales, a los que todo les hace volver constantemente.
Teoría de la deriva  
Guy Debord 1958
Publicado en el # 6 de Internationale Situationiste (agosto, 1961). Traducción extraída de Internacional situacionista, vol. I: La realización del arte, Madrid, Literatura Gris, 1999.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guy-Ernest-Debord/14353419083?fref=ts
Anto Lloveras Lapieza Relational Art Series Marisa Caminos Guy Ernest Debord
    — con Lapieza Relational Art Series y Anto Lloveras.




OPENHOUSE EN ESPACIO NARANJO se postula como un encuentro entre espacios y proyectos culturales. Respondiendo a la constante necesidad de difusión el próximo 23 de noviembre abriremos las puertas del Espacio Naranjo para presentar una selección de iniciativas culturales independientes.





COPY PASTE SEND


01 TUBO

02 PORESPÁN
03 METAL
04 DOTS
05 WAR
06 CONO
07 LEGS
08 GUNS
09 CHAIR
10 DM



"Dynamic Objects" is a hybrid project by LLLL ART AGENCY that presents the city as a total installation and the object as a dynamic and sufficient particle. This video sculpture series captures the essence of instability through a series of performances involving common objects that transform into expressive elements within urban landscapes.

The project stars Paula Lloveras as the main performer, captured through the lens of TOMOTO FILMS, with music by El Intruso. Each object in the series—such as Banana, Chair, Metal, Tube, and War—is used in an unexpected context, challenging the viewer’s perception of the mundane and reinterpreting everyday materials as catalysts for movement and artistic expression.

The piece explores the psychogeographic potential of objects and the human body interacting with the cityscape, transforming spaces through ephemeral actions. Originally premiered at Espacio Naranjo on November 23, 2013, as part of the Proyector International Video Art Festival, this work is in constant re-release online, reflecting its fluid nature and the ability to evolve across digital platforms.

viernes, 4 de octubre de 2024

STREAMING EGOS ////////////////////////////////// DÜSSELDORF //////// GOETHE INSTITUT ///////////// POSITIONAL ESSAYS ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SITUATIONAL FIXERS





DÜSSELDORF
Digital Identity Convention NRW-Forum Düsseldorf




ONSITE ACTION AND CONVERSATION
WITH MATEO FEIJOO, 
THE INVITED ARTISTS
MONOPERRO, MARIO CANNEVACI, SONIA GÓMEZ + + +
WITH THE SUPPORT OF GOETHE INSTITUT
AND THE RELATION WITH THE EUROPEAN egoNETWORKS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HheegNhZr8




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DChTccRl3Ic


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO8qzuCHoBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdGmAxidmJQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEtBYImmEE



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbuaFjecQk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpL4i_PJvpY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWBhvCwgT3Q




IM INVITED TO ACTIVATE MY ART SERIES AND RITUALS
IN A CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE
AND STAGE POST COREOGRAPHY




Spain’s “body bubble” was an incredibly rich and timely contribution to the question of “who are we when we are online?” It clearly positioned itself as post-digital reinforcing not only the alteratiosn/extensions of the ego in the “parallel space” of the internet, but it stressed that inside or outside the web, we are embodied human beings. The body never leaves us behind, nor do we leave it behind…  The fluidity between the five artists involved in the exhibit, carefully put together by curator-conductor Mateo Feijoo, and working each in a different medium, brought this “bubbled self” alive, making it into a post-digital-happening. All media involved reflected on the way we communicate and interact online: the looped music by Dr. Kurogo who was sadly off site; the live writing action by the charming performer Sonia Gómez who covered the bubble with German words, arbitrarily, according to their rhyme and feel, like in a surrealist poem; the tattooed body triptych made by an off site artist; and the live-recorded-edited-and-streamed version of the event by TOMOTO. If only the event had taken place the way TOMOTO recorded it! All of these media however were connected by the strong presence of Monoperro’s live “cave drawings" with a sexual under- and overtone. Monoperro’s illustrations uncovering the body’s “secrets", uncovering that which is imagined but never outspoken, that which is not seen but intuited, brought this exhibit into a completely new dimension. As a whole, this analogue media-orchestra reminded a bit of the Theater of the Absurd or a dream-sequence in Buñuel, pointing out that the web, as much as any “alteration of the ego” brings out what is deeply rooted in the self.  This is something visceral. Something fleshy. Something intimate. Something personal. The shared “space” of the web was then literally covered by a beautiful bubble structure, a web-uterus, created by the architects Plastique Fantastique. When we opened up the vaginal “doors” for too long, the bubble let out too much air so that it started deflating. This made me wonder, how can we take out the communal air from the internet? Bravo Mateo Feijoo and his team of artists for bringing the streaming egos alive!

Bernardette / GUEST CRITIC






THE SITUATION IN DÜSSELDORF
IS EXTENDING 
THE POSITIONAL ESSAYS 
RAW IDENTITY VIDEO SERIES - ///////////////////////////////
SITUATION, CONTEXT AND MEMORY - ONGOING META DOCUMENTARY



AND 
THE TRANSLATORIAL - 
UNSTABLE CHROMATIC FIXERS -
ADDING BODIES AND ATMOSPHERES TO THE SERIES











++++++++++++
BROWN SERIES
NO LEFTOVERS
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/brown-cadiz-supernaturalno-leftovers.html


SERIES
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/07/greengreenblack-blackunstable.html

PHOTO BY 
Melanie Stegemann 
melanie-stegemann.com

RECENT WORKS AND SITUATIONS - 2015 / 2016
THAT CONNECT WITH THE ONGOING SUPERNATURAL SERIES
AND




MUDAS SERIES MUDAS - MUTE SERIES - MEXICO CITY - 12.2015

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/mudasnuevas-series-mudasoxidaciones.html

THE LIGHT ON THE RICE FIELDS - SPAIN 11.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.mx/2015/11/the-ligh-on-rice-fields-vejer-cadiz.html 

AS FAR AS THE ARM CAN REACH - NORWAY 10.15 SUPERNATURAL
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/11/substractionautumnconceptual.html 

DUNA DUNAJ - SLOVAKIA - 09.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.sk/2015/09/duna-dunaj-slovakia-september-2015.html 

MIMESIS - SPAIN 08.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/08/mimesistime-and-honor2015negradas.html 

SITUATIONAL FIXERS - PRAGUE - 06.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.cz/2015/06/prague-quadrennial-of-performance-and.html 

THE LIGHT IN PROVENCE - FRANCE 05.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/the-light-in-provence-2015.html 

THE CITY IS AN ANIMAL - TAXIDERMY LONDON 04.15
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/taxidermy-east-london-city-is-animal.html






Nowadays



MY work consists of active series spanning urbanism, art, science, and humanities, exploring liminal spaces and creating sensitivity layers through the accumulation of experiences. 


Each discipline interweaves with its context, generating dynamic encounters that challenge permanence and perception. In architecture, projects like the Trole Building in Madrid stand out for transforming industrial structures into adaptable workspaces that dialogue with their surroundings. In the field of installation art, series such as YELLOW BAG use a simple everyday object to mark transitions and presence across urban settings like Madrid and Lagos. From the perspective of science and technology, projects like Psicología Ambiental Hoy delve into human interaction with space through perception and memory, analyzing how environments shape behavior. In film, the COPOS series comprises over 500 videos documenting urban interventions, exploring the idea of an unstable archive. For performance, works like DOBLE CARA investigate duality and perception through choreographic movements and installations. Finally, in the humanities, CAPA (Council of Applied Art and Philosophy) integrates theory and practice, proposing new hermeneutic frameworks to redefine authorship and cultural production.

Projects are often situated at the intersection of urban space and social dynamics, using subtle interventions to shift perceptions. Works like Spanish Bar capture the fading essence of traditional community hubs, transforming familiar locations into contexts for reflection on cultural shifts. In the ongoing series TWINS, the city becomes a fragmented reality of mirrored elements and contrasts, creating a dialogue between symmetry and rupture across urban landscapes. The textile-based project Re(T)exHile, presented at the IV Lagos Biennial, explores sustainability and memory through fabric, addressing the dualities of preservation and transformation. In Conversation Installation, ephemeral dialogues become the core medium, turning the spoken word into an art form that evolves with each participant’s input, challenging the traditional stability of exhibitions.

Many projects focus on material transformation and the poetics of absence. The Subtraction Series involves precise cuts and removals from natural landscapes, revealing the fragility of human intervention and the resilience of the environment. With MUDAS, ephemeral sculptures created from fresh banana leaves slowly decay over time, symbolizing cycles of change and cultural identity. In the collaborative and site-specific Restoran Splendid, the idea of rotating authorship dissolves the hierarchy between artists, creating a visual dialogue on equality and presence. Similarly, The Light in Cádiz is a meditative exploration of form and color, using minimal interventions to alter the perception of coastal landscapes and urban boundaries.





Artistic expressions often delve into the tension between form and formlessness. In the KINGDOM SERIES, temporary landscape interventions subtly alter natural surroundings to explore the fragility of ecosystems and the transient impact of human presence. The MEAT SERIES uses precise cuts in everyday objects, such as sofas and chairs, to transform them into sculptural forms that evoke themes of fragmentation and restoration. The drawing project KING DREAM consists of raw, unfinished forms that embrace imperfection, capturing primal emotions through a continuous line, as part of the ongoing STONE GARDEN series.


Other projects explore the fluid dynamics of space and narrative. STRUCTURAL CONVERSATIONS engages with architecture and language, inviting audiences to reflect on how structures—both physical and social—shape human interaction. The FRAMED BENDED SERIES pushes metal into organic shapes, capturing a process of continuous transformation. THE ROAD TO RESTORATION documents cultural sites and their conservation, exploring how the past informs future narratives. Thermodynamic Essays explore the interplay between elemental forces—water, stone, and fire—creating poetic interactions that reveal nature’s hidden dynamism.


Across these projects, the aim is to use art as a lens for rethinking presence, identity, and transformation. Each piece—whether through sculpture, performance, film, or architecture—becomes a tool for examining the boundaries between permanence and impermanence, creating a dialogue between context, action, and memory.