Oct 28-30. See-through / Adriana Cubides (AT/CO/SE)
During the weekend of October 28-30, Weld presents the artist Adriana Cubides and her project See-through. Premiere of the work October 29 and 30. Friday October 28 we do will screen a film that served as a documentation of her approach together with a conversation between Adriana Cubides and the artist Ellen J Røed.
Friday 28th of October 6pm
Free admission
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FILM SCREENING
See-through, documentation of a practice
Concept, performance and realization: Adriana Cubides
Editing: Marie Gavois, Adriana Cubides
Sound design: Alexandra Nilsson, Adriana Cubides
Filming in and outdoor: Fares Qadri, Lena Kienzer, Adriana Cubides
Filming and photographing Bogotá: Francisco Pinzón, Robinson Cuervo
Length: 26 minutes
Support: Stockholm University of the Arts
This film was originally created as a form of documentation of Adriana Cubides´ artistic practice. It reflects her work across mediums, spaces and approaches and responds to the intent of finding a frame able to hold multiplicity.
ARTIST TALK
Adriana Cubides in conversation with Ellen J Røed
The research of Adriana Cubides on how to see differently connecting to Ellen Røed’s research on image as site
PREMIERE
See-through – A purposefully purposeless sculpting of space and time
Saturday October 29th, 6pm
Sunday October 30th, 4pm
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The practice behind the work See-through was developed during the pandemic responding to questions around liveness, countering an in-real-life and a virtual presence that merge into the format of a film-performance or what Adriana Cubides calls an embodied real-time cinema. At the core lies the question of how to see differently and relate to the surrounding beyond socially assumed perceptions of function and purpose. The site specific work is for this occasion created in dialogue with the spaces at Weld.
Adriana Cubides proposes a dialogue between body, space, media, sound and gaze in which mirrors, screens, cameras, projectors, and light, used in a very analog way, become means to suspend and shift normative and familiarized perspectives and displace assumptions of reality. She invites into multiple perspectives. The work with scale, framing, deconstructing overlapping, and superimposing perspectives, supports her in bringing performative approaches, realities, and temporalities into one another, and by that expand the borders of singular contexts.
Adriana aims at escaping identification and find new understandings through in-between spaces and de-centralized perspectives. What is revealed, hidden, back or foregrounded, opens a suggestive space beyond the image that is being produced, voicing a non-graspable presence of what lies underneath or in between things.
In resistance to traditional value systems within product-oriented thinking, she places her attention onto a process of becoming. Through a sensorial attention of care, she attempts to make an embodied way of seeing more tangible.
See-through was first shown within Adriana Cubides MFA exam in New performative practices at SKH in 2021.
Concept, performance and realization: Adriana Cubides
Live-Sound Composition: Alexandra Nilsson
Supervision and mentoring: Jeanine Durning
Support: Stockholm University of the Arts
ADRIANA CUBIDES (AT/CO/SE)
Born in Vienna, Austria to Colombian parents and growing up in between different cultures, languages and ways of thinking shapes her artistic approach and practice.
Educated in languages and sociocultural studies (Los Andes University, Bogotá 1999), in the field of dance and performance (Bruckner University Linz 2005) holding a master in choreography with specialization in performative practices (Stockholm University of the Arts 2021), and having an established meditation and healing practice, she has accumulated innumerous experiences in bridging contexts within performing, choreographing, teaching, and guiding both artistic and healing processes.
She works across mediums and formats, continuously expanding the borders of what something can be–be that a field, a role, a category, a concept, or the way reality is thought. She pursues a fluid way of perceiving and relating to the world replacing the notion of fixed identities by mobile relationalities. Displacing, de-constructing and layering meanings, questioning, and enlarging what is assumed as performative or performative spaces, blurring process and product, she currently asks herself: What is the process entailed in seeing and perceiving differently that allows for spaces to open up within ourselves and within a conception of the world and how is that new understanding able to be reflected in the way of thinking performance? These questions are entangled with her long-term desire to find ways for performative strategies to become means for societal processes of transformation.
ALEXANDRA NILSSON (SE)
Alexandra Nilsson / Solovkina is a composer, musician and performer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work stretches across acoustic and electroacoustic music, sound art, noise and performative practices. Lyrical as well as brutal, minimalist and maximalist, her art moves through the delicate and subtle expressions to the harsh and fierce. She researches materials acoustically, visually and contextually, and she is interested in organic and non-organic processes along with transformations and transcendence of the material. With a background as a trumpeter in jazz and folklore, energy movement, rhythm and improvisation are also important aspects of her practice.
In 2010 she received a Masters Degree in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Her Master focused on music for film and she is continuously interested in interactions between sound and image.
She often collaborates with dancers, performers and visual artists and has composed for film,dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra and Big Band. Her music has been performed nationally at The Stockholm Concert Hall, Kalv Festival, Svensk Musikvår, Norberg Festival, GEIGER Festival, Fylkingen, as well as internationally at Nordic Music Days (FO), Ausland (DE), NCCA (RU) and Sonorium (JP).
ELLEN J RØED (NO/SE)
Operating as visual artist, artistic researcher and educator, Ellen J Røed has questioning and exploring electronic as well as performative and networked aspects of moving images. Røed’s artistic research has evolved through a particular experimentation with moving images and their relationship to space, place, sound and other media. She worked at Bergen Center for Electronic Art (2002-2004) and at Bergen Academy of Art and Design from 2004 -2013, teaching and researching video and electronic art, and is since 2016 professor at Stockholm University of the Arts where she has been responsible for the artistic research project Image as Site and the profile area Art, Technology and Materiality.