Octubre 2022- Convocatoria a participar en 3 encuentros organizados por “Paisajes Tentoculares”, espacio virtual de intercambio colaborativo dirigido a personas dedicadas a las artes visuales (estudiantes, entusiastas y profesionales) de América Latina.
Estos encuentros están organizados por las artistas Belén Cerezo, Maria/Rosario Montero (@purodelirio) y Celeste Rojas Mugica (@celeste.purpura), que integran Paisajes Tentoculares, con la colaboración de Rosario Ateaga (@rosarioateaga) y Cecrea, Castro (@cecrea_castro), un proyecto financiado por Fondart Nacional 2022 (@culturas_cl)
Cada sesión se articula a partir de un eje (ejes: Río, Noche y Montaña) y contará con la participación de una curadora invitada.
Noche: 2 de noviembre. 15:00-17:00 hrs (SCL), junto a Mariairis Flores (@mariai_mai)
Montaña: 9 de noviembre de 15:00-17:00 hrs (SCL), junto a Tania Puente (@tanipony).
Río: 23 de noviembre. 15:00-17:00 hrs (SCL), junto a Catalina Valdés (@catalina.v.e)
Las postulaciones se recibirán hasta el 22 de octubre de 2023.
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July 2022 – Conference and Exhibition, Performative & Experiential Translation: Meaning-Making through Language, Art and Media, King’s College London.
Translation Zone(s): Experiential Translation in Action part 1
A project by Heather Connelly, Johanna Hӓllsten, Belén Cerezo and Shauna Laurel Jones
Over the three days of the Experiential Translation conference, these artists/writers/researchers will conduct a live examination of ‘Experiential Translation’ through multimodal art practices. They will enter into an open dialogue with one another to explore this concept as a physical and embodied process, translating and translated, thinking through making, attentive and receptive in every instant. This iterative process of revising, revisiting, reviewing will generate material that will be shared during and after the event, inviting participants to bear witness to the affective nature of art-and-translation and its potential to elicit new knowledge.
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June 2022 – Online exhibition “How to be a posthuman” wherein I share my work-in-progress “Notes on the Persistence of Things”
My moving-image piece explores the interrelation among humans and non-human beings and entities such as technologies, phenomena, environments, and things. Following in the footsteps of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), Cerezo recorded footage in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife in which the place itself as much as the camera equipment became sensual co-creative agents of the artistic process. The work-in-progress result arrays a vibrant and tactile world in which ordinary things are at the tactile foreground.
The digital exhibition “How to be a posthuman” is a first step and presents outcomes of the ongoing artistic research project Fabulation for Future. The sympoietic and transdisciplinary project began 2021 with a compelling call for participation in a summer school at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF to which numerous emerging international artists and philosophers were invited. Participants were to take on a fictive deputyship in order to perform together as an International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation. In a 9-month collaborative process, the artists-deputies explored in real terms what speculative fabulations can do to save the planet. They scrutinized whether, how, and by what artistic means a post-anthropocentric future can be shaped from the present. How can we rethink, reimagine and retell the earth as a habitat for all species with different spheres of life? How can we reconnect ourselves, these species and spheres in a non-anthropocentric way? “How to be a posthuman” is dedicated to fabulations, projections and thoughts that open up possibilities for agential performativity – an explicit “call for action” that highlights artistic creative power as an important factor for future processes of transformation
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February 2022 – Really excited about the my new role as postdoctoral researcher in the Fine Art Faculty at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU in the research group AKMEKA.
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September 2021 – I am going to participate in FABULATION FOR FUTURE a Masterclass organised by Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Berlin that is composed by the symposium “IntraActivity: the Posthuman, Fabulation and Matter” and workshops with several filmmakers. I will be attending a workshop led by Jyotri Mistry. The aim of FABULATION FOR FUTURE is to build a worldwide sympoietic network of international filmmakers, media artists, thinkers, curators as well as local activists developing a post-anthropocentric worldview for a sustainable future on planet Earth where human and non-human species coexist.
Also, I will be part of the research group ARCHIVOS VIVOS organised by Tana Garrido and Julia Martos with the support of Bilbaoarte Foundation. The goal of this group will be to reflect on the potential of working with personal archives in a collective way.
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July 2021 – I have been awarded a Production Grant by the Basque Government to produce a moving-image work that explores the everyday. This piece continues my line of investigation that stems from my encounter with the work of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. In particular, for this piece, I will be examining her heterogeneous chronicles and I working with footage I gathered in the North-East of Brasil in 2018 and computer generated images.
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June 2021 – I presented my work “A Pool of Light” in the online Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow.
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May 2021 – Book launch in Trama 31 in Barcelona on the 10th May 2021 accompanied by curator Alexandra Laudo – Heroínas de la cultura
Also, on 17th May I presented “Seeing Bodies” in Dinamoa, Azpeitia, as part of the Editorial Boards organised by Sistema Eragilea. Sistema Eragilea is a platform that allows artists to describe and catalog their own publications. This tool enables the study of the diversity of artist publications produced in the Basque context.
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April 2021 – I have been awarded a Arts Council DYCP grant to develop my work in new media. Really excited about this!
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January 2021 – Three works of mine are part of Artoteka, you can borrow these artworks and take them to your home!!
Artoteka is a platform that promotes local contemporary art and art mediation. Its aim is to bring closer contemporary art to diverge audiences and also everyday spaces. Through Artoteka, someone interested can borrow an artwork, be arpa of an art mediation activity, and, in doing this, learn, experiment and enjoy contemporary art and think collectively about current societal issues and challenges. In the first months of 2021, Artoteka will begin its testing out phase in the province of Bizkaia, Spain.
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July 2020 – New book!!!!
I have just published the book “Seeing Bodies”. It gathers my most recent artistic research that translates to the visual arts some of the main features of the unclassifiable and fascinating literary work of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977). This book focuses on the works “Viviendo el día” (Living the Day) (2018) and “A Pool of Light” (2019), bringing together visual documentation of them, and it is also composed of three texts by invited contributors Maria Ptqk, Sergio Martínez Luna, Emma Cocker in English, Spanish and Basque. More here.
I aim to organise some book presentations in the autumn in several cities.
More soon on how to buy the book, in the meantime you can email me in case you’re interested.
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During the covid crisis, I’m working in an artist publication that will be released at the end of June. The book will present my projects A Pool of Light and Viviendo el Día and it will contain three texts by Emma Cocker, Sergio Martínez Luna and María Ptqk, The book is being designed by Gorka Eizagirre and it’s made possible by a Publication Grant from the Culture Department, Basque Government.
I’ve thought that I could share some of the publication’s texts. The first one will be Emma Cocker’s that it’s titled “Touched by a Lighter Sensitivity; or, On How Not to Break the Egg” and it was conceived as ‘contiguous writing’ —a mode of creative-critical writing that seeks to touch upon rather than being explicitly about. It draws on Emma’s experience of encountering A Pool of Light, an immersive residency-based installation I made at the Collection Museum, Lincoln in May and June 2019.
<<Update: August 2020, the text is not available anymore. In case you’re interested drop me an email.>>
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En estos momentos tan complicados estoy trabajando en un publicación que verá la luz a finales de junio. El libro, aún sin título, recoge mis últimos proyectos A Pool of Light y Viviendo el Día y contendrá tres textos escritos específicamente para el libro por Emma Cocker, Sergio Martínez Luna y María Ptqk, Del diseño del libro se está encargando The Gorka Eizagirre . Estoy realizando este libro gracias a una ayuda para publicaciones artísticas del Gobierno vasco.
He pensado en compartir algunos de los textos estos días. Empiezo con el de Emma Cocker titulado “Tocada por una sensibilidad más tenue, o sobre cómo no romper el huevo”. Este texto ha sido concebido como “escritura contigua”: un tipo de escritura crítica-creativa que busca tocar apenas más que hablar explícitamente sobre. Está inspirado en la experiencia del encuentro con A Pool of Light, instalación inmersiva desarrollada en la residencia que realice en The Collection Museum, Lincoln, en mayo y junio de 2019.
<<Agosto 2020, el texto de Emma Cocker ya no está disponible. Si estás interesada, envíame un email y te lo hago llegar.>>
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On the 6th September 2019 Mario Santamaría and I developed a collaboration for Vis a vis, Vis a vis as a series of events organised by antespacio y Amaia Molinet that generate a ‘rehearsal format’ between two artists, who haven’t worked together before and that they feel certain synergies or shared interests, in a park in the city of Bilbao
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Next months I will develop the project “Presente Continuo” for the Artziniega Ethnographic Museum as part of the curatorial project Un triángulo, 3 vértices_ser_rizoma developed by the curator Leyre Goikoetxea, with the artists Anabel Quincoces and Miriam Isasi.
This curatorial project was selected in the Open Call Eskualdea, promoted by the Culture Department of Alava Province Council and Artium Foundation. The objectives of Eskualdea are to bring contemporary arts closer to the whole of Alava society, to contribute to the development of the local artistic context and to promote the relationship between the rural and the urban through innovative and experimental approaches.
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I am really glad to announce that my moving-image installation ‘Viviendo el Día’ (Living the Day) has been selected to be shown as part of the programme ‘Autores en Selección’ in the International Biennial of Photography, Fotonoviembre 2019, Tenerife.
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The video HomeHome that I made in collaboration with Heather Connelly will be shown in the exhibition ‘Home on the Move’, Southwark Room, on Thursday 23 May at Tate Modern in London, as part of the Tate Exchange week, a programme of events in collaboration with Counterpoint Arts, the Open University and Tate Modern
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OPEM Residency, The Collection, Lincoln.
11th May- 23rd June 2019
During this residency I will explore the boundaries between ‘looking at’ and ‘being in’ through an on-going installation. The starting point for this testing is the story ‘The Egg and the Chicken’ by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector that will be used also to analyse the process and methodology for making a new work.
As part of this residency I have organised a series of conversations with three artists.
Saturday 18 May: Claire Davies, artist.
Saturday 25 May: Emma Cocker, artist and writer.
#OPEM2019 Saturday 8 June: Frank Abbott, artist.
Initial photographs:
This residency has been supported by
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On Thursday 26th September, I will be showing my video essay “Rehearsing Memory, Belton 2015′ as part of the Creative Image: Ways of Seeing, Representing and Reshaping Reality at the University of Manchester. ………………………………………………………………………………
Collaboration with artist and researcher Heather Connelly
HomeHome is a film made by Heather Connelly and Belén Cerezo, a translation of a poem which has been subject to multiple translations for Manuela Perteghella and Ricarda Vidal’s Transformations: exploring the impact of migrations on the notions of home, a new collaboration research project.
The work will be presented at various academic conferences and arts festivals in 2018: Multilingualism in World Literatures, SOAS, London (Jan); Turning into the Noise of Europe, the Hague University of Applied Science (NDL) Haag (18 – 19 Jan); The Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London (Jan-July); Whitstable Biennale (TBC June); Ledbury Poetry Festival (June-July); IATIS Annual Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University (3-5 July).
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Conference presentation
In October 2017 I presented my PhD artistic research at the conference I Congreso Internacional sobre Fotografía: Nuevas propuestas en Investigación y Docencia de la Fotografía that took place in the Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
full program here
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Summer Lodge 2017
During the first two weeks of July I’ve been doing The Summer Lodge Residency at Nottingham Trent University. This residency functions as a collective space in which to undertake experiments, pursue new ideas and allow unexpected leaps of imagination. NTU Fine Art staff, other artists, and student studio assistants compose the group.
I’ve used The Summer Lodge to work in my exhibition at Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria-Gasteiz, which will take place next year.
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Conference presentation
In June 2017 I’ve presented part of my work Volver, Ver, Mover at the conference Postcards from the Anthropocene, Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation, organised by the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at University of Edinburgh.
This conference, composed also by an exhibition, reflected upon how the emergence of the Anthropocene might transform how we think about representation, and more specifically geopolitics and the different types of representations that carry significant material, metaphorical and methodological implications in regard to it.
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Residency at Bilbaoarte
This summer I am a resident artist at Bilbaoarte, an artistic production centre belonging to the Culture Department of the Bilbao City Council. I am working in the project ‘Moving Stones’ that investigates materiality, bodies and photographs as a learning device through the specific case of stone-lifting, a traditional sport in the region. The resulting works will be exhibited next year in Spain and UK.
Here is some information on the project I will undertake in Spanish
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Rehearsing Memory, Belton, 2015
Commission by The National Trust to develop a project in collaboration with the artist Rebecca Lee for Belton House.
Launch October 2015
This project explores how commemoration is an ongoing and active process through developing new works from research and conversations with the Belton House community. The project will reflect on the facts, context and details of the Machine Gun Corps on Belton’s parkland as well as how the stories, people and meaning of these events are commemorated and remembered at Belton in the present. The resulting works will be a series of audio-visual and printed pieces that will be presented in different spaces at Belton House, the parkland and beyond. They will encourage reflection not only on the Machine Gun Corps but on how we fabricate memories in the present.
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Care + Attend
Curated by Emma Cocker and Joanne Lee, Part of Unconditional Love,
The Society for Artistic Research Spring Event
Care + Attend comprises a constellation of fragments and extracts – of different intensities and durations – where the exposition of research emerges as a poetic and performative event, generating moments of potential resonance and dialogue. This event explores the theme Unconditional Love through the principles (perhaps even methodologies) of care and attention, as applied within specific (artistic) practices of both the everyday and of the self. Beginning with the observation that both curate and curiosity have shared etymology in the term ‘care’, Care + Attend seeks to develop a research vocabulary based on receptivity, openness, fidelity, integrity, intimacy, friendship and commitment (whilst not ignoring the parallel principles of distraction, inattention, the act of closing one’s eyes or of looking away). Cocker and Lee have invited a range of artists & writers to share and reflect on their own processes, philosophies and politics of care and attention, and to present these through live performance, screenings and spoken word. Contributors include Kate Briggs, Daniela Cascella, Belén Cerezo, Emma Cocker, Steve Dutton + Neil Webb, Victoria Gray, Rob Flint, Mark Leahy, Joanne Lee, Martin Lewis, Sarat Maharaj, Brigid McLeer, Hester Reeve, and Lisa Watts.
Care + Attend is part of a 2 day event entitled Unconditional Love organised by The Society for Artistic Research Spring Event taking place 30 April – 1 May 2015 at Chelsea College of the Arts / University of the Arts London.
Central to this event is the notion of unconditional love, which could mean a commitment to the dynamics of open and engaged exchange, or an obsessive pursuit of the unattainable.
The full programme can be found here: http://www.societyforartisticresearch.org/fileadmin/autoren/pdf/unconditional_love.pdf
Prices and registration details can be found here: tinyurl.com/oh2aqdq
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In January 2015, I completed the practice-led research PhD research “What does it mean ‘to move’ an image? Artistic tactics for destabilising and transforming images” at Nottingham Trent University.
Here you can read the Abstract
Complete thesis here
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Inmersiones 2014 RE(iN)SISTENCIA
Participación en el Congreso Re(in)sistencia.
13 de Diciembre del 2014, Ortzai Teatro, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Presentaciones y mesa redonda: Zirika, Colectivo Santxez, KMB, Sandra Amutxastegi, Belén Cerezo, Monika Lukin, Taxio Ardanaz, Be.ARR, Onintza Etxebeste/Iker Iñurrieta/Amaia Asategi, Leyre Goikoetxea, Elisa Arteta, Daniela de la Fuente
Modera: Iker Fidalgo
Organiza: Inmersiones
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Appropriated Instructions
Bélen Cerezo, Rebecca Lee, Geoff Diego Litherland, Eva Marín and Rosario Montero are presenting work with the Broadcaster project in Lincolnshire. In the project, entitled Appropriated Instructions, the artists will explore the concept of instruction and examine its potential for giving us new understandings of our daily lives and routines. Can some very everyday instructions become a creative tactic to intervene or navigate in the everyday? Can a so connoted exhibiting space as a church board offer any room to present rules as a form of disruption?
The Broadcaster project consists of two permanent notice boards located outside converted Chapels in villages in rural Lincolnshire; Waddington and Wellingore. Each notice board is a venue for exhibitions curated by the Postmethodists.
Appropriated Instructions involves five artists whose work includes sound, photography, painting and performance. Initial individual ideas will be developed, challenged and distilled through conversation, collaborative workshops and visits together to the area.
Appropriated Instructions runs from 23 March – 23 September 2013, with content that changes once a month. The programme will include activities like walks, or other events facilitated by the artists to generate further connections and engagement opportunities beyond the boards themselves.
Read more about Appropriated Instructions on the website:
http://appropriatedinstructions.wordpress.com
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La casa que habito
La casa que habito es una exposición colectiva en la que participan Belén Cerezo, Aurora Sacristán, Carmen González y Mónica de Miguel comisariada por Araceli Corbo en la Galería Adora Calvo, Salamanca, en colaboración con el Festival Miradas de Mujeres 2013. La exposición se puede visitar del 2 de marzo al 13 de abril.
La casa que habito es una exposición inspirada en las Femmes Maison (Mujeres-Casa) de la artista francesa Louise Bourgeois, figuras femeninas formadas parcialmente por casas. Estas imágenes generan un impacto visual y remueven al espectador para hacerle reflexionar sobre la condición social de las mujeres y su asignación al territorio doméstico.
Esta relación entre lo público y lo privado desde una perspectiva de género, ha generado un debate que no parece finalizar y donde las mujeres a menudo son las que tienen que marcar las diferencias, ofrecer las reflexiones y comunicar avances con respecto a una problemática de suma importancia, ya que están en juego valores de género en torno a las divisiones espaciales y derechos sociales.
Planteamientos popularmente conocidos como: lo doméstico y la esfera social, el trabajo exterior frente al interior, son cuestiones que pueden marcar diferencias en la situación de la mujer en el mundo actual. Los valores de género son un producto del entorno social y de la educación, más que de la naturaleza y de la interacción con los demás, que nos sirven para definir nuestra identidad. Es lógico, por tanto, que muchas mujeres trabajen en sus proyectos artísticos y reflexionen de manera crítica sobre el ámbito doméstico y el privado, la casa y los roles que ha desarrollado habitualmente la mujer en dicho espacio. Eso es lo que se plantea en esta exposición, no es tanto una referencia explícita a cuestiones de género, como una muestra que recoge diferentes acercamientos por parte de cuatro artistas a la idea de la casa como arquitectura, refugio, cuerpo, prisión, aislamiento, seguridad, identidad, sueño y reclusión.
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Series Made In has been published in Contrahilo accompanied by a text written by the Chilean sociologist Tomás Ariztia, in this text titled The journey of things Ariztia has reflected through this series on globalisation and its relationship to fashion.
Contrahilo came into existence as a response, a space of resistance, a place to reflect, in which the temporality, the consumption, and the ephemeral nature of fashion as a market, become diluted. Contrahilo looks for a reflection regarding the process, the relationships and tensions that arise in the broad spectrum that fashion inhabits; from the image, the politics, the power and poetics that arise around it, to the dressmaking process and the use of the garment. Contrahilo wants to reach beyond the limits imposed by the discipline and analyse fashion in a broad sense, inviting various characters of the social structure to join us and reflect with us.
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The photobook Somewhere Better, Nowhere Better that I self-published in 2009 is part of the show organised by Brighton Photography Biennial and Photobook Show.
As part of its fifth edition, the Brighton Photo Biennial 2012 invited the submission of self-published, handmade or short run photography books, to be included as part of a photobook Exhibition at Brighton’s Jubilee Library throughout the Biennial (6 October – 4 November 2012) in collaboration with Photobook Show. The books relate to the Biennial’s theme: Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space.
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MUSAC, La metodología del proyecto/ MUSAC, The methodology of the project
Desde el 23 de Junio al 9 de Septiembre del 2012 se puede visitar la exposición La metodología del proyecto en el MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. Esta exposición muestra los proyectos artísticos en curso surgidos a partir de un taller dirigido por el artista Antoni Muntadas en colaboración con Alfredo Puente en MUSAC entre enero y junio de 2012.
El MUSAC ha editado una publicación que recoge los diferentes proyectos planteados. Podeis acceder a la publicación aquí. Mi texto se titula Hacia unas imágenes nómadas del territorio.
From 23rd June to 9th September 2012 you can visit the exhibition The methodology of the project at the MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. This exhibition shows the ongoing artistic projects resulted from a workshop conducted by the artist Antoni Muntadas in collaboration with Alfredo Puente in MUSAC from January to June 2012.
MUSAC has edited a publication with the different projects. Here is the publication and this is a link to the English version of this text Towards some nomadic images of the territory.
El territorio entre las imágenes, León, 2012 es una instalación audiovisual en cuatro canales que muestra imágenes del territorio rural de la provincia de León. En este enlace podéis ver los vídeos.
The territory between the images, Leon, 2012 is an audiovisual installation with has four channels that show the rural terrotiy of Leon. Here you can watch the videos.
EL TERRITORIO ENTRE LAS IMAGENES, LEON/ THE TERRITORY BETWEEN THE IMAGES, LEON, 2012 from belencia on Vimeo.
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