Four projects developed by LAAV_ are taking part of the exhibition Five Tours, One Point of View. MUSAC exhibition that will open its doors on January Saturday the 25th in MUSAC. In this exhibition, created on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of MUSAC, LAAV_ is located within the section  Relational Dynamics. Context and situated action, curated by Manuel Olveira. Four timelines will be arranged to show the creative processes behind of which the projects La rara troupe, Teleclub, Damn Mine (Puta Mina) and Libertad have been realized. This is a space thought to stimulate dialogue, which will be activated with different actions throughout the time of the exhibition (until September the 20th 2020).

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Rodando el límite: autogestión y disparate es un nuevo proyecto de La rara troupe que ha sido apoyado por la convocatoria Art for Change de La Caixa. El proyecto plantea convocar a un grupo de personas con intereses combinados tanto en el audiovisual como herramienta (de expresión, creación e investigación) como en el malestar psicosocial. El propósito es hacerlo extensible a colectivos y personas que se sitúan en “los márgenes” de lo que se entiendo por normalidad, tanto en lo referido a cuestiones de salud mental como a cuestiones físicas, laborales o sociales en sentido amplio.

Adriana Vila Guevara, anthropologist and filmmaker, writes in this text a meditation derived from the creative process surrounding her film Belén(2016). In this text she reflects on the contradictions of a creative process (that of a cinematic process) that comes from a context that somehow limits its own creative independence, more so if it is to be compared to the previous freedom of an ethnographic work.”I was entering into the mechanics of the cinematic industry, which would give me some benefits and learnings but also would imply sacrifices, involving a whole range of duties, obligations and limitations. It had already started. The initiation had begun, there was no turning back”.

 

This text is part of our series About the impossibility of anthropological cinema.

Puta Mina is being shown between October the 24th of 2019 and January the 12th of 2020 in Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN, Huesca) in a collection of works produced by more than thirty artists. This exhibition reflects on the impact that the mining industry has on the landscape, environment, society and earth. In doing so it offers a point of view on the relation between nature and technology, ecology and science and between past and future.

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From LAAV_ we would like to thank Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso for the support and backing offered for four years. This support helped to create and consolidate a space that is now a reference not only to other museums, but to the film sphere.

With the creation of LAAV_, the museum was proposing new ways of collaborative practice in which to join production, research, arts and action on communities. In short, to transform the way we create culture from the institutions.

For that, support from MUSAC, museum in which the laboratory is located, has been capital. However, without the support and collaboration from Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso this adventure would not have started on the first place.

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After months of work we are introducing the interactive map in which the process behind Libertad project is detailed. The interactive map was designed, executed and conceptualized by Daniela Martagón. Web design by solserpiente. We are introducing the interactive map along with the film in the  National Museum of Anthropology (Madrid) on Saturday the 14th of September at 12:00. Furthermore, on the 20th of September the same project will be discussed on the International Producers Meeting Encuentro 3XDOC , promoted by  DOCMA.  Click here to access the interactive map.