Welcome to Spain NOW! 2010
This year sees performance and music take centre stage. These two art forms have traditionally been strong in Spain and in the last few years have had important international projection. Ana Lujan’s new production Taste 7 Tears offers her sensual and tongue-in-cheek take on the act of wine tasting. The performance collectiveCompletely Naked brings us their debauched celebration of the human body in all its shapes and sizes in the last incarnation of their project Flashing Bodies. Last but not least the legend that is Victor Coyote will cause havoc with his Ruido Bajito, a performance not to be underestimated just because of its size!
We are happy to count lafonoteca as the curators of the music strand in 2010. As well as Javier Rubio with his sophisticated electronic landscapes and Klaus&Kinski, who will play us out in November, Spain NOW! will be host to Wild Honey, Internet2 and Charades offering a varied account of what has been happening in music in the country this year. But new gigs will be added so keep them peeled.
Visual arts also feature strongly and we launch our season of events with Ione Saizar’s new photographic installation, which takes us on an exploration of the human psyche through her intimate portraits. In November the group show ‘Time Capsules’ brings together the top of the crop of young Spanish artists based in the capital.
Following from last year’s success, literature will be present ‘in collaboration’ and writers Susana Medina andSilvia Terrón have worked very closely together with artists Derek Ogbourne and Nacho R. Piedra to create what we anticipate will be a very warm and special evening in bleak mid-November.
Robert Elms will once again be the host of our roundtable discussion, the first of a series which will take place throughout the year to discuss, in a relaxed but informed way, issues relating to the perception of Spain in today’s Britain.
Most of these events will be held at our new pop-up space. Right in the centre of London at 125 Charing Cross Road, we hope it will become a living hub to experiment, get together and initiate healthy discussions on what it means to create in Spain today.
See you there!
Antonio Molina-Vazquez
Artistic Director