Disonancias

If you didn't manage to get to the presentations of the results for Disonancias in June of this year, the 15 minute documentary Victor Iriarte made about the 2007/08 edition of Disonancias is available for you to watch here.

The purpose of this call for applications is to select artists to produce interventions of a temporary or ephemeral nature aimed at contributing to activate the public space. Open until September 10, 2008. Download the participation bases.

The call for artists to develop research projects with companies and organizations located in the Basque Country during the 2008/09 round is closed. The jury has selected various proposals for each host entity, and it will be the own company that will take the final decision.

Next October the selected artists will be announced. Thank you to all the artists that have applied, the level of the proposals was very high this year.

The summons of Dissonances 2008/09 have managed to attract 157 international artists. All of them have presented specific offers to collaborate with one of eight companies and Basque organizations from October, 2008 of an individual way, in case of 46 offers, and collective, in 84 cases.

The juror composed by Jorge Luis Marzo, Juan Freire, Ana Betancourt and Conxita Oliver meets these days in Donostia-San Sebastian Sebastián to select the best offers for the hosting companies of this third edition.

The wishing artists come from 22 different countries, with the participation of numerous artists from Germany, USA, France and United Kingdom.

After visiting San Sebastian (Tabakalera), Vitoria (Artium), Bilbao (EITB), Madrid (Prado MediaLab) and Barcelona (Centre d'Art Santa Mònica), Disonancias Tour comes to an end after bringing together entrepreneurs, Researchers, artists and onlookers around the projects developed during the course of Disonancias 2007/08. In all events has projected a smaller version of the documentary that Victor Iriarte performs alongside EiTB, whose original version will come next October. Tabakalera, first date of the tour, hosted the structure designed by Santiago Cirugeda and his team charged with harbouring the audience.

¿Would you like to hear at first hand the dissonances, divergences and agreements that took place between the artists and companies involved in the 2007/08 edition of DISONANCIAS? We invite you to share their experiences between June 17 and 25 (2008) in San Sebastian, Gasteiz, Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona. Check out here the projects that will be presented in each city, or download the program. Don't miss it!

Hangar organizes a workshop on June 26 and 27, 2008, gathering artistas and heads of R&D. The aim of this endeavour is to explore the problematic issues common to processes of research, development and creative innovation in both sectors and to examine the opportunities for joint work. To send applications: activitats@hangar.org.
Image: Lanzallamas de madera (detail).

YP is doing an evaluation of the actual round of DISONANCIAS. They have just published a very interesting article in which they try to define what is social creativity and its link to innovation.

Stephanie Davidson, who participated in last year round as an artist, organizes this year with Georg Rafailidis in Germany collaborations inspired in DISONANCIAS between Aachen’s School of architecture and design, and local industries.

To hear some of the discussions that were generated last April 2 at the meeting which brought together all the companies and artists of the current round, look at the movies that have been uploaded in TECNALIA / Ania Bas and EITB / Victor Iriarte blogs.

On Wednesday, April 2 we will hold the third methodology meeting in Labein-Tecnalia, gathering all the companies and artists of the present edition.

The French sociologist Marc Perrenoud compares the values of the future workers [autonomy, flexibility, inventiveness, development by project] with the current forms of artists working, in an article published in Libération on March 24.

The 28th March, as part of its DISONANCIAS project, Labein and Ania Bas have organised the Imagination Experts Day, a day in which employees share and incorporate their children's creativity to integrate a divergent view on their projects. Photo by Ania Bas.

The blog developed by ReD and IMAR on their collaboration in DISONANCIAS is of private access, but you can check this site in which IMAR refers to international outstanding projects and professionals in the field of drilled sheet and expanded metal.

François Deck, DISONANCIAS methodology adviser, will give a lecture at the Sorbonne (1 rue Victor Cousin, amphithéâtre Turgot) on Friday, March 21 at 17h, in a cycle entitled 'Art & Flux' which deals with the relationship between art and economy.

Without innovation we wouldn’t be what we are today. As happens today, there have always existed ultra-conservative minds reluctant to use new techniques…