AZ-KIDEAK AZ Associated Researchers’ Programme
Creation and research support Aimar Arriola In 2020 Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao expands the Associated Artists program to the field of research, with the aim of promoting and contributing to the analysis and production around current creation, facilitating the exchange between artistic communities, audiences and other professionals . Via invitation and over a two year period, we accompany and share with different artists their research process, driving their projection and connecting them with other artistic networks. A support that involves making the context of proximity visible in relation to other state and international centers and creating a concrete, curated bibliography, around the universes of the expanded scene, performance and choreography linked to the visual arts, that responds to the needs of transformation of today’s society through perspectives of the visual arts, the live arts ... The result of this practice facilitates the generation of creative material that broadens the perspective of Society and Contemporary Culture, creating a corpus on which the Center can work in formats such as film, book, exhibition or live arts. All this extended to the Archive, to serve as a tool for creation and mediation, through content that can be used by artists for their creative production.
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Through this and other creation support programs, Azkuna Zentroa is configured as a space for experimentation and expanded practice. An open place to the crossing of disciplines that make up different layers of analysis of the context in which artistic practice occurs. Likewise, it promotes the emergence of an artistic community that regularly inhabits the Center, sharing projects that represent an inspiring critical reflection on artistic production and its social and cultural context, highlighting the importance of research as part of creative practice. Aimar Arriola and the ways of understanding queer Since April 2020 and for two years, Aimar Arriola will accompany us as an Associate Researcher to Azkuna Zentroa, who works on the relationship between the queer perspective and art within the Center’s programming, linking with his most recent work on body and archive themes within the visual culture field with more specific matters related to art and plastic arts. Aimar Arriola begins in his investigation with the multiple ways of understanding queer. In the field of critical theory and the social sciences, queer is described as a perspective that questions social
