Laida Lertxundi. 8 Encounters Cinema and audiovisuals / AZ

Laida Lertxundi. Azkuna Zentroa Associated Artist

8 Encounters

COMBINING CONCEPTUAL RIGOUR WITH SENSUAL PLEASURE, LAIDA LERTXUNDI'S FILMS ESTABLISH SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE BODY AS CENTRES OF PLEASURE AND EXPERIENCE

Laida Lertxundi, an AZ associated artist since January 2021, launches her project 8 Encounters, a project that consists of eight collaborative workshops and shootings that will result in a 16 mm work. Each encounter is made up of two parts: the first of them consists of a workshop that will be held with a guest artist and will take place in Azkuna Zentroa's spaces. The second part will take place in the mountains of Bizkaia. These mountains will incorporate scores and exercises composed by a variety of artists and writers, in an attempt to rethink the 'making of the film' as a joint performance within a natural environment, as well as a pedagogical experiment outside the confines of academic institutions. Each of the eight summits will consider a specific process within the phases of traditional film production (location, interpretation, script, soundtrack, production, camera, lighting and editing), resignifying them to transform them into a specific set of ideas and parameters with which to create a work of moving pictures. The material results of these 8 Encounters will then be combined to create a film and a publication.

First encounter: FIELD RECORDINGS (LOCATION)

Guest: Usoa Fullaondo, artist, teacher and researcher.

June 17, Thursday 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Lantegia 1

June 18, Friday*

Urkiola Park *Outdoor filming locations may take place on Saturday or Sunday, depending on weather conditions. REGISTRATION: April 15 > May 15 Further information: azkunazentroa.eus

LAIDA LERTXUNDI (Bilbao, 1981): An artist and filmmaker who lives and works between Los Angeles and the Basque Country. Combining conceptual rigor with sensual pleasure, her films establish parallels between the earth and the body as centers of pleasure and experience. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, NY, Hammer Museum, LIAF La Biennale de Lyon, Frieze Projects New York, and in museums and galleries such as MoMa in NY, Tate Modern and Whitechapel Gallery in London, Angela Mewes Berlin, Joan Los Angeles, Human Resources Los Angeles, MAK Schindler House ICA Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín Colombia, CCCB, PS1 MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Kunstverein, Hamburg and the Bienal de La Habana, among others. Her work is distributed by LUX in London and is part of the collection of the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. In 2020 she received the Gure Artea award for Basque art.