Kinu. Tractora Koop. E. Resident Collective Programme

Kinu

Tractora Koop. E.

Usue Arrieta and Ainara Elgoibar, from the artist cooperative Tractora Koop., develop the Kinu project within the framework of the Azkuna Zentroa Resident Collectives programme. Kinu is a platform for programming, viewing and discussing audiovisual productions by artists; a quarterly meeting point in which an artist is invited to present his/her work and share with him/her a workshop to reflect as a group on that type of practice and its specificities. This project consists of three parts:

Public presentation

The quarterly sessions begin with the screening and public presentation of the guest artist's work, followed by a small discussion. Kinu began with a pilot session Kinu#1 with artist Elena Aitzkoa. It carried on as a resident collective in AZ in September with session Kinu#2, with Maddi Barber as guest, continuing with Kinu#3 in November, with a session dedicated to the filmmaker Sabine Groenewegen (The Hague 1985), and continues in April 18 and 25 with Kinu#4, in a double session with Andrés Duque as a guest.

Lantaldea

After each public presentation, there is a session directed by the artist together with a stable working group (Lantaldea), whose dynamics are tailored to each guest. The Lantaldea#1 and Lantaldea#2 work sessions were focused on filming, with an audiovisual work as a result. It was shot in 16mm, edited on camera, developed and projected on the same day of the session. Lantaldea#3 revolved around the act of assembling a film from other materials, initiating with the master class held by Sabine Groenewegen. On April 17 and 24, Lantaldea#4 will take place. It will be directed by the filmmaker Andrés Duque, and the techniques developed by Augusto Boal to film improvisation will be worked on. The methodology developed by Boal since the seventies, which he called Theater of the Oppressed, understands that whoever transforms reality becomes the actual act of transforming.

Distirak

Finally, the project is completed with a text (Distirak), prepared by a person from the working group, in which the experience of each Lantaldea is collected. In the first session that took place in Azkuna Zentroa, the Distirak#2 text was written by the audiovisual artist Ander Pérez. Distirak#3 was created by the artist Pablo Marte, and it will be the artist Leire Aranberri (Bilbao, 1993) who will work on Distirak#4. After graduating in Medicine from the UPV/EHU, Leire traveled to India where she learned about Butoh dance at the Subbody Butoh School. Since then, she has attended and worked with artists who study movement from improvisation such as Mal Pelo, Imre Thormann, Gio Ju or Yumiko Yoshioka, among others.

Through the Resident Collective programme we closely work together with groups in their work with artistic forms and contemporary culture from very diverse ways and viewpoints, favouring mutual complicity when it comes to articulating the cultural programme.