ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES Resident Collective
Tractora Koop. E., a new Collective Resident at Azkuna Zentroa Tractora, an artists’ co-operative comprising Usue Arrieta, Vicente Vázquez, Ainara Elgoibar, Marc Vives & Nader Koochak, is the new Collective Resident at Azkuna Zentroa. For 2 years, this collective will be developing the Kinu project, an advanced self-training time art group –considered an intersection of different techniques, materials and shapes, converging in a
plastic language– at the Centre. This project, driven by two members of the collective, namely Usue Arrieta and Ainara Elgoibar, aims to be a platform for programming, viewing and debating on artists’ audiovisual productions. Tractora poses Kinu as a tool to share creative experiences aimed at opening fertile spaces to produce and train local agents and, as such, focused on favouring
TRACTORA KOOP. E. is an artists’ co-operative founded in 2013 to formalise the collaboration relationship extant among its members. During this time, it has grown as a support body for the conception, production and distribution of its members’ artistic projects, likewise those of third parties with whom the co-operative members share interests, affections and concerns. Since 2016, this activity has expanded to the production of collective projects with the participation of its different members as another step in the internal reflection which the team has carried out in relation to work involved in art, production media, social function and praxis of the contemporary artist. kinu.group
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