MAPPING ZINEBI 60 AN URBAN CARTOGRAPHY CREATED BY THE ARTISTS PATXI ARAUJO AND MARTÍN ETXAURI ZINEBI would like to share the events and programming for its 60th festival with all Bilbao residents and has decided to do so in the streets too, turning one of our most characteristic buildings into a powerful visual icon, into an extension of the films linked to the festival. This is a unique artistic installation where imagery, music and performance combine to create an atmosphere that surrounds the spectator. ZINEBI is thus strengthening its presence on the streets of Bilbao for its 60th anniversary, providing a new (fleeting) urban space for the city’s residents and engaging with and promoting the talent of our local artists. For one hour prior to the opening gala, sound and imagery related to the world of cinema and the 60th anniversary of ZINEBI will be projected onto the façade of the tower on Calle Bailén. According to the two creators, this action was designed and produced from a very free standpoint and a very open and absolutely experimental perspective. Its main purpose is to test artistic speculation and urban cartography. Martín Etxauri Sáinz de Murieta, aka Txo, is an artist and researcher in new means of artistic expression. With a degree in Fine Arts, a Master’s in Contemporary, Technological and Performance Art and a PhD in Research in Contemporary Art from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). In ongoing, self-taught training, he is also an audio-visual artist, VJ, illustrator and website graphic designer. Patxi Araujo is an artist and researcher. An associate professor with the Fine Arts Faculty at UPV/EHU, he has extensive experience in the field of plastic arts and has displayed his work at numerous individual and group exhibitions. His line of research is currently focussed on his engagement with expanded disciplinary formulas, through the relationships between art, technology and their poetic multiples.
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