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> Da: "montsejoseba" <info at montsearbelojosebafranco.com>
> Data: 03 ottobre 2008 18:06:37 GMT+02:00
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> Oggetto: NOMADS EAST WEST at MEIAC


by Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco
  from 18th september to 2sd november of 2008

  MEIAC
  MUSEO EXTREMEÑO E IBEROAMERICANO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
  C/ Virgen de Guadalupe, 7. Badajoz


  www.meiac.es

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NOMADAS. East - West

  Since the earliest humans stood upright millions of years ago,  
impelled by curiosity and the urge to find out what lay beyond the  
horizon, our capacity for imagination has never stopped growing. That  
impulse was a revolution for the entire species. It implied  
formulating an abstraction, thinking it through and setting out to  
find it - a new dynamic that changed the future of humankind. That's  
how we've invented the world, by naming it.

With our laptops and still and video cameras, we wander through a  
world full of contradictions, sharing and assimilating cultures, and  
learning human biodiversity on the streets. Regardless of skin  
colour, language, culture, economic status and any other  
differentiation factor we could come up with, we confirm that we are  
more similar than we are different.

With East - West, we want to explore this time that gives coherence  
to all human forms of expression, in the East and the West, through  
the overall patterns on which myths and reality have been  
constructed. While there may be no match for transversality in our  
day and age, the transubstantiation of reality into multiple and  
varied forms allows us to see the vision of the East reflected in the  
mirror of the West and vice versa. There are no certainties and no  
clear boundaries exist.

NOMADAS 00-10 is a project that we began in 2000 and that stretches  
over a decade. It is the frame of reference that connects all of our  
projects, as well as a way of merging art with life. This path, which  
disrupts borders and prejudices, fuels the way we see and understand  
the world today, mixing cultures and experiences, smells and tastes.  
The aim of this journey is to experience all the countries in the  
world by organising exhibitions and conferences and working on  
projects with transnational groups in order to create collaborative  
links with artists and institutions, cultural agents and different  
societies.

The concepts "East" and "West" represent much more than what our eyes  
allow us to perceive. Only through the sum of all our senses can we  
approach two worlds that are so seemingly distant and different from  
each other. The collective imaginary takes us back to cultures that,  
for millennia, have evolved in disparate ways. However, in today's  
world it has become notoriously difficult to find a clear  
differentiating line. The West has exported its lifestyle and  
traditions all over the world, penetrating the East to such an extent  
that, no matter how you look at it, a convergence of the futures of  
both seems inescapable. Likewise, the East has become part of our  
daily life in a multitude of ways: spirituality, culture, sports,  
food, technology...

In an almost linear trajectory from New York to Tokyo, passing  
through most European countries, China and the Philippines, we've  
tried to capture the rhythm and daily life of the places visited.  It  
has been a journey of over two years, which have allowed us to  
assimilate and accept that we live in a single, complex and ever- 
changing world with multiple realities.

As in a hall of mirrors, we've seen ourselves reflected in numerous  
stories. We are actors and spectators both in a multi-polar world.  
Imagination has been captured and expressed in over 50 hours of video  
recordings and thousands of photographs, creating a mosaic, a puzzle  
that we try to put in order.

www.meiac.es
  www.montsearbelojosebafranco.com/nomadas.htm
  email:info at montsearbelojosebafranco.com


  Created and Directed by: Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco
  Edited: Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona
  Original Music: Mandi Capote Demali.
  Produced by: CCCB and Montse Arbelo - Joseba Franco

This project travel to nacionals e internationals museums.
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