2021
RIBERA #6
THE MEMORY OF THE BIDASOA THROUGH ART.
The aim of this programme is to combine contemporary art proposals with historical memory, as well as the culture of water and its influence on social relations in the city. It is based on artistic processes from multiple disciplines in a commitment to co-creation, participation, research and experimentation. The sixth edition will be held on Saturday 18 September 2021 on the banks of the Bidasoa River. Subsequently, in October, a day of presentation of results will be held at the CBA.
CHECKPOINT
Information point
WALLS OF MEMORY
Mural intervention
MAIALEN AROCENA
JABIER RODRIGUEZ
RIBERA GRANTS
The aim of this call is to activate a permanent framework for research-action projects in the field of human sciences and art. The tandem artist + anthropologist work in the border area and especially in the Bidasoa River and its surroundings.
Cross-border cultural meanings
Amaia Molinet and Olesya Dronyak
Installation, photography and video (general dimensions variable)
Artistic intervention based on the research carried out in the project of the same name developed with one of the Ribera grants.
Larreaundi, documentary of a working-class neighbourhood
Tamara Cuéllar and Félix Martín Cámara
Installation (photographs)
Visual memory of a young working-class neighbourhood. Documentary based on testimonies and memories of the residents of the Larreaundi neighbourhood.
10:00h
ABERE BA
BIGARA
Palindrome Workshop / Materials included
We will approach the palindrome by playing with the names of animals: word, image and voice.
Duration: 1 hour
11:00h
SHORES
INKO MARTIN
Radioperformance
"Orillas" is a work of sound fiction in which, by means of voice, sound effects created live and sound backgrounds, it proposes a sonorous journey to the audience. The guiding thread will be the experience of an anthropologist in the Peruvian Amazon, an experience of connection, exploration and rediscovery with what we are and what surrounds us.
Script and editing: Inko Martín. Actress: Saioa Royo. Sound technicians: Mikel Cerezo and Eneko Yaben.
Duration: 40 minutes
12:00
NATURE AND ITS TREMBLING
IDOIA ZABALETA, SOFÍA ASENCIO, CHUS DOMINGUEZ Y TOMÁS ARAGAY
Guided walk
"Nature and its tremor" proposes a leisurely walk along the banks of the river Bidasoa on its way to the sea, inviting walkers to watch and listen to these currents through different voices and points of view".
Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for people over 7 years old
Starting point: Checkpoint. Please be there 10 minutes beforehand for capacity control.
13:00
BELARRIZ SU(S)MATU
MAITE ARROITAJAUREGI (MURSEGO)
Workshop
The soundscape is a piece of music in constant expansion around us and we are at the same time listeners, musicians and composers of it.
Duration: 1 hour and a half.
Recommended for people over 10 years old.
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Research project
Artistic residencies / New approaches
The initiative to review the programmes of aid for creation organised by Bitamine Faktoria over the last 10 years arose shortly after the period of pandemics, confinements and limitations on many of the freedoms we had enjoyed until then.
It is true that the new present had changed as a consequence of the events. The economy had been affected, many families had lost loved ones, the routine and changing restrictions we faced on a daily basis made us feel lost and hopeless. But also, people had changed. Many of us have taken advantage of this hiatus to slow down, reflect, analyse, blame ourselves, accept that sometimes we lose and even take away burdensome duties. To question our objectives and look for answers.
Continuing with the model we had proposed until then in our structure was irresponsible. And the answers would not appear on their own, they had to be sought.
Within this framework, a long task was planned, with concrete phases, articulated with each other and consecutive in time.
A research project was launched in November 2021 to find out the state of the artistic and cultural sector in the Basque Country, and it was carried out throughout 2022.
Many people have been involved in the work process, which has been an invaluable source of knowledge, and it is thanks to all of them that we can now share these results, which I sincerely hope will be useful and fruitful for the sector.
Download the research
Design: Estudio Moriskette
Emotional Atlas of Bidasoa - exhibition
2023.02.03 / 2023.06.04
OIASSO MUSEOA
An exhibition at the Oiasso Roman Museum (Irun) curated and art directed by Helga Massetani Piemonte and María José Noain Maura.
"It is not possible to bathe twice in the same river". This famous phrase, perhaps erroneously attributed to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, is perfect for reflecting on the Bidasoa. Its character as a border river, since ancient times, has allowed it to see the most varied historical events, to hear different languages on its banks, to host great celebrations and great tragedies, to become a mute witness to the passing of time. The river Bidasoa is the protagonist of this exhibition and comes to life through the voices of its inhabitants.
In 2019, Bitamine Faktoria (Helga Massetani Piemonte) and Los Viajes de Aspasia (María José Noain Maura) received the Ribera grant from Irun City Council to develop a project that at the time was called "Cartografía Emocional del Bidasoa" (Emotional Cartography of the Bidasoa). Previous work was carried out on the history of artistic cartography which was followed by anthropological research, in which, through surveys and group interviews, the emotional perception that the inhabitants of its banks have of the Bidasoa was collected. In this way, a conceptual and artistic map of the river's memory was drawn up.
The project was continued in 2021, taking on a new dimension that transformed it into "Atlas Emocional del Bidasoa". It was then the Olatuak grant from the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the Creation Aid from Irun Town Council that facilitated the transformation of the research into an artist's book: an edition of ten literary and historical notebooks, illustrated by Elena Odriozola. Ten of the themes most highlighted by the citizens during the research phase were chosen and are now transformed into ten modules that make up this exhibition. Each module talks about an aspect, but not only for information purposes, but also as an artistic installation that aims to evoke memories, stir emotions, rescue from oblivion what we were, are and want to be. They can be visited in the order that each person chooses: the important thing is to move between them, like the waters of the river. After all, as the Greek philosopher himself said, everything flows, nothing remains.
KREDITUAK / CRÉDITOS
Komisariotza / Comisariado: Helga Massetani Piemonte, María José Noain Maura
Ilustrazioak / Ilustraciones: Elena Odriozola
Ekoizpena / Producción: Ander Garmendia
Eskerrak / Agradecimientos
Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia / Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
Gordailua. Gipuzkoako Ondare Bildumen Zentroa / Centro de Colecciones Patrimoniales de Gipuzkoa.
Hondarribiko Udala / Ayuntamiento de Hondarribia
Irungo Udal Artxiboa / Archivo Municipal de Irun
Kutxa Fundazioa
San Telmo Museoa
Irungo Memoria Historikoaren Bulegoa /Oficina Memoria Histórica de Irun
José Luis Noain Cendoya
Kutxateka
"Nicolás Guerendiain" Irungo Errepublikarrak / Asociación Republicana Irunesa “Nicolás Guerendiain”
Eta ikerketa-fasean parte hartu zuten guztiei. / A todas las personas que participaron en la fase de investigación.