Iratxe Jaio + Klaas van Gorkum

We are doing three talks on our work in Bilbao next week:

"Últimas Palabras. Art and the violence of speech"
October 20, 2015 from 12:00 to 13:30
IMPORTANT: due to high number of inscriptions, the location has been changed to Sala Turing, first floor of the ESIDE-Engineering building of the Deusto University
Reservation required
The Chair in Leisure and Knowledge of the Institute of Leisure Studies at the University of Deusto is pleased to invite you to a seminar with Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum. Following the presentation of the video "Últimas Palabras", there will be a discussion with the artists about the critical capacity of art: What should be the place of art in the face of the rhetoric of power? Can one expect moral or political effects from the encounter between the public and art?

Conversation with Jaime Cuenca
October 20, 2015 from 18:150 to 19:15
In the context of postgraduate studies "Disfrutar las artes" at the Deusto University

Conference at the University of Basque Country: "Todo lo que digas" (Anything you say)
October 22, 2015 from 11.00 to 12.30
Graduate Hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Basque Country in Leioa
In this conference several works will be discussed in which the artists have taken the judicial process as a performance which stages and choreographes conflict.

Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea
Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
June 25 - September 26, 2015

Opening Thursday 25th of June at 19:30

"Lo que ha de venir ya ha llegado" (what is to come has already arrived) is an exhibition about the times we are living in. A radical malaise runs through society after years of what has been described as the first major crisis of globalisation. A profound change is necessary, and it's the citizens who must be the active agents of that change. But its realisation and development depends on a rearmament of ideas which allow us to imagine solutions. With this as a point of departure, the exhibition brings together a number of artists and collectives whose work and activities reflect upon or indicate possible ways out of the predicament.

Participating artists:
Cecilia Barriga, Sarah Browne, Carolina Caycedo, Peter Coffin,  David Diao,  Druot Lacaton & Vassal, Ecosistema urbano,  Yona Friedman, Dionisio González,  Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Regina de Miguel, Anna Moreno,  Claire Pentecost, Mathias Poledna,  Mika Taanila,  Alain Tanner,  The Temple Crew, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, ZEMOS98, 15M Files.

Curators:
Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Alicia Murría, Mariano Navarro

There were many obstacles that had to be overcome, but it seems as if our work finally made it to the Mardin Biennial that is opening in Turkey on the 15th of May 2015. This is not in the least because of curator Claudia Segura's ceaseless efforts behind the scenes to have it shown, despite objections by local politicians, Dutch embassy travel bans, and other problems.

Our contribution consists of a collection of Turkish newspapers, bought on the 18th of December 2004. Headline news that day was that the European Union had finally agreed to start accession negotiations with Turkey. On video, two members of the communist party flip through the newspapers, providing a personal, if not Marxist, commentary on the state of the press in Turkey.

More than ten years later this work of art will be now exhibited for the first time, in the beautiful medieval town of Mardin.

We hope that the crumbling walls of the exhibition venue and the biennial's overarching Mythologies theme provide an ideal setting for the work's dormant function to come into operation: to historicise, and to derive its significance from everything that has, or rather hasn't, happened since.

The travelling exhibition Gaur(sic) has reached Centre d'Art Le Lait in Albi, France, where it will be exhibited from 21 March to 21 June 2015. It offers an overview of recent works of video art from Basque Country, which includes our video from Work in Progress.

With: Sra. Polaroiska (Alaitz Arenzana and María Ibarretxe), Colombina’s (Larraitz Torres and Sandra Cuesta), Aitor Lajarin, Zuhar Iruretagoiena, Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum, Saioa Olmo, Juan Aizpitarte and Ixone Sadaba. Curated by Nekane Aramburu.