Joint Production Space

Since 2008, Acción!MAD includes in its program a Joint Production Space that comprises exchanges, assignments, joint productions… This programme is developed in national as well as in international bases concerning performance practice and theory, also attending the most mobility of artists, art critics and theorists from the eight countries that constitute the common Project "A Space for Live Art".

Joint Production Laboratorio de Arte Jóven (Murcia) & Acción!09MAD
Wednesday 18th November / Monika Günter and Ruedi Schill

CFollowing the line we began last year trying that the artists invited to Acción!MAD could travel to other festivals and projects in Spain, for second consecutive year we collaborate with the Laboratorio de Arte Jóven in Murcia that will organize a workshop and a performance of the Swiss performers Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill.

Photograph: M. Depetris

Joint Production Interakcje Festival (Piotrkow Trybunalski - Poland) & Acción!09MAD
Thursday 5th November / OffLimits
Ryszard Piegza

Whatever the situations and the props he uses, he aims at breaking away from stillness by creating a space of visual, sound and body interactions between objects, objects and people, images and words, and with the internet. Or: how to cast again the Flying Carpet, or the Labyrinth, as so many Perpetuum Mobile, in a perpetual motion, never realy here or there but inbetween, always between, never settled, fixed, still, dead butterfly in the Museum. Interactive intercourse is at the core of his work since the 80's.

Joint Production Interakcje Festival (Piotrkow Trybunalski - Poland) & Acción!09MAD
Friday 6th November / OffLimits

Anna Kalwajtys

Kalwajtys generally includes opposite qualities and characters in her performances. So that, she incorporates in her work characteristics of the attacker as well as those of the victim, of the outstanding and the outcast; unexpectedly she transforms herself from a diva into a buffoon. In her performances alternates power and vulnerability; and although she explores oppressiveness she also gives a feeling of relief to the audience.
Text: Zbigniew Tomasz Kotkiewicz

Photograph: Andrzej Grzelak

Joint Production Acción!09MAD & Interakcje Festival (Piotrkow Trybunalski - Poland).
Thursday 14th May / Off Gallery

Pepe Murciego & Roxana Popelka

Since 2006 Roxana Popelka + Pepe Murciego perform projects together being their main trait the way they combine various artistic disciplines (installation, literary recitation, video, etc) as well as the using of daily ordinary materials that they adapt to the context of the performance. In many of their performances there is a predominance of a combination of spoken text and themes based on the vindication of the daily objects and situations.

Photograph: Alejandro González

Joint Production Acción!09MAD & Interakcje Festival (Piotrkow Trybunalski - Poland)
Friday 15th May / Off Gallery

Belén Cueto

Art cannot be limited to a strict passive vista and no critic world, it must do artistic interventions to become vehicles inside reality to provoke discussion in an individual as well as in a collectively sense; it must transform the representations into happenings that generate reflection and thought. It should originate creativity that stimulate the audience to ACT and become part of the art work.