Young Artists Space

One of the problems of Performance Art, undoubtedly connected to its ephemeral nature, is the difficulty of working for a long period. If we want to support young artists in their development as performers, we must create a productive interrelation between them and more established artists, besides transnational distribution networks to guarantee the visibility of their work.

Eva Pérez (Valencia - Spain)
Thursday 5th November / OffLimits

She has developed her work as performance artist for the past eight years although not as a regular activity. She has taken part in performances meetings like Portes Obertes in Cabanyal, in several collective performances in Valencia like the one at the French Institute along with other members of the Sinberifora A.C. Association, and in festivals like Nits d'Aielo i art in Aielo de Malferit, Influxus in Malpartida de Cáceres, and this year she has been at the Fem09 in Girona and PPP09 in Berne (Switzerland)

Isabel León (Cáceres - Spain)
Friday 6th November / OffLimits

My work is based on my thoughts, feelings and emotions; for me it is indispensable to be totally sincere when creating. Above all, I am interested in "feeling" when I do performance; I want to get excited, to be frightened, to be moved... and sometimes I make use of the audience for that purpose. I do performance because I want to enjoy myself, grow up, and share what I do without expecting anything but the personal satisfaction of feeling myself completely free.

Ángela García (Valencia - Spain)
Friday 6th November / OffLimits

For me, Performance Art is something so anarchic that the given suggestions proposed by the performer are free to be interpreted. There are no rules to interpret performance art; think about what you are interested in when you look and you might find your own meaning into the proposal that for some else will go unnoticed. Are you able to recreate a suggestion beyond the meaning given? Or you rather be offered a flat speech to make you feel happy because you understood? Where would rhythm, space, tension, time and the fact that it is present would remain if you just want to sit and look?. Whatever you wish to happen may happen or may be happens what you do not want to happen… think about where your limit is.

María Marticorena (La Coruña - Spain)
Friday 13th November / Círculo de Bellas Artes

She uses her body as a flexible support that reflects about the body. When thinking about the body it is not thought as a mere object but as the meaning of a voyage; from there, the body combines two different but complementary dimensions: Space and Experience, and thanks to them the work acquires sense, the sense it was created for; this requires to be thought not only from the outward but also from the inward, being a genuine exercise of reflection or rather an union between the inward and the outward that, entwined in a poetic language, the body expresses itself without words, heard however by the audience through gestures, sounds and movements… capable of transforming facts in an event of some importance.