por Eskimal y Enrike del MAl
This serie of performances we made in the context of a fair art.
Getxo Arte is one local event in one specific part of Bilbao City where young vasc artists (most of them university students)
present their works and people can buy it.
They give us one stand 2x8 metros, so we propose some actions for this specific stand and otherones for the fair.
Over the stands there was the names of the artists
They only give us food one day
FAIR TOUR
The opening action consist in one tour for the fair, us a normal visitors, stand by stand, talking with the artists about the pieces they present, inviting to some beers we have in the supermarketcart.
During the journey we are blowing up one inflate boat (the explorer),
we wear one hat of a sailor (The Ebro), one pumb and bathrobes.
We are changing the works: to push (hat)
to inflate.
At the end, when we finished the walk and we completed to inflate we come back
to the stand, we put the boat, and we pis all the beers in.
The boat stay like the residual art object.
PUBLIC AS ART
with the idea of public as art, and with the 8x2 space, we improvised one piece based in one action we made for the 3 UPV Fesival de arte de accion (Valencia)
we use the same objects:
a gas bottle
a mop and a bucket
hawaian necklaces
ERNESTO
A piece who talk about relation between two persons, how we listen the other and how we act to the other person
A make a line sweeping the clean floor
B throwing confetti just behind the place A cleans
A stand screaming _ Ernesto! Ernesto! (a false name to the other person)
B come back to the begining point telling fonetics sounds to the confetti (SRRp - fRR - TTSa)
A open his mouth
B go to a, scream inside the mouth: _Ernesto!, listen inside A mouth
B returns covering his ears
A call B by his real name
B come to A point and introduce in his trausers
together they go to B point with the broom
INFORMAZIOA
Gara is the newspaper sustitut of Egin (newspaper of Vasc Country canceled by the goverment of Spain)
Mundo is the newspaper of the PP (goverment in Spain in 2002)
After work unusual with the objects. (A) mix all the parts of the 2 newspapers and (B) make a sandwich with his hands inside. (the information sandwich
The bell sound and the combat start.
BUCKETS
A and B have buckets full of thingh inside the stand space.
B throug to A one bucket of ices
A answer B with one bucket of forks
A throug to B one bucket of family photos
B answer with throughing one frame
Finaly A and B change the places and they put in the head the buckets of the other one.
Trying to understand the other message during 20 minutes.
BEHIND THE NAMES