Loop Festival 2024

The 22nd edition of Loop Festival invites us to explore how different artistic gestures can provoke subtle yet significant tremors that, by raising awareness in the viewer, can ultimately affect power structures. We are inspired by the belief that every movement, whether it manifests as a violent earthquake, a devastating hurricane, or an uncontrollable fire, or arises from the subtlety of emotional reactions in our sensitive bodies, such as when our hair stands on end, is an uncontrollable response to experiences that deeply affect and condition us. These movements activate within us a further reflection that forces us to rethink our way of being in common with others in an environment besieged by environmental pressures.

Like a seismic chain of tremors gaining strength and intensity, like small waves accumulating to create a tsunami, these shared vibrations can provoke a rupture, a necessary collapse, a general shift in consciousness, a new way of perceiving the world. Thus, this tremor compels us to react, to look back from the present, and to take the necessary impulse to face the renewals that await us in the future.

 

Program

11/11 7.30pm
Exhibition Opening
Casa Elizalde
Ariadne was never our goddess by Maria Alcaide.
Curated by La Otra (Patricia Sorroche and Maria Amador)
11/11 to 23/11 Exhibition Dates*Accessible during Casa Elizalde’s opening hours

12/11 7PM
Screening and presentation
Jardins del Palau Robert
The Miracles of Master Cabestany by Rosa Tharrats and Gabriel Ventura
Curated by Sofía Lemos. Screening and presentation by the artists and curator

12/11 to 24/11
Intervention
Museu Picasso Barcelona
Octopus Head Woman by Laure Prouvost
*Accessible during Museu Picasso’s opening hours

13/11 at 7 pm
Exhibition Opening and Talk
Museu de la Música
LOOP FESTIVAL OPENING EVENT: Muted Explosions, by Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk. Music session by Azami (Dj). Curated by einaidea x Loop
Exhibition dates: 13/11 to 26/01/25
*Accessible during Museu de la Música’s opening hours

14/11, 7pm
Exhibition and Public Activity
Fabra i Coats, Centre d’Art Contemporani
Paraules d’amor by Núria Güell. Winner of the 2023 Video Creation Award
*Accessible during Fabra i Coats’ opening hours

15/11, 6pm.
Exhibition and Guided tour
La Capella
Camila Cañeque. Infinita / Unfinished. Politics of Fatigue
Curated by Beatriz Escudero and Eloy Fernández-Porta. Directed by David Armengol.

15/11, 7pm
Guided Tour
Fundació Enric Miralles
(Somewhere between) the Wind and the Dove, by Lenka Clayton, Phillip Andrew Lewis, Xavier Marrades
Curated by Joseph del Pesco, independent curator and international director of KADIST

16/11, 12pm
Screening and conversation
CASA SEAT
John Menick: Autoextinction and The Self-Moving Image
With John Menick and Blanca Pujal (architect), moderated by Manuel Cirauqui
Curated by einaidea x Loop

16/11, 8pm
Sound and Visual performance
L’Alternativa at CCCB (Hall)
Scraping the Leaf and the Voice by Valentina Alvarado Matos
Organized by L’Alternativa and Loop Barcelona.

17/11, 12pm
Screening and conversation
Hangar, centre de producció i recerca artística
The Feeling Sonnets
Metahaven in conversation with Manuel Cirauqui
Curated by einaidea x Loop 

17/11 7pm
Performance and Exhibition
Fundación Cultural Casa de Rusia
Elena Kovylina. Selected performances 1999 – 2024
Exhibition and live performance by artist Elena Kovylina

18/11, 6 – 6.45 pm
Performative talk
Casa Elizalde
Ariadna mai va ser la nostra deessa, Maria Alcaide
Performative talk between artist Maria Alcaide and curators Patricia Sorroche and María Amador (LaOtra)

18/11, 7pm
Performance
Institut del Teatre
The Myth of Trinity II
Performance by Thomias Radin with Bidiamambu, Delawhere, and Thénard
In collaboration with Esther Schipper (Berlin)
** Free entry. Book in advance. Limited seating

22/11, 6pm
Screening and conversation
Centre Excursionista de Catalunya
The Frustrated Journey by Enric Farrés. Film screening and conversation with the artist

22/11, 9.30pm
Screening and conversation
Zumzeig Cinema
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez
Screening and conversation with curators Carles Guerra and Pascale Cassagneau (CNAP)

23/11, 8pm
Screening
Cinemes Girona
CIFRA Casa Àsia screening program. Works selected by chief curator of CIFRA, Olga Shishko; director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Àsia, Menene Gras; and artistic director of CIFRA, Anastasia Stravinsky

Sharon Cheuk A palm, a fountain, an umbrella (2024), 10’24’’

Eri Saito Ebony Dream (2019), 3’23’’

Amie-Sarah Ringo (2020), 3’27’’

Popo Fan Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (2020), 2’22’’

Axl Joseph’s Midnight Party (2024), 22’’

Chen Zhou The Story of Nanka Gulu and Iron Hawk (2021), 16’

Almagul Menlibayeva,Mother Water Gulbib Balkhash(2024), 15′

Shuree Sarantuya Curse of Staged Atavism (2024), 11’41’’

 

Other Exhibitions Recommended by Loop

31/10 to 19/01/25
Exhibition
Fundació Miró / Espai13
Accident by Helena Vinent
Curated by Irina Mutt
*Accessible during Fundació Miró’s opening hours

23/10 to 20/11
Exhibition
La Capella
Camila Cañeque. Infinita / Unfinished. Politics of Fatigue.
Curated by Beatriz Escudero and Eloy Fernández-Porta. Directed by David Armengol
*Accessible during La Capella’s opening hours

24/10 2024 to 5/1/2025
Exhibition
DHUB
The Production of Otherness
Curated by Maite Borjabad
*Accessible during DHUB’s opening hours

26/10 to 24/11
Exhibition
Fabra i Coats
Miquel Casablancas Award. Common Substrate: A New Archaeology of Matter
Artists: Marc Anglès, Isabel Bonafé, Natalia Domínguez, Mikel Escobales, Albert Gironès, Marina González Guerreiro, Gala Hernández López, Hodei Herreros Rodríguez, Abel Jaramillo, Claudia Rebeca Lorenzo, Lucas Marcos Barquilla, Jara Roset, Laia Ventayol García, Lola Zoido

*Accessible during Fabra i Coats’ opening hours