Event overview
Dr Iris Garrelfs hosts an evening that brings together transdisciplinary practitioners from Mexico and the UK. **NB START TIME OF 5PM**
Dr Iris Garrelfs hosts an evening that brings together transdisciplinary practitioners from Mexico and the UK. Taking the notion of acoustic emergencies as a theme, the collaborating artists explore the places we create by inhabiting them.
This event will also be live-streamed to enable our colleagues in Mexico and around the world to take part.
Fabián Ávila Elizalde alias “Neural Xólotl” (Mexico, 1980) is dedicated to teaching, research and production of work in the field of sound arts. His deepest training comes from exploring
electric bass and jazz theory with the guidance of Aarón Cruz – an endearing Mexican musician – as well as as well as his self-taught training in the production of electronic music and in the subject of arts in general. His work has been presented nationally and internationally both in self-managed and independent spaces, as well as in some educational institutions.
He currently collaborates with various artists through support in sound design and improvisation. musical, or through experimentation with writing processes. His work “Dose of Listening” (PECDA CDMX/ IMSS, 2018) investigated the relationships between pain, cancer, listening and the processes dialogical as generators of spontaneous poetics in the waiting room of a pain clinic and palliative care.
Daniel Lara Ballesteros (Monterrey, Mexico 1976) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the subjective experiences of listening from his neuro-divergent perception. He currently lives and works in Monterrey, independently promoting emerging artists in his city. He belonged to the National System of Art Creators 2017-2020. He has been an artist in residence at the Andreas Züst Library (Switzerland) RAVI (Belgium), FLORA ars+natura (Colombia).
His sound performances include: Electronic Periferia at Fonoteca Nacional (México), Tejido Cimático (Cymatic fabric) at ExTeresa Arte Actual (México). Individual exhibitions such as Yarumo Dialogues and Resonances, Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (Colombia) and Alloy 1 and 2 (Mexico). Their group exhibitions include: “Teamwork” Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo CGAC (Spain 2023), “Iceberg Faraday” Campo Abierto (Uruguay) “Aesthetics in revolution” Nave generators of the Monterrey foundry park (Mexico), Yo era good throwing stones, La Tallera (Mexico), In a World of Endless Rainfall, E-Werk (Germany), Modes of Hearing, Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico). He has collaborated in the St_age project of TBA21 (Colombia, Madrid, Austria) and in LATIR as a researcher and teacher in its diploma program in anthropology of art (Mexico 2020-2022).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Nov 2023 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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