Mugatxoan is an artistic project created by Entrecuerpos-Mugatxoan
Cultural Association, active since 1998. Mugatxoan, in Basque, means “On the
border”. This definition confirms our will to place the project in a conceptual
territory that has no intention of turning itself into a closed space, enabling
us to welcome the changes in creative attitudes, to invent other resources or
to offer unpredictable narratives.
Mugatxoan is constructed using the idea of intermediate space as a
place for the circulation of codes, redefined by the continuous comings and
goings that it is subject to.
It is conceived a kind of transit, as a process of going from one space to
another and as the place and the time where this passage occurs; for this
reason, it reaches its full significance when it travels around the three cities
which host the project.
From its outset, Arteleku (Donostia-San Sebastián) has supported the
project and has been the producer and the place where Mugatxoan has
developed. The need for creating relationships which enable vindicating
cultural projects to be developed in unique places for experimentation gave
rise to the collaboration with the Fundaçao de Serralves (Porto) in 2001. In
2008 the fourth associate co-producer, Laboral de Gijón, was incorporated.
A fundamental part of the development of Mugatxoan is directly
related to the young artists who take part in the workshops, who have guided
us with their needs to structurally modify the project.
This gave rise, in 2001, to a pause for transformation, a situation for
reflection and structural change and the first co-productions,
In 2007 we called on several of the produced artists to reflect on
what Mugatxoan had been to them and what it could be in the future and we
made a detailed examination of the aspects special to the project, those that
defined it, those that were necessary and those that could be eliminated. From
these meetings came a working group which has accompanied us since the 2008
edition, called Miaketak (Explorers).
At present, we are carrying out archive work, compiling images and
interviewing the artists who, since 1999, have been part of our journey and
which will be included on the new website and in the documentary MUGATXOAN
HAMAR.
It shows a selection of images in low quality. If you want them high or the entire collection , please contact us.
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