FOCUS. MAIN WEEKEND
FOCUS. 4th, 5th and 6th October
This year we are kicking off the festival with a bang. On Friday 4th, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th Focus will take place, the main weekend of the festival in which we have concentrated a whole series of activities linked to the works exhibited. Three days to get to know and enjoy the proposals of La Nuu 2024 to live the festival with all its intensity.
Friday 6th October
20.00h INAUGURAL OPENING
Celler Square
MARIELA SANCARI
20.30h. TO MAKE OF THE EYE, HAND. OF THE HAND, EYE.
Celler square
‘Whether it is to serve a meal, to deposit offerings, to organise knowledge, to play a social game or to plot some magical operation, in all cases the table gathers heterogeneities, gives shape to multiple relationships’.
In this fragment, taken from one of the texts accompanying the exhibition Atlas How to carry the world on your back, the art historian Georges Didi-Huberman proposes to think of the table, or assembly table, with the same functions as a plate from Aby Warburg's atlas, that is, as a device, a form that helps to think and where images and other elements can participate in a dance of open and changing relations that are infinitely reconfigured. In the performative lecture Hacer del ojo, mano. From the hand, eye, the artist Mariela Sancari will explore the space of the editing table understood as an interface where potential relations between images and texts can be constellated.
LIANT LA TROCA
21.30h LIANT LA TROCA DANCE
Celler Square
Liant la Troca is a dance group that emerged from Jordi Cortés' workshops, organised at the Roca Umbert performing arts space in Granollers, in 2010. The group is made up of people with different abilities, both artistic and motor, sensory and intellectual. Therefore, it brings the spectator closer to concepts such as: capacity, accessibility and inclusion.
SIN-CON-TACTO is about the need to be in touch with others and also with oneself. How through through the different senses we establish relationships, belong to a group or be in a couple. Also the need to be alone in space waiting for someone or simply for something to happen. A diverse where everything can happen, with strong personalities who desire and want each other, allowing the audience to be an accomplice of their encounters.
NIGTH DJ ZONE
23.00h. DAVO KAN DJ'S SESSION
El Celler Square
Bar area, gastronomy and drinks to end the day.
Culture is also leisure and a meeting place. Among all the activities programmed we will also have time to listen to the DJ'S DAVO KAN while having a bite to eat or a snack. A place of refuge and rest to recover energy and continue the night.
Saturday 5 October
PHOTOBOOK FAIR
10.00h - 20.00h. THOUSANDFOLD PHOTOBOOK FAIR.
El Celler Square
Thousandfold Photobook fair was a new proposal in last year's edition and we continue with more strength this year. We will have the participation of important European and national publishers such as DieNacht , Jiser, 89Books, Can Grapes, Badweather Press, Ediciones Anómalas, Hélène Petit, Henry Hills Books ,Maria Inc., Rodovid Press, Mar Negre publisher and Ediciones Posibles. The aim of this section is to show the European photographic avant-garde in book format and the leading publishers. The public will be able to see, touch and get to know the latest photographic creation and book design.
Thousandfold Photobook fair. Rubí Photobook Fair is organised by the Association dienacht. https://dienacht.eu/thousandfold?
10 YEARS OF THE NUU. PROJECTION
10.00h-21.00h.
Sala de Tines
Projection of the works exhibited during the 10 years of La Nuu.
A retrospective of all the works that La Nuu has exhibited over the 10 years of its existence will be shown. A loop projection will show the photographs of all the authors who have wanted to support La Nuu with their participation. Photographers from all over the world and from different generations, recognised and emerging.
Guided visit
11.30h
Departure from Antiga estació
Throughout the month of October, the director, Carles Mercader, and the artistic director, David Molina Gadea, carry out different guided tours following the different works exhibited on the street.
The creation and transmission of knowledge are, together with the bulk of the festival's exhibition, the backbone of the cultural action carried out by La Nuu. Among the different educational activities that are programmed, the guided tours have become one of the most important assets of La Nuu and, at the same time, one of the sections most valued by the attending public.
Vermouth, music and photography
12.00h-14.00h. DJ'S ACME and Co.
El Celler Square
Bar, food and drink area to liven up the day.
Culture is also a leisure and meeting place. Among all the activities programmed we will also have time to listen to the DJ'S ACME and Co's proposal while having a mosh or a snack. A place of refuge and rest to recover energy and continue in the afternoon.
Ignasi Marroyo and Josep Maria Roset. The seeds of La Nuu
17.00h. CONFERENCE
El Celler Square
Lecture by the curators Laura Terré and Natasha Christia. Talk-homage to the Rubí photographers Ignasi Marroyo and Josep Maria Roset. Around the personality of these two photographers a great interest in photography was created in the town of Rubí. They were also the driving force behind the Grupo Fotográfico El Gra, a Rubí-based association that has played a key role in the social and cultural life of the town.
Natasha Christia is a curator, writer and teacher based in Barcelona. She is also a collections consultant specialising in fine art photography and photobooks. She holds a BA in Archaeology and Art History from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, an MA in Modern Art and Film from the University of Essex and a Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing from the University of Barcelona.
Laura Terré holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. Her speciality is Spanish photography, which she approaches from a historical but also critical perspective. Her historical research work is the generation of Spanish photographers who belonged to the AFAL group during the 1950s, reflected in the publication Afal (1956 - 1963) Historia del Grupo fotográfico, published by Photovision in 2006, which has been awarded the PhotoEspaña 2006 Prize for the best book published in Spain.
FINA MIRALLES. PHOTOACTION
18.00h. CONFERENCE
El Celler Square
The curator and art historian Maia Creus will talk about the importance of photography in the career of the artist Fina Miralles and specifically in the series that the artist grouped under the heading ‘fotoacciones’. Part of this work can be seen in this edition of La Nuu.
Maia Creus Castellana. PhD in Art History. Teacher, cultural researcher and exhibition curator. Among her most outstanding works are the exhibitions and catalogues of historical rewriting: Sala Tres en la ruta de l'art Conceptual a Catalunya, 2007 (Museu d'Art de Sabadell); Joan Salvat Papasseït poetaavantguardistacatal, 2010 (Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona).
The dictatorship of images
19.00h IVÁN DE LA NUEZ. CONFERENCE
El Celler Square
The writer, researcher and curator Iván de la Nuez will talk about his latest work Iconophagias. A dictionary of the 21st century.
An essential dictionary against the noise and indigestion generated by the iconographic avalanche of contemporary culture.
With the cameras of our telephones turned into human appendages, we generate many more images than we can consume, images that subjugate us and in the face of which, at times, there is nothing left to do but revolt. Images that swallow us up and which, from time to time, we should swallow.
MARIA RIOT AND KALI SUDHRA. THE FORBIDDEN IMAGES. PHOTOGRAPHY AND SEX WORK
20.00h. CONFERENCE
El Celler Square
Talk by sex worker and artist Maria Riot with porn actress Kali Sudhra.
From a controversial feminist and anti-abolitionist position, the artist Maria Riot will talk with the actress Kali Sudhra about images and the use of images of sex workers.
Maria Riot lives in Barcelona. She is a sex worker, sex workers' rights activist and artist. Her photographic work Archivo puta can be seen this year at La Nuu.
Kali Sudhra is an activist, sex worker and educator born in Tkaronto, Turtle Island, an indigenous territory not ceded to the colonial state of Canada. Ellx works to amplify the voices of racialised queer people, and Sex Workers around issues of intersectionality. She is dedicated to dismantling white supremacist structures within feminism and directly challenging the control of feminist spaces. Her work focuses primarily on the exploration and presentation of dissident sexuality, directly challenging white heteronormativity through the use of various forms of sex work.
SOUND IMAGE
21.00h. VICTOR BALADOCH
El Celler Square
Hypnagogic is an audiovisual performance that combines sound art with the deconstruction of devices linked to the performative figure of the disc-jockey and reflections on abstract cinema, expanded cinema and visual-music.
From a creative process that crosses foundfootage, re-photography and appropriation art, Baladoch proposes a hybrid dialogue between analogue and digital language, where the re-assembly of celluloid films in Super 8 and 16 mm seeks to evoke a dreamlike atmosphere for a sound action that combines drone, ambient, noise, techno and elements close to industrial music, such as turntables and radio records.
Vic Baladoch - they / she is an audiovisual artist based in Bilbao. For more than a decade he has been exhibiting and showing works based on the installation image in the wake of existentialism. Baladoch develops his work in different fields, disciplines and languages, such as photography, film, video, sound, performance, teaching and cultural management.
LOS MOCASINES CONCERT
22.00h
El Celler Square
Los Mocasines are a tropical-eclectic genre band: an amalgam of disparate references that result in a mixture with touches of salsa, reggae, cumbia, bossa nova, blues, classic and alternative rock, singer-songwriter music and jazzy psychedelia in slow motion.
Its members are Sergi Ben net: Guitar, Waiki: Percussion, Arnau Cacau: Drums, Robs: Keyboard, RagaRa: Voice, guitar and melodica and Gamba: Bass and chors.
NIGTH DJ ZONE
23.00h. DJ ACME AND CO.
El Celler Square
Bar, food and drink area to end the day.
Culture is also leisure and a meeting place. Between all the programmed activities we will also have time to listen to the DJ'S ACME and Co while having a bite to eat or a snack. A place of refuge and rest to recover energy and continue the night.
Sunday 6 th
PHOTOBOOK FAIR
10:00h - 15:00h. THOUSANDFOLD PHOTOBOOK FAIR.
El Celler square
Thousandfold Photobook fair was a new proposal in last year's edition and we continue with more strength this year. We will have the participation of important European and national publishers such as DieNacht , Jiser, Maria Inc, 89Books, Can Grapes, Badweather Press, Ediciones Anómalas, Hélène Petit, Henry Hills Books , Rodovid Press, Mar Negre publisher y Ediciones Posibles. The aim of this section is to show the European photographic avant-garde in book format and the leading publishers. The public will be able to see, touch and get to know the latest photographic creation and book design.
Thousandfold Photobook fair. Rubí Photobook Fair is organised by the Association dienacht. https://dienacht.eu/thousandfold?
Build your own light synthesizer
10:00h-13:00h. POT-SYNTH
El Celler Cooperatiu annex room
Workshop given by Robert Martínez from the association Mutan Monkey.
Practical workshop to get into the fascinating world of synthesizers and analogue electronics, we will build our own electronic circuit inside a glass jar that we can also control with coloured lights. What does light sound like? What sounds can we create with a synthesizer? This workshop is a good way to get into and experiment with electronics and technology applied to musical creation in a collective way. No previous knowledge is necessary. Each participant will take their own instrument home.
To participate, prior registration is required at info@lanuu.cat and payment of 50€ (materials are included).
CLOSER. portfolio viewing
11.00h-14.00h
Tines room, El Celler Cooperatiu
CLOSER is the portfolio viewing of La Nuu. From the festival we want to promote the contact of emerging photographers with different professionals of photography and the art world, both nationally and internationally.
If you have started or finished a photographic work, we invite you to participate in the CLOSER section of La Nuu festival. You will have the opportunity to show your project to different experts in the field of photography and visual arts. Photographers, designers, curators, editors and festival directors will be able to offer you their comments, advice and guidance on how to bring your work to fruition.
This year's viewers are Natasha Christia (curator, teacher and writer), Albert Gusi (photographer and director of Panoramic Festival), Anna Llopis (art historian, curator and current exhibition coordinator of the Picasso Museum), Calin Kruse (photographer, designer and the is editor of Dienacht Publising) and David Molina Gadea (photographer, designer and the is artistic director of La Nuu).
To see the terms and conditions of participation, please consult our calls for proposals page.
PHOTOGRAPHY ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
11.30h. CHEMIGRAMS. PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT A CAMERA
El Celler Square
Workshop given by the Grup Fotogràfic El Gra.
This activity is aimed at children and aims to introduce them to the dark and closed universe of the analogue photographic laboratory. Chemigraphy is a technique that uses the photo-sensitive materials of traditional photography but does not require a dark space and can be done in broad daylight.
Chemigrams are images obtained on light-sensitive emulsions and produced by the action of the chemical agents used during the analogue photographic process (developer, stop bath and fixer).
This is a mixed technique that produces images by combining the procedures and materials of painting and photography without the mediation of a camera.
The participating children will find themselves in the middle of an open-air photographic laboratory and will be amazed to discover the action of light on the silver nitrates of the sensitive paper, making their own creations.
TEO VÁZQUEZ. ACTION-INTERVENTION
10.00h-15.00h. ACTION-INTERVENTION
EL Celler Cooperatiu
In this edition we continue with the participation of the photographer Teo Vázquez. On Sunday 6 of FOCUS we will be able to experience first-hand the urban intervention carried out by Teo Vázquez with his work. A performative action of contextual urban art based on photography and the intervention of space. This action marks the start of the creative process and the public at La Nuu will be able to see and experience it live.
Vermouth, music and photography
12:00h-14:00h. DJ'S GOLFO DE GUINEA
El Celler Square
Bar, food and drink area to liven up the day.
Culture is also leisure and a meeting place. Among all the activities programmed we will also have time to listen to the DJ'S ACME and Co while having a bite to eat or a snack. A place of refuge and rest to recover energy and continue in the afternoon.
12TH OCTOBER
Guided visit
11.30h
Departure from Antiga estació
Throughout the month of October, the director, Carles Mercader, and the artistic director, David Molina Gadea, carry out different guided tours following the different works exhibited on the street.
The creation and transmission of knowledge are, together with the bulk of the festival's exhibition, the backbone of the cultural action carried out by La Nuu. Among the different educational activities that are programmed, the guided tours have become one of the most important assets of La Nuu and, at the same time, one of the sections most valued by the attending public.
19TH OCTOBER
Guided visit
11.30h
Departure from Antiga estació
Throughout the month of October, the director, Carles Mercader, and the artistic director, David Molina Gadea, carry out different guided tours following the different works exhibited on the street.
The creation and transmission of knowledge are, together with the bulk of the festival's exhibition, the backbone of the cultural action carried out by La Nuu. Among the different educational activities that are programmed, the guided tours have become one of the most important assets of La Nuu and, at the same time, one of the sections most valued by the attending public.
CAN AN IMAGE WEEP FOR A PREVIOUS ONE? CORRESPONDENCES WITHIN THE ARCHIVE
10:00h-20:00h. WORKSHOP GIVEN BY THE NEGRA MOSCA COLLECTIVE
Tremuja Room at El Celler
Can an image cry for a previous one? is a workshop proposal that seeks, through different dynamics, to use images to better understand how we understand the reality that surrounds us. Through a first exercise, we will look for the first links within the same personal archive to then permeate all the material to the rest and build dialogues between images collectively that will draw a kind of constellation full of possible combinations.
Registration is required in order to participate. See the section on calls for entries.
26TH OCTOBER
Guided visit
11.30h
Departure from Antiga estació
Throughout the month of October, the director, Carles Mercader, and the artistic director, David Molina Gadea, carry out different guided tours following the different works exhibited on the street.
The creation and transmission of knowledge are, together with the bulk of the festival's exhibition, the backbone of the cultural action carried out by La Nuu. Among the different educational activities that are programmed, the guided tours have become one of the most important assets of La Nuu and, at the same time, one of the sections most valued by the attending public.
SCREEN NIGHT
20.00h. SCREEN
Salvador Allende Square
The SCREEN section is dedicated to photographic works in audiovisual format and is linked to an international competition with a prize of 1000 euros. This year's jury is made up of Pucho, Juan Pedro Martín, vocalist of the band Vetusta Morla and a filmmaker, the curator Natasha Christia and the photographer and editor Emilie Hallard.
During the evening Screen will show the selected works and the jury will reveal the name of the winning photographer of this edition.
To see the terms and conditions of participation, please consult our calls for proposals page.
Closing Concert
21.00h.THE KILLING HITS
Salvador Allende Square
Everyone thought that five rock stars like Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Freddy Mercury, Jim Morrison and John Lennon were no longer with us, but that's not so, some were simply on a trip with the Imserso, others on a spiritual retreat in Tibet. Tired of free buffets and playing the Tibetan singing bowl, these five music icons have returned to the stage to pay tribute to their main influences: Raphael, Sonia and Selena, Camilo Sesto, Chenoa .....
Under the name of The Killing Hits, these five musicians are responsible for the fact that the rate of hip fractures in recent years has shot up alarmingly, that shoe manufacturers can't find a single one that can withstand their dance steps and that their audiences the next day can only repeat these six words: Yo Quiero BailarToda La Noche.
One Hit to rule them all. One Hit to find them. One Hit to lure them all and bind them to the darkness of the Party.
