SHOW: INDOMITABLE WOMEN

MNCARS & Cineteca Matadero, Madrid. 

A (his)tory of audiovisual contemporary art created by women from 1944 to 2009. Unique selection of works by 82 brilliant women artists from all over the world. Curated by Macu Morán. 

Presentation: Wednesday March 7th, 2012 at 12am. MNCARS, Nouvelle Building Auditorium, Madrid, Spain

Official Opening: Saturday March 10th, 2012 at 8pm. Cineteca Matadero, Madrid, Spain

Programs: Fridays and Saturdays from March 9th to March 24th, 2012 at 8pm. Cineteca Matadero (Sala B), Madrid, Spain.

I N D O M I T A B L E W O M E N _ M U J E R E S I N D O M A B L E S _ F E M M E S I N D O M P T A B L E S _ U N B E U G S A M E N F R A U E N_D O N N E I N D O M A B I L I _ D O N E S I N D O M A B L E S _ D I R E N E N K A D I N L A R _ O N T E M B A R E V R O W E N _ N I E Z L O M N E J K O B I E T Y _ O K U V L I G A K V I N N O R _ I N V I C T U M M U L I E R E S

Special thanks to the pioneer artists whose support has made Indomitable Women possible:

Maya Deren / Dara Birnbaum / Carolee Schneemann / Yoko Ono / Orlan / Judy Chicago / VALIE EXPORT / Joan Jonas / Martha Rosler / Beryl Korot / Guerrilla Girls / Joan Logue / Marisa González / Colette / Ximena Cuevas / Suzanne Lacy / Lynn Hershman / Paloma Navares / Dora García / Ana de Alvear / Beth Moyses / Sigalit Landau / Ana Bella Geiger / Mariko Mori / Tracey Moffat / Coco Fusco / Terry Berkowitz / Amy Greenfield / Jenny Marketou / Angie Bonino / Maria Fernanda Cardoso / Grimanesa Amoros / Regina Jose Galindo / Francesca Llopis / Mariana Vassileva / Jenny Marketou

The Indomitable Women selection certainly bespeaks of a passionate process, throughout proposals and reflections developed with the necessary wisdom to allow total freedom of creation under diverse circumstances. Artists with a passion to leave their particular imprints, fearlessly redefining contemporary aesthetics and thought.

They are indomitable because both endogenous and exogenous domination mechanisms have not worked on them. They are indomitable because no one has been able to cast them into a mold designed through a long history developed for and by men; immune to the standard guidelines, the product of mental paradigms that come from unconscious beliefs and implicit cultural values that restrain creativity and repress ideas, towards the obedient acquiescence to the predominant masculine role, established in most societies since the origins of humankind.

Indomitable, once again, because of embracing the audiovisual medium, embodying the temporal dimension as an active player in the universe of perceptions and multiplying the experience with countless visual impacts, which choreograph on the retina an everlasting sensation. Passionate women who know how to give time to time in the artistic practice, who have not been stopped by the recalcitrant resistance of conservative reactionaries afraid of change and specific to each generation. Women with their own voice and criteria, who, by vocation, have let their imagination fly and take us all towards new futures, conceived for an advanced, dynamic and multi-faceted society.

This show is an effort to discover the characteristics of the point of view of women behind the camera as a pertinent discursive thread that has not been sufficiently analyzed, exhibited or recognized. It invites to reflect upon the perception and vital behavior that designates the various approaches of the female creative nature and, on a deeper level, concerns anchored in the psyche over time, perceptible thanks to the cross-historic cut.

Gathering works developed within the past seven decades, the selection attempts to glimpse that ethereal something that is a backdrop to women’s artistic praxis, always loyal to the duty of evolution inherent in art, and acquiescent with its revolutionary power. Art is here distinguished as a flux of currents of thought that promotes the creation of innovative notions, which subtly filter through society. Meanings and signifiers that have created and continue to create their imprints in contemporary art history, confronting times past and generating new ideas and original perspectives.

The flux of conscience that emanates from these works are intimate monologues of oscillating thought, images, wishes, emotions, curiosities and reflections, containing surprising conceptual, aesthetic and, of course, technical and technological connections. Works elaborated with the virtuosity that only passion can conceive, and that in the de-codification state offers an open reading to the viewers, allowing them to have an intimate relationship to the codes and sub-codes proposed in each work by this splendid group of artists and indomitable women.

What it is, will no longer be; what it was, is not any longer. Intrinsically bound to change, time does not stop; neither does it repeat itself. Wise are those creators who have an inspiring muse and travel companion in this callida iunctura.

Program 1 >> 20hs

Joan Jonas: Glass Puzzle, 1974, 17’27”, Japan/U.S.A

Beryl Korot: Lost Lascaux bull, 1973, 4’10”, U.S.A.

Martha Rosler: Chile on The Road to NAFTA, 1997, 10’00”, U.S.A.

Beth Moyses: Dia a Dia, 1998-1999, 6’52”, Brazil

Rosalin Suero Castillo: Drag Line, 2006, 1’26″, Panama

Glenda Leon: Inner Sea, 2006, 1’20”, Cuba

Teresa Puppo, Gabriela Larrañaga, Graciela Taquini: Secrets, 2007, 5’00”, Uruguay/Argentina

Program 2 >> 21.15hs

Dora Garcia: Heartbeat, 1999, 5’24”, Spain

Patricia Betancur: Yo amo…, 2008, 5’00”, Uruguay

Carmen Arrabal: Troublee / Tsunami, 2009, 4’53”, Spain

Raquel Bravo: Scenario#2, 2008, 5’00”, Spain

Begoña Egurbide: Silent Room, 2007, 3’19”, Spain

Tracey Moffat: Heaven, 1990, 28’00”, Australia

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SATURDAY MARCH 10th:

Official Opening >> 20hs

Presentation by Macu Morán, curator of the program, Amparo López Corral, coordinator of the program, Mareta Espinoza, director of the Festival Miradas de Mujeres. With the presence of some of the artists: Ana de Alvear, Anna Gimein, Amparo Garrido,Chus Garcia-Fraile, Beatriz Caravaggio and Marisa Gonzalez.

Program 3 >> 20.30 hs

Maya Deren: At Land, 1944, 15’17”, Ukraine/U.S.A.

Yoko Ono: Freedom, 1972, 60”, Japan / U.S.A.

Guerrilla Girls: Guerrilla Girls, 1985-2007, 3’30”, U.S.A.

Ximena Cuevas: Before T.V., 1985, 1′ 43”, Mexico

Joan Logue: 30 Second Portraits, 1980, 6′ 01”, U.S.A.

Marisa Gonzalez: Domestic scene with a green worm, 1984, 7’15”, Spain

Paloma Navares: Els banyets, 1987, 1’40”, Spain

Angie Bonino: The Wall, 1996, 1’30”, Peru/Italy

Program 4 >> 21.15hs

Suzanne Lacy: Learn where the meat comes from, 1976, 14’25”, U.S.A.

Ana de Alvear: Mood Landscapes Reloaded, 1998, 3’00”, Spain

Anna Gimein: Maria, 2007, 4’08”, Russia/U.S.A./Spain

Amparo Garrido: Don’t say anything, 2008, 2’37, Spain

Chus Garcia-Fraile: Running, 2009, 2’43”, Spain

Beatriz Caravaggio: Interview with a white man, 2009, 1’20”, Spain

Carmen Espla: Rain, 2007, 3’00”, Spain

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FRIDAY MARCH 16th

Program 5 >> 20hs

VALIE EXPORT: Remote… Remote…, 1973, 9’55” Austria

Gloria Arteaga: Recycle city, 2007, 5’00”, Peru

Marcela Cernadas: Rosa, 2008, 1’07”, Argentina

J.K. Lee: Total Music I & II, 2006, 4’46”, South Korea

Patricia Bueno: Yours is the Kingdom, 2007, 5’00”, Peru

Alejandra Rotondi, Lorena Mendez: Female Things, 2009, 3’11”, Argentina

Nuria Gil: Latidoamerica, 2008, 3’35”, Spain

Grimanesa Amoros: Preocupation, 2008, 1’22”, Peru/U.S.A.

Sigalit Landau: Three man hula, 1999, 1’36”, Israel

Program 6 >> 21.15hs

Carolee Schneemann: Fuses, 1964-1967, 29’51”, U.S.A.

Francesca Llopis: The virtue of giving me comfort, 2007, 5’00”, Spain

Johanna Bruckner: The Gestual Abject: Myspacedotcom, 2009, 5’00″, Germany

Maria Jose Chinchilla: Transformation, 2008, 5’00″, Spain

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SATURDAY MARCH 17th

Program 7 >> 20hs

Judy Chicago: Atmospheres, 1969-1974, 14’21”, U.S.A.

Laura Mergoni: Tombola, 2009, 4’05”, Italy

Hye Rim Lee: Crystal City Spun, 2007, 3’15″, Korea

Post Op: Implants, 2006, 5’00”, Spain

Jacklyn Soo: Songs of innocence, 2008, 3’15″, Singapore

Ana De_Matos: King Racing Girls, 2007, 2’44″, Spain

Macu Moran: When wild instincts revive, predator sharpens the knife, 2007, 4’00”, Spain

Laia Lobo (Montse Pujantell): Séquiéneres (autoportrait in color), 2007, 3’00”, Spain

Roxanne Billamboz: How to disappear brightly, 2007, 4’25”, France

Program 8 >> 21.15hs

Colette: Justine and the boys, 1979, 18′ 13”, Tunizia / U.S.A.

Lidia Benavides: Galactoforo, 2007, 4’47”, Spain

Heroinas de la Cultura: Notes from Never Land, 2007, 5’00”, Spain

Laura Celada: Anubis (a mith de_construction), 2009, 4’57”, Spain

Enriqueta Rocher: Under the skin, 2009, 4’32”, Spain

Olga Kisseleva: My double Life, 2008, 2’57”, Russia

Cristina Martin Lara: Landpartie If, 2008, 1’40”, Spain

Sabine Massenet: Bande Annonce, 2009, 4’06”, France

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FRIDAY MARCH 23rd

Program 9 >> 20hs

Coco Fusco: The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui, 1993, 31’00”, Cuba/U.S.A.

Amy Greenfield: MuseIC of the BODy, 1994, 10’20”, U.S.A.

Heide Hatry: Expectations, 2007, 2’47”, Germany

Ebba Rohweder: Intervention I, 2009, 2’21”, Germany

Mariana Vassileva: Definition, 2006, 2’10”, Bulgaria / Germany

Program 10 >> 21.15hs

Orlan: Mesurage du Musee Saint-Pierre, 1979, 17’30”, France

Funda Ozgunaydin: Displacement of culturalself, 2008, 4’10”, Turkey

Mari Carmen Garcia Maheredo: Paiting Nature, 2008, 3’05”, Spain

Evelin Stermitz: Table Talk, 2008, 2’34’’, Austria

Ester Achaerandio: Entre-vista, 2007, 5’00”, Spain

Cristina Artola: Ages and Death, 2008, 4’26”, Spain

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SATURDAY MARCH 24th

Program 11 >> 20hs

Lynn Hershman: Confessions of a Chamaleon, 1986, 10’00”, U.S.A.

Terry Berkowitz: Backseat, 1994, 21′ 49”, U.S.A.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Cardoso Flea Circus, 1996, 8’00”, Colombia

Paula Anta: Risoletto, 2007, 4’30”, Spain

Dafna Shalom: Arvit (Evening pray), 2008, 4’23″, Israel

Regina Jose Galindo: Confession, 2007, 2’22”, Guatemala

Program 12 >> 21.15hs

Ana Bella Geiger: Passages Passagens, 1974, 9’30”, Brazil

Ana Luisa Sanchez-Laws: Navigator, 2009, 3’13”, Panama

Jenny Marketou: Dear Lady M., 1995-2009, 3’59”, Greece

Dara Birnbaum: Canon: Taking to the Street, 1990, 10’00”, U.S.A.

Eva Sanchez: Yo no soy bonita, ni lo quiero ser, 2009, 2’05”, Spain

Izumi Chiaraluce: Lou, 2009, 5’00”, Japan/Italy

Mariko Mori: Miko No Inori, 1996, 14’50”, Japan

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