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Coco Moya and Iván Cebrián

Menhir

Until 16 September 2015

(Gijón, 1982)

Coco Moya

Coco Moya is a graduate in Fine Arts by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and she has completed a Masters Course on Art and Research. She is currently enjoying and internship at the Department of Culture at the School of Fine Arts of that same university. Her work has been showcased in collective exhibitions such as Hacer de las Ttripas tripis, 2015, Bellas Artes, Oporto; Impression.es/digital.es, 2015, BBAA, UCM; EAV, 2013, Museo de Artes Decorativas, Viana; Arte Sonoro y Música 13, 2012, Nau Coclea, Gerona; or Analogic Magic Project, 2011, BaumanLab, Tarrasa, among others.

http://www.cocomoya.net

(Cuenca, 1980)

Iván Cebrián

Iván Cebrián is a musician who composes and creates sound spaces for contemporary dance companies and, at the same time that he develops his own record production, he also produces other musicians. Graduate in Psychology by UNED, he has completed a postgraduate programme in Music therapy at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Some of his publications and awards are the following: Luces y Sombras, 2010; The Moon and the Tree, 2013; Winter/Retwin, 2014; First Prize of Certamen Jóvenes Creadores, 2013, Madrid, compañía Zukdance; Jury Award at Certamen De una pieza, 2013, at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, compañía Zukdance; and First Prize at Certamen Coreográfico de Tetuán 2015, Madrid, compañía Carmen Fumero.

http://www.thisdayin.es

Coco Moya and Iván Cebrián will produce the play ‘Menhir’, winner of the LABjoven_Los Bragales Award

During their residency at LABoral, Coco Moya and Iván Cebrián will develop their proposal Menhir, the winning project of the LABjoven_Los Bragales Prize, jointly organised by the Los Bragales Collection, owned by the Cantabrian businessman Jaime Sordo, and LABoral Centro de Arte. Both will remain at LABoral for two months at Plataforma 0. Centro de Producción de LABoral, prior to their presentation to the public from September 16 to January 17, 2016.

Menhir will take the form of an interactive audiovisual installation, in which pieces of charcoal will be distributed on the floor of the exhibition space in the form of a musical instrument. The visitor will be able to walk through them and touch them, activating the sounds.

The artists start from the sound and visual exploration of the landscape that, under the title Menhir, música para activar el territorio, they developed in the Curueño Valley, León. Their walks through the mountain, the effort involved in measuring themselves against it and the field recordings culminated in a piece of electronic music and voice that they presented at the Galería Cruce, Madrid, and later at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid.

The installation to be presented at LABoral is an evolution of this project and, in addition to using the field sound recordings made during their residency, will include a 360º looped video showing the fixed camera images taken from the peak of a mountain in Asturias. The coal, as a symbol of the Asturian and Leonese landscape, allows them to continue with an investigation that aims to “make the experience of technology physical and reconnect the collective and ritual aspect of music with the environment”.

In addition, once the work has been exhibited in LABoral’s exhibition hall, both artists will give a workshop in which the participants will create a composition-performance based on the elements of Menhir over the course of four days, which will be presented to the public.

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