Luz Mar González Arias and Laura Cueto
1 February 2021 – 31 July 2021
Luz Mar González-Arias she is a Full Professor of English Philology at the University of Oviedo. Her main area of research is theories of the body and the Medical and Environmental Humanities, and she applies these theorizations to the poetry, narrative, film and visual arts of contemporary Ireland.
She has published extensively on illness (human and planetary), gender, and non-normative embodiments in recent Anglophone poetry. She directs the research group HEAL: Health, Environment, Arts and Literature at the University of Oviedo and is the Principal Investigator of the R + D + i research project “END: Disease in the era of extinction. Anglophone narratives of personal and planetary degradation (2000-2020)”, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
He complements his academic activity with intense curatorial work and collaborations with the national and international artistic community. She curated the performances and exhibition of the Irish artist Amanda Coogan for the Niemeyer in 2016 and 2017. She is currently curating a photographic and literary exhibition about the confinement derived from the COVID-19 crisis and also works, together with the artists Laura Cueto and Venancio Mayo, in a series of artistic interventions on the Asturian coast.
Laura Cueto she is a dancer, choreographer, performance artist and contemporary dance teacher. She studied contemporary dance and classical ballet in Galicia, London and Madrid. Among her works:
As a dancer: Doce del Doce, Cía. Olga Mesa, Pradillo Theater (Madrid 1992); Tangling around the House, by Gema Ramos, Espacio Líquido (Gijón 2010); Video-creation Moradas Esenciales, by Cristina Ferrández, Barjola Museum, Arco Atlántico Festival (Gijón 2012); Video-dance You can’t stop the tide, by Cristina Ferrández (Alicante 2015).
As a choreographer and performer: Through the attic of my childhood, with Elisa Torreira, University of Guanajuato (Mexico 2010); Twelve of Twelve of Twelve, Barjola Museum (Gijón 2012); Path of silence and air, Guillermina Caicoya Art Gallery (Oviedo 2012), Noche Blanca (Avilés 2015), Barjola Museum (2016), Cultural Factory of Avilés (2018), Official College of Architects of Asturias (Oviedo 2018) and University of Oviedo (2019); And when leaving the earth…, Laboral Centro de Arte (Gijón 2016); Dreams of other lives, First Conference on Medical Humanities of the University of Oviedo (2018) and Factoría Cultural de Avilés (2017/18).
As a teacher, has taught numerous courses and workshops on contemporary and performative dance in Galicia, Madrid and Asturias.
Project in residence
On Illness
On Illness is a collaborative work between Laura Cueto (dancer, choreographer and performance artist) and Luz Mar González-Arias (professor at the University of Oviedo, specialist in contemporary medical poetry) that aims to reflect on the condition of being sick in the 21st century. through a performative response to poems that revolve around various pathologies, among them “The Day of Gethsemane”, by the Irish Dorothy Molloy.
Starting from the title of Virginia Woolf’s famous essay—“On Being Ill”—this project reflects on the difficulty of articulating illness through words and places the body as a subject, and not just an object. , of research around the concepts of health and illness, offering a complementary perspective to both medical-health discourses and literary criticism on these topics. The resulting work will be multimedia in nature, using the word, image and sound space as support for the performative action.
On Illness will inaugurate the Creation Laboratory of the R+D+i project “END: Disease in the Age of Extinction”, which will develop new ways of carrying out academic research from the body and artistic expression.
Selected project from the 1st Call for Artistic Residencies 2021
