PLATAFORMA. Performing Arts Festival. 6th Edition

Plataforma. Performing Arts Festival was created with one purpose in mind: to enrich and enhance the cultural power of Santiago de Compostela in all its diversity. Since the festival was launched in 2020, this goal has been achieved in each successive edition, creating real communication experiences between the public and the city through art. With a significant female presence and a firm commitment to Galician talent, Plataforma reaches its sixth edition as one of the city's leading festivals and a cultural event not to be missed. Plataforma. Performing Arts Festival is a special, bold festival with a hybrid nature. It is the focal point of different proposals all linked by the idea of performativity, which we will be able to enjoy between 21 and 25 May in different cultural spaces and in the streets and squares of the city.

On this occasion, the CGAC will host three performances aimed at all audiences, which will be shown alternately on the evening of Saturday 24 May in different locations within the museum.

PROGRAMME AT THE CGAC

24 MAY, 5:00 p.m.

ITSASO IRIBARREN AND GERMÁN DE LA RIVA. IN BETWEEN

Location: CGAC hall
Performers: Itsaso Iribarren and Germán de la Riva
Duration: 30 min

In between is an action in which Itsaso Iribarren and Germán de la Riva share a series of sculptures that evolve over time. The performance takes shape in transformation: it begins as an installation that eventually becomes a group piece with a playful and participatory dynamic. Mutation, path, praxis or limit are concepts that hover over this proposal for contemplation and play.

ITSASO IRIBARREN (Pamplona, 1981) and GERMÁN DE LA RIVA (Santander, 1977) are artists, researchers and doctors of Fine Arts from the UCLM (University of Castilla-La Mancha). Since 2006, their field of work has encompassed both artistic creation and the research processes generated therein. Their works revolve around the body in motion and the systems that compose it, taking a deeper look into the relationships with other bodies, with technology and with the urban environments in which they live. Using somatic techniques and choreographic improvisation, they seek methodologies and tools that allow them to generate hybrid languages between the visual and performing arts. They currently work at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cuenca, where Itsaso is a lecturer and Germán is a researcher. Over the last few years, at this institution, they have developed a series of sculptural pieces designed to be activated by the body. The performer’s play and skills enable listening and self-perception to be intensified through these actions.

24 MAY, 6:00 p.m.

ITZIAR OKARIZ. RESPIRACIÓN OCEÁNICA

Location: CGAC auditorium
Performers: Itziar Okariz, with the collaboration of Izar Ocariz
Duration: 22 min

This work is constructed from a chorus of breath. Ujjayi is a type of breath used in yoga. The word literally means ‘victorious,’ but is often translated as ‘ocean breath’ because that is the image it evokes. The performance has a figurative character, between the abstract space of the sound of breath and the image it generates, as if the sign and the meaning were separated, fractured.

ITZIAR OKARIZ (Donostia / San Sebastián, 1968) works in the area of action and performance, questioning the ways in which language is regulated and the production of the signs that define us. Her most recent projects include collaborations with institutions such as the Jorge Oteiza Museum Foundation (Alzuza, Navarre, 2020) and the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020), and her participation in exhibitions such as Perforated by (at the Spanish pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale, alongside Sergio Prego, 2019), I Never Said Umbrella (Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián, 2018), Una construcción, es decir, una jerarquía de momentos, expresiva de cierto concepto grande o pequeño, abstracto esotérico (CA2M, Móstoles, Madrid, 2018), Itziar Okariz (Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, 2017) and Dream Diary (Ars Parcours, Basel, 2017). Izar Ocariz likes reading, writing, drawing and practising karate. They both live in Bilbao.

24 MAY, 7:00 p.m.

NOA AND LARA CASTRO LEMA. PROFECÍA DEL GRAN SOL

Location: CGAC hall
Performers: Noa and Lara Castro Lema
Duration: 25 min

Profecía del Gran Sol is part of the research that Noa and Lara have been conducting over the last three and a half years, exploring the oral tradition of the Costa da Morte and the shared systems of collective knowledge through stories, dreams, tales and songs.

This performance, in particular, takes as its starting point the Gran Sol (called Grande Sole in French, meaning ‘great sole’), a fishing ground in the North Atlantic where the authors' grandfather spent most of his life fishing.

Playing with this name and its phonetic translation from French, they will work with characters that are half human and half fish, telling stories and singing about soles (fish) and soles (‘suns’ in Spanish), playing in a narrative where past and future come together in the present. Using the format of prophecy or omen to talk about what has already happened helps them to create an anomaly in the narrative that also alters its meaning. Profecía del Gran Sol is a story that reflects on life and memory, and on how the human and the non-human are connected through memories, violence, care, work and death.

NOA and LARA CASTRO LEMA (A Coruña, 1998) completed a master's degree in Art Production and Research at the University of Granada. In 2021, they received a María José Jove Foundation grant to study at the prestigious Institut Kunst at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz in Basel (Switzerland), where they completed a master's degree in Fine Arts in 2023. They have participated in various festivals and creative workshops, and have received grants from institutions such as the “la Caixa” Foundation and the Botín Foundation. Some of their most recent projects and exhibitions include Fresh Window (Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, 2024-2025), Monstro vello dos cantares (Argonautas34 gallery, Nigrán, Pontevedra, 2024), A era das fábulas. A arte e o poder rexenerador da fantasía (Pontevedra Museum, 2024), Norte silvestre agreste (Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal, 2023-2024), El Gran Grito (Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, 2023) and Where Will We Go from Here? Twelve Art Stories Told from Spain (Frankfürter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany), organised on the occasion of the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair.

FULL PROGRAMME