RESIGNIFICATIONS. CONCHA JEREZ / JOSÉ IGES. Performances, Round Table and Concert
With renowned individual careers, for more than three decades, Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941) and José Iges (Madrid, 1951) have simultaneously developed a common production which is influenced and enriched by the very difference of their respective languages. On the occasion of the exhibition titled Resignifications, they will present live in the CGAC some of their individual and joint works. The centre will also organise a round table in which the artists will talk about the evolution of their work with different specialists nationwide.
PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY
12 p.m. • PAISAJES DE 4’33” (2012)
Intermedia performance by Concha Jerez / José Iges
It is common knowledge that stories can be told in many different ways, and that artistic fiction should serve to undermine the 'consensual fabric of what is real.' This is what Concha Jerez and José Iges aim to do with the sounds and actions of this intermedia performance. The sounds come from mutually distant times and places, they share a single space and take shape there along with specific actions. The operation of using sound samples to build new realities—or rather new fictions, new stories—causes a two-fold disappearance of what is real. This operation is a transfer which takes us to those places, people or spaces, but by projecting them in another context we deprive them of representativeness, transforming them into ghosts of themselves.
THURSDAY 24 APRIL
7 p.m. • DEDICATORIAS: PRESENT-ACCIONES (2014-2025)
Performance by José Iges
The most recent example of José Iges’s performative work, these Present/acciones are based on a selection of the sixty one-minute sound pieces which make up his Dedicatorias project. In each case, this selection of works is different. We are faced not only with an expanded conference, but also a series of one-minute commented auditions of works that make up a concert of pieces in miniature. In this intergender work, the artist evokes 1950s radio programmes, with a presenter-cum-showman, foley artist, live or recorded music and, above all, a live audience. To all this is added Iges’s fascination for prestidigitation and surprise, or his respectful practice of appropriation, but also a certain mise-en-scène of the misleading media discourse and the fragile nature of supports, which lead us almost unwittingly to a drama of spaces and times.
7.35 p.m. • INTERVALO ÚNICO DE TIEMPO AUTOCENSURADO (2013-2025)
Performance by Concha Jerez
This performance shares with the audience a unique and unrepeatable time, addressing the theme of self-censorship, which has been present in her work since 1974 and which more recently she perceives with an extreme and worrying intensity in our democratic societies. We censor ourselves because what we want to say is not politically correct, socially correct or personally correct. And we remain silent through the voluntary exercise that self-censors our thinking and our public and private life.
FRIDAY 25 APRIL
7 p.m. • ROUND TABLE ON THE WORK OF CONCHA JEREZ / JOSÉ IGES
Participants: Gloria Picazo (art critic and independent contemporary art curator), Miguel Álvarez Fernández (sound artist, composer, musicologist, sound art project curator, essayist, movie director and music producer), and the artists Concha Jerez and José Iges.
Moderator: Alicia Murría, curator of the exhibition (historian, curator, art critic, founder and director of the magazine Artecontexto from 2004 to 2023).
TUESDAY 3 JUNE
8 p.m. • PRÉSTAME 88 (1995)
Intermedia concert by Concha Jerez / José Iges
88 are the number of the keys on a piano, as ideally are the works which the authors have borrowed from 20th-century piano literature. These musical gestures have origins as diverse as concert music and action, with the piano as the central element. The resulting form has a touch of the radiophonic, if we bear in mind that testimonies of composers and musicologists are interwoven with the works themselves throughout the piece, performed live or broadcast through recordings and, on occasions, processed electronically.
Performers: Ana Vega Toscano, piano and voice; Concha Jerez, performer; José Iges, voice and mixing.