El Paso
Sunday 10 of October
El Paso emerges after two years of research and work of El Club. It is a versatile working tool with which we have had the chance of getting to know each other, share ideas, our different points of view or our ways of doing. "Abandono", one of the projects created in the last version of El Paso, can serve us to reflect upon this tool, thanks to the powerful possibilities of new technologies and the World Wide Web. Each one of the works that have been created within the "Abandono" project are links or layers of the same chain. Each link is created by a different member of El club and travels through different means, formats and languages. The richness and variety of the works that constitute "Abandono" will help us understand the expansion and communication capacities that this tool can generate.
El club is born because ten people related to the performing arts, that don’t know each other much, get together to create an artistic working group. One of its original aims is to work creating links with the rest of the artists of the group, without pretending to make a common artistic result. This proposal is related to the idea of breaking the “islands” which exist in the current performing arts scene of Madrid, in regards to creating work. To offer other alternatives apart from the prevalent independent way of working, which is considered the “natural” one lately, the one that has installed itself in Madrid because of necessity in the past years.
After lots of meetings and some practices in small format, El paso emerges with the goal of working for some months in an independent way. Such project makes collaboration possible among a group of people who aren’t in the same place simultaneously; persons with extremely different working schedules and artistic interests. El paso offers the freedom to create from the interests of each participant, without having to agree with the rest of the group and without having an initial interest of creating a common artistic result. Thanks to this working tool we found the way of being part of the same project without having to agree on anything but the basic rules of the proposal, the rules of El Paso. [...]
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EL CLUB is a group formed by ten persons from different backgrounds that got together two years ago thanks to a proposal from Juan Domínguez. To show each other our working tools, support our artsitic processes, watch films, share references or multiply Cristina Blanco´s work “Cuadrado-Flecha-persona que corre”, are some of the things that we have done together. We are all quite different. We decided that we were not a “collective” because we didn´t fight for a common discourse. Instead, we agreed that we were more like a club (like the cinema club, the chess club or the typical dancing club). We made up (almost, because it seems that nothing is new) “El Paso”, a practice or a game that enabled us to work together in an individual way. Through this tool we have got to know each other and we have created the grounds to decide whether El Club moves forward or disappears.
EL CLUB isn´t static and doesn´t have to continue calling itself EL CLUB.
EL CLUB is formed by Amalia Fernández, Fernando Quesada, Laura Bañuelos, Tania Arias, Maral Kekejian, Cristina Blanco, Ismeni Espejel, Emilio Tomé, Bárbara Bañuelos and María Jerez.
