Calor Calor offers an activity programme that is designed to facilitate interaction with the local context and to draw attention to the characteristics of the desert and the sea as channels for thought and creation. The programme features unconventional activities related to contemporary artistic creation. During their stay, the artists in residence give talks about their work and, after the residency ends, they have the possibility of showing their projects and the results and being publicly presented.
This is the first edition of the Calor Calor artists’ residencies.
AC/E is supporting the APNEA project, which is designed to develop a sensory atmosphere through a video-installation with underwater images due to be recorded in the waters of the Gulf of California in Baja California Sur, Mexico – a place that Jacques Cousteau dubbed as the world’s biggest natural aquarium. This footage will be part of the production of the Calor Calor programme in La Paz bay in Baja California Sur, in which Lois Patiño is involved.
APNEA is intended to be a thought-provoking and meditative work which, by plunging spectators into an unnatural environment, triggers a change of state that allows us to transcend and observe our life experience from a different perspective. The underwater environment of Baja California Sur offers the diversity its producers sought: a very interesting and diverse geology and highly colourful stones and fish, which are determining factors in its choice as a location: the “red tide” phenomenon is very common there – an algal bloom that causes phosphorescent waves. In some of the footage these areas will be filmed with figures of scuba divers in order to convey the sensation of immensity and weightlessness. The scuba divers will not be shown swimming horizontally but vertical and motionless, as if suspended in time and space.
To develop the sound experience the artists will work on footage recorded both inside and outside the sea. Outside waves gently lapping can be heard in a night atmosphere with the presence of crickets together with other sounds characteristic of the night. In the water special microphones will create a sound very rich in layers and nuances, sounds of whales, dolphins and other fauna. To highlight the intimacy and intensity of the sound experience, the installation will include the sound of someone breathing, taking in air in the night outside the water before submerging himself again.
As part of his residency, Lois Patiño will give a talk at BCS to local creators on his artistic practices, as well as a cycle to present his films.
This is the first edition of the Calor Calor artists’ residencies.
AC/E is supporting the APNEA project, which is designed to develop a sensory atmosphere through a video-installation with underwater images due to be recorded in the waters of the Gulf of California in Baja California Sur, Mexico – a place that Jacques Cousteau dubbed as the world’s biggest natural aquarium. This footage will be part of the production of the Calor Calor programme in La Paz bay in Baja California Sur, in which Lois Patiño is involved.
APNEA is intended to be a thought-provoking and meditative work which, by plunging spectators into an unnatural environment, triggers a change of state that allows us to transcend and observe our life experience from a different perspective. The underwater environment of Baja California Sur offers the diversity its producers sought: a very interesting and diverse geology and highly colourful stones and fish, which are determining factors in its choice as a location: the “red tide” phenomenon is very common there – an algal bloom that causes phosphorescent waves. In some of the footage these areas will be filmed with figures of scuba divers in order to convey the sensation of immensity and weightlessness. The scuba divers will not be shown swimming horizontally but vertical and motionless, as if suspended in time and space.
To develop the sound experience the artists will work on footage recorded both inside and outside the sea. Outside waves gently lapping can be heard in a night atmosphere with the presence of crickets together with other sounds characteristic of the night. In the water special microphones will create a sound very rich in layers and nuances, sounds of whales, dolphins and other fauna. To highlight the intimacy and intensity of the sound experience, the installation will include the sound of someone breathing, taking in air in the night outside the water before submerging himself again.
As part of his residency, Lois Patiño will give a talk at BCS to local creators on his artistic practices, as well as a cycle to present his films.