A mesa

The project we want to investigate during this residency is a new curatorial line to open our contemporary creation space, Sarao Studio, to the performing arts. Sarao Studio was born a couple of years ago as a space primarily linked to visual arts, but it has always aspired to become a much broader project where the performing arts also have their place.

The invitation from RPM to participate in this Linha de Fuga laboratory made us think together about a concrete curatorial line to work on during the laboratory in relation to this idea. An exercise of study that puts the process into crisis, as if it were the creation of a work of art. Can we imagine a curatorial process as one affected by the methodologies of artistic creation?

A mesa (The table) is the title of a program to be developed in our space over 30 days, with the object "table" as its leitmotif. The decision to take the table as the central element for the exercise offers us an anchor (an aesthetic excuse) around which to imagine possible interventions (both invitations for artistic interventions and other types of thought activities related to the community), and, on the other hand, brings us closer to the concept of encounter, a key concept within the DNA of Sarao Studio.

Can we approach A mesa (The table) from the logic of performative arts? What would its dramaturgy be? What narrative does it propose? What scenes compose it? What bodies appear? How does it relate to the space? How does it open up to the other?

This residency is possible thanks to the support of Deputación da Coruña.