This is a continuation of the work carried out at previous residencies at L’animal.
After the first residency at L’animal in 2021, and the ones that followed, they now return to continue working on the sound and the script for the film.

“The human body is not a closed, static object but an unfinished entity, interconnected with the ground, the waters and the winds that pass through it: a wild creature whose life depends on the multitude of lives that surround it and the changing tides that run through it”.
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“We can perceive the world around us only because we are a part of that world, because - due to our dynamism and carnal density - we are completely immersed in the depths of earthly sensitivity”.

Becoming Animal, David Abram

Residency in the final stage of the creation of the piece, before the premiere in 2025

“A Corrupted Empire” (provisional title) presents an imagined scenario in which, stranded in a place where time and space are meaningless concepts, confrontation seems to be the only way out of the desolate landscape. Within this conflict, the ego suggests defining itself by denying what it hates and rejects. Against a backdrop with a post-industrial aesthetic, two individuals develop a complex, intricate and intimate relationship that drives them to seek out new perspectives in this apparently exhausted land.

Part of the programme of the Festival Això al Poble NO li agradrà (The People Don’t Like That)
Gritarán las piedras/ The Stones Will Shout is an investigation into the ways in which power performs. In 2023 Urati Laboratorio began researching the stage mechanisms (visual, aesthetic, physical and verbal) that express power relations in our environment, with the aim of broaching, through artistic practice, the following question: is power natural, or an artifice?

In the project Para amar para intentar encontrarte ahora/To love to try to find you now, Xavi Bobés sets out on a period of research and object-based creation that links the world of the poetry of objects with those of literary and floral poetry, all three with a common denominator: the object-based poetry of mourning. This creation process comes from a desire to find a place for “things” that are rapidly losing theirs: silence, reading, nature, holding a gaze, touch, awareness of breathing and the fruit of all these, empathy.

Mal Pelo offers a workshop in which to try out the mechanisms of action and what they may unleash. A look at movement and writing with the body in action.

Precision, duration, commitment, intensity, silence, absence, presence, punctuation, habitability, surrender, phrasing, punctuation, linearity, temporality, musicality, rhythm, writing - these are some of the terms that we shall be questioning during this course.

Activate:
Carry out an action.
Carry out movements and gestures to make something understood.
Activate a mechanism.

Mal Pelo workshops are given by the company’s two co-directors, though both may not be present at any given session.

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Closed workshop, not for outside participants. The dancers, choreographers and teachers Albert Quesada and Katie Vickers, who have worked in Spain, Belgium and the US, are organising a spectacular summer course in the beautiful city of Barcelona and in Celrà.

This stay will offer international artists and students the opportunity to get to know and learn from local artists, collaborate and enjoy everything the city has to offer in the arts.