Audiovisual installation
Plaza Matadero will host during this edition of the festival the audiovisual installation Alcove LTD, created by the art studio Encor, founded in 2016 by Swiss artists Mirko Eremita, David Houncheringer, Valerio Spoletini and Manuel Oberholzer.
Using a six-metre recycled container as a canvas, the project presents a moving light box that traps the viewer’s reflection between liquid crystal films. A 360-degree optical illusion of light and sound that interacts with the public, distorting their perspective through a combination of contrasts and masking of the light sources, until it ends up absorbing them within the work itself.
Plaza Matadero
19 to 22 September
From 12.00 until closing time
Audiovisual installation
MAD (Madrid Artes Digitales) will host the project The Alluvials by North American artist and writer Alice Bucknell. An immersive film that leverages ecological theory, speculative fiction, and posthuman game design to explore the politics of drought and water scarcity in a near-future version of Los Angeles.
Its narrative is told through a variety of nonhuman and elemental perspectives, including the Los Angeles River, wildfire, a 400-year-old sycamore called El Aliso, and the ghost of the city’s celebrity mountain lion, P-22. Spread across seven chapters and as many worlds, the film oscillates forwards and backward in time, exploring multiple possible futures and revisited pasts for the region in order to ask its audience to consider their role in the present reality of a heating planet.
The project was commissioned by mudac (Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts) in Lausanne, Switzerland, with additional funding and production support from transmediale and Arts Council England.
MAD Madrid Artes digitales
19 to 21 September
Two slots per day,
at 22:30 and 23:30 h.
Financiado por la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU
Audiovisual installation
Robbie Cooper is a UK based 3D artist and programmer who’s practice deals with issues around presence and identity in a technological landscape.
To develop the Immersion project, he recorded over a period of four years the expressions of numerous people of all ages immersed in digital media, focusing on the emotive facial and body expressions they made while playing video games, watching videos of all kinds, or using the internet. These recordings are then shown in a video installation that, when watched by the public, creates a dual feedback: the protagonists of the videos react intensely to the images they see on the screen and, at the same time, the visitors react with their own feelings to their gestures and grimaces.
At L.E.V. Matadero, Cooper will premiere an extended version of the project exclusively for the festival.
Plató de Cineteca
19 to 22 September
Thursday 19 and Sunday 22
from 12.00 to 14.00h
and from 15.00 to 21.00h
Friday 20 and Saturday 21
from 12.00 to 14.00h
and from 15.00 to 23.00h
Financiado por la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU
Interactive audiovisual installation
During the celebration of L.E.V. Matadero, Matadero Madrid’s Nave 1 will host Save the Planet by INITI Playground, a large-format, interactive and playful audiovisual installation which will turn the room into a multiplayer space for the whole family using mapping and motion detection technology.
The INITI Playground project was developed by the Czech creative studio INITI.org, which has more than fourteen years of history in the field of original audio-visual installations. It is an interactive platform designed to integrate virtual games into real world, using technology to transform any flat surface into an interactive wall.
In the Save the Planet installation, a spectacular combination of the classic games Space Invaders and Asteroids, users will test their skills and energy with the goal of saving the planet in cooperation with other players.
Opening hours: Thursday 19th and Sunday 22nd from 12.00 to 14.00h and from 15.00 to 21.00h. Friday 20th and Saturday 21st from 12.00 to 14.00h and from 15.00 to 23.00h.
Recommended age from 6 years old
