20 Nov performance art at the Chapels of the Convent with Isa Fontbona and Rita Noutel //
22cubic is an art residency focused on performance art, action and inaction art based in the Chapels of the Convent of Sant Agustí in Barcelona since 2024.
With a decade of trajectory, 22cubic offers artists the space, time, resources, complicity and support necessary to bring their imaginations to reality.
Inauguration of 22cubic art residency with two performance artworks by the artists Isa Fontbona and Rita Noutel, selected to create a site-specific performance artwork.
TIME
10 // 12 // 2024
12H – 21H
*From 12H to 20H durational action – at 18H simultaneous actions
ENTRANCE
FREE
PLACE
LES CAPELLES DEL CONVENT
P. de l’Acadèmia 3, Barcelona
ARTISTS
Isa Fontbona
(Catalonia)
Detritus and the burden of collapse
I close the door, take off my shoes, try to feel the presence of my body on each step, ground myself, and move away from the noise—both the symbolic and literal kind—that fills our daily lives in these current times. I walk through the chapels in silence, sit on the floor, breathe, lie down, feel… I have tried to understand the layers that give meaning to this bunker that has sheltered me for three months; each and every one of them has left a trace; it is not a neutral space.
In the depths of this rocky structure, there has been something that has accompanied and echoed me since the first day, a feeling that vibrated in my body, a weight, a struggle to act, a reverberation that wanted to come out that I did not know how to express. A dialogue perhaps between the caged echoes that resonate on the walls of this building, but also, undoubtedly, in those that remain locked inside of me: my experience and its latent traces.
I wanted to rip off the infected scab to feel and spread what weighs me down. I let the woodworm of emptiness, discomfort, exhaustion, and collapse take over me, express itself, and do whatever it wants with my body. In a system where we are only valued for our actions, for what we do, for our efficiency and productivity, for not stopping, for not questioning, for not feeling… Detritus and the burden of collapse is an invitation to feel this contemporary exhaustion and emptiness, to embody and feel the collapse; that which weighs us down, suffocates us, and which we avoid feeling as a result of an indigestion of stimuli, information, plans, images, consumption… to feel the weight of discomfort, and impossibility… to be waste, to be what makes us uncomfortable, to be part of what we don’t want to be aware of seeing… to feel this excess. I am this breakdown, I inhabit this devastation, on the margins, in silence… I breathe the weight of failure, of not being able…
Artistic intervention open to the public throughout the 8 hours of duration
Interweaved in dialogue with the artist Rita Noutel
Rita Noutel
(Crip multidisciplinary artist)
The cannibalism of normativity
In art, the crip body is used as a signifier long before the art work can speak for itself. My body is fragmented, my subjectivity erased and the privileged normativity decides which narrative to associate with my creation.
My artistic experience is labeled therapeutic for me, and inspirational for the viewer.
The domesticated eye is hungry for an aesthetic that provides moral comfort.
As an artist, I am dispossessed of the narrative of my work to be transformed into something consumable.
performance in collaboration with Karúi López
COLLABORATION
CC CONVENT DE SANT AGUSTÍ
OTOXO PRODUCTIONS
*space accessible to people with reduced mobility* the entrance is on the street, the space consists of two floors with an elevator and a bathroom adapted to the lower floor.
*The spaces in the Chapels are small/narrow, the upper floor with high ceilings.
*about the actions* …
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