Agnès Mateus i Quim Tarrida IN RESiDENCE at the School Quatre Cantons

Agnès Mateus i Quim Tarrida. Rebota Rebota y en tu cara explota

Agnès Mateus (Barcelona 1967). A performer and multidisciplinary artist, she has worked with Juan Navarro, Roger Bernat, Rodrigo García and Simona Levi, and continues to collaborate with some of them on various projects. She studied journalism and theatre simultaneously, until she entered the world of performance in Barcelona under the guidance of Txiqui Barraondo and Manuel Lillo. She then combined drama and dance studies. Her career really began to take shape in 2006, when the Colectivo General Eléctrica was created. Agnés was a core member of this group and worked with them until it broke up eight years later.

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Quim Tarrida (Barcelona 1967). Primarily a visual artist, but also a multidisciplinary creator with a neopop aesthetic influenced by conceptual art. He began drawing comics in the mid 80s, creating his own universe (Mundo Subcutáneo). Apart from artistic work linked to music and performance, he also produces photographs, videos, and other two- and three-dimensional art in which he establishes links with the universe of lost childhood, evincing a fascination for toys, for the organic, for comics.

Tarrida works in the grey area between the playful element of ersatz children’s toys and real weaponry, highlighting the thin line that separates each reality from the other.

Lately, part of his work has had more to do with sound art, contemporary music and sound actions, notably concerts in which he uses electronic musical toys.

School Quatre Cantons

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Following the residencies of Mireia c. Saladrigues (fourth edition, 2012-2013) and Laura Lanelli (ninth edition, 2017-2018), the school is participating for the third time in IN RESiDENCE, on this occasion with a group of pupils in the second year of compulsory secondary education.

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The Institut Quatre Cantons (Poblenou, Sant Martí) opened in the 2011-12 academic year. Its educational project includes the development of creativity as one of core elements of its work to achieve pupils’ personal cultural and emotional growth. To this end, the school employs methodologies focused on creation and on the expression of ideas, feelings and emotions. 

Presentation written in 2018

Participants

Students (2nd ESO)
Joan Alberola Trivino, Dunia Benaouda, Irene Chito Conzález, Ona Demestre García, Maya Denny del Cid, Yousara El Asry, Alba García Pena, Sarah Hassan Ekheir, Adrià Marimón Capdevila, Joan Josep Mateo Beltrán, Alessandro Miele, Joel Munné Carbonell, Maria Pou Muñoz, Carme Pratdesaba López, Gerard Sancho Cornudella, Sofía Sanderg Mendes, Olalla Sanjosé Del Río, Aleix Sierra i Garrido and Mireia Soler Santos

Teacher
Charo Tomàs 

Curation and coordination
Sala Beckett / Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia

Management:
Institut de Cultura de Barcelona
Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona