Participating poets and artists from Barcelona: Christian Atanasiu,
Josep Pedrals, Sebastià Jovani, Dionís Escorsa, Bradien, Accidents Polipoètics, Woh_, Ester Xargay and Bartomeu Ferrando

Christian Atanasiu

Berlin, 1955. Christian Atanasiu studied Fine Arts at the University of Kassel and mime – under Ella Jaroscnewizc in Paris and under Pawel Rouba in Barcelona. In 1983 he started participating professionally in groups like El Trueno, La Tarántula, Teatre Estany and the company Martí & Atanasiu, with which he has toured throughout Europe. He currently imparts clown classes at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. He achieves a very interesting symbiosis between text and gesture.

http://www.elblogdenpedrals.blogspot.com

Barcelona, 1979. Author, theatre director and teacher. This young poet is an advocate of orality in poetry, and has been involved in activism in this field for a decade now. He has already published several books, the first of which was Escola Italiana. He has staged various plays and the transdisciplinary stage production ¡Wamba va! with Eduard Escoffet, Martí Sales and Gerard Altaió. His most recent publication is En/doll, a book-record in collaboration with Guillamino earlier in 2007.

Sebastià Jovani

Barcelona, 1977. Sebastià Jovani is a self-taught philosopher, poet, sumiller and activist. He co-ordinates the touring project àgape (accidents gormands i altres poètiques esparses), in which gastronomy, poetry and music share the table and the stage. He has also been involved in politics, and the publishers llibres de l’indexed published his book los libros del diablo (“the devil’s books”), an educational book in which he uses totalitarian manifestos as an example to remind us that writing is not always a healthy occupation. He has taken his poetry through various gatherings of suspect characters.

Dionís Escorsa

http://www.slow-light.net

Dionís Escorsa has worked on video scenography for various theatre productions, such as Como casas (premiered at Barcelona’s Grec Festival, Solo por placer (Mudances dance company, Teatre Lliure) and Salvatge cor (with the poet Albert Roig, presented at the festival PROPOSTA 2004). At the same time, he was worked on arts projects dealing with the urban environment, like creating a room service for bombed buildings (SKC Belgrade, Straddle), new uses for roof terraces in central Barcelona (La Capella) and the setting up of distribution centres for audio and video works with Creative Commons licences (Utopian Library).

Bradien

www.bradien.net

Bradien was formed in 2005. Since then, the group has released Minoi Tiare, a small CD with 9 songs and a 7-inch in collaboration with the Scottish group Dosimat. They have co-performed at concerts with people like hiu-Yeun Hui (Maher Shalal Has Baz), Jahbitat, Lucius Works Here and Volturne, and they were the support act for Yo La Tengo at the Apolo, and played during the opening of an exhibition of Laura Piñel's paintings. They have been described as the result of subtle ideas and years of enjoyment of thousands of records. Their slide guitars, trumpets, keyboards and metallophones create fragile, carefully constructed melodies.

Accidents Polipoètics

c) Consuelo Bautista

http://blogdeaccidentspolipoetics.blogspot.com

A poetry duo made up by Rafael Metlikovez (Canovelles, 1964) and Xavier Theros (Barcelona, 1963). In the early 90s, they revolutionised Barcelona's poetry scene with their singular project. This inimitable duo, with their personal, caustic, impeccable production style is one of the most creative contributions to sound poetry in Spain. The formats they work with include poetry-performance shows and performance lectures. Their most recent production is Fe, Esperanza y Chá-cha-cha.

Woh_

http://www.hqlmns.com

Woh_ is an electronic experimentation lab made up by Jaume Martínez and Mireia Andreu. Their work is based on the visual and aural saturation that the mass media, from the power structures, subjects us to. Looking for forms of escape based on faults, noise and tempo changes, Woh_ offers new sense experience, breaking away from discursive literalness and securing communication with the audience based on voluntary subjectivity. Their project mixes their own work with media archaeology, and their characterised by an exemplary sound-image synchronisation.

Ester Xargay

Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 1960. Among many other works, Ester Xargay has written the poetry book Darrere les tanques and the novel Amor lliure, ús i abús, co-authored with Carles Hac Mor, with whom she has translated many authors including Pic Adrian, Todorov, Pascal and Queneau. She writes for the newspaper Avui and journals such as Papers d'Art y Transversal. With Adolf Alcañiz, Barbara Held and Carles Hac Mor she released the CD-ROM Paraparèmies, desplaçaments, cosificacions (Navarra audiovisual arts award, 1999), and has created various video-poems and documentaries for BTV (Barcelona Televisió), one of which received the 2000 Espais Award for art criticism.

Bartomeu Ferrando

http://www.bferrando.net

Valencia, 1951. Bartolomé Ferrando is a performer and visual artist, with studies in music and Spanish language and culture. He is a professor of performance and intermedia at the Fine Arts faculty in Valencia. He was the founder of the magazine Texto Poético. As a performer, he has participated in festivals and meetings in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea and Chile. His visual and concrete poetry has been exhibited in numerous cities in Spain, Italy and France. He is part of the groups Flatus Vocis Trio, Taller de Música Mundana and Rojo, which work on the development of creative practices that are somewhere between music, poetry and performance art. Apart from innumerable texts, he has published recordings in various formats and quite a few performance videos.