victor ruiz colomer victorruizcolomer@gmail.com
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ROVER.LIVE manifesta12 - Palermo 2018
full folio and CV on request
on view
ongoing projects
recent work
https://ycrp.fsrr.org/madrid/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/LiftingBelly_Publication-compressed.pdf - Madrid 20/21
En residència Fundació Miró - Espai 13, 19/20 cultivadetrito - Barcelona 2020
Parabolic facility, zona mista, - London 2019
Puller - Abracadabra, vi international biennale for young art - Moscow 2018
Siever Circle - Endless process, Muu Kaapeli - Helsinki 2018
Air move mwe (2020) now on view at CAPC Bordeaux until 3.1.21 as part of Mere Skyn curated by Cory John Scozzari
recycled studio paper, solar cells, wheat glue, motor, metal, local cane and cable.
click on the image for more info on Cultiva Detrito, a project while in residency at Espai 13 de la Fundació Joan Miró, supported by Education Consortium of Barcelona
zona mista, 'parabolic facility' - zona mista, london, 2019
Zona Mista Parabolic Facility
In the coastal region of Levanxo, life is lived particularly. The couple of settlements along the shore have happened in a way where life never really became identifiable as such, where it is difficult to trace what came first, or to identify the causes through the remaining clues of any form of fossilized information.
Due to a huge and historic logistical misunderstanding, all the power for the area is supplied from one tidal energy plant off the coast. People know about this facility and feel for it but are happy to have not been.
The towns are only fully electrified when the tide is moving at its most powerful, which occurs twice a day, this pattern breaks down everyday, as tide times vary depending on moon times, differences in yearly periodical heat, spring times (and during spring tides exponentially too) , and it is still not fully understood what is happening when, but things work.
Tides coming in and out of the harbours in the coastal villages help produce enough energy to run all of the bars, clubs, charge appliances, vehicles, etc for however many hours - as this varies with the coming in of tourists/visitors/friends of those who live on the island.
During the day there is enough latent energy in the system for tasks of minor electrical consumption, charging phones, but for equipment of high energy consumption, there are two allocated windows per day, when the tide is in full flow, and these last roughly about three hours each. It is in these continually propelling-in-calendar daily events where people take advantage to carry out the most intense activities like listening to music really loud, gathering in large numbers to watch films, using washing machines, activating rotisserie apparatuses to cook, pumping water back up to the water tanks that feed the fountains, celebrating and illuminating large infrastructures if needed - like the main parks or squares if it is night time and there is a need to carry out the various unimaginable activities.
Whenever there is a change of tide, all the peoples make their way to wherever they are working - as they constantly work on different projects - and when they are satisfied with the time’s work, they go back to have food at the local restaurants/bars/home, to later make use of the last energy left that the tides produced, normally in shared leisure. Then they might go back to sleep or continue with whatever it is that they want to do if there is enough daylight to do so.
These activities shift in phases, as the tide moves across the schedule in different steps throughout time . Nothing is really settled in Levanxo, there are roots but they get wet very often - they are more accustomed to be water dwelling. Peoples in Levanxo are happy, but they describe it differently. We have never been in Levanxo, but our friends Laura and Sofia told us about this.
opening in london - 11.8
https://www.facebook.com/events/634302997057965/?notif_t=plan_user_associated¬if_id=1565266954316030
'PARABOLIC FACILITY'
Presenting new parabolas: heliotropic solar-energy pacemakers, conglomerate rampicante billboard proposals, and recycled parables.
Zona Mista, 117 Rollins St, London SE15 1EW
Sunday 11th Aug > 18hr
WITH JOE HIGHTON AT ZONA MISTA
CONTAGIÓS vol. II STORMworm, ILOVEYOU
regulateur De FLUX ft. Ikram Bouloum Sakkali & colaboració de Nacho de Antonio presenten:
i i i + JOKKOO + JULIETTA FERRARI + JONÁS DE MURIAS + SPECIAL GUESTS
Dissabte 13 de juliol · VOL
6 € anticipada // 8 € taquilla · 22:00 - 04 h
entradas —> https://salavol.com/agenda/contagios-vol-2
En una mateixa temporalitat, en la misma franja horaria,
on interpretaran directes sucedidos pero sin renunciar a sus propias propuestas,
allowing for each other to emerge when felt necessary,
luego volver a "lo suyo" sin perder el hilo, pero aún más desdibuixades, les artistes & asistentes en la sala.
360 graus d’òrbita musical al relé. Distintas disposiciones de sonido sin fórmula com una manera de escuchar, bailar y taking care of the space.
artists participan del sonido; unes de otres y otres de unes, in fragments, where cut up mixing evolves.
cuerpos de fina membrana
posa especial èmfasi en el dancing
compás temperamental
relé sónico
caderas desorientated,
donde encontrarse con a demás
Ven ♥ Será especial.
https://www.facebook.com/events/634302997057965/?notif_t=plan_user_associated¬if_id=1565266954316030
'PARABOLIC FACILITY'
Presenting new parabolas: heliotropic solar-energy pacemakers, conglomerate rampicante billboard proposals, and recycled parables.
Zona Mista, 117 Rollins St, London SE15 1EW
Sunday 11th Aug > 18hr
WITH JOE HIGHTON AT ZONA MISTA
CONTAGIÓS vol. II STORMworm, ILOVEYOU
regulateur De FLUX ft. Ikram Bouloum Sakkali & colaboració de Nacho de Antonio presenten:
i i i + JOKKOO + JULIETTA FERRARI + JONÁS DE MURIAS + SPECIAL GUESTS
Dissabte 13 de juliol · VOL
6 € anticipada // 8 € taquilla · 22:00 - 04 h
entradas —> https://salavol.com/agenda/contagios-vol-2
En una mateixa temporalitat, en la misma franja horaria,
on interpretaran directes sucedidos pero sin renunciar a sus propias propuestas,
allowing for each other to emerge when felt necessary,
luego volver a "lo suyo" sin perder el hilo, pero aún más desdibuixades, les artistes & asistentes en la sala.
360 graus d’òrbita musical al relé. Distintas disposiciones de sonido sin fórmula com una manera de escuchar, bailar y taking care of the space.
artists participan del sonido; unes de otres y otres de unes, in fragments, where cut up mixing evolves.
cuerpos de fina membrana
posa especial èmfasi en el dancing
compás temperamental
relé sónico
caderas desorientated,
donde encontrarse con a demás
Ven ♥ Será especial.
SOLAR GIMMICKS by Joe Highton
The car dashboard solar-surfer is to solar energy,
like the static-electric levitation illusionist is to electricity,
like the shadow puppet is to fire.
gimmick as the disintegration of suspicion surrounding something new, via small gestures that use these new routes that may initially be intimidating or overlooked, to enter collective subconsciousness.
tethers used to hold curve of curved movement (compass for parabola or ratchet strap on roof)
solar tracking
heliotropism
diy solar tracker (based on parker space probe)
solar dancer, shadow puppeteer
solar concentration / focal point
many focal points at once
parabolic mirror array .. multiple dishes focusing on one point.. or multi hob = more complex meals
open forms letting through light, like the purple plankton did for the green
They exist as banners or directions / directors to areas of interest ,, highlighters (radio wave energy ) .. making visible movements maybe not so obvious , leaning towards more dimensions , knowing and feeling there being more than you ,, slow time
as placeholders , detritus of activity
facilitating activity .. activity led production / stimulus
leaving perforated edges
perennial
Rover.live
Via Roma 206, Palermo
October 2018
Rover welcomes the people in Palermo, temporary visitors, and the world wide web to its flexible facility on Via Roma 206.
Rover is a particular recycling + broadcast plant (rampicante) that tries to understand matter (acting as a decomposer), and how to process it altogether.
It incorporates various activities and is in celebration of fully tangled conglomerate outputs, which occupy a multitude of different dispersal / communication techniques, including.. film making, film screenings, paper / poster making, filtration systems, live broadcasts, music events, maquettes to model forecasting and currents, loose scripts for theatre, solar radio systems. For Manifesta in Palermo, the project takes ideas from waste management chains that process matter, to figure out different communication tools (and the loss that occurs in the widest sense of translation) that will question what is waste itself.
Rover.live has two workshops operating simultaneously at Via Roma 206.
Upstairs is a recycling plant focused on making posters. The posters are made from a pulp of blended paper, left-over from different organisations now based in Palermo: cards, wraps and all kinds of printed information (that might inform about the current concurrences in town) are added to the mix, along with discards/detritus found around the streets and squares, small solar powered radio systems (opening FM wavelengths in fluctuation with sunlight) and germinating seeds. These communications tangle in the pulp pool to create inadvertent archives of activity both internal and external to the facility. Various parameters recreate air and underwater currents, and other alterations in flow and direction. Filtration systems operate in tangent with this pool, and various sieves are used to produce the paper. They are distributed to public spaces across the city and disseminated online, to announce the facility's activity, a continuous open call, and a conglomerate of surrounding events and organisations.
Downstairs is a cinema which hosts film screenings in the form of a perennial moving image playlist, in accumulation throughout our time here. A permanently open - open call - initially stemming from artists and filmmakers in Palermo, Barcelona, London, and announced via various communication methods, including the posters, invites participation. The cinema will celebrate it’s existence every Sunday (MOSTRA) at 20.00 with presentations of particular films, with the idea of fostering further exchange and in appreciation of the difference of things occupying space together.
The intention of these activities is to gather a group of people interested in developing a series of filming events in response to the current climate in Palermo. Rover.live is a platform that processes, edits and broadcasts live links simultaneously and is looking for collaborators to exchange impressions while making films using the available media in Palermo.
To get involved, or for any questions about the project, please send to join@rover.live , or visit us at Via Roma 206
5x5x5 residency in Palermo, October 2018, with Joe Highton and the support of many others,,
news soon
monte pellegrino communication tower
TOGETHER WITH JOE HIGHTON
AND IKRAM BOULOUM PRESENTING https://soundcloud.com/ikrambouloum/storytelling-3-mode-4aa1-desea-2 at FASE
victor ruiz colomer + joe highton
SIEVER CIRCLE
at MUU KAAPELI in HELSINKI as part of ENDLESS PROCESS curated by XAVI ACARÍN. with MARÍA ALCAIDE, DIEGO DIEZ, ROBERTA LIMA, AGNÈS PE, HARRI PIISPANEN, ANNE ROININEN, ALEXANDER SALVESEN
24.5. - 21.6
JOE HIGHTON + VICTOR RUIZ COLOMER
PULLER - a development at the 6th MOSCOW BIENNALE FOR YOUNG ART curated by LUCREZIA CALABRÒ VISCONTI
Main Project of 6. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Krasnaya Presnya (3/1 Stolyarniy Lane)
metro Ulitsa 1905 Goda
Улица 1905 Года
MOSCOW
7.6 - 31.8
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Set/Video/Light design with Joan Esteve, Albert García-Alzórriz, Núria Vilanova and Joe Highton for "HERE" at Sala Beckett, Barcelona / Berlin 2018.
A play asking questions about the possibility of there being more than one inside of us, and the potential of being aware of such connections - through our mother?
with two different texts/set designs/teams happening at the P14 Stage at the VOLKSBUEHNE in Berlin and the Sala Beckett in Barcelona simultaneously. Directed by Paula Knuepling and Marina Prados.
barcelona
berlin
with joe highton
with joe highton
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FROM ROVER AT SANT ANDREU CONTEMPORANI, BARCELONA nov 2017.
2 projections and 6 channel bike sound system from 875psi.
TO BE DEVELOPED INTO A PUBLICATION.
TO BE DEVELOPED INTO A PUBLICATION.
WITH JOE HIGHTON
part of GIMMICK vol 1 curated by Toni Hervás
pics by Eva Carasol
GIMMICK VOL 1. GROUP SHOW, POSTER BY YESSI PER SE
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day 5
day 5
day 4
day 4
day 6
DAY 1
From the set design for 'BERESHIT, gènesi o en el principi' a 6 day long play with 6 different texts and sets revolving around ideas of "creation and the beginning" to understand current personal and social relationships in our world. Directed by Sofia Ye Chen at Sala Beckett in Barcelona.
PUBLICATIONS OUT HERE
from MANY, a show in collaboration between all the artists in residence at LIMBO in London, 2016
LIMBO HQ FIRST ANNIVERSARY. FLOAT IN COLLABORATION WITH ANA MARIA SOUBHIA AND ROMÁN CADAFALCH.
PICTURES BY MILES MUNRO WILLIAMS
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EUrythmy 2016 was a public day forum in response to the ways the referendum was being dealt with.
pictures by Mariana Bisti
EURO 1
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Victor Ruiz-Colomer 2016