HPC @FJL_S01 Ultramarino
in consonni (Conde Mirasol 13), Bilbao
Session.1
With the participation of Jon Maia and Mariachi Azteca de Flor Fernández .
Jon Maia, director of the documentary Apaizac Obeto Dokumentala will tell us of the adventure on board the replica of the oldest whaling boat or 'txalupa', Beothuk.
The disappearance of the Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader in the ocean will be narrated as a ranchera song. In a chilled out atmosphere, gathered at the table, we will eat, drink and, between voyages, Napermex and other Basque-Mex ballads will be the space imbetween, catchy and lingering.
Fermín Jiménz Landa presents Ultramarino for consonni’s HPC programme. Ultramarino follows on from Festa konspirazioa, Black Tulip’s party proposal for HPC, which ended up with the collective preparation of a cocktail.
We swap the tiny amount of fluid contained in a cocktail for the 354,700 000 km³ of water encompassed by the Atlantic Ocean. From liquid in a glass surrounded by terra firma we become a small solid surrounded by liquid. Stories about transoceanic passages, involving people from America and Europe. Treating infinitude and the absolute against the insignificance of the individual. The epic, the quest for the impossible, utopia, adventure and the history of immigration. Voyages in the same direction but in a different sense. Moby Dick as the backdrop.
Full Programme
Session.1
Thursday 15 May at 19:30 in consonni (C/ Conde Mirasol 13, Bilbao).
With the participation of Jon Maia and Mariachi Azteca de Flor Fernández[.
Jon Maia, director of the documentary Apaizac Obeto Dokumentala will tell us of the adventure on board the replica of the oldest whaling boat or 'txalupa', Beothuk.
The disappearance of the Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader in the ocean will be narrated as a ranchera song. In a chilled out atmosphere, gathered at the table, we will eat, drink and, between voyages, Napermex and other Basque-Mex ballads will be the space imbetween, catchy and lingering.
Session.2
Sunday 1 June. Time to be confirmed. Point of encounter in consonni (C/ Conde Mirasol 13, Bilbao).
We shall set to sea in search of whales.
As in the novel Moby Dick, it’s not about whales, but about the search for them. We might be lucky and we might not. Our companions are not spectators, they are fellow travellers and this is not a show. During the trip they tell us what whale fishing was like. As in Moby Dick, failure is in attendance, as a possibility.
Fermín Jiménez Landa
(Pamplona, 1979) artist, lives in Valencia and works anywhere.
Included among his latest individual shows are Podrían ser lobos comiendo M&M’s, Galería Bacelos, Madrid (2013), Las puertas, La Casa Encendida (2012), Amikejo junto a Lee Welch, Laboratorio 987, Musac, León (2011), etc.: some of the collective exhibitions are Sin motivo aparente, CA2M, Madrid (2013), Antes que todo, CA2M, Madrid (2010), etc.
Studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Valencia and attended workshops with Robert Morris, Rogelio López Cuenca, Daniel G. Ándujar, Francesc Torres, Jon Mikel Euba and Douglas Ashford, as well as classes at the Anotati Scholí in Athens.
