Masaje de texto (2017)
Digital video, with sound, in colour. 19′ 21″
Video recording of the performance
Editor: Tractora Koop E
© Consonni
Documenta Fifteen (2022)
Kassel, Alemania

 

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Photographic record of the performance
Jornadas 21 aulki, 2023
Organizaded by Metrokoadro
© Mendi Urruzuno
Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa

Masaje de la visión (2019)
Digital video, with sound, in colour. 13′ 43″
Video recording of the performance
© Casa Velha
Ourense

Scanner Massage (2023)
© Tractora Koop E
Atoi
Bilbao

I believe that from the first Fissures to the current Massages there is a core of concerns that is maintained and whose development is constant. A continuous research over time that results in unique solutions. For me, the Massages are a step further in Idoia’s process of transcending frontality, a step in which her practice aims for a haptic feeling that links her to artists such as Lygia Clark or Helio Oiticica. With Idoia, in her Massages, we see through the skin and through the ear, we touch with the eye, we produce images directly inward. She does not refuse to produce images, but she does renounce to produce clear, directed, located, separate and distinct images. Sensibility and thought are worked as a web of relations, blurring the distinction established by our western conception of the functioning of the senses and logic, between the res extensa of the body and the res cogita of the mind. In the Massages, the distance between the audience and Idoia finally tends to blur. Idoia’s commitment as an artist grows exponentially from the Fissures to the Massages. In the first ones, a strong impulse wins the game and there is no negotiation with the world. As her career progresses and her research develops, first in the Mantras, and even more in the Massages, Idoia’s agency grows and along with it the will to transform the world from the basics; to expand perception and thus redistribute the territories given to materiality, thought and experience. Text Massage (2017) seeks to touch with words, to wrap you in them like a mantle and to move you. In Vision Massage (2019) the images and movements are created in the body of the audience, they are produced in the inner movement of the sensations of the person receiving the massage. The body of the performer and the body of the spectator fade their boundaries as separate and distinct elements, both participating in the same sensorium, also blurring the supposedly active function of the performer and the supposedly passive function of the audience. The eye is treated as a tactile surface while images are created through the ear by listening. Everything is fluid and indistinct, sensorial and changing. In Scanner Massage (2023), the extremes touch each other in the R, from radical to romantic, rare, radiant. The R of vibration, of rose, of laughter. In Idoia’s words, “the stroke of the R is a symbol, a sign, but also a drawing that touches your face”. Idoia creates processing machines, what Karen Barad calls intra-actions, processing machines that are in themselves choreographic and whose aim is to help us touch by thinking and thus open up, in the words of Marie Bardet, a breach in the Cartesian monument.

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2005

→ Gata Sombra in collaboration with Sara Paniagua and Leticia Morales at the Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz.  

Gata Sombra is the result of a period of residency and research in the Artium Museum during night time. The residency took place in the same room where its results were presented to the public. The piece can be framed within a series of flat, two-dimensional white pieces, which began with La puta inocencia and continued with Fisura: Txoriak, Fisura: Zuloak and Mantra Pared. In all of them, the white colour appears as a assumed space of neutrality. 16 December.

Single-channel video, with sound, in colour. 48′ 43″.

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2006

→ Dueto with Filipa Francisco at the Alkantara Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.  

Duet is a piece co-produced by Alkantara and Panorama Rio Dança, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the framework of the  programme Encuentros inmediatos. The project was accompanied by Bojana Cvejić, among other guest artists.

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2009

→ Autonomía y complejidad together with Isabel de Naverán, a research programme that is initiated with Seminar 1: Dantza kodeak. Discursos del cuerpo  

Autonomy and complexity brought together artists and theorists to investigate the relationship between contemporary dance and its own history and to develop critical reflections on the modes of production, creation and dissemination developed in specific contexts, often considered peripheral.

Seminar 1: Dantza kodeak. Discourses of the body took place in Bilbaoarte with the participation of Janez Janša, Paulo Paixão, Zeynep Günsur, Edurne and Clara Rubio and Oskar Gómez Mata. It was part of the BAK (Bilbao Arte eta Kultura)  programme from the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

Artists, students and professionals took part in the  programme to reflect on the social significance of the body in postmodern societies, the performative discourses of contemporary dance and its relationship with production systems. In the afternoons, a theoretical-practical workshop led by artist Janez Janša opened up new questions and experiences among the participants. From 8 to 10 July.

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2010

→ Seminar 3 of Autonomía y Complejidad: Monument G1, G2, G3... Led by Janez Janša in Azala.  

Following the experience during the first Autonomy and Complexity laboratory in Bilbao, the artist Janez Janša, from the Maska Institute, was invited once again to further develop his proposal from the previous seminar. A number of artists, playwrights, writers and researchers were also invited to take part in a stable working group during 2010, which aimed to develop different methodologies and theoretical-practical lines of research from which to reflect on the themes addressed by Autonomy and Complexity. These guests were: Victoria Pérez Royo (Artea researcher), Maria José Cifuentes (Artea researcher), Oier Etxeberria (artist), Igor de Quadra (artist), Matxalen de Pedro (artist), Helena Golab (choreographer), Sandra Gómez (artist), Vicente Arlandis (artist), Quim Pujol (critic and performer), Gabriel Ocina (actor), Ixiar Rozas (Artea researcher and writer), Ana Buitrago (choreographer). From 23 to 28 February.

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2012

→ Leer y Bailar (Bide Barrijak de Lauaxeta) as part of the AMMT/MRBE#3 sessions in Arteleku.  

 Programme and audio-lab archive. 7 August.

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2013

→ La naturaleza y su temblor in collaboration with Societat Doctor Alonso at the Grec festival in Barcelona.  

La naturaleza y su temblor is a site-specific intervention mechanism, a leisurely walk-visit to reality that uses the tools of theatre, dance, body, thought and film to reveal another reality, awakening in the spectator possibilities of perception, which allows them look, decipher and understand in a different way, as an invitation to enter into its phantasmagoria.

A co-production of Azala, the Artium Museum, CCC L’escorxador d’Elx, Centro de las Artes de Sevilla-Endanza, La Casa Encendida and Bulegoa Z/B. It toured in a multitude of events, including the BAD Festival, Bilbao, where it was adapted for families. From 10 to 14 July.

Single-channel video, with sound, in colour. 9′ 05″ and 10′ 00″.

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2013

→ Group version of Leer y bailar with the danced reading of Robert Walser's El paseo as part of 3,2,1 Encuentro Internacional de Nuevas Formas Escénicas at Alhóndiga Bilbao.   

Leer y bailar consists of reading an entire book aloud in unison while dancing. Participants: Garazi López de Armentia, Isaak Erdoiza, Idurre Azkue, Daniel Arranz, Saioa Olmo, Ghislaine Verano, Itxaso Markiegi, Olatz de Andrés and Idoia Zabaleta. In the Exhibition Hall on floor -2 of Alhóndiga Bilbao. 24 May.

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2014

→ Elena Aitzkoa’s project as a participant in the Topo programme.

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2014

→ Leer y Bailar (Habitación propia de Virginia Woolf) at the Circundances Festival, Valencia.

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2015

→ Leer y Bailar (El lector de Pascal Quignard) in Secció Irregular, a programme of Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, curated by Quim Pujol.

Idoia Zabaleta presents this piece as a result of a workshop held within the framework of the Irregular Section entitled Leer y bailar. The public programme includes Idoia, Itziar Okariz and Myriam Van Imschoot.

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2015

→ Leer y Bailar (Un artista del hambre de Kafka) at Koldo Mitxelena, Donostia-San Sebastián, as part of the reading series Releyendo.

The collective Memory Dump, composed of Beñat Sarasola and JonBenito, launched the Berrirakurtzen/Releyendo initiative in2014.

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2016

→ Leer y bailar (Os eidos de Uxio Novoneyra) at Festival Escena do Cambio, Santiago de Compostela.  

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2017

→ Eskutik Hitza Seminar Sleeping, writing and performance: spaces of appearance, conducted by Ric Allsop in Azala.

This five-day workshop used written, found and remembered texts, the sensory experience of the local landscape and environment, and the different states of consciousness that dreaming, writing and performance invoke. Participants were responsible for preparing texts in the form of a book, a page or sound pieces (such as installations, performances and readings); they presented ‘little memories’ drawn from their own experiences and written, found or prepared materials; they took into consideration how texts represent and how they are represented. The workshop drew upon historical and contemporary examples of written texts for their representation as interdisciplinary practice and explored the practices and representation of writing as a tool for research and documentation. 16 to 23 June.

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2018

→ p. i. c. a. Programa de Imaginación Colectiva en Procesos de Creación Artística, which Idoia herself launches in Azala.  

p.i.c.a. is an intensive programme of accompaniment for a group of artists and researchers, a programme of studies based on artistic practice. p.i.c.a. seeks to generate a learning community, and it includes a training phase, a creative residency phase and a final phase of publication.
Coordinated by Idoia Zabaleta, Ixiar Rozas, Luciana Chieregati and Isabel de Naverán. Participants: Ainara LeGardon, Alfredo Escapa, Camilla Téllez, Ibon Salvador, Inés Aubert, Isaak Erdoiza, Karlos Martínez B, Marion Cruza Le Bihan, Miguel Alvarez Fernández, Mirian Inza, Nazario Díaz, Rebeca Collins, Tamara Ascanio, Pablo Marte and Alina Ruiz Folin.

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2019

→ Dejar caer los ojos. Un mensaje de la visión at the Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, as part of Proklama 13.  

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2020

→ Leer y Bailar (Mujer el borde del tiempo by Marge Piercy) as part of the Consonni Radio programme within AZ Fest, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao.   

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2021

→ Masaje de la Visión together with Leticia Morales as part of the Jornadas Mostrenkas at Sala Mostrenka, Vitoria-Gasteiz.  

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2021

→ Leer y Bailar (Canciones de los árboles de Archiduque Luis Salvador) as part of Zarata Fest, at “el terrenito” in Apodaka.  

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2022

→ Masage de la Visión as part of Jornadas Eztena in Rentería, Gipuzkoa.   

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2022

→ Masaje de texto, Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, Alemania

Consonni invited Idoia to the Meydan of Publishers. She presented Leer y Bailar and the people who took part in the even participated in the performance as well reading Relatos Lumbung, which is published by Consonni. 10 July.

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2022

→ Reading and Dancing (Lumbung stories by various authors), Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, Germany.   

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2023

→ Masage de la Visión, Jornadas 21 aulki in Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa.  

Workshops organized by Metrokoadro Sormen Lantegia in the EhunTze creative space. From 2 to 4 January.

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2023

→ Masage de la visión, Casa Velha, Ourense.

Idoia visits Casa Vella, Ourense, on behalf of Azala together with Pep Ramis and María Muñoz from L’animal a l’esquena. Casa Vella is a creative centre dedicated to the performing arts of recent creation. During her stay she presents Masaje de la visión.

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