Year of stay: | 2024 |
Website: | https://linktr.ee/alfabody |
Visual artist, music composer, performing arts teacher, digital humanities post-doc researcher.
He combines artistic creation with research and teaching. His work navigates the boundaries of artistic disciplines, creating sound spaces for performing arts or producing visual artworks that integrate traditional techniques with new technologies.
PhD in Humanities, Carlos III University. U3CM. (Madrid, (2022); Performing Arts Master's degree, Rey Juan Carlos University. URJC. (Madrid, 2009); Master´s degree in Art and New Technologies, European University of Madrid. UEM. (2005); Fine Arts degree from the University of Barcelona. UB. (1998). Music studies at Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu and Modern music and Jazz at l'Aula de mùsics in Barcelona.
His PhD dissertation was focused on the concept of expanded body and the relationship between dance and music, using electronic devices such as wearable computers and other devices known as hyper-instruments. He developed as a case study in collaboration with Dart collective, SynBody project, a garment and a performance as well, that allows real-time music composition through movement and contact between bodies.
He has participated in different symposium and festivals like: 1st International conference on Fractal Foundations in Architecture and the Environment. Inphiniart. Círculo de Bellas Artes. (Madrid. 2004); XXXIII Przegląd Aiosenki Aktorskiej. Mała Scena. (Wrocław, 2012), Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Universitaires. Université París 7 Diderot. (París, 2012); Ensayando un Clásico. Fundación Festival Teatro Clásico de Almagro. Teatro Circo Price (Madrid, 2016); Performance architectures wearables and gestures of participation.
International Metabody Forum. Antonin Artaud Performing Arts Center. Brunel University. (London, 2016); Shaping Time.Space. Flux Factory. (New York, 2016); ACC-Gwangju Fringe International (Gwangju, South Korea. 2017); Surge Festival. El umbral de la primavera. Madrid, (2023).
He has collaborated with other artists and companies like: Transse Express, Stanza, YiFan Cirque, FunFanfarria, Ana Continente Danza, Compañía Arte de Urgencia and Sol Bibriesca. He has joined artistic residencies as: Crossing of Movements Project, Contemporary Dance Association of Korea (South Korea, 2010); LSD in movement. Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música. INAEM. Compañía Losdedae Danza. (Alcalá de Henares, Spain. 2011); La Grainerie – fabrique des arts du cirque et de l’itinérance. (Toulouse, France. 2016, 2017 and 2018); BME Művészeti Rezidenciaprogram. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, (Budapest, Hungary. 2024).
He has conducted monographic and long-term duration workshops in different institutions, such as the Visiting Art Series at Plymouth College of Arts (Plymouth, United Kingdom); Scenographic design, lighting, and costume workshop, Theatre and performing arts Master´s degree, at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense - Escuela Municipal de Arte Dramático de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and SynBody workshop at Department of Dance, University of Taipei, Taiwan. Between 2008 and 2011 he taught Art and Digital Culture at IED Madrid, Istituto Europeo di Design, between 2010 and 2017 he collaborated with Aula de las Artes of Carlos III University in performing arts projects like Crossing Stages. Since 2009 he is stage design and music professor at Escuela de Arte Dramático of Madird´s Council. (Madrid, Spain).
Among his most remarkable exhibitions are: De Madrid, el suelo. Off Limits, Espacio Menosuno, (Madrid, Spain. 2007), Play Grad Street Art Festival. Fire Theatre-Art-Culture Foundation. (Sofía, Bulgaria. 2007); Micro. Festival de Arte Mínimo. Centro Cultural Matadero. (Huesca, Spain. 2014); XXIV Certámen de Artes Plásticas de la Uned. Fundación Caja Castilla-La Mancha. (Cuenca, Spain. 2014); ArtMadrid. The Makers, One Shot Hotels, (Madrid, Spain. 2016); Arte y Carne. Centro de Arte Complutense. (Madrid, Spain. 2017); Frankenstein 200 años después. Museo del Romanticismo. (Madrid, Spain. 2018); Automáticas18. Medialab Prado (Madrid, Spain. 2018); TimeLine. SpaceBA. Sewoon Art Bridge. (Seoul, South Korea, 2019); The Artist Collaboration Factory (TACF): Plattform und Galerie. Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Deutscher Kunstlerbund. (Gießen, Germany. 2022); G4C Biennial. Glitch4ChaosMagick. Mersz Klub. (Budapest, Hungary. ̈ 2022); Wild & Newfangled. Mowna. The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art lI Biennial. (New York, United States. 2023); LandScripts. D85 - Direction 85 Artist-run Space. (Budapest, Hungary; Mint it. Aeon Studio. Uncommon Gallery. (Seoul, South Korea, 2023); Platform of Open Media Art. Mestský park. (Košice, Slovakia. 2024).