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REFRAMING a DIALOGUE Organizer BEGIHANDI GETXO PHOTO 5—30 SEPT. 2018 INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL getxophoto.com POSTCONFLICT — REFRAMING A DIALOGUE Organizer BEGIHANDI Curator MONICA ALLENDE Theme POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE Opening week 5 – 9 SEPTEMBER Exhibitions 5 – 30 SEPTEMBER Venue GETXO, BASQUE COUNTRY Contact Naiara Alcobre [email protected] +34 946 576 475 www.getxophoto.com PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL The Live Wild Collective 7 IDEAS 1—The Festival 5—Walking routes GETXOPHOTO sees images as a GETXOPHOTO considers it essential way of looking at, experiencing and to bring the contents and the facing up to the big issues that experience of the festival to all affect us. The programme for each types of audiences, and there are festival edition is therefore based various different walking routes on a general topic of interest. so that people can walk round the exhibits at their own pace. 2—12ª Edition The Festival will reflect on the 6—Added new activities meaning of conflict, focusing Our new activities aim to provide in a special way on postconflict education, encourage people to periods, their consequences and meet and create active citizenship: the reconstruction of dialogue. It conferences, talks, screenings, is curated by Monica Allende. workshops, night walks, a lock-in and a bed cinema are just some of 3—New narratives the new events. GETXOPHOTO has selected visual representations in different media 7—A local international such as photography, video, archive, festival installation and digital art, showing With the direct involvement of local the work of artists from different people (shop owners, bars and backgrounds who have created cafés, amateur photographers) and multidisciplinary narratives. at the same time with international submissions from artists from more 4—Open air than 45 countries, GETXOPHOTO is expanding. Another of the hallmarks of the Festival is its staunch defence of public spaces as places for encounters, enjoyment and reflection. As a result, most of the exhibitions are designed as outdoor installations, although exhibition rooms and other indoor spaces are also part of the festival. Yoshinori Mizutani GETXOPHOTO 2018 GETXOPHOTO 2018 About the Festival 06——07 POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. Promoted by the Begihandi collective, GETXOPHOTO is a festival This is a thematic festival that every three years works together dedicated to the image that takes place in Getxo (at the coast of with a different curator who understands the photography as a tool the Basque Country, very near to Bilbao) during September. It brings of knowledge, communication, and, of course, artistic enjoyment. different proposals from photographers and visual storytellers from all Exhibitions, installations, projections, collaborations, experimental POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. over the world to the city, setting a contemporary conversation about laboratories and many activities complete the program of the Festival. the theme proposed each year. In its 12 years of existence, more than 200 renowned international GETXOPHOTO inhabits the public space and continues supporting authors have participated in GETXOPHOTO, many of them acclaimed by the use of formats, stands and unconventional exhibition spaces to critics such as Martin Kollar, Martin Parr, Nadav Kander, Naomi Harris, Phil show the different images. The Festival proposes an open dialogue Toledano, Marcos Lopez, Ricardo Cases, Wang Qingsong, Alessandra with the viewers through images presented in facades, parks, venues, Sanguinetti, Roger Ballen, Cristina De Middel, Vincent Fournier, Boushra abandoned places, markets and other spaces in the city. This way, the Almutawakel, Pieter Hugo, Jacques - Henri Lartigue, Paul Fusco, among photographic image transcends not only to reach professional public, many other artists. but also the general audience. The Festival, mostly free, is configured as a meeting point and a local and international platform and it has created a network of institutions, artists and visitors who exchange experiences and knowledge. PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO INTERNATIONAL IMAGE INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL GETXOPHOTO 2018 About the programme GETXOPHOTO 2018 About the programme —Exhibitions 08——09 POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. Julian Baron The 12th GETXOPHOTO festival will run from 5th to 30th September. The Twenty exhibitions (individual and energy revolution in Germany Festival is divided into 6 areas: exhibitions with the work of selected ar- collective) form the basis of the (Luca Locatelli), the situation tists; the international section, which opens our doors to visual storyte- artistic programme for this year’s of Greece in Europe (Petros llers from all over the world; experimental labs, which are part of the theme, Postconflict. Reframing Efstathiadis), the breakup of POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. education programme; collaborations with cultural agencies and insti- the dialogue. The works will Yugoslavia (Dragana Jurišicć), the tutions to strengthen the region’s artistic ecosystem; conversations in a tackle ecological, technological, Spanish Civil War (Julián Barón shared space for reflection on images and the profession, and activities, political and human conflicts and Sofía Moro) and the border with the wide variety of things to do in the GETXOPHOTO participative and will reflect on the meaning, between the United States and programme. consequences and reconstruction Mexico (Josh Begley). of dialogue in postconflict periods. Some of the themes and works in this season’s exhibition include the construction crisis in Spain (Markel Redondo), the green PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO INTERNATIONAL IMAGE INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL About the programme GETXOPHOTO 2018 About the programme GETXOPHOTO 2018 —Open Call —Labs 10——11 POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. In order to accommodate Allende, curator of GETXOPHOTO. The Festival educational over its first four decades of new local and international The first Open Call of the Festival programme runs labs, where existence. It will examine the submissions, this year we have has received 280 submissions experimentation and creation can techniques and the science, as opened up the programme through (nearly 5,000 images) from 47 take place, and new approaches well as the thought and philosophy POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. an open international call for countries around the world, can be adopted. This year, there of photography, and its main focus entries, which will be judged by making it a great success. will be two labs, focusing on the will be the idea of ​​materiality or a world-class jury: Yumi Goto, visual narratives of the 19th and physical limitation of photography Japanese curator and editor, Simon The winner of this edition is Max 21st centuries. in the 19th century. Bainbridge, editor of the British Pinckers with the series Margins of Journal of Photography, Shoair Excess. The first lab will be run by Martí Mavlian, director of Photoworks, Llorens and Rebeca Mutell of Christian Caujolle, independent Atelier Heliográfico and is entitled curator and critic, and Monica Icononauts, Gaze and materiality in 19th century photography. The main idea of ​​this lab is to look into the origin and invention of photography and its development PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO INTERNATIONAL IMAGE INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL About the programme GETXOPHOTO 2018 About the programme GETXOPHOTO 2018 —Labs —Collaborations 12——13 POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. The second lab is entitled In share and exchange ideas so that The Festival wants to establish a between photographs, how they can create new approaches closer collaborative relationship to work with an image in the when thinking about their work with agents and cultural digital age and will be run with digital photos. institutions in the area and POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. by Leon Kirchlechner and the country, strengthening the Simon Karlstetter, the artistic national cultural ecosystem. This directors of Der Greif (a lively year we are working with Kutxa German collective working with Kultur (San Sebastián), Sala contemporary images). The Rekalde (Bilbao), the Aula de aim of this lab is to provide an Cultura of Getxo and FNAC Bilbao, opportunity for each participant to with various exhibitions in the develop a different vision of their artistic programme. own work, encouraging them to PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO PRESS KIT GETXOPHOTO INTERNATIONAL IMAGE INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL About the programme GETXOPHOTO 2018 About the programme GETXOPHOTO 2018 —Conversations —Activities 14——15 POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. This space is a meeting point for speakers or for the audience. This, The programme of activities face meetings with the authors. reflection between professionals its sixth edition, will be entitled includes a wide range of events, Also, throughout the month we will and those interested in photos. Experiments with the image and catering to all sorts of sensitivities run installations, a coaster route It hosts different formats such will include the participation and approaches to the world of around the local bars and cafés, a POSTCONFLICT. REFRAMING A DIALOGUE POSTCONFLICT. as Hamaiketako (elevenses with of Julián Barón and Horacio the photographic image. Although bed cinema, day and night guided prominent local
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