Channelling. Be a vehicle. A path. A hole. Go. Let go. Make way for something to happen. Something, the other. Be others. Guide. Make room and draw a line. Mark a step. Divide. Contain. Carry from one place to another. Create. A plan, a landscape, a spectrum, a call.

'Channelling' connects the medium of audio with other realms. Logistics, infrastructure, landscape transformation. As a practice, channelling takes many forms: tapping into otherwise unheard voices, an invocation, a form of transmission. In this online collective exhibition, three artists explore channelling through sound.

Curated by Andrea González, with works by Laia Estruch, Anahit, and Ainhoa Hernández Escudero.

Channelling 1: Laia Estruch
31 October 19.00
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Reflexiones Impro Plato, 22 julio, 2022, 20 min 43s
Reflexiones Copicat, 22 julio, 2022, 10 min 32s

The voice and the body are the elements that structure Laia Estruch's research, an artistic practice situated between sculpture and performance. Laia Estruch conceives of the voice as a sculptural medium, a vehicle with the power to synthesise and render audible. Her projects delve into the emotional potential of a capella and the untheatrical body, exploring the performative nature of language, sound recording, and its oral archive.

Laia presents two pieces in which her voice voices: multiplies again into other voices through matter.

In "Reflexiones Impro Plato," July 22, 2022, Laia reverberates her voice with a cymbal. Crouched beneath the cymbal, the improvised voice bounces and resonates. In "Reflexiones Copicat," July 22, 2022, she manipulates the recording while she records, creating loops and feedback.

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Laia Estruch (Barcelona, 1981) lives and works in Barcelona. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. She completed her final year of studies at The Cooper Union (New York, 2010).

She has presented her projects in various places, including Macba, Barcelona (2012 and 2022), Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona (2014), Chapelle des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2017), CentroCentro, Madrid (2019), Joan Miró Foundation, Espai13, Barcelona (2019), Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico CCEMx (2020) in Mexico City, Sâlmon Festival in Barcelona (2020), Joan Brossa Foundation in Barcelona (2020/21), 'Domingo' Festival at La Casa Encendida in Madrid (2021), PUBLICS (2022) in Helsinki, Thyssen Bornemisza Collection TBA21 at C3A, Córdoba (2022), Sandretto Foundation in Madrid (2022), Antonino y Cinia Cerezales Foundation, León (2022), Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao (2022), Hauser and Wirth Menorca (2023), and TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (2023).

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Channelling 2: Anahit was broadcast on 31 October 2023
Channelling 3: Ainhoa Hernández Escudero was broadcast on 5 December 2023