Residency 1: Pedro Soler & Daniela Moreno Wray

Proposed line of research at the C3A: "Canned Food and Knowledge"

Pedro Soler

Soler studied Digital Arts at the Audiovisual Institute of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain (1997-1998), and has participated in numerous initiatives related to multimedia, art and free culture. He co-founded the fiftyfifty collective in Barcelona in 1999 and worked as curator at the Sónar Festival from 2000 to 2006, theatre programmer/artist in Paris from 2003 to 2006, and director of Hangar.org, the Visual Arts Production Centre, in Barcelona from 2006 to 2009. He curated the exhibitions L'Espai de l'Intent (Barcelona, 2010), Lo uno y lo Múltiple (Barcelona and Cairo, 2010), Un de cada (Medellín, 2014), Arte en Orbita (Quito, 2015) and Transmestizx (Quito, 2016). He currently lives in Ecuador, where he is involved in the rural project Upayakuwasi, and he is the artistic director of the Transitio_MX 07 festival in Mexico City.

Daniela Moreno Wray

A graduate of the Cinema Research Centre in Argentina, she also studied photography in Quito, Ecuador, and theatre at the CAL Performing Arts School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has participated in several art documentaries and audiovisual installations like Transmestizx, focusing her work on the relationships between people groups and how they intersect with notions of interculturality, territory, identity and new imagery. While working on her documentary El Elefante Dormido, she actively promotes the rural art and technology space Upayakuwasi and is involved in an artisanal food production workshop with La Divina Papaya.

Residency 2: Aniara Rodado

Proposed line of research at the C3A: "Notation and transmission of the movements of a eucalyptus tree and a rue plant: Towards post-anthropocentric dance"

Aniara Rodado

A choreographer, artist and researcher, Rodado's work questions the presence, representation and standardisation of different body types, alliances and diverse ways of life in the current context of environmental crisis and techno-scientific fetishisation. She builds bridges between witchcraft and cross-species relationships from a trans-feminist perspective, using the plant world as a starting point. Her projects include installations, texts, videos, performances and dance pieces. She is currently a PhD candidate in Science and Art at the Polytechnic School of France.

Residency 3: Laura Morales Dávila

Proposed line of research at the C3A: "When a way of life{C}{C} becomes an attraction and the river is all that remains: Observing the invasion"

Laura Morales Dávila

Morales graduated from the Professional Dance Conservatory of Seville with a speciality in Contemporary Dance in 2016 and rounded out her education at the Centro Andaluz de Danza. She is currently working with a team of dance companies¿Cia. Dos Proposiciones Danza-Teatro, Raquel Madrid, Cia. Mopa, Cia. Horacio Macuacua and Cia. De Teatro Frotalámparas¿on their new production Vamos a por CR7, creating choreographies for the piece that will premiere on 28 September at Teatro La Fundición in Seville. In 2013 she partnered with dancer Greta García to create "Las Hermanas Gestring", and the duo won first prize in the last Madrid Choreography Competition with their piece Good Girl. They have been invited to participate in residency programmes at Tanzhaus (Zurich) and Espacio L'estruch (Sabadell) in 2018. They are currently working on projects for the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina, the Madrid Choreography Competition, Movement Research in New York, and Teatro Central within the Dance Month Festival of Seville.

With the support of the Arts Department, Córdoba City Council