Macu Morán

Selection of audiovisual art produced by international artists deeply connected with nature. The Works of these “Soldiers of Life” emanate their compromise with the environment, their duty of protecting nature and their responsibility in the progressive development of a sustainable civilization within our planet. The direction of scientific and technological developments towards the human thrive is not guaranteed. On the contrary, the interests of a runaway economic greed are driving today’s research and progress. This means a threat for the future of our planet, the human being and Life itself.

Talk between Michael Doser (CERN Deputy Director) and Don Foresta (Marcel Network of Art and Sicences), organized and moderated by Macu Morán. This extraordinary discussion, precursor of the ARTS-AT-CERN residency where artists and researches can help each other and together explore the realms of reality. Presentation of the Ars Anthology Almanac, a research gathering an international annual index of shows dedicated to Technology-based-Art.

Time-based Art Festival, with over 450 artworks from all over the World. Time does not stop or repeat itself, it is intrinsically linked to change. In a period in which different artistic, scientific, philosophical and technological disciplines interact freely, finding, creating and dissociating as part of an uncontrollable ritual dance, TIME is introduced as a brush that captivates an increasing number of art lovers, both emissaries and receivers. BAC! succumbs to the overwhelming expansion of one of the most contemporary means of expression. A means which is not only able to sublimate all the senses, in all known dimensions. "Time is the moving image of eternity" - Plato.

Forum of leading pioneer artists, critics, curators, gallery directors, collectors and other professionals in the field, who provide their most insightful views regarding this moving (and unstoppable) medium, reflecting on relevant topics intrinsic to the origins and significance of Video Art, with a dynamic dialogue emphasizing the challenges that this attractive art form has lived throughout its intense history in terms of conceptualization, production, exhibition, collection and preservation.

This single-channel presentation could be considered as a self-fulfilling prophecy, announcing the imminence of an alternative Europe that, how unsurprising, has always been here. Some of the artworks presented here are stating (in Arabic) that this optional Europe is already "a world that can contain many worlds", as the Zapatistas articulate their own de-colonial perspective. This selection aims at creating awareness beyond the metaphorical; it invites us to think in terms of other genealogies, and to stretch our understanding of the so-called North of Africa beyond the borders of our (programmed) imagination.

Time, relentless. The virtue and defect of mortals. The measurement units of the vital magnitude bring distant cultures to agreement influencing symbolically our long existence in an unperceptive and abstract way: MONDAY: Moon, Night, Femininity, Virginity, Fertility, Hunting, Wildness · TUESDAY: Mars, Fire, War, Army, Weapons, Fecundity · WEDNESDAY: Mercury, Water, Travel, Cultures, Abundance, Goods, Commerce, Volatility · THURSDAY: Jupiter, Wood, Justice, Wisdom, Cosmos, Order, Happiness · FRIDAY: Venus, Metal, Peace, Relaxation, Love, Beauty, Emotions, Dreams · SATURDAY: Saturn, Earth, Agriculture, Time, Chaos, Abstraction, Uncertainty · SUNDAY: Sun, Sky, Light, Truth, Herds, Healing, Muses, Music, Poetry, Art

Approaches to desire. Illusory Sex brings about many different approaches to sex and erotic actions developed by and towards different profiles. A broad variety of works that try to express the broad variety of tastes into the matter, different strokes for different folks. In an attempt to explicitly show those differences, the selection invites visitors to peep outside of each one’s comfort zone, and understand the motivations behind the different ways of enjoying sex.

A selection of fresh works, with brash and indolent touches, which subtly sketches the philosophical impasse that remains after you have forgotten everything you learned. Hip & Cool is a journey that invites us to face life with the lightness of not having done it ever before, recovering the impressionable eyes of children, and the boldness and daring that oblivion allow us to have. Pranks, kite flying, music, grass, water, sun and moon.. Elements that undoubtedly rejuvenate life experience and formulate a new look, fueling delayed feelings and brushing up lost dreams.

Exhibition of audiovisual works, using water as a preconceiving iconography of the philosophical theories about the flow of time, through works made by different artists at different times. Logic automatically associates water natural state of flow with movement as a Universal law, as well as with the perpetual continuum of transformation of the world as reality

Since 1990, taxidermist pioneering german artist Iris Schieferstein has worked with dead animals as raw material for her artwork, joining fragments that give life to new creatures with a different meaning and purpose, but always extending the existence and of the flesh that was earlier inhabited by life. In 2004 Macu Moran was invited to present the works of Iris Schieferstein for first time in Spain at the iconic Galeria Metropolitana of Barcelona, pioneer art gallery exhibiting highly technological artworks since the early 90s, directed by Pere Soldevila, founder of the LOOP Fair of Video Art in Barcelona, and a key figure in the Spanish contemporary art history.