The edition, in different formats, comes to remedy the lack of a retrospective publication that meets prominent productions of practices in this country. Apología/Antología is available in two formats: a DVDbox with 5 dvd accompanied by a booklet and an online platform. The online platform contains 250 works freely accessible works of experimental moving image by Spanish artists and filmmakers. The result is a diverse overview of audiovisual artistic production across Spain, intended to facilitate knowledge, research, teaching and distribution.

The presentation of this ambitious project at Beursschouwburg will take the form of a workshop, and a screening aimed at sharing the challenges that an anthological project is bound to and the strategies that were set up in order to face them.

Software decisions of making an online viewing platform

Workshop conduced by Nicolás Malavé and Michael Murtaugh

Michael Murtaugh designs and researches community databases, interactive documentary, and tools for new forms of reading and writing online, and teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

During this workshop, we will take the Apología/Antología platform as a starting point to discuss the various questions one encounters when publishing a large series of video works on the net. We will explain the various philosophical and technical choices we have made and focus particularly on three main topics: the material and technical constraints, the classification of a large set of videos, and the possibilities opened by algorithmic techniques to navigate differently the Apología/Antología database. We would like the workshop to be a moment of discussion as well as a moment of practical experimentation. If possible, please bring a laptop with you.

Public presentation Apología/Antología

Conduced by Eli Lloveras and Anna Manubens

Eli Lloveras, a graduate in Fine Arts, has been one of the four members of YProductions, a cultural production company that has worked in culture-related production, management research and training. Over the years, she has worked in the following areas: artistic production, the culture economy, cultural work, research into culture, cultural reviews, cultural policies and innovation in culture. All of these topics have been discussed in debate symposiums such as Estrategas in Barcelona, editorial projects like Producta50 or Innovación en Cultura (2009, ed. Dream Traffickers), audiovisuals projects like Bastante Tengo Conmigo Mismo and working structures like the platform for the dissemination and distribution of the HAMACA video, a project that she has directed since 2009.

Screening program Camilo and Ocaña

Curated by Alberto García del Castillo

A program comprised of two videos by Video-Nou, a Barcelona-based libertarian collective that practiced a revolutionary appropriation of audio-visual media. Actuació d’Ocaña i Camilo (1977) is a portrait of Andalusian, anarchist, artist, thespian and cross-dresser Ocaña, her best-friend Camilo, the underground cartoonist Nazario and more friends performing, making themselves up, touching each other and hanging out together. Ocaña. Exposició a la Galería Mec-Mec (1977) is a report by Ocaña of her exhibition at Mec-Mec gallery; he sings, dances and recites poetry in the company of Camilo, the camera operator and others. These videos are accompanied by the reading of a selection of passages containing Esther Newton’s vivid and loving portrayals of her friends Tiger, Billy, Tris, Godiva, Lola, Jim, Jean, Dodi Turner, Bo Sutter, Wanda, Jane, Judy, Gus, Tim, Bonnie and others in her essay Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (1972).