Prototipoak 2018 : …Eta egiten ditugun gauzak / ...Y las cosas que hacemos
- Submitting institution
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Aberystwyth University / Prifysgol Aberystwyth
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 30613309
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Bilbao
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- May
- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Prototipoak2018 was the second edition of a developmental contemporary art biennial produced by Bilbao’s major cultural centre Azkuna Zentroa. Brookes was commissioned to co-curate this second edition for the programme, in partnership with his long-term artistic collaborator Rosa Casado. This curatorial appointment specifically acknowledged Brookes and Casado’s long-standing contributions within the fields of located and interventional public art. The resulting artistic programme was supported by €250,000 of public funding from the city of Bilbao, and gathered renowned artists and collectives from Europe, North Africa, North America and Australia – to realise a series of located and participatory projects within the city, culminating in a major large-scale exhibition entitled And the things we do.
This curated exhibition brought together select new and specifically developed artificial intelligence (AI) and social-robotics based artworks, a number of which were created in collaboration with leading international AI and robotics engineers, within a purpose-built reconfiguration of the centre’s 1100m² gallery space also designed by Brookes. This innovative exhibition, and the resulting audience experience, proposed an evolving and performative ecology of interactive artworks – developing across its four-month duration, through the accumulating activities of the individual artworks, and their resulting interactions with the space and visiting public. The exhibition achieved record attendance figures for the venue, attracting over 18,000 visitors.
Research questions include:
-In what ways might expertise developed within the fields of context-specific and interventional live art inform approaches to gallery curation?
-How might a contemporary art exhibition become genuinely and actively performative?
-In what ways might the behavioural qualities of AI and social-robotics based artworks be brought together to constitute and cohabit an evolving gallery environment?
-How might the evolving behaviours and environment of such a performative exhibition open considerations of wider social ecologies and the public performance of social space?
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This curated exhibition, hosted in Bilbao, Spain, brought together a collective of new and specifically expanded and developed artificial intelligence (AI) and social-robotics based artworks, a number of which were created in collaboration with leading AI and robotics engineers, within a purpose built and reconfigured gallery environment also designed by Brookes. This exhibition experience proposed an innovative evolving and performative ecology of interactive artworks – developing across its four-month duration, through the accumulating activities and presence of the individual works, their navigations of the gallery space and each other, and their resulting interactions with the visiting public.
