LOOP Festival reflects on cosmic space
The festival programme will fill Barcelona with exhibitions, screenings, installations and performances.
LOOP Barcelona is celebrating its seventeenth year, gaining broader recognition as a festival and fair for art films and videos. This year, the LOOP Festival is taking a look at intersections with scientific research and experimentation through the work of artists and creators who are taking part in the debate on cosmic space and how it will be used in the coming years. For example, the programme includes the exhibition “One Day I Stumbled Upon a Meteorite” at Fabra i Coats, which analyses the relationship between the universe and the microcosm of our daily lives, with pieces by Irene Grau, Abel Jaramillo, Regina de Miguel and Julia Llerena Iñesta, among others. Other noteworthy activities on the programme include the exhibition at the CCCB featuring Aleksandra Mir’s memorable piece “First Woman on the Moon”, the video nummer zeven: the clouds are more beautiful from above by Guido van der Werve at the Picasso Museum, and the installation “You First Saw the Light” by Andy Gracie at the Archaeology Museum. Plus, there will be loads of other activities, like the premiere of Aleksandra Mir’s performance The Dream and the Promise and the screening of Immortality for All: a film trilogy on Russian Cosmism by Anton Vidokle.
The LOOP Festival will be held from 12 to 24 November at various locations and times. In addition to this activity, the organisation also hosts the LOOP Fair at Almanac Barcelona hotel from 12 to 21 November, which gives a general overview of today’s moving image scene featuring over 40 galleries and artists from 20 different countries.
The different exhibitions and activities have various prices, depending on the venue. More information is available on the LOOP Barcelona website.