SEISMES, the open party for resident artists at Fabra i Coats is back on 2 December as an event for discovering the art and creativity that dwells in Fabra i Coats. Coinciding with the first weekend of Sant Andreu’s Festa Major [main annual festival], over 60 artists will be dropping by Fabra i Coats and offering, throughout the evening, a marathon of 30 artistic creations of every kind: performances, concerts, theatre, DJs, conversations, installations, videos, spoken word poetry and jam sessions.  The key concept in this edition is “Suggestions for a body”, a leitmotiv that, through shapes, devices, colours, words and soundscapes, will be the common thread of many of the artistic creations presented. Residents will invite audiences to immerse themselves in their evocative world through the presentation of their works, directly based on a plural, diverse and changing concept of body: “an event for interconnecting fragments of changing organisms that gravitate between the analogical and the digital, in a playful symbiosis that covers the inside and outside of bodies: migrant, technological, ethereal, local, symbolic and spiritual bodies”.

SEISMES is a major annual collective happening which, designed collaboratively by resident artists, will get city residents to discover the factory’s nooks and crannies using unique artistic creations and a set of suggestions. Contemporary artists who usually do not work together will be showing site-specific projects developed for the occasion. 

Performances that members of the public attending will be able to enjoy include a participatory flamenco journey by the artist Esther Solé in collaboration with the Laboratorio de investigación desde el Flamenco and the musician Josué Coloma; an improvised electronica jam on chaos and listening with a dozen musicians, writers and performers, led by Sincro; a sensory B2B marked by the sound corporealities of the DJs TWIN and Gigi Morralla; an auditory and material experience by Luis Tabuenca and the Swiss collective UMS'n JIP; an artistic appropriation through performance art with Lara Martínez, Laura Paz Muñoz, Tatiana Donoso and Mariana Orantes; a video installation on eroticism through the eyes of Úrsula San Cristóbal and a letter on sound memory made with field recordings by Julio César Palacio. Visitors will also be able enjoy a DJ cassette session from Empty 6 Pack, an audiovisual installation permeated by the melancholy of Low Haze, a forest of moving plant knots by Adriana Civit and a surrealist collective writing performance from Adrià Bravo.

More information here.