Josu Rekalde

Josu Rekalde Izaguirre (Amorebieta, 1959) combines his artistic practice with a full professorship in the Fine Arts School at the University of the Basque Country. His best known work in video is Anthropozulo, distinguished at the ZKM Festival in Karlsruhe (Germany). Begoña Vicario is a professor and animation specialist, winner of a Goya Award for the animated short Pregunta por mí. Marta Macho is a professor in the Mathematics Department of the University of the Basque Country and a winner of the Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME) Medal for her teaching enterprise. Her colleague Raúl Ibáñez is coordinator of the RSME’s online learning resource DivulgaMAT and is an experienced popularizer of mathematics on radio and TV. Patxi Azpillaga has worked on the production side of cultural, documentary and experimental projects like the opera Kaiser von Atlantis or the documentaries Errautsak and Distantziak.

In the summer of 1978, performance artist Esther Ferrer took part with her colleagues from the music group Zaj in the group action titled El tren de John Cage. A la búsqueda del silencio perdido, which unfolded over three days in Bologna (Italy) under the coordination of artist John Cage. Ferrer appeared in a train wagon, filling the space with threads and mapping out a path connected to time and its representation. The action was named El hilo del tiempo. Forty years later, Denbora-Hariak / Hilos de Tiempo invites Esther Ferrer to perform it again as the axis of a project examining her work with threads and numbers, the way that she has used lines of thread and numerical games to measure, delimit, represent and transform spaces, times and even her own body.