(Español) LA SENDA DE LA ABEJA – PERFORMANCE
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EVERYDAY ANTHOLOGY
I present the Everyday Anthology, one of the essential pieces of the Niyama Saucha project. It is a photographic archive showing people practicing yoga accompanied by a cleaning element (a broom, a cloth, etc.). In addition to the photographs, each file includes personal data, the name of the asana, the …
PARTIDES FESTIVAL
I am very excited to be part of the third edition of the Partides Festival that will take place on September 28th and 29th in Cambrils, Catalonia. The Partidas Festival is a contemporary visual and sound art event held in Cambrils, in the heart of Baix Camp, immersed in the …
EXHIBITION AT THE BROCENSE HALL OPENED
Finally I can share the documentation of the inauguration and mounting of the exhibition “TOMA Y DACA Y EL DILEMA DEL PRISERO ITERADO” which is on display at the Sala El Brocense in Cáceres from March 21 to April 20. I am enormously grateful to the technical and mounting team …
PERFORMANCE ART WORKSHOP IN GRANADA
On the 4th and 5th of May I’ll be giving this intensive workshop on action art at the Escuela Remiendo in Granada. In this monograph we will learn about the characteristics and tools of performance art, starting from the observation of our reality within the current circumstances; a context in …
COORDINATION OF THE ACTIONS IN THE PATIO OF LATERAL
LATERAL, the first meeting of creative spaces in Granada, took place between 27 February and 3 March. It has been several days of networking, meetings, fairs, talks and actions…. I was lucky enough to be part of this project, coordinating the sound actions and performances that took place, with the …
I EXHIBIT IN SALA EL BROCENSE, CÁCERES (SPAIN)
“TO AND FRO (AND THE ITERATED PRISONER’S DILEMMA”) AT THE BROCENSE HALL I am very happy to be exhibiting after many years in my home city! The opening will be on Thursday 21 March (spring equinox) at 8pm in the mythical Sala El Brocense in Cáceres with my project TOMA …
FINAL SHOWCASE – REMIENDO SCHOOL
The final showcase of the students from the Performance subject in the Integral Training in Interpretation at the Remiendo School in Granada is approaching. It will take place on Wednesday, February 14th, at 8:00 PM at La Empírica venue (Casillas de Prats, 10. Passageway near Plaza de Gracia). It has …
action for P.E.P.A.’s 6th ANNIVERSARY
I am excited to start the year by taking action and meeting with artists I appreciate and admire… It will be next Saturday 20th January at the celebration of the six years of the Small Event of Performance Art (PEPA). Furthermore, for this occasion, I will be performing the action …
CELEBRATING in Finland!
We continue celebrating the 10th Anniversary of EXCHANGE Live Art by returning to Finland in September. We will be at the New Performance Turku Biennale with an exhibition proposal where we will share our rich archive of performance scores, inviting the audience to participate and explore shared creation. Looking forward …
CELEBRATION returns to La Neomudéjar Museum in Madrid
After more than a year celebrating the tenth anniversary of EXCHANGE Live Art, we return to the Museo La Neomudéjar on 23, 24 and 25 June 2023. On Friday 23rd at 7pm, together with my colleague Ana Matey, I will present the performance “Homenaje 22”, a piece inspired by the …
CELEBRATION at the MVM and Cáceres Abierto
On Friday 16 June 2023 the report “Celebration. Homage 22” will be presented at the closing ceremony of Cáceres Abierto. It will be at 18,30h in the Helga de Alvear Museum. On the 20th of May I was with my colleague Ana Matey at the Museo Vostell Malpartida in Cáceres …
TRIBUTE 35 – MVM – WOMEN’S DAY
On Saturday 11 March, together with my colleague Ana Matey, I carried out the performance CELEBRACIÓN. TRIBUTE 35 at the Museo Vostell Malpartida in Cáceres, on the occasion of Women’s Day. In it we paid tribute to the 35 women who have passed through the project over the ten years …
(Español) LIBROS INTERVENIDOS
It is a pleasure to be part of the Intervened Books collection of the Ana María Matute Library in Valdemoro (Madrid) and to share my proposal with artists that I appreciate and admire. My piece is entitled “La crisis” and is based on the book: “La crisis del estado”. Manuel …
CELEBRATION EXCHANGE Live Art 2023
CELEBRATION is the title that encompasses all the events and activities that have taken place during 2022 and that continue during the current year 2023 on the occasion of EXCHANGE Live Art’s tenth anniversary. “We believe that celebration, despite a convulsive social, political and environmental context, with wars, pandemics and …
TO AND FRO AND THE ITERATED PRISONER’S DILEMMA
On 22 December 2022 I will present the project “TO AND FRO AND THE ITERATED PRISONER’S DILEMMA“, which I have been working on intensely over the last few months and which has recently been subsidised by the Ayudas a la Creación Contemporánea del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte (Contemporary Creation …
WE CONTINUE CELEBRATING
We continue with our activities to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of EXCHANGE Live Art. On Sunday 4th December we were presenting our project at NADA Contemporary Art Fair, in Seville, in the space Las Claras. On the 16th and 17th we will be at the Casa de las Conchas Library …
PLENA MOON – CÁCERES
On Sunday 9 October I will participate in Plena Moon, a cultural event in public space inspired by the Full Moon. It will be in Cáceres, my hometown and where part of my family lives. Maybe this is the reason that pushes me to make the performance “I want to …
SAME BUT DIFFERENT DOCUMENTATION – GRANADA
I share some images of the “Same but Different” Equinox to Equinox meeting last 24th September at the Paseo del Salón in Granada (Spain), in which Shaquille Renom, Lucía Mariño, Paloma Montes, Libertad López and myself, Isabel León, as well as Alejandra and Nico participated. For more information about the …
SAME BUT DIFFERENT – EQUINOX TO EQUINOX
On Saturday 24 September I participated in the meeting “Same but different. Equinox 2022” of actions in public space. I have the pleasure of coordinating the group in Granada, which will be taking action in the Paseo del Salón from 12.30h. Same But Different (Equinox) Is an international day for public …
(Español) TALLER DE ARTE DE ACCIÓN EN GALICIA
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I participate in MUCHO – Granada
I’m participating in MUCHO, II action art meeting in Granada, which will take place on the 25th and 26th of March in the gallery Arrabal&Cía and La Moebius, under the theme “The oblivion”. There are live actions and projection of video actions, in which I participate with the video action …
RIGHT TO HAVE RIGHTS – PALMA DE MALLORCA
“We are Linkage” is the performance with which I participate this afternoon, Friday, December 10, in the Conference “Women and human rights. The right to have rights”, organized by Mujeres Mirando Mujeres for the City Council of Marratxí, in Palma de Mallorca . I am happy and grateful for this …
AUGUST IN BILBAO!
Happy to be part of the project “There are bad times for bodies”, curated by Endika Basaguren and selected for Bagi (Bilbao Arte Gela Irekia) by BibaoArte. Days in which I teach an Action Art workshop and participate in a collective performance with a handful of great artists. From August …
I PARTICIPATE ON ESTIVAL IN MÁLAGA
From July 5 to 10 I participate in ESTIVAL 4 Malaga Contemporary Art Festival organized by La Casa Amarilla. On Saturday the 10th at 7:30 p.m. the performance “Odisea, sea” (Odyssey, be) will begin; an action in three stages in which I base from the journey of Ulysses, the central …
ACCIÓNLAB IN VALENCIA!
On June 19 and 20 I participate in ACCIÓNLAB. Intermediate Arts Laboratory organized by Dialèg Obert at La Mutant, Live Arts Place. Meeting of performance networks, projects, and festivals in Europe with conferences and live performances. More information and programming HERE.
I perform for PEPA (Madrid)!
On Friday, May 7, at 7 p.m. I participate in the first live edition of 2021 of PEPA (Small Event of Performance Art) In “THIS IS A SQUARE”, Doctor Fourquet, 24, Madrid. I am so happy to perform with public. Together with Violeta Nicolás, Pablo G. Bartolomé and Colectivo Fósforo …
I participate in Stay LIVE at home – PerformIstanbul
I have the pleasure to participate in the project “stay LIVE at home” organized by PerforIstambul. I will be performing “I have a bush” in streaming from Instagram at 18h. (Spain), Wednesday 21th April. Stay LIVE at Home Home Performance no.102Isabel León I have a bush. WHAT: “Bushs, trees, plants, …
I participate in FESTPOVIBER
On Sunday March 21 I participate in the program of the FESTPOVIBER, V Festival of Visual Poetry of Berja by an online connection that will take place at 8 pm where I will perform some of my mini actions. You can follow the festival at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/829523157187249 https://www.facebook.com/bibliotecaberja
QUARANTINE SHOWN IN SPAI LA GREY
The series of mini video performances Cuarentena, carried out together with LLorch Talavera between March 14 and May 17 (the first confinement due to the Covid-19 crisis), is shown between March 19 and April 9, 2021 at the Spai La Gray gallery in Tarragona, as the fourth session of the …
MAV 2020 Biennial in Metrópolis TV program
The spanish television program Metrópolis dedicated its program to the MAV 2020 Biennial, an event aimed at reclaiming the work of women artists and other cultural workers in the Spanish context, in which I had the honor of participating invited by Woman Art House to perform an action at the …
Transitstation: International Viral Virtual Event Collaboration VOICE # 1
I have been invited by PAOC Performance Art Open Call and PEPA Pequeño Evento de Performance Art to participate in Transitstation, that present the International Viral Virtual Event Collaboration VOICE # 1 I will be performing in streaming with three other artists: DAVID LÓPEZ RESTREPO (Denmark), LARA SALMON (United States) and M.U.R.T.A. …
EXHIBITION IN GRANADA
The exhibition “AFTER THE PARTY. Organic and inorganic remains” opens on Saturday February 13 at 12.30 pm. in the La Empírica gallery in Granada (Spain). It will finish on March 20. It is a site specific project with action art, video and installation. With this project, I review past actions …
EXHIBITION: FROM CLOUD TO WALL
“From cloud to wall” is an exhibition produced as a result of the publication of the book “From cloud to paper”, a project awarded a grant in 2019 by the Aid for plastic artists of the Junta de Extremadura, Spain. This exhibition shows all the videos of the publication’s three …
Workshop “You in 59 seconds”
I am very excited because on Saturday, September 19 from 10 am to 2 pm I will be giving an online workshop within the Residences program of the Piedra Taller Tijera project. It will be open. I will share my artistic process, focusing on the mini video performances. If you …
DISLOCATED IN PHILADELPHIA
The piece «Cake and Candle» belonging to the «Cuarentena» series of mini-video performances carried out together with Llorch Talavera during confinement by Covid-19 has been selected for the International Video Performance Show DISLOCADA / DISLOCATED. The second place where it will be shown is at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival from …
MINIMAL URBAN ACTIONS
The piece «Mobile Phones» belonging to the «Cuarentena» series of mini-video performances performed with Llorch Talavera during confinement by Covid-19 has been selected for the Second Edition of the International Festival of Minimal Urban Actions in Video. It has been exhibited in: Sala ART HOUSE ZINEMA de BILBAOARTE FUNDAZIOA (Bilbao), …
DISLOCATED IN COLOMBIA
The piece «Cake and Candle» belonging to the «Cuarentena» series of mini-video performances carried out together with Llorch Talavera during confinement by Covid-19 has been selected for the International Video Performance Show DISLOCADA / DISLOCATED. In the first place, it will be shown at the Bogotá Experimental Film Festival between …
ARTICLE IN GRADA MAGAZINE
The critic, curator, and friend Julio Vázquez (Lanzarte) writes a wonderful article in the magazine Grada about the series of mini-video performances that my partner Llorch Talavera and I have done during the confinement, entitled (of course) “Quarantine”. HERE you can read the article. HERE you can see the 63 …
TV PROGRAM – LA AVENTURA DEL SABER
Revista La Bolsa of video actions and video creation has a mini space on the television program La Aventura del Saber, and this Wednesday, June 17, I have the pleasure of being the artist chosen to show part of my work in mini video performance. Link to the video La …
WE PARTICIPATE IN #CONFINAMIENTO
Llorch Talavera and I are participating with a selection of three videos from our “Quarantine” series in the #Confinamiento cycle of video performances organized by perfoREDmex and curated by Pancho López. The cycle started on April 25 and lasts until June 3. For 40 days, one work per day by …
PERFORMANCE ART WORKSHOP IN GRANADA 2020!
“ACTION ART to survive in a changing world” is the title of the next performance art workshop that I will be teaching at the Public School of Cultural Formation of Andalusia at the Rey Chico in Granada. It will be from January 27 to March 30, every Monday from 17 …
FINALLY, I PRESENT IT IN GRANADA!
I am very happy to be able to present the publication “From cloud to paper. 136 minivideoperformances. Three years online” in my host city, with some of the people who have helped me to make it possible. It will be next Wednesday, December 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the José …
I GO TO FEM FESTIVAL!
This year, FEM festival organized by Gresol with Denys Blacker at the head consists of workshops, performances and a residence in which more than twenty female artists from the United Kingdom, Catalonia, France, Mexico, Spain participate … It will be between December 4 and 8 in Madremaya (Girona). I am …
FINISHING NOVEMBER IN VALENCIA…
I am very excited to participate in the Cicle d ‘Acció which takes place in Valencia, a city where I studied with the teacher Bartolomé Ferrando and where I return whenever I can… I love it! It will be this Saturday, November 30 from 5:30 pm at the Center del …
NEXT DESTINATION… GALICIA!!!
At last, I can share this information! The next 25th and 26th of November I will be working together with the wonderful Ana Matey, Ana Gesto and María Marticorena in two performances that will take place in Pontevedra (at 12 o’clock in the Peregrina Square) and in Vigo (at 7 …
PRESENTATION IN CACERES “FROM CLOUD TO PAPER”
Next Thursday, November 7, I am pleased to present in Cáceres (Spain) my recent publication “From cloud to paper. 136 minivideoperformances. Three years online.” It will be at the Helga de Alvear Foundation, at 7 pm. I am excited to present this project in my hometown and share it with …
I PARTICIPATE IN “CUERPO A CUERPO” IN CANARY ISLAND!!!
A great way to beginning the Fall: to travel to the Canary Islands to participate in the Festival of Performance Art Cuerpo a Cuerpo held at the La Regenta Art Center from October 3 to 5 and in which I will meet with a good number of artists and friends. …
“School of Performance #11” Festival – Lviv, Ukrania
I am very happy to participate in the “School of performance # 11” a pedagogical Festival in the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine. It will be from September 1st to 7th, where I will do a performance and I will present my recent publication “From Cloud to Paper.” The …
PERFORMANCES ArteVA – TAC Valladolid
Next May 23 and 24 I will perform on the second edition of the ArteVA PERFORMANCES CYCLE, within the TAC, the Valladolid Street Theater Festival, which this year celebrates 20 years. The cycle is curated by Isa Sanz and it will be participating Abel Loureda, Nieves Correa, Diana Soria, Irene Mohedano, Lukas Avendaño, …
LA MÁS BELLA MOCHA – CÁCERES ABIERTO 2019
Performance for the presentation and participation in the special edition of La Más Bella MOCHA for CÁCERES ABIERTO 2019, with the piece “La Más Mocha“, which includes a video action. If you want to see the video action go HERE with the password: lamasmocha More information about the La Más Bella Mocha go …
ACTION FOR “MULLERES EN ACCIÓN – VIOLENCIA ZERO” IN PONTEVEDRA (SPAIN).
On Tuesday, November 6, I have the great pleasure of participating in the “Mulleres en Acción: Violencia Zero” program of the Diputación de Pontevedra with an action in the Socio-Cultural Building of the Penitentiary Center of A Lama. It is a challenge to talk about violence without wanting to be …
LUNCHBOX PERFORM IN SALAMANCA
Next Tuesday, October 30, I will have the great pleasure of working again at the Casa de las Conchas Public Library in Salamanca. It will be within CICLO EXCHANGE, where we present the objet magazine LUNCHBOX. More than 40 national and international artists have participated in it. For this presentation, …
SYNCHRONIES IN DADOS NEGROS
Next October 6th, I have the pleasure of participating in the opening of SINCRONÍAS, a project of the Centro de Holografía y Artes Dados Negros, in which I participate with Ignasi Aballí, Anna Gimein, Laura Lio y Javier Arnaldo, La Gran Trazada, Said Messari, Juan Luis Moraza, Jaume Pitarch, Víctor Ripoll y Jaime Vallaure. I will perform the action “I think …
EQUINOX TO EQUINOX IS COMING!!!
I have the great pleasure of participating in the next edition of EQUINOX TO EQUINOX, a meeting in which for one hour a group of artists act simultaneously. I will be working with Giusseppe Domínguez, Sofía Misma, Isabel Corullón, Yolanda Pérez Herreras, Raúl Díaz-Obregón and Pancho López. What makes this …
PERFORMANCE IN THE NEOMUDÉJAR WITH PERNEO III
Friday, September 14th at 8 p.m. I perform the piece “What is not seen” in the third edition of the Perneo International Performance Art Festival, curated by Alba Soto for La Neomudéjar (Antonio Nebrija, S/N. Madrid). I share session with the Mexican artist Pancho López and the Valencian Marie Tamarit, in which …
Next Performance in La Empírica, Granada (Spain)
“Eighty-five Chickpeas”. Action that I present Friday March 16th at 8 pm at La Empírica, (Casillas de Prats, 10, Granada). A work dedicated to my mother, a person that I admire and love deeply; smart, brave, about to turn 85 years old… and who does not eat chickpeas. I share …
In the 2018 EXCHANGE Live Art is celebrating… We have 5 years of activity!
We are very happy with this tour in which we have carried out 15 editions in Spain, Norway, Finland, Canada and Morocco with the participation of 61 artists in total. And in order to have a BIG CELEBRATION of this 5 years we are preparing an CYCLE EXCHANGE. More information HERE. …
Workshop & Performance in Acción!MAD
I have the pleasure this year of participating with two projects in the Acción!MAD Festival of Madrid. I will be conducting with Ana Matey the workshop EXCHANGE Creative Laboratory in Sala El Águila (metro Delicias) from October 25th to 27th. More info HERE. And on Saturday 28 I will do …
KIOSCO EXCHANGE this Autumn in Granada
I participate in KIOSCO EXCHANGE at the Plaza de Bib-Rambla in Granada. October and November of 2017. Together with Ana Matey, Ignacio Pérez and Fausto Gracia. All information HERE.
Appearance in the magazine CIIA No 2: Our body, our institution
I have the honor to appear in the second issue of CIIA, entitled “Our Body, Our Institution”. This issue of CIIA is a first critical approach to the institutionality of art from feminism. The debate about the relationship between the art made by women and / or feminist with the …
Participo en el VI Encuentro de Artes Vivas y Naturaleza en Matsu
On Saturday, June 17th, I have the pleasure of participating in this meeting and sharing performances with Analía Beltrán i Janés, Elisa Miravalles, Giusseppe Domínguez, Jesús García Plata, María Vallina, Pedro Alba, Raúl Díaz Obregón, Sofía Misma and Yolanda Pérez Herreras in a Natural environement and organizing by Ana Matey and …
News about Cáceres Abierto and my performance “Traces”
Last Saturday June 3rd, the performance “Traces. Disseminated Collective Action ” took place in the Cáceres Abierto Festival, in which more than 40 people attend the previous workshops.
(Español) PARTICIPA EN LA ACCIÓN DE ISABEL LEÓN PARA CÁCERES ABIERTO
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I will part of Cáceres Abierto next Spring
At the end of this Spring I will be participating in the public art project “Cáceres Abierto” curated by Jorge Díez with the collaboration of Julio Vázquez, along with artists Maite Cajaraville, Dionisio Cañas, Francisco Cuéllar, Diana Larrea, Iñaki Larrimbe, Juan López, Alicia Martín, Noaz, Gustavo Romano, Daniel Muñoz and …
Performance Art Workshop in Granada (Spain)
Next Performance Workshop: Performing Arts vs. Action Art . From 20th to 30th March 2017 (32 hours). Public School of Cultural Formation of Andalusia (Granada). + info HERE
“International Day I” selected in the Sala El Brocense Contest
The first 25 videos of the International Day series (from January to June) have been selected at the 19th Sala El Broncense Plastic Arts Prize in my hometown of Cáceres.