Exhibitions
Noies al capdavant. Una reactivació de l’Arxiu Riot Grrrl de Gelen Jeleton.
Exhibition by Gelen Jeleton curated by Pilar Cruz
Cinema Edison
From October 19 to November 26
Timetable
| Friday | 18:00-21:00 |
| Saturday | 18:00-21:00 |
| Sunday | 18:00-21:00 |
| Monday | 18:00-21:00 |
Tuesday 24 October, 7 November and 14 November open in the schedule of the sessions programmed by the Panoràmic festival.
“We didn’t come to have sex with the band, we’re the band”: that’s one of the many slogans left us by the original Riot Grrrl. At the same time that they exercised control and prominence of their production, they also made room in the spaces of socialization of leisure and invested them. When Kathleen Hanna shouted “Girls to the front” she first sent the boys to the last rows of concerts punks.
Reviewing this legacy today implies the demand for a feminist exercise of squatting the central space in cultural production from DIY practices. It also implies updating it from the postulates of intersectional and trans-inclusive feminism.
The exhibition is a reactivation of part of Gelen Jeleton’s archive, which has been collecting material produced by underground artists for years women such as fanzines, memes, T-shirts and other formats of expression. It is a look at the Riot Grrrl in its historical aspect, but also at its legacy and some of the ways in which today’s creators appropriate it and make it survive.
Gelen Jeleton
Gelen Jeleton (Murcia, 1975) has been doing his artistic practice together with Jesús Arpal Moya in the Jeleton Team since 1999 with long-term projects such as Història política de les flors. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Cuenca, and graduated at the University of Barcelona in the Department of Drawing with a study on alchemy and Renaissance symbolism. In 2016 she presented his doctoral thesis: A DIY (Do It Yourself) Archive: self-publishing and self-management in a feminist-queer fanzinoteca at the University of Murcia by the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2014 she moved to Mexico for a research stay that ends with a postdoctoral fellowship at UNAM in 2021.
Pilar Cruz
Pilar Cruz (Zaragoza, 1972) is a curator, art critic and cultural manager. She has a degree in Art History and a Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Art History with a final project on subcultures in Spain in the mid-60s. She has curated projects for Espai 13 (Fundació Miró), Caixaforum Barcelona, Paranimph of the University of Zaragoza, Sala d’Art Jove de la Generalitat de Catalunya, La Model or Huesca Perifèries Festival, among others. She will be selected in the first curatorial laboratory KomisarioBerriak. She was co-curator with anthropologist Marc Roig of the Liminal GR project, an interdisciplinary programme at Antic Teatre for six years. She has co-founded, with the artist Fito Conesa, Degénero ediciones, artist’s editions in textile formats. Currently, she is part of the Curatorial Team of the Centre d’Art La Capella, of Club9, and is artistic advisor of the Temporals project, among other projects.