Gerard Altaió

Gerard altaió / 打油

Born in barcelona 1978.
Text artist. his work explores the borders between words and physical presence far away from meaning. from concrete poetry to semiotic ideas he had been building an experimental work between conceptual art and literature. he explores absurdity and non-sense based on the act of reading as the text working for itself. poetry, videopoetry, digital poetry, installation, theatre, performance… from 2006 he lives and works in beijing. his theater had been represented in barcelona and madrid. as a poet his last performance was at medialab (madrid) in 2009. during 2000-2004 he was the director of the objectual magazine “al buit”. his work had been published in various experimental art magazines in europe and books as “mail me” (electa), as well as showed in collective exhibitions (last one in dashanzi art festival, beijing). he organized “01”, the first digital poetry meeting in china in 2006. he is also art curator. last curated exhibition on chinese books showed in valencia (spain) in 2009. he is currently creating sonhoras, a new editorial project and experimental poetry magazine with eduard escoffet, martin bakero and eugenio tisselli.

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Video :: TkLab
Fecha: 15/12/18
Local: Sala Conservas
Carrer Sant Pau, 58 baixos
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