Los Flamencos have been working on their project Cantes tóxicos since 2012. Like the ‘versifying machine’ invented by by Antonio Machado's character Juan de Mairena , the performers use this artefact to recount, sing about and depict some of the outrages of neo-liberalism.
Concerned with the problems of popular art, naturalism and the media, Los Flamencos investigate new forms of aesthetic experience that advocate a binding relationship with areas of knowledge and praxis that have traditionally been set apart from the sphere of the aesthetic. At its core, the work is at once closer to and much more distant from traditional “realist” references.
The materials out of which their Cantes tóxicos are built are film archives recovered from the immense garbage can of Youtube, news rescued from the media and Flamenco notes forgotten among the fiesta songs. The Cantes Tóxicos might be said to be hybrid tales from our days, like kaleidoscopic collages, alternating between the world of poetry, the performative art of flamenco, critical discourse and audio-visual production, which depict the new social scenario built with and on the pain of the people.
Los Flamencos is an open, collaborative working group created by flamenco singer Niño de Elche, visual artist Isaías Griñolo and poet Antonio Orihuela. Other artists have also collaborated in the project, including the poets Enrique Falcón and David Pielfort. The Cantes tóxicos were presented at Sobre capital y territorio 2007‑2012, CAS, Seville (2012); Contra Tápies, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2013); Concreta (art magazine); EACC, Castellón (2013); Gamonal en lucha, Gamonal district, Burgos (2013); La noche del apagón, MACBA, Barcelona (2014); Cítric 2016, Ateneu Popular de Nou barris, Barcelona (2016); L’art de la Révolte, Centre Pompidou, París (2016) and La réplica infiel, CA2M, Móstoles, Madrid (2016).
PROGRAMME
November 9
19:00 Presentation: Isaías Griñolo, Antonio Orihuela - Z Hall (Tabakalera)
20:00 Performance - Z Hall (Tabakalera)
November 10
10:00-14:00 Meeting with Isaías Griñolo and Antonio Orihuela - Cristina Enea (Registration: cristinaenea@donostia.org)
Presentation and meeting with Los Flamencos (Isaías Griñolo and Antonio Orihuela) and concert-performance by themselves.