I ENCOUNTER: FIELD RECORDINGS (LOCATION)

The first meeting took place in June with Usoa Fullaondo where they worked on a text by Anne Carson on Safó. «Taking the ideas from the text to a formal plane we triangulated desire: through a series of objects in space we devised a gesture in which later another person intervened, thus creating a triangle. A few days later, we took the trip to Urkiola and filmed there with the objects in various configurations, in addition to running uphill and filming the flora and fauna», explains the artist.

II ENCOUNTER: GESTURE (PERFORMANCE)

The second meeting with Sirah Badiola and Keira Greene dealt with the body, in tribute to Anna Halprin. Led by Sirah, the group followed the Feldenkrais method and dance exercises in the auditorium of Azkuna Zentroa. «The next day, we set off, this time downhill, in search of the beech forest on Mount Orixol (on the map it says Oriol), a long journey for the group. In the beech forest, barefoot, we did a Skotomorphogenesis exercise, as a kind of ritual. We filmed special scenes with Bea Setién, her body and a beech tree». They watched Ivonne Rainer’s movies.
III ENCOUNTER: PERCUSSIONS (SCORES)
The third meeting took the group to Anboto, in search of sounds with which to make the landscape soundtrack. The workshop with Alex Alonso Díaz consisted of in-depth listening exercises by Pauline de Oliveros and the staging of a sound performance by Cornelius Cardew. They talked and discussed the organization or dissolution of hierarchies within the practice of an experimental composition. They also watched Kenneth Anger movies.

IV ENCOUNTER: EFFORT (PRODUCTION)

The meetings always start with a map of Euskal Herria in which the participants mark the way to the mountain where they are going to shoot. In the fourth meeting Ren Ebel guided the group through a generous exercise of creating maps, drawing and writing about a place that we know very well. The participants subsequently joined these places collectively and created a new map and they watched films by David Lamelas. «In Gorbea we took a very long hike uphill with changing weather which left us little time to film, but we found a labyrinth in which Jimmy Schaus walked with a kind of dog-bear, our ephemeral friend».

ENCOUNTER V: THE SUBLIME INTERRUPTED (CAMERA)

The fifth meeting brought the participants to Clara Schulmann, with whom they transcribed voice-overs that we selected solo and created a collective exercise by giving the body back to these voices. «The next day we went up to Mugarrekolanda, a hard climb in full sun. We stood at one point and created a choreography of bodies, texts and voices in 16mm», explains Lertxundi. They also watched movies by Tracey Emin, Annie MacDonell and Maïder Fortuné.