RESOLUTION SÂLMON CURATORIAL CALL 25-26
💥We are very excited to announce that, after a very enriching process of pre-selection and interviews, the curatorial selection committee for the 2025-26 editions of Sâlmon, performing arts festival in Barcelona has decided by consensus that the curator will be Quim Pujol.💥
For the festival team, it is essential to continue with this public call for curators, where we have received proposals with diverse views, interesting contributions and great potential. The conversations during the interview phase of the pre-selected proposals with Carolina Campos and Fer Gandasegui, Matías Daporta and Aitana Cordero have also been very enriching. Their contributions and in-depth analyses have greatly enriched the whole process.
Thanks also to all the people and groups who sent in their proposals, the time they spent and the reflections they shared.
The jury was made up of: Àngels Margarit, as an external invitation, and, as members of S.A.C. Sâlmon Asociación Cultural, Sofia Asencio, Tomás Aragay, Óscar Dasí, Ariadna Rodríguez, Iñaki Álvarez, Elena Carmona, Ariadna Miquel, Dianelis Diéguez, Semolina Tomic, Mònica Muntaner, Bea Fernández and Noe Laviana.
📍In a few months we will continue sharing this new stage.
You can consult the RULES OF THE CALL in the following links: IN CATALAN, IN SPANISH
Contact
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2024 edition
The choreographic as an experimental form invites you to constantly rearticulate your orientation, your material and conceptual disposition, with respect to time, space, perception, language, composition and ethics. To be choreographically involved means positioning oneself in relation, participating in a form of collective life that requires a certain attention: listening, duration, desire.
Through a series of pieces and encounters, this edition of Festival Sâlmon seeks to produce a time for this attention, and to consider contemporary dance and choreography in their poetic and political dimensions. These are capable of provoking critical affects understood as exercises that demand revision of our complex relationship with sensitive grammars and regimes of legibility.
With such a purpose, this program convenes a series of pieces that transmit formations and states still unknown, emerging as a sensation, a form—a rhythm, a tone, a determinant inclination—and make you feel that a different life is plausible, because in fact it’s already here. You follow its cadence and keep insisting on generating resonances with it. It’s within its potential, in what’s already there but not yet named, wherein resides its capacity to undo and induce new feelings in imposed ways of reading, and reading ourselves.
From February 15 to 25, 2024, the 12th edition of Festival Sâlmon welcomes this cadence and seeks to transmit it through the sensitivity, the somatic intensities and the speculative fugue that produce the work and interventions of the artists.
The proposals assembled here are inspired by the potential of form to produce aesthetic and political sensitivities, and embrace lines of work as the transmission of somatic forms of knowledge, the body as a site of ideological emergence and inscription, organizations of linguistic value and their capacity to produce realities, and the theater as a site for the development of material imaginaries and forms of sociality.
Andrea Rodrigo and Néstor García (curatorial team, 2023-24 editions).
Team
Sâlmon Festival is organized by the Asociación Cultural Sâlmon, created in 2022. It is a structure composed of 14 people from diverse backgrounds, forming a relation between a group of artists, agitators, managers and creative spaces that share a constant practice in the field of performing art, movement and corporeal languages. These individualities or structures haven’t come together by chance; they are linked to the more or less recent history of the festival. They are entities and creators with long histories of work in the city of Barcelona around contemporary and hybrid art. They act as a membrane that connects the knowledges, strengths and resources of diverse structures and individualities to support the Festival.
Team 2024 edition:
Curatorial team, 2023-24 editions: Andrea Rodrigo and Néstor García
General coordination and executive production: Noe Laviana
Head of communication: Raquel Tomàs
Management and administration: Nuria Canela
Technical direction: Toni Morales
Production logistique: Sofía Montenegro
Production assistant: Maguette Dieng and Natasha Padilha
Press: Sesi Bergeret
Translation: Ameen Mettawa, Carmen García Andrés i Marc Villanueva
Runner: Lucía Quesada Thomas
Photography: Mila Ercoli
Video: Andrés Pino
Design: Pau Orts + Phantasia, with the collaboration of Ombreta Vokopola
Web programming: Ricardo Juárez
Text style editing: Marta Alonso-Buenaposada del Hoyo
Accessibility consulting: Frida Laux
Spatial design: Sociedad 0
and all the teams from the different spaces hosting the festival’s program.
Locations
La Caldera
Eugeni d’Ors 12, Barcelona
Les Corts (L3)
Antic Teatre
Verdaguer i Callís 12, Barcelona
Urquinaona (L1, L4)
Cordova gallery
Encuny 24, planta 3, Barcelona
Foc (L10S)
CC Parc Sandaru (El Dorado SFB)
Buenaventura Muñoz, 21, Barcelona
Arc de Triomf / Marina (L1)
Mercat de les Flors
Lleida 59, Barcelona
Poble Sec (L3) / Plaça Espanya (L1, L3).
MACBA
Plaça dels Àngels, 1, Barcelona
Catalunya (L1 / L3)
Liceu (L3)
Universitat (L1 / L2) /
SALA UPLOAD
Av. de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 13
Plaça Espanya (L1/L3)
SALA VOL
C/ de Sancho de Ávila, 78, Barcelona
Marina (L1) / Llacuna (L4)
Edicions anteriors
2012-2020
The Sâlmon Festival has a history dating back to 2012. The sponsorship, organization and governance of the festival have evolved and, since 2021, it has existed as a biannual, independently curated festival with a network of spaces, structures and autonomous agents behind it. If you would like to consult programs from before 2021, you can do so here.
2023
Boglárka Börcsök i Andreas Bolm, Bryana Fritz, Cascades, Harald Beharie, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Paloma Chen, Norberto Llopis Segarra, Juf (Beatriz Ortega Botas i Leto Ybarra), Lorea Alfaro, Valentina Desideri, Corazón del Sol, Ciriza, Los Detectives, Claudia Pagès, Kha Villanueva, Tripak, Hamja Ahsan, Henry Andersen, Mònica Planes, Ferran Mesa Turó, Yazel Parra Nahmens i les participants al grup d’estudi per convocatoria oberta: Tomás Aragay, Laura Benedicto , Andrea El Almeri, Virginia Martín, Enric Marzà, Mabel Olea, Alba Palau Centelles, Elena Ramirez (Ken Pollet), Laura Ramirez, Estela Santos, Angelica Tognetti, Kha Villanueva, Iver Zapata.
2022
El Conde de Torrefiel, Alberto Cortés, Passejos mutants, David Aguilar, Paz Rojo, Pauline L.Boulba i Aminata Labor & Guests, IV Parlament Ciutadà de Cultura de Barcelona, Marta Ziólek, Bella Báguena, Medasawa, Symphony (Xavi Manubens) & Mama Lynch (Lyn Diniz), Andrea Pellejero, Anabella Pareja Robinson, Alexandra Laudo [Heroínas de la Cultura], Silvia Bottiroli, Mårten Spångberg, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, María Jerez & Alejandra Pombo Su, Néstor García Díaz, Anne Kerzerho, Fernando Gandasegui, Salva Sanchis, Jocelyn Cottencin, Idoia Zabaleta, Miguel Martínez, Fernando Pérez, Aimar Pérez Galí, Víctor Ramírez, Xavier Bassas, Choro (FOC), Carolina Campos, Caterina Mora, Victória Pérez Royo, DJ Tutu, Pol Pi: cie NO DRAMA.
2021
Ingrid Guardiola, Raúl Alaejos, Carolina Campos, Félix Pérez-Hita, Marc Vives, Orquesta (Anto Rodríguez y Óscar Bueno), Guillem Mont de Palol, Márcia Lança, Daniel Pizamiglio, TEATRON, Aitana Cordero y Jaume Ferrete, Alex Reynolds, Xavier Manubens, DD Dorvillier, Zeena Parkins, Roger Pelàez, Søren Evinson, Marc O’Callaghan, Eulàlia Rovira, Julián Pacomio y Ángela Millano, Job Ramos i Silvia Zayas, Nazario Díaz, Isabel Do Diego, Rubén Ramos Nogueira, Virginia García del Pino, Marta Echaves, HJ Darger (El Bloque TV), Olga Mesa, Vicente Arlandis, Norberto Llopis, Quim Pujol, Katerina Andreou, OKAY CONFIANCE amb Loto Retina, Anne Lise Le Gac, Elie Ortis Hugues Meunier, Alba Rihe, Júlia Barbany i Daniel Moreno Roldan, Soon in Tokyo (imatge) I la col·laboració dels autors del jingle del festival Hidrogenesse.
