This bilingual publication collects twenty-two stories that are composed in dialogue with the work of Spanish artist
Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. His piece Performance in Resistance (2011),
compasses eighteen photographs of actions the artist performed in different
cities between 1965 and 1993. These eighteen pictures are reproduced here and
accompanied by written accounts by artists and cultural practitioners that were
presented live at various institutions throughout 2012. Together, the pictures
and stories offer an approach to the work of an artist that strongly resists
singular interpretation and categorization.With contributions by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Koen Brams, José Díaz Cuyás,
Juan Domínguez, Nuria Enguita Mayo,
Jon Mikel Euba, Esther Ferrer, Dora García,
GEACC—Grupo de Estudos em Arte Conceitual e Conceitualismos no Museu, Moosje
Goosen, Isaías Griñolo, Miren Jaio, Emilio Moreno, Manuel Martínez Ribas,
Emilio Moreno, Aimar Pérez Galí, Esteban Pujals Gesalí, Pedro G. Romero,
Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Jaime Vallaure, Myriam Van Imschoot, Azucena Vieites,
and Carla Zaccagnini.
In 2012 18 pictures and 18 stories travelled to If I Can’t Dance at Het Veem Theater, Amsterdam; Bulegoa z/b, Bilbao; Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona; CAC Bretigny, Greater Paris; BNV Producciones, Sevilla; Playground Festival in STUK/Museum M, Leuven; MAC São Paulo, São Paulo; before its last presentation at Tate Modern, London. 18 pictures and 18 stories is a Corpus production.
