KREA Expresión Contemporánea, a cultural project backed by the Social Commitment Division of Caja Vital Kutxa, in collaboration with Teatro Paraíso, has offered two students the chance to work with the Belgian audiovisual artist Marc Cerfontaine. The two students are Marta Griñón and Miriam Pérez Gómez, who are majoring in audiovisuals at the Mendizabala high school. They have contributed to the creation of images and their integration in the theatrical production ‘Kri Kra Kro’.
Together with Cerfontaine, the students have created a video installation that will invite members of the audience at ‘Kri Kra Kro’ – children aged 3 and 5 – to play with the images. The theatrical space will be purely white, with cubes of different sizes and textures that will be transformed through images in urban, natural and cultural spaces.
‘Kri Kra Kro’, will examine issues related with the theatre, images and childhood, and is an example of the richness that working as a network can bring to a cultural project. Various cultural agents from very different spheres are collaborating on this project.
The artistic proposal emerges through a union between the Álava-based theatre company Teatro Paraíso and Théâtre de la Gimbarde from Belgium; the Jesús Guridi Conservatory in Vitoria-Gasteiz is present through Paco Ibáñez Iribarria, professor of music and composer; the Mendizabala high school is contributing the knowledge of two students to the audiovisual creation; and KREA is collaborating by offering training grants that enable two audiovisual students to get involved in such an enriching creation process.
Participation in this proposal is crucial for KREA Expresión Contemporánea, since ‘Kri Kra Kro’ encompasses three of the main characteristics it has always been committed to: the training of future professionals; working as a network in collaboration with the Mendizabala high school, the Teatro Paraíso theatre company and the Belgian theatre company Théâtre de la Gimbarde; and the interaction between different artistic disciplines.
The two students from Vitoria-Gasteiz collaborated with the Belgian creative artist Marc Cerfontaine thanks to KREA and Teatro Paraíso. Marta Griñón and Miriam Pérez Gómez, students from the Mendizabala high school, are helping to create images for the theatrical production ‘Kri Kra Kro’
Marc Cerfontaine (Belgium, 1970) defines himself as an animator, creator, audiovisual designer, camera operator and editor. Passionate about education and inter-generational exchange, he has created video installations for theatre productions such as ‘A l'ombre des arbres’ by the Félicette Chazerand company, ‘Le Sas’ by Sylvie Landuyt and co-produced by Agora Théâtre as well as the film ‘Luneville’ by Théâtre du Plantin, which won the Pom d'Or award in 2006. He has also taken part in many workshops for children and teenagers in relation to subjects such as video, contemporary art and digital photography. He has created audiovisual pieces such as ‘Mémoire à tiroirs’, a documentary about youth made in collaboration of the Museum of Modern Art of the French Belgian Community, in which fifteen teenagers from the Belgian region of Borinage looked at the area’s mining past.
