LABORAL - CENTRO DE ARTE Y CREACIÓN INDUSTRIAL

Institutional introduction

One of the challenges and indeed achievements of contemporary art is that it transcends classic formats which are physically constrained by spatial and temporal dimensions and subject to the passing of time. Similarly, the evolutional process of art has gradually broken with traditional rules and classic canons, doing away with the distance between the spectator and the artwork until ultimately arriving to the very dissolution of the concept of “work” understood as a palpable and unaltered reality. 

Arcadia is a step forward, a bold cutting-edge proposal where playing is an art experience, the spectator the main actor of the play, the street is the canvas, and the city, the art itinerary and the very art creation in itself. Different tools and instruments are the warp with which citizens weave art: photography, mobile telephony, messages, video consoles, GPS… New technology as art device.

Cajastur is extremely pleased to be involved in this initiative, especially given its audacity, its exploration of the art universe and because it offers citizens new experiences. The individual as main actor and participant in art creation is a new horizon that requires a path in which Cajastur wishes to take part. Indeed, that is one of the aims of the social and cultural activities promoted by our institution: to take art to the ordinary citizen, to bring art to every corner of our region and to promote the involvement of society as a whole in culture.

We are aware that, as has happened historically, the avant-garde always provokes initial rejection. But it is equally true that whenever the axis of that avant-garde is participation then the reaction is one of acceptance. At Cajastur we are firmly convinced that this initiative will be a milestone in the evolution of the concept of art and in the ongoing search implicit in art creation