25 Jul 14
HIDING MAPS
Lecture by young artists Aniol Macau and Francesc Ruiz Abad
YARAT Education was present lecture by two young artists from Barcelona: Aniol Macau and Francesc Ruiz Abad. A lecture which is called “Hiding Maps” was a lecture about hitchhiking and alternative ways of traveling as a way to create experiences and reflexions about our society.
Aniol Macau and Francesc Ruiz Abad are doing a six months project/travel by hitchhiking. During this derive they will abandon control and join drivers wherever they are going. The journey will have no clear destination and during the trip they will produce a substantial analog archive made by interviews, audio landscapes, drawings, documentary photography and small sculptures.
One of the stops during their trip will be Baku, where the two artist will come to Yay gallery and will tell us about hitchhiking, his old projects and how traveling had influenced their work.
Videotranslation from lecture here >>>