In Spain now homosexuals can get married to each other and soon we will be able to adopt children as couples, and in doing so live like other people. It was a question of social justice, of equality and a necessity for many people who can now make use of their rights. Also there are others of us who are not interested in continuing reproducing patterns and who are still unsatisfied, and who think that society has to keep on evolving because, among other things, in the immense majority of the countries of the world homosexuality remains a cause of discrimination, rejection or is even considered a crime.
Perhaps with the Mostra the onus is on us now to keep revindicating not only the rights of homosexuals and transexuals until their complete normalisation, but also life, liberty, and the diversity of all people; because society still forces us to choose, to position ourselves so we can be classified and kept satisfied and controlled. Western society always pushes us to choose an ideology, a sexual orientation; it impulses us to choose a way to consume, to think, to choose a language, an identity; and we just don't want to do it, because we want to live with the freedom not to have any or all of these ways, or to think one thing one day and the opposite the next.
Because here in our comfortable society we have to remind the power, which is still a masculine and heterosexual power with which we do not want to be complacent, that there is still much to do, that here and now there is not work for everyone, that the wealth is not well-distributed, that there is not proper access to a home, nor equality for women; that there is not real secularisim nor education, nor respect for anyone who thinks differently, that a human being cannot be illegal; that we are damaging ecosystems, and there is not even peace.
Maybe we have come just to get on peoples' nerves, like Derek Jarman or Gil de Biedma; like Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Fassbinder or Eloy de la Iglesia, like Capote, Susan Sontag… and like so many others. It is of people and artists like them that we want to talk in the Mostra.
I would like to introduce you the FIRE!! Team that has made this possible:
Joako Ezpeleta, director.
Cofounder of the International Festival of Benicassim. Journalist and cultural manager, director of the TV and radio
program "Viajes a los Sueños Polares". Editor of "Spiral" magazine. Nowadays directs "Fiber" newspaper and coordinates
and organizes exhibitions.
Antoine Leonetti, Coordinator.
Cultural Manager he has a Law Degree and coordinates the UB (University of Barcelona) Cultural Department program. He
collaborates at the Valsáin Foundation for the promotion of democratic values and coordinates the Dance Company
Merce Cunningham project in Barcelona.
Gregorio Soria, Graphic Designer
Graphic Artist and Audiovisual Designer, he has worked mainly in the cultural sector and specifically for the record
industry. He has created dozens of album covers. Among his Spanish clients we can highlight La Casa Azul, Elefant Records,
Naïve, Rock de Lux, CD Drome, 40 Principales, Stop Sida and many more. He has created also worked for companies from
Japan, Norway, Korea, Germany, and the U.K. He has also his own record company named Annika.
Ibon Olaskoaga, Documentaries
Audiovisual director and producer. In the last years, he's specialized himself in the production of documentary films. For more than 8 years he
lived in the U.S.A., where has produced news coverages, especial reports and image campaigns for companies such as
Time-Warner, NBC-Universal and Univisión. Now he collaborates with producers at both sides of the Atlantic.
David Cabrera, Txaro G, Art Video
Txaro Garcia and David Cabrera founded cyclic.org in 2004. They propose independent films, audiovisuals formats such as
Motion Graphics, and video art at the "cyclic video club". They explore art and design in cyclic library and show also at
cyclic space the most independent side of the formats of expression with unique creators and designers.
Silvia Prada, Music
Artist and Illustrator. She collaborates with specialized magazines such as Dazed & Cufused, Blackbook, Carlos Magazine,
Fanzine 173 or the gone The Face. In recent times she has exhibited her latest projects at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo
de Castilla y León, or at the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. She also has published her latest book "The
Silvia Prada Art Book".
Jessie Park, Communication
Public Relations, designer and artist in many disciplines. She is the creator of the complements label "Jin Sun Park",
cofounder of Circuit (an event that mixes fashion, art and music in Barcelona). She is the muse of the artist Carles
Congost. Since two years ago, she is the Director of PARKDIVISION, Press and P.R. agency specialized in fashion, health,
beauty, art, culture, and lifestyle.
