THE FUTURE IS PRIMARY

Mikel Belascoain

Mikel Belascoain (Pamplona, 1978) visual artist, film-maker and founder of Filmmaking for Social Change and Fábrica de Arte Nuevo. He works from a humanist, vitalist approach, seeing his pieces as open process that are subject to change. He experiments with processes of co-creation, hybridisation and collaboration with other artists, disciplines, collectives and fields of knowledge. Highlights of his career include Persona, a dialogue between art and neurology, Luna Negra, a film, performance and anthropology project about roots flamenco, and his most recent Futuro, combining sculpture, film and sound, part of the 2025 European Capital of Culture in Chemnitz. He has presented his work in many public and private venues including the Centro Federico García Lorca, Teatro Real de Madrid, Museo de Navarra, Centro Botín and the Señorío de Bértiz, among many others. His work is inspired by the transformational power people have in our point of view. He finds the conscious and unconscious gaze a creative act and a poetic, revolutionary activist positioning.

This proposition sets out to go back to the essential, to approach creativity with the joy of discovery, treating children as thought companions. This is not a matter of teaching them how to build, but of learning and reflecting as adults about how they see the world, able to come up with surprising solutions on the basis of what we already have, without looking any further. We’ll work on the basis of sculptural, architectural and physical construction with a focus on primary colours, i.e. we’ll use just red, yellow and blue. This restriction is an invitation to concentrate on purity, form, weight and the primitive relation between the pieces. This workshop is part of the Encuentros pathway “Why Have We Constructed Ourselves Like This?”.