Visual artist, eclectic and self-taught.Juan’s work combines techniques from multiple disciplines. He began his career dedicated to film production and set design but has also beautified many a shop window through multiple visual merchandising projects throughout his career.. Through his intuition, color sensitivity and interest in experimenting, Juan investigates the possibilities of transforming spaces. He is interested in the concepts of appearance and versatility as triggers to create different ways of inhabiting architecture. Nowadays, he devotes much of his time and talent to landscaping and interior design. He is the architectural and spatial mind behind the project, focusing mainly on the La Peña Negra project, which addresses the rehabilitation of the old town of Blanca, where the Centro Negra is located.

Selu Herraiz is an artist, curator, and educator. With a background in Electronic Engineering, he approaches art as an excuse for inhabiting the world, seeking to integrate the creative act into everyday life in order to activate social transformation and stimulate critical thinking. He combines personal research with the design of educational experiences, addressing creation in close relationship with territory.

At AADK, he is curator of Sound Residencies, Aldarrax Editions and ROTA—rare music festival. As a sound artist, he is interested in deep, active, and respectful listening to territory and the voices that inhabit it. His research engages with ritual, animism, and psychosomatic processes. The thin boundaries between science and magic are questioned through sound, investigating new symbolisms in how they affect the human subconscious and shape our possible paths of transformation.

His work has been presented in spaces and festivals such as Morphine Raum, Arkaoda, HAU, Zero Point, Zero Cohession (all in Berlin), Ayrarat (Yerevan), Tsonami (Valparaíso), Worm Studio (Rotterdam), Q-O2 (Brussels), Tanz Kongress 2019 (Dresden, Germany), Festival Cumplicidades (Lisbon), Media Art Festival (Leeuwarden, Netherlands), Medialab Prado (Madrid), and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), among others.

www.seluherraiz.es

Dr. Raegan Truax is a durational performance artist and Professor of Performance and Embodied Praxis. She founded the Creative Body Institute in 2020 to support cross-disciplinary artistic exchange and has curated international programs connecting performance artists across cultures. Her work explores long-duration, site-responsive performance and immersive practices, with recent projects including Citation (37 consecutive hours, CounterPulse, San Francisco), Sloughing (35 performers across 19 locations, 28 days, Bay Area), Underway: En Cours (Centre Pompidou, Paris), and Stay in Place (76 days, in her living room at the onset of COVID-19). 

In 2019, she began a series of 12+ hour performances exploring public mourning and collective grief, including all the nothing (Artists Television Access, 2019) and Recitation (13 hours, 2021). Her work has been presented at The New Museum (NYC), CounterPulse (San Francisco), and ZK/U Berlin, and is included in The Abramović Institute’s Immaterial archive. 

Truax holds a PhD in Performance Studies (Stanford), MAs in Performance Studies and Gender Politics (NYU), and has taught at Stanford, Haverford College, and California College of the Arts. She is completing her manuscript Durational Performance: The Untimely Body in Performance Art since 1960 and recently published A Period Piece that Endures: 28 Reflections on Sloughing for PRJ: Performance Research. 

www.raegantruax.com

Artist, Program Director and Independent Curator. Elena develops multiple facets in the field of contemporary art, with a special interest in its educational, political and social aspects. She collaborates in festivals, biennials and art collectives nationally and internationally.

As an artist, she creates urban interventions and relational art pieces. She has been selected in national festivals such as REC and Imagina, as well as international, such as Warsztaty Kultury (Lublin), Katowice City of Gardens (Katowice) and The Gathering Rehearsal (Falun), among others.

She co-founded the project, Memorias Celuloides, National Network of Domestic Cinema; Medusa Mediation, a collective for learning through art; and Mucho Más Mayo, a contemporary art festival in Cartagena. Moreover, she was the Production Coordinator of the Parallel Events of the Manifesta 8 Biennial, where she also curated the section of Institutional Projects.

Elena has participated in the design and coordination of several national and European granted projects, such as ¿Quién da la vuelta a la Tortilla? Género y roles en las colecciones de tres museos de Bellas Artes and Moabiter Mix of the European program, Actors of Urban Change.

Annie Chiclano is an art historian and cultural manager specialising in the design and management of cultural, artistic and educational projects at national and international level. She has experience in cultural mediation, historical and artistic heritage management, team coordination and project development related to contemporary culture and cultural heritage.

She has led research projects and is the director of the ADA (All Day Art) Festival since 2018. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Sciences in the field of film studies and developing artistic and cultural projects focused on social impact and community participation.

Hurtado understood the body as the container of the emotions, both personal and social; Generating patterns of “antisocial behavior”, states that Abraham explored as paths to find other ways to operate, to adapt and survive the contemporary society. Fictionary atmospheres are often the settings in which the bodies are installed, as a counterbalance of disillusion that are constantly shadowing our current times. His practices focused on discomfort as is constantly mirroring us, addressing, through the individual experience, problems which are political and symptomatic. If the personal is political, the political invades the core of every individual.

As curator, he carried out and participated in: Dissected Mica Moca Project (Berlin), three editions of the “Unexpected” Festival (Berlin, 2010-12), two editions of the Fenomens Festival (Barcelona, 2015-17), Experimental Section of the IBAFF Film Festival ( 2016), International Contemporary Dance Festival Cumplicidades (Lisbon, 2018), among others. In 2022, he founded zero point together with Meg Stuart and Descha Daemgen in Berlin, creating spaces for new formats and for exchange with artists. Since 2005 collaborated with the artist Meg Stuart and her company Damaged Goods.