Shedding the Skin - Scanner-pack project by Karla Tobar

"scanner-pack" is a performance-action where Karla Tobar Abarca uses a portable device to go across the city of Linz. The action will be registered by pushing the backpack against urban surfaces in which scanned images and data will be gathered through a SCANNER and a GPS device included in it.

Karla Tobar Abarca (b. 1981,Quito-Ecuador) lives and works in Bilbao-Spain. Artist and Researcher, Ph.D. candidate at the University of the Basque Country, she has published scientific articles and given lectures at international conferences in Spain and Germany. Her artwork has been exhibited in Museums and Art Centers of Spain and Ecuador: Centro Cultural Montehermoso (2015), Centro Cultural Noáin (2015), International Festival of Experimental Art Música Ex Machina, MEM (2014), Camilo Egas Museum (2007), Centro Cultural Metropolitano (2004). She was awarded the Basque Artist Program grant by the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation and the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum (2015) and was recently awarded with a production grant from the BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao, Spain.

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Shedding the Skin is a LinzIMPORT 2017 project
A Linz - Bilbao Art connection with guest Artists: La Ortiga, Saray Pérez Castilla, Amaia Vicente, Sandra Quintanilla, Laurita Siles, Karla Tobar.

After the end of the industrial production era, some cities pursued transformation through the idea of becoming living labs, platforms for innovation and manufactures of future. The blast furnaces and industrial factories which once forged the economy, shed their skin into a new stage of society's development, where the economy underwent a transition from the production of goods to the provision of services along with the valuation of knowledge and the service of the creative culture.

This metamorphosis is known in sociology as the post-industrial society. Linz and Bilbao are two cities sharing strategical stages of development. From heavy industries to services, from ecological disasters and a darkened polluted face to the transformation of the city through architectural and artistic façades, shining titanium and electric neons as active agents of an environmental and urban regeneration. The rivers Danube and Nervión, once a main waterway for commerce and communication, gradually have become the spatial context for cultural and artistic institutions and events. A decoy for tourism.

Through a process of artist in residence, six experimental artists and a curator based in Bilbao are arriving to Linz for showing artistic parallelisms and analogies in art and experimental practices, exploring the post-industrial relations between Linz and Bilbao and vice-versa.

Driven and curated by Alex de Europa & Enrique Tomás, with guest curator Txema Agiriano.