<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Inizio messaggio inoltrato:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Da: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"montsejoseba" <<a href="mailto:info@montsearbelojosebafranco.com">info@montsearbelojosebafranco.com</a>></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Data: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">03 ottobre 2008 18:06:37 GMT+02:00</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>A: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"montsejoseba" <<a href="mailto:info@montsearbelojosebafranco.com">info@montsearbelojosebafranco.com</a>></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Oggetto: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>NOMADS EAST WEST at MEIAC</b></font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AppleGothic; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana"><b>by Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco<br> from 18th september to 2sd november of 2008<br> <br> </b></font><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#ff0009" style="font: 9.0px Verdana; color: #ff0009"><b>MEIAC<br> </b></font><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana"><b>MUSEO EXTREMEÑO E IBEROAMERICANO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO <br> </b>C/ Virgen de Guadalupe, 7. Badajoz </font><font face="AppleGothic" size="3" style="font: 12.0px AppleGothic"><br> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.meiac.es/"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#0000ef" style="font: 9.0px Verdana; color: #0000ef"><u><b>www.meiac.es</b></u></font></a></font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#ff0009" style="font: 9.0px Verdana; color: #ff0009"><b>...................................................................................................................................................</b></font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#ff0009" style="font: 9.0px Verdana; color: #ff0009"><b>NOMADAS. East - West </b></font><br> <br> <font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">Since the earliest humans stood upright millions of years ago, impelled by curiosity and the urge to find out what lay beyond the horizon, our capacity for imagination has never stopped growing. That impulse was a revolution for the entire species. It implied formulating an abstraction, thinking it through and setting out to find it - a new dynamic that changed the future of humankind. That's how we've invented the world, by naming it.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">With our laptops and still and video cameras, we wander through a world full of contradictions, sharing and assimilating cultures, and learning human biodiversity on the streets. Regardless of skin colour, language, culture, economic status and any other differentiation factor we could come up with, we confirm that we are more similar than we are different.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">With East - West, we want to explore this time that gives coherence to all human forms of expression, in the East and the West, through the overall patterns on which myths and reality have been constructed. While there may be no match for transversality in our day and age, the transubstantiation of reality into multiple and varied forms allows us to see the vision of the East reflected in the mirror of the West and vice versa. There are no certainties and no clear boundaries exist.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">NOMADAS 00-10 is a project that we began in 2000 and that stretches over a decade. It is the frame of reference that connects all of our projects, as well as a way of merging art with life. This path, which disrupts borders and prejudices, fuels the way we see and understand the world today, mixing cultures and experiences, smells and tastes. The aim of this journey is to experience all the countries in the world by organising exhibitions and conferences and working on projects with transnational groups in order to create collaborative links with artists and institutions, cultural agents and different societies.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">The concepts "East" and "West" represent much more than what our eyes allow us to perceive. Only through the sum of all our senses can we approach two worlds that are so seemingly distant and different from each other. The collective imaginary takes us back to cultures that, for millennia, have evolved in disparate ways. However, in today's world it has become notoriously difficult to find a clear differentiating line. The West has exported its lifestyle and traditions all over the world, penetrating the East to such an extent that, no matter how you look at it, a convergence of the futures of both seems inescapable. Likewise, the East has become part of our daily life in a multitude of ways: spirituality, culture, sports, food, technology...</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">In an almost linear trajectory from New York to Tokyo, passing through most European countries, China and the Philippines, we've tried to capture the rhythm and daily life of the places visited. It has been a journey of over two years, which have allowed us to assimilate and accept that we live in a single, complex and ever-changing world with multiple realities.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">As in a hall of mirrors, we've seen ourselves reflected in numerous stories. We are actors and spectators both in a multi-polar world. Imagination has been captured and expressed in over 50 hours of video recordings and thousands of photographs, creating a mosaic, a puzzle that we try to put in order.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.meiac.es/"><b>www.meiac.es</b><br> </a></font><a href="http://www.montsearbelojosebafranco.com/"><b>www.montsearbelojosebafranco.com/nomadas.htm</b></a><font face="AppleGothic" size="3" style="font: 12.0px AppleGothic"><br> </font><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">email:<a href="mailto:info@montsearbelojosebafranco.com"><font color="#242424" style="color: #242424">info@montsearbelojosebafranco.com</font></a></font><font face="AppleGothic" size="3" style="font: 12.0px AppleGothic"><br> <br> <br> </font><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana"><b>Created and Directed by: Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco<br> Edited: Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona <br> Original Music: Mandi Capote Demali. <br> Produced by: CCCB and Montse Arbelo - Joseba Franco</b></font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Verdana">This project travel to nacionals e internationals museums.</font></p></span></div></span></div></body></html>