This has been affirmed by the Minister of Culture, Language Policy and Tourism and president of the La Laboral Foundation, Berta Piñán, who has attended this Saturday the presentation of the exhibition of the works resulting from the Call for Artistic Residencies 2020.
Piñán, who has been accompanied by the director of Activities of the center, Karin Ohlenschlägger, and by the general director of Culture and Heritage, Pablo León, has highlighted the role that LABoral Centro de Arte has in promoting creation, production, dissemination and dissemination of Asturian culture.
In a press release, he has highlighted the support to artists for the realization of their works through the residency programs, which serve as a tool for the creative fabric of the plastic, visual, performing and sound arts to have the Center of Art and your resources in your productions.
The Minister of Culture has also announced that the Government of Asturias is working to enable the implementation in LABoral of an innovation center for Vocational Training (FP), which would be ready to go into operation in the first half of next year.
Likewise, Piñán has declared the intention of promoting audiovisual production and the video game sector from the art center, placing spaces and resources from the equipment that he has described as “two strategic and growing sectors in Asturias”.
RESIDENCES, WORKSHOPS AND COURSES
LABoral Centro de Arte welcomes 23 artistic residencies during this first semester in which 31 artists work, of which 29 are Asturian, and has several calls pending for the second half of 2021. Last year, despite the closure period caused by the pandemic, the cultural center hosted 28 residencies with 33 artists, figures that exceeded those of 2019.
Since 2008, the center has hosted 234 artistic residencies in which 378 creators have produced their works, 263 of them Asturian. In addition, LABoral Centro de Arte has since organized 112 workshops and courses in which nearly 1,400 people have participated.
Currently 13 Asturian artists and groups are working at the center selected in the Call for Artistic Residencies 2021. Residents have been joining the spaces provided by the facility since last February, which also offers creators technical resources, access to production center through a bag of hours and free participation in the centre’s vocational training programs.
In return, the artists in residence organize a public activity in the art center, so that the support also ends up favoring the dissemination of artistic projects and research.
In addition, LABoral Centro de Arte currently hosts eight residencies within the third call of the LABoral_Impulsa program, presented by the cultural center itself and by Gijón Impulsa, and which is designed to develop and innovate the cultural and creative industries of Gijón. The projects selected in this edition are related to fashion, graphics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, performing and sound arts or development cooperation. The call also stands out for the fact that five of the eight selected projects are led by women.
The center also houses a residence within the framework of Reset Rural, a line of research and production of collaborative projects that connect rural knowledge with science, art and contemporary culture. Among these initiatives is La Xata La Rifa, nickname with which Mónica Cofiño has been proposing new dialogues with the rural environment for ten years from the Festival of Performing and Visual Arts in the Asturian Rural Territory.
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