LIFE ON EARTH

LIFE ON EARTH

LIFE ON EARTH

This installation by Blanca Regina looks at the origins of life, folklore and technology, identity,

the real and fake.

This video sculpture work features different kind of moving image sources such as animation and

films with microscopic lenses of textures and other materials

With the collaboration of the Oaxacan artists Gamaliel Bernardino, César Martínez, Gesner Melchor,

participants of the video-mapping workshop at Mupo Oaxaca, 13, 14,15 November 2015.

VIDA EN LA TIERRA

Esta instalación de Blanca Regina investiga los orígenes de la vida, folklore y tecnología,

la identidad, lo real y lo ilusorio.

Es un trabajo de video escultura con diferentes tipos de imagen, animación y grabaciones

con cámaras microscópicas de texturas y materiales.

Con la colaboración de los artistas oaxaqueños Gamaliel Bernardino, Cesar Martínez, Gesner Melchor,

participantes en el taller de video-mapping en el Mupo, Oaxaca, Mexico 13, 14 y 15 Noviembre 2015.

 

PULSE from GamBernardino on Vimeo.

 

 

White Bird / Pájaro Blanco

White Bird / Pájaro Blanco

“ Con los amigos te crecen las alas” ( …with friends you grow wings) _ RUMI

 

‘WHITE BIRD’  is an artwork proposed by Javier Arribas and Blanca Regina, focussing on the creation of moving, interactive light sculptures, inspired by a classic myths.: The recuperation of the myth in the digital era.

‘White Bird’ re-thinks the myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus. Daedalus made wax wings and feathers for his son so that he could escape from prison. Daedalus warned him not to fly too close to the sun because the wax would melt and not to fly too low because the sea would wet the feathers. But the boy flew high, trying to get to heaven, the wax wings melted and he fell into the sea.

The myth represents the human desire to have what cannot be had and how we can perish in pursuit of the unattainable.

‘ PÁJARO BLANCO’ La obra de Javier Arribas y Blanca Regina se nutre e investiga varios de los mitos clásicos para la creación de las esculturas de luz, en movimiento o interactivas. Recuperación del mito en la era digital

// De lo físico a lo virtual y viceversa . De la realidad al sueño y viceversa //

Pajaro Blanco es una obra que se nutre del mito de Ícaro. Cuenta la historia de un padre (Dédalo) y su hijo (Ícaro) encarcelados. Dédalo construyó unas alas de cera y plumas para lograr escapar. Cuando ambos estuvieron preparados para volar, Dédalo advirtió a Ícaro que no volase demasiado alto porque el calor del sol derretiría la cera, ni demasiado bajo porque la espuma del mar mojaría las alas yno podría volar. El muchacho comenzó a ascender como si quisiese llegar al paraíso. El ardiente sol ablandó la cera que mantenía unidas las plumas y éstas se despegaron. Ícaro agitó sus brazos, pero no quedaban suficientes plumas para sostenerlo en el aire y cayó al mar.

 

BOOK ARTS

BOOK ARTS

I make books, boxes, badges and marbling paper.

Self publishing as an artistic practice.

I also lead workshops focusing in different aspects and adding an element of new media, participatory or interactive art to it.

Many of this limited editions can be purchased at unpredictable.bigcartel.com

Books, Boxes, Paper & Badges

CONTACT

CONTACT

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Blanca Regina is an interdisciplinary artist, tutor, and independent curator who works with spontaneous composition systems creating multimedia landscapes using voice, objects, electronics, and visuals. She is also looking at book arts, immersive media, and design. Between London and Madrid together with Steve Beresford, she founded the Unpredictable Series, which focused on spontaneous music and experimentation in visual arts following her first collective Mademotion founded in Madrid. She has produced three albums with Beresford, mixed and mastered by Dave Hunt in London, ‘What Blue’ (2020) Duets with Steve Beresford; ‘Duets with Blanca Regina, Spontaneous Music’ featuring duets with Leafcutter John, Jack Goldstein, John Butcher, Benedict Taylor, Matthias Kispert, Aneek Thapar, Steve Beresford, Sharon Gal, and Hyelim Kim and and ‘Art of Improvisers’ (2017) a collection album with several artists concentrating in women improvisers. With longtime collaborator and artist Leafcutter John capturing their live performances in 2017 they created ‘Miga’ a limited edition Pendrive and digital release. Other collaborations in music and audiovisual performances include duos with Matthias Kispert, Peter Cusack, Matt Black, Javier Arribas,  Sharon Gal, Mandhira de Saram, Adriana Camacho, Hara Alonso, and David Toop…She has produced exhibitions, performances and workshops internationally with presentations in London – Cafe Oto, Turner Contemporary, Barbican, Tate Modern – in Madrid – PhotoEspaña, La Casa Encendida, Cruce – in Mexico – Fundación Pedro Meyer, Biblioteca Henestrosa, El Faro de Oriente, Terraza Mounstruo- in Berlin – HKW, Sowieso .-

She has provided guest lectures and workshops in the UK and internationally including at the University of the Arts London, Goldsmiths University, Guildhall, Ravensbourne University…Her work has been supported by Arts Council England, Sound & Music, BMC, Amexcid, Photo-España, and Garage Cube.

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La doctora Blanca Regina es artista, tutora, directora y curadora independiente centrada en audiovisuales, sonido y música, proyectos interdisciplinarios, diseño inmersivo y las artes del libro.

Su trabajo ha sido apoyado por Arts Council England, Sound & Music, BMC, Amexcid, Photo-España, Medialab, Resonance FM, The Wire Magazine y Garage Cube. Premios recientes incluyen el Premio Francis Chagrin, 2019.

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MATERIAL STUDIES

MATERIAL STUDIES

Material Studies, playful collective explorations of the sounds within matter.
A series of improvisation workshops by Matthias Kispert and Blanca Regina

Created with Matthias Kispert and Andrew Riley in 2012, the Material Studies project seeks to open these experimental artforms to anyone who wishes to participate in the collective, improvised sonic exploration of various materials and objects. The use of traditional instruments, terminology and tools of manipulation will be avoided. Participants will together develop an improvisational language based solely on the sounds that can be teased out of various everyday objects. The Material Studies project seeks to open experimental artforms to anyone who wishes to participate in the collective, improvised sonic exploration of various materials and objects, whether by actively working with the objects, passively absorbing the interactions of others or by expressing a response to the sonic exploration through visual or written acts.

The use of traditional instruments, terminology and tools of manipulation will be avoided. Participants will together develop an improvisational language based solely on the sounds that can be teased out of various everyday objects, with each session being themed around a particular material or object.

No expertise or previous experience is required, instead, the sessions focus on the communicative potential of collective improvisation, where every participant needs to listen and react to everything that is happening around, where every gesture has an influence on everything else.

The underlying principle of the project is to promote corrosion of the space between the artist-performer and the contemplator-audience and to promote the idea that we are all valuable as artists regardless of education or class.