+50 Residence
This biannual residency aims to support the creative processes of artists over 50 who are still active. The goal is that their experience, stage presence and creativity continue to receive support.
This idea arises from a conversation with the artist Mark Tompkins who communicated how difficult it is to continue to be supported as an artist as he turns old. In this conversation, the question arises that artists continue to have a creative need until they die and that therefore there must be institutional support for this creativity to continue, for this very reason, La Faktoria CC offers a LUR old emerging artist / +50 residence.
LA PARTITION MUSICALE by Lea Petra (June 2025)
Lea Petra is a pianist, composer and performer. His work lives on the margins between contemporary music, physical theatre and experimental performance, exploring the limits of scenic language through a radical and poetic use of the piano as a total object and expressive body.
His scenic proposal is located within the so-called Instrumental Theatre, a current inspired by the composer Mauricio Kagel, in which the musical gesture becomes theatrical action and the instrument becomes a dramatic protagonist. In his pieces, the piano is caressed, disassembled, beaten or transformed until it becomes a scenic machine capable of piercing the rhythm, moulding the space and generating scenic situations in constant mutation. Petra decomposes the score, leaves room for the accident and builds with precision and risk a sound and visual experience as plastic as it is visceral.
Lea Petra reflects on the form of the concert, on the idea of interpretation and on the place of the interpreter as creator of meaning beyond the score. His work is an investigation on the materiality of sound, on the resistance (or not) of the instrument and on how music can not only accompany the scene, but itself be the heart of the scene.
PORTABLE ARTIST by Alicia Otaegui (June 2023)
‘Portable Artist’ is a scenic format that is equivalent to an exhibition project in three dimensions, plus a fourth added: that of the artist who is part of the work itself, trying to break that fourth scenic wall by connecting closely with the audience that attends.
It reflects on the surplus of projects that will hardly see the light of day, the limited time to carry them out, the uncertainty that surrounds many of his creations… Chance is the protagonist of the work and the surprise factor, its main ally.
MASCARADE by Mark Tompkins (November 2021)
‘Mascarade’ deals with the exploration of the body taking as reference the ancient European pagan rites, their traditions and their splendid costumes, related to nature, future harvests, the fertility of the earth, the power to relate to the animality without any prejudice.
