Saturday, February 26, 2011

Shifting Gaze is Closing the Festival Region Ø, March 26, 2011 at 7:30pm



It's official, Shifting Gaze is coming to the King Juan Carlos Center for an installation performance closing the festival "Region Ø".
Save the date: March 26, 2011, 7:30pm

For more info:
http://www.regionzero.net
The Latino Videoart Festival of New York
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU
Organized by Laura Turégano and Eva Mendoza Chandas
Curated by Eva Mendoza Chandas

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Shifting Gaze in Times Square, New York

Shifting Gaze opened the Festival "Spain Art Fest' 10" in Times Square, New York, and performed four times, Oct 6-7, 2010.

Reviews (in spanish):

""Creo que es importante que los que hemos viajado y hemos salido recibamos el reconocimiento de nuestro propio país", señaló a Efe Laia Cabrera, quien presenta la pieza de vídeo arte "Shifting Gaze" con la que reflexiona sobre los temas de la elección, el deseo y la memoria.
Cabrera resaltó la complejidad que supone exponer una obra en Times Square, donde el arte tendrá que competir con las numerosas pantallas que pueblan la plaza así como también con ruidos de todo tipo.
Un reto que puede convertirse en la gran oportunidad para presentar y exportar el trabajo de artistas españoles más contemporáneos y que para Cabrera es una de las asignaturas pendientes de la escena artística nacional."
Agencia EFE, Oct. 06, 2010

"Laia Cabrera presentó un vídeo de dieciocho minutos que jugaba al póquer con los sentidos"
Julio Valdeón, El Mundo, Oct. 8, 2010




Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Presentation



Shifting Gaze, a Video-Art-Music Installation
Created by Laia Cabrera

In collaboration with Erica Glyn and Isabelle Duverger

"Shifting Gaze is about CHOICE, DESIRE and MEMORY. The piece challenges self-expression and invents new forms of desire, breathing life into the medium and navigating on a new notion of choice, linked to desire and memory, choice being the present, memory representing the past and desire, the drive for a future. What we want (desire) is linked or conflicting with what is expected from us (identity, memory), and choice is the act upon which we build ourselves. Underneath these mirrored imageries lie many stories about limits, freedom and self-perception: stories of the mind. A shifting gaze may allow us to interpret our interactions with others, from grasping cues to understanding other people’s behavior toward us. Shifting Gaze is ultimately a piece about identity, a film-installation about making choices, a memory in act." Laia Cabrera

For more information: Shifing Gaze, the website