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Goierri Konpeti
Iñaki Garmendia and Asier Mendizabal
Sala Kutxa. c/Arrasate 12, Donostia, 5th of July, 2002, 8:00 p.m.
The artists Iñaki Garmendia and Asier Mendizabal are screening
their video Goierri Konpeti for the first time for the Front Line Compilation
programme. This film focuses on formulating an almost anthropological
vision of the life of a group of young people who share a common passion:
rally cars. To do this, the artists join the group and share their activities
with them until they manage to get the presence of the camera to gradually
fade into the background as they get used to their characters being recorded.
Goierri Konpeti is a closer look at interpersonal relations and the environment
that surrounds these young people.
This event-presentation includes the chance to meet the main characters
in the documentary and to take a closer look at the group's rally car
that has been customised by the artists.
In relation to the Front Line Compilation programme, this video also acts
as a catalyst for some of the ideas they share such as the relations between
the individual and his integration in a group and the maintenance of collective
identity through a subculture.
"Goierri Konpeti is what a group of young people call themselves
who base their relationship around cars. It is a name that does not refer
to any specific activity, although it alludes to competitions. They do
insist on remembering the environment that they move around in. Goierri
is a rural industrial district in the Basque Country without large towns,
as it made up of scattered small villages that surround a conurbation
of larger villages. The interpersonal relations of these young people
and the codes that regulate these are presented as part of this landscape,
that in turn conditions and contextualises their behaviour, in a feedback
process that creates the meaning in the narrative."
(Iñaki Garmendia y Asier Mendizabal)
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| * Photo Pernan Goñi |