The director and set designer Marta Pazos will share her experience and knowledge at the conference scheduled by Campus MAPAS that will take place this Wednesday, June 28 at the Guiniguada Theater in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
With extensive professional experience within the sector, andhis multidisciplinary artist has developed his own unmistakable language based on plastic arts, music, the hybridization of disciplines and constant stage research. His works have a plastic dimension capable of blurring the borders between fiction and reality.
The conference that will be offered this Wednesday at Campus MAPAS 2023 is free to enter until full capacity is reached, although it is recommended to register in advance on the website mapasmercadocultural.com or write to info@mapasmercadocultural.com.
– Your practical workshop immersed in the Campus MAPAS program is aimed at performers and performing arts professionals. What can you tell us about the training you will offer in Gran Canaria?
It is a theoretical/practical training in which I will share with the attendees the work methodology that I have developed in more than twenty years of experience through process studies. Treating the stage from a holistic vision, establishing dialogues between forms and languages and understanding the creative process as a whole (from the idea/drive to the presentation in front of an audience).
– How do you assess the emphasis that MAPAS places on training the artistic sector, especially in performing arts?
It seems to me a fundamental part of a project like MAPAS. It is through the exchange of knowledge that new ways of thinking are generated and that one's own knowledge is legitimized on many occasions.
– You are an interpreter, costume designer, set designer, playwright, stage director..., could we say that you combine all the specialties of performing arts in a single woman?
Hahaha. The truth is that I have been a person with great curiosity since I was a child. I love diluting myself into stage trades and that some feed on others. I think it broadens the perspective, the point of view and on many occasions it helps me to put myself in the role of the other, of the other because I also know that place.
– Your work contains a groundbreaking, poetic and impressive visual component, how do you stay inspired, what motivates your creative process?
My creative process derives from a deep listening to intuition. The painter Lucio Muñoz in a course told me: Never lose your capacity for wonder. This is also a great gasoline to set the scene on fire. The connection with life also keeps me inspired, that is a constant inspiration. I am a very passionate person.
– It's been about a year since leaving your company, Voadora, one of the referents of the contemporary scene at a national level who said goodbye after 15 years of travel, what remains in Marta Pazos after the closure of that stage?
A family remains and a vital and artistic learning for life. Voadora was a happy place of constant growth. The place that has allowed me to explore my limits and hatch my art.
– What projects are you working on? Will we have the opportunity to see any of his works in the Canary Islands soon?
I hope to come to the Canary Islands with some opera, theater or visual arts work soon. I love this land.
I am currently exhibiting the installation 'Matria' at the National Museum in Prague, which is part of the Prague Quadriennial, the most important international event in architecture and scenic art. I am also preparing TOY BOX, a project with L'Auditori on Debussy's score with the National Orchestra of Catalonia and I am starting a very special theater project in Latin America that I will be able to talk about shortly.
– What is your opinion of the contribution that professional markets make to the sector, as is the case of MAPAS, in the necessary international promotion of artists and companies?
Professional markets such as MAPAS are essential to generate synergies and create networks both within the sector and in the territory itself. They are places of constant learning and the opportunity to generate a new cultural thought.
