Mikel Otxoteko. Artist, researcher, and UNIR Master’s professor
He develops artistic research projects at the intersection of experimental anthropology and image-making media. His doctoral thesis Audiovisual Arts and Neo-materialism (UPV/EHU) received international distinction and included an invitation from filmmaker Manuel DeLanda as a visiting researcher at Pratt Institute (New York).
He has exhibited his work at institutions such as the Musée d’Art Contemporain Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporánea (Valencia), The Rag Factory (London), San Telmo Museoa, and Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Basque Country), and has undertaken research residencies in Newfoundland, Puerto Rico, and Bakersfield. His film Invierno (2019) was screened at festivals including Cinespaña and Zinebi.
He will soon present a solo exhibition at MUNTREF, Museum of Immigration and Contemporary Art Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina), as part of the EAZ/EZE program.
This website has received support from the Department of Culture and Linguistic Policy of the Basque Government.
Speculative research project carried out together with the artist Carlos Ndungmandum in 2024. Cruce informe is supported by the Irún City Council's Artist Grants Programme.
This publication documents different locations and findings based on a set of worksheets on seaweed dryers located at road junctions or under commonly used elevated roads. The impressions collected lead to speculations and encounters between ideas where the logic by which reason is articulated comes into conflict in order to give meaning to everyday experience.