Mikel Otxoteko. Artist, researcher, and UNIR Master’s professor
Develops artistic research projects at the intersection of experimental anthropology and image-making practices. His PhD 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 developed projects such as Dance & Drill and Algunos cabos sueltos, presented at institutions including Musée d’Art Contemporain Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporánea (Valencia), and The Rag Factory (London). His film Invierno (2019) screened at festivals including Cinespaña and Zinebi.
His project Aquí hay dragones, shown at San Telmo Museoa and Centro Cultural Montehermoso, was developed through research stays in Newfoundland and Puerto Rico. He is currently working on a new project in the Mojave Desert (California).
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.