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.
Installation with video pieces on Newfoundland's relationship with the Caribbean through the trade and consumption of salted cod in the sugar cane plantations.
Video installation consisting of three monitors with the video pieces Cañaveral, Coloso and La Olla Boricua.
Shown in 2023 as part of the exhibition Aquí hay dragones / Hemen dragoiak daude at the San Telmo Museum in Donostia.
Production:
SAN TELMO MUSEUM OF DONOSTIA