Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941) José Iges (Madrid, 1951)
Concha Jerez & José Iges
Concha Jerez and José Iges are two notable artists who have collaborated closely since 1989, exploring the intersection between conceptual art, performance and audiovisual mitjans.
Concha Jerez is a pioneer of conceptual art in Spain. He will study piano at the Royal Conservatori Superior de Música de Madrid and Political Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 1970, he has developed a prolific artistic career focused on the criticism of communication mitjans, censorship and self-censorship. The seventh work includes installations, performances and sound art, and has been recognized with the Medalla d’Or al Mèrit en les Belles Arts (2011), the Premi Nacional d’Arts Plàstiques (2015) and the Premi Velázquez d’Arts Plàstiques (2017).
José Iges is a composer, sound artist and industrial enginyer. He will study composition at the Royal Conservatori Superior de Música de Madrid and has developed a wide career in the creation of works that integrate electroacoustic music, radio art and sound installations. He will be director of the Ars Sonora de Radio Clásica (RNE) space from 1985 to 2008, promoting the dissemination of sound art and experimental music in Spain.
Together, Jerez and Iges have created several works that fuse visual and sound elements, exploring interaction and public participation. The collective work has been materialized in projects with Media Mutaciones, presented to La Tabacalera de Madrid in 2015, in which they will review their joint trajectory and evolution in the use of technological and conceptual mitjans, or in the Resignifications exhibition at the Center Gallec d’Art Contemporani, which revisits their work 10 years ago. soon.
Throughout the collaboration, they have addressed issues such as memory, identity and communication, using various formats that include interactive installations, performances and radio works. Their joint work has been exhibited in numerous festivals and international exhibitions, consolidating them as references in the field of interdisciplinary contemporary art.
Diary, 1997-2024.
The work originated in the InterMedia concert “El Diari de Jonàs”, commissioned by CDMC for its premiere at the Alicante Festival in 1997. For this occasion, all the scores are going to be prepared, together with many phrases, and they are going to be mixed sequences.
In 1998, the artists will create a first version in installation format at La Gallera (València), within the framework of the ENSEMS festival. In addition, they will produce a radio play titled “Tagebuch”, commissioned and produced by WDR in Colònia.
The study recordings of selected scores from the concert, made to compile this radio work, will be the only material of that installation, together with the phrases recorded by the two authors. the seus individual records; These phrases will become the starting point of the entire composition process.
This new version, which is a reinterpretation of the concert in installation format, introduces new materials that are not included in the original installation of 1998, with the sequences mixed in any 1997 for the concert. Furthermore, the audio sources that project the work are controlled by an application that, through a computer and an audio card, selects in real time, based on pre-established patterns, the audio to be reproduced and the image in which it appears. In this way, the process partially preserves the mobile and unpredictable nature of the concert, but is also open to the attention and randomization.
The program of the work will be developed by the sound artist Josep Manuel Berenguer.
This project produced by the NewArtFoundation has been made possible thanks to a program of It is being realized with the collaboration of the General Directorate of Innovation and Digital Culture of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
