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My name is Laia Ventayol. I’m right now moving to Mallorca / Barcelona from Germany, where I studied and worked in arts for long time.
I am an artist. I use time-based media: performance, video and lately also continual dialogue. I’m interested in movement, transformation, transition, change…, all phenomena which I see as in-between periods of time. I’m also working on my inmediate surroundings, trying to gain or lose awareness of my nearest reality.
During UNIDEE Residency I wish to undertake research on tourism in Mallorca, where I originally come from.

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- a moment of realisation, change and/or disruption
When I started to rethink my project towards the notion of hospitality, after talking in a group session in Biella with Sandi Hilal, Aria Spinelli, Irene Angenica and Miriam Rejas del Pino.

- a moment of connection
There were two moments: The first one was in Biella, when I exchanged many conversations and time with all my colleagues; the second one was when I went back to Catalonian and I decided to spend 4 days at the haven nearby Amposta to prepare my exhibition in Amposta: I learned about fishing and gave back some reflections about my work.

- any tools / methods / resources to share
To knock at the door of your neighbours.

- a question you are left with
What’s hospitality?

- something you will carry forward
I will keep on doing and looking forward for new and diverse conversations

Laia Ventayol