Utray-Lamadrid

Utray-Lamadrid is a creative team which started its artistic career in 1998 with the presentation of its video installation Vicios Privados Beneficios Publicos (Private Vices Public Benefits) in the international contemporary art fair of Madrid, ARCO98 (VideoArco98). In 1989, the team moved to the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf and produced two videos in the class of Nam June Paik : Punto en boca (Leaps Sealed) and Experiencia vital concentrada (Life Experience Concentrate). Two years later, Utray-Lamadrid participated in the 1991 edition of the prestigious Exhibition Muestra de Arte Joven. It also produced during that year two of its most innovative videos: Video Retratos (The video portraits), Panes y Azotes (Bread and Lashes) and Passe Parfait (Pass Perfect). Later, in 1992, it was awarded the First Video Art Price of Madrid Capital of Culture for the dance-video Siete Montanas y Siete Ri­os (Seven Mountains and Seven Rivers). In 1993, after a grant in the Schloss Solitude of Stuttgart, it completed Eifriges Nichtstun (Acurate Idleness), a pseudo-documentary video which combines images of miners and metallurgical workers with literary references to the sacred and secular aspects of physical work. In 2010 Eifriges Nichtstun was included in the catalogue of the video distributor Hamaca of Barcelona.