Miradas al cuerpo is an international festival of emerging contemporary dance. Starting this Thursday (2 September) in teatro Lagrada, Madrid. Ercilla street 20, metro Embajadores or Acacias, with different weekly pieces until October 3 including open encounters with the audience on Sundays.

I was comissioned to design the posters and plan to be amongst the audience throughout the month. I am addicted since the first edition two years ago (Crap Girls, wow!). It is a humble festival curated by Maite Larrañeta that offers some very interesting proposals. Spread the word so that the project can continue! You can find the programme, calendar, etc. here.

Arritmia have invited me to participate in their audiovisual improvisation set at More Art Alla festival in Murcia. We'll play inside the well/dungeon of the Torre del Homenaje in Moratalla castle on Saturday 28 August at 9 PM, mixing enamel, ink, paint, projections, electronic and acoustic music.

I've uploaded some videos of concerts to Youtube, you can see them here.

De zines, an exhibition on the influence of fanzines curated by Roberto Vidal and Óscar Martín will be on display from 29 June to 29 August. In the vitrine seen in the center of the photo (by Mercedes Marín) you will find the Fast Gallery KIT I contributed to with a poetic audioguide (audio-CD, instruction booklet, mysterious envelope and expansive box). 400 international publications, from self-published zines to magazines. I recommend going through these beauties, it's a rare opportunity to enjoy such a rich collection. At La Casa Encendida, Madrid.

Members of FOCO orchestra, Omega and Entenguerengue will meet this weekend in Madrid for a series of concerts in small ensembles and two orchestras with dancers. A total of 33 musicians combined on Friday 16, Saturday 17 and Sunday 18, always at 20:30 at Alabanda (C/ Miguel Servet 15, Metro Lavapiés o Embajadores). The entrance is 5 € per day, with at least 3 concerts, so cheap! Chefa Alonso has organised it and will be directing both orchestras. To see the instruments and ensembles click on the image on the right.

Thursday 1 July, 20h
My new band! I'll play in Experimetal Little Monkey at Autoplacer, Picnic Sessions at CA2M. Our debut as a band.

Friday 2 July, 19:30-22:30h
Acoustic Sunset Blitz in the gardens of the Templo de Debod, Madrid. I'll sing in an improv ensemble with percussion, cello, soprano sax, tuba and double bass.

Saturday 3 July, 14:30h
Sef at the charity sale of the Indonesian embassy. Gamelan concert at 12:00, food and sale all morning, Sef at 14:30 and Wayang shadow puppets at 16:00.

Sunday 4 July, 13-15h
Closing of A través del cuerpo and presentation of the publication I made documenting The Kiss in Mediodía Chica.

Video: Autoplacer, Picnic Sessions at CA2M.

Tomorrow will be the opening of A través del cuerpo in Mediodía Chica , a collective exhibition on the subject of the body.

I will arrive at 21:14 to share a kiss with anybody who wishes to take part in the performance, until the closing of the opening which will be around midnight.

More information and a beautiful teaser text by Juan Pazos, here.

Thursday 17 June, 21h
Sef at Sofa Underground IV, free with invitation.

Sunday 20 June, 12h
Dancer in the tap dance school Contaptoe's show. Teatro de Casa de Vacas, Parque del Retiro. Entrance 5 euros.

Friday 25 June, 20h
The Kiss, intimate-public performance during the opening of A través del cuerpo, a collective exhibition in Mediodía Chica.

Photo: Diego Barrero.

To the museum! The Centro de Arte 2 de mayo of Móstoles (CA2M) will hold the third edition of Conducciones, an interactive conducted improvisation event. With the help of my friends from FOCO orchestra and more, we will invite the audience to direct the orchestra through a selection of signs I will show.

It's all free and there is plenty of space for you, your friends and families on the splendid terrace. Picnic sessions is the summer festival we will be aprt of, this year with loads of amazing activities in it's programme. The date: Thursday 10 June, from 21:00 (after the presentation of HTM).

Photo: Studio Banana (Conducciones I, 2008).

After the wonders of Reformance and everything we experienced, I feel different and prepared somehow. Tomorrow I will perform my first performance, Artist with puzzle, at Off Limits (map) inside the exhibition 6 euros: prácticas artísticas y precariedad, the same one as the piñata (see April fourteen). Núria Güell's piece consists in renting her own exhibition space and I will occupy it Saturday 15 May from 12:00 to 14:00, the full opening time of the gallery on the weekend, putting together a puzzle with whomever wants to help.

When night falls we will launch Mortland at Mediodía Chica, where it can be purchased. It is a collective comic book put together by Puño and friends from Ultrarradio who, following some funny premises, invited over twenty illustrators to collaborate, me included. I Sef will play some songs and there will be drinks, a friendly reunion.

These lovely figures were arranged by my friend Puño.

My dear friend Claudia and I have organised a small and ambitious festival combining two of our greatest passions: performance art and creative recycling. After opening a call for submissions at the end of March, we have programmed a selection of nine pieces including reinterpretations of works (ranging from the faithful to the subjectively modified) by Gaston Bachelard, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono, Valie Export, Hannah Wilke, Yves Klein and Gilbert & George. As it is free and open to any person who wants to live the experience, I will be grateful if you help spread the word. I think it is going to be beautiful. See you around the neighbourhood then!

View the project and full programme here. It's only in spanish for now, as the festival will take place in Madrid. In eight weeks we'll update the site with the results in both english too.

Triple audiovisual concert with Sef (me), Fancie, impossible californian in Berlin and Takosuke, mysterious link that unites us!

Thursday 6 of May at 9:15pm in Espacio Menosuno (La Palma st. 28: map), one of my favourite galleries in Madrid that has kindly offered to host this unique, rare and necessary meeting (thank you Mario!), for those who have not been in contact with the art of Fancie. I am still jaw-droppingly digesting her combinations of castanets, deep voices, synthesizers and yellow lamborghinis.

Some weeks ago she sent me an e-mail asking if I could help her find a concert here in Madrid. Fascinated by her melodies and aesthetic universe, I searched like crazy for a way of getting her to play in the city and this triple concert is the result: some acoustic music by myself, electric and electronic music along with video projections by the two bizarre characters I will introduce.

There will be an entrance-donation fee of 3 to X euros depending on one's capacity and musical satisfaction.

Two nice dates for next week: a concert and a group exhibition.

On Tuesday (20 April) I'll play a small concert at 20h in Espacio F, an art space in the middle of commercial area Mercado de Fuencarral. The address is Fuencarral 45, local 4 planta sótano. Later Dosjotas will participate and I'm being told cocktails will be served...

Then Thursday (22 April) at 20h: collective exhibition 6 euros at Off Limits opens. I participate with Claudia as Miranda & Mirón: our mother's surnames are short and go suspiciously well together. Our piece, selected by curators Cabello/Carceller from over a hundred submissions, is an action-installation titled Contra fortuna no vale arte. It takes place during the opening so be sure to come and bring a euro!

Chefa Alonso, one of the persons I have learnt the most from in improvisation, will be directing Musicalibre's FOCO orchestra this weekend. I'll be singing and moving around as usual.

Friday 26 - 21:30 h
Trio: Ricardo Tejero / Jorge Frias / Julián Bonequi;
FOCO orchestra
La Casa de los Jacintos
(C/ Arganzuela 11).
Entrance: 3 euros

Sunday 28 - 20:00 h
FOCO orchestra
Alabanda (C/ Miguel Servet 15).
Entrance: 5 euros.

Musicalibre's blog.

Celebrating the international week of women, I was invited to play a concert at NUDO Encuentro de creadores. I wanted to do something appropriate so as well as my own songs, I will be performing some originally written or played by great women that have touched my life. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but the covers will range from Billie Holiday to Björk, among others.

This will be my first concert without dear Nathan since he left, so it could be interesting to see what happens as Sef, solo again, after what we learned.

The info: Thursday 11 at NUDO (Palma st. 18, metro Tribunal), 22:30. Punctuality is important for there will be a performance by Paco Nogales later in the same place, and I want to sing something important to you!

My brother Gustavo Fernández took this photo and little Bessie is showing me the way. Oh and the concert will be free. Bring everyone you know.

These upcoming weeks we want to play as many concerts as we can to say goodbye: excellent musican and sweetest person Nathaniel Robin Mann (Dead Rat Orchestra) is leaving town. I will post the dates below as they come up. Photo: Mad is Mad.

Nathan & Sef, upcoming concerts:
• FRIDAY 8 JAN - 20,00
  La Fresh gallery. Supercolor, Bubi Canal exhibition opening.
• WEDNESDAY 13 JAN- 18,00
  Centro Cultural Galileo, as part of the Gamelan orchestra
• THURSDAY 14 JAN - 23,15
  Freeway Bar, opening act for Sparkling Cuchillo slices up Cosmic Pizza.
• THURSDAY 21 JAN - 20,00
  Bar Futura's Bar Talk nº2, a talk and a concert. Limited seats!
• FRIDAY 29 JAN - 21,30
  La casa de los jacintos, in the free improvisation orchestra.
• FRIDAY 12 FEB - 20:00+
  Mediodía Chica: the Ignacio Chávarri exhibition opening.
• THURSDAY 18 FEB - 22:30
  NUDO. Exhibition opening of Bonus-extra's Tableau Vivant.
• SATURDAY 20 FEB - 20:00
  Secret concert (shh): the opening of Gran Derby Records.

We are looking for more gigs soon, let me know if you think of something (e-mail above)!

María at Glück, niños con suerte (it means Lucky kids) invited me to play a gig at her shop. This will be my first concert for kids (though grownups are not excluded of course). I've prepared a new song for the occasion, Oda a los cinco sentidos (Ode to the five senses). Glück is on Velarde street 12, Madrid (metro Tribunal). Saturday 20 at six.

My dear friend Rocío Ballesteros prepared this nice flyer and will be drawing on the chalkboard wall while Nathan and I sing away.

I will sing in FOCO orchestra during Hurta Cordel, the annual improvisation festival in Madrid. Every year the orchestra invites a different director from around the world to come and work with us, 2010's being Keith Tippett. This photo with me yelling to the left is from 2009 with William Parker directing and Patricia Nicholson's choreography. A great experience! You can see the program and get tickets to the festival for just 3 euros at La Casa Encendida.

Happy new year! A good way of starting it is hanging a beautiful illustration of a beautiful man on the wall, no? The Bears, illustrated collective calendar project (featuring some very fine illustrators from around the world) is now online and ready for you to download for free at it's own website I just finished (thanks for the code help Reif).

Remember to visit the website throughout the year. Coming up next, I will upload the sketches for all twelve illustrations...

www.bears-illustrated.com

Once in a lifetime concert! We are ending our Childhood dreams workshop (what did you want to be when you grew up? Me, a magician) with a polyphonic explosion. Our restless students will perform a brief composition of three movements inside the central courtyard of the IED Madrid on thursday the 17th and you are all invited!

Pablo Serret asked Nathaniel Mann and myself to teach an eight week experimental workshop for the entire first course of IED Madrid Fashion Lab 2009, something that would unite and excite them in their first year as fashion design students. It has been an AMAZING experience and I am sad it comes to an end but joyful for everything we have done. Teaching is my new addiction and future profession I hope!

"Mamá pagas por esto" means "Mom, this is what you pay for", it is the title our students chose for their concert when we asked them to name it. They are a lot of thugs but we love them!

The concert shall being at 6 PM sharp in the beautiful Altamira Palace. IED Madrid, C/ Flor Alta 8. Metro station: Callao. It can also be seen live through streaming here, but nothing can even compare to the raw sound of dozens of voices singing around you, that and a few surprises...

The very kind Fast Gallery people invited me to participate along with four other artists in their new project: Para llevar ("To go"). An edition of 50 kits containing five hand-made art objects. An honour and a chance to experiment with something new! My contribution is a bag that includes: CD, booklet of instructions, closed envelope and a little box. The kits are a hand-signed edition of 50 made with sweat and joy, available for purchase (and more info on the other artists) here.

They will be shown in Fast Gallery's own stand at ESTAMPA 09: International Print and Contemporary Art Editions Fair from October 28 to November 1, when Nathan (Dead Rat Orchestra) and I will be playing a warm Sunday concert bearing ukuleles, mbira, cane and baby piano. Do come and say hello! Kit photo by Eduardo B. Muñoz.

Just returned from a great trip to Belgrade. As one of the five memebers of the spanish team of illustrators, I spent ten days drawing collective comics with people from Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through Strip-it, a youth exchange put together by Platform Spartak. A wonderful experience and my return to comics!

There will be a published book with all the results in early 2010, which I can't wait to see. Now to keep the comics coming with this good rhythm...

I was invited by Mediodía Chica to participate in "Caucho, tela y otras pieles", a collective exhibition of toys and dolls. Artists from around the country and beyond have made a toy of some sort. I'm afraid I won't be able to go, for I am travelling to Serbia (a fascinating new project coming up!). If you go and take pictures, please send!

Friday 18 to Sunday 20 at Mediodía Chica, 10. Metro: La Latina or Puerta de Toledo. If you come upon my piece, a big head with rotating elements, remember to go ahead and play around with it's face.

I have just updated The Cloud Society with "The fall", the new and first really collective excercise and the proposals recieved for last month's tribute to Nagi Noda.

This is a still from the video I prepared with the help of my friends Julia, Rakichipum and Rocío who bared with me and my choreographic fever. Also thanks to Mediodía Chica for lending us their back yard. You can see this video and the rest on the Society's projects page.

Remember you can participate: current call is now open!

I'll be showing my drawings of men for the first time. What took me so long is a mystery even to me.

This weekend I will be participating in a DIY (do it yourself) festival in Madrid named Dfest '09. I will be showing some illustrations made with photocopies on coloured paper and selling some smiley tote bags and my very first zine! 50 copies in different colours also showcasing my love and admiration for big guys.

Dfest '09 will take place in Central del diseño / Matadero Madrid from Friday 19th to Sunday 20th. Paseo de la Chopera 14, Metro Legazpi. See map.

Lots of info on their blog:
dfest-09.blogspot.com

My next gig with the improvisers orchestra will be this Sunday 14th at 21:00 o'clock. As usual, at La casa de los jacintos on Arganzuela street number 11. Metro stations Puerta de Toledo and La latina. The entrance costs 3 euros, and the new policy says you may bring your own tasty beverages.

Here's a map.

I'm playing with the improvisers orchestra after a few month hiatus on Friday at nine, in La casa de los jacintos (Arganzuela street 11, metro Puerta de Toledo or La latina).

Also very honoured to say I have been invited to participate in a group show for the first time. It will take place this weekend at the brilliant Mediodía Chica's venue. They are a group of creative people sharing a common space in Madrid. For this special occasion (we were asked to do something with or about vinyl records), I destroyed a Brahms concert with all due respect and imitation of it's epic and romantic values. This is of course a sort of tribute, sorry Johannes!

The show will take place on Mediodía Chica street, number 10. Metro station La Latina or Puerta de Toledo. Here is a map. The show starts at eight on Friday 29 (I will be playing a couple of streets away) and continues at seven on Saturday 30 (I'll be there!). There will be live music and things to drink, plus an array of interesting and varied artists I myself have yet to discover, yeah!

I just updated The Cloud Society with the recieved proposals for Whole lotta colour, last month's creative excercise. This here is my own interpretation of the premise, which was to take a picture of a group of elements of the same colour. I looked around my tiny flat for everything orange and placed it on the table for a monochrome still life. I did the same with yellow, pink and red but this is the nicest.

The current excercise is a homage to late japanese artist Nagi Noda, a genius to me! You can collaborate with a piece inspired by her work until the end of May. For more details on this and to see all the colour frenzies... visit the site.

Second and last part of ¡JA!'s April blitzkrieg.

Last week it was the Spontaneous exhibition (see below), this week we will have the Minimum concerts. This means musical encounters stripped to the most basic of amplifications, instruments and number of musicians. We will host seven small concerts of different styles. With hardly any amplification (none, in most cases) and in an intimate format, as if it were my living room. All vocals will be heard without microphones, musicians and audience will be separated by only centimeters and the intimacy of live sound and music that we so rarely experience will be the goal that drives us through the afternoon. Yes this is Madrid, we tend to talk in concerts, we have a hard time staying put. This is an experiment and as such I invite you (the entrance will be free) with one suggestion to bear in mind: come with an equally experimental attitude and think that with everyone sitting down and enjoying the quiet, it will be an unforgettable experience. Because it will. Without any specific order, these are the names of the amazing bands:

Wild Honey, 12 0' clock Shadow (brand new project of Eye), Carasueño, Sacramento, Pozo, Juanita y los feos and Thinguma*jigSaw straight from Norway.

Calle Monteleón 26 (map), metro stations Bilbao / San Bernardo / Tribunal. Sunday 26th of Abril from 18:30 until the last string is plucked.

Organized by ¡JA! thanks to Hielo, creative space of Barfutura. ¡See you there!

Next saturday the 18th of April from twelve to seven I have the pleasure of inviting you to visit ¡JA!'s spontaneous exhibition at Hielo, creative space of Barfutura.

Calle Monteleón 26, Madrid. Very close to the plaza Dos de mayo. Metro stations are Bilbao, San Bernardo and Tribunal (map).

¡JA! is a creative collective with an open roster and in this case some of the creators that will be a part with their projects and presence shall be Alex Gutwil, Ana Bustelo, La Camorra, Blanca Helga, Stereoplastika, Abel Cuevas, Bonus-extra, Pablo Pino, Paloma Checa Gismero, Luis Díaz Díaz and some last minute surprise. Illustration, photography, installations, posters and even an in-situ workshop. We will be there all day long (might go out for some air or sandwiches) and we would be delighted to have you around.

Friday we set up, saturday is the show, sunday we clean up. Sometimes something fast is more fun. Hurry and come by!

I am currently looking for all kinds of people (the more different the better -this counts for both bodies and personalities-). This project started as an article about sexual habits for the spanish magazine ARTO! with an interview and a nude portrait, both anonymous, of different men and women. As I collected more and more material, I realised I was fascinated by the contradictions and richness of the sexual realm and the people who live in it, so I have decided to continue throughout 2009. The project will possibly end in a book.

If you are interested in participating, don't hesitate to contact me (my details are in the upper right corner of this page). Remember it's anonymous, fun and a nice experience. I live in Madrid but sometimes travel so it's not compulsory to be here.