english OVUM the host
Hosting new works, new processes, and new talents has been one of ARMANDO’s fundamental pillars.
OVUM the Host is a multidisciplinary international development platform created by Espacio ARMANDO to offer a space where new works can emerge, evolve, and prepare for public presentation. OVUM welcomes projects at different stages of their creative cycle: from entirely new ideas seeking their initial form, to works in development that need space to experiment and grow, to advanced projects requiring the final phase of exploration, refinement, and preparation before their public unveiling.
We believe that new works need time, space, curiosity, collaboration, and freedom to evolve. We also believe that the exchange that occurs when in a new space, a new country, a new culture, immersed in a new language, can propel creativity and imagination in surprising and fruitful directions.
OVUM seeks to provide these conditions.
Since 2023, Espacio ARMANDO has hosted international projects in development through an ongoing collaboration with artist and performer Gerry Trentham of Pounds per Square Inch. These experiences honor one of the pillars of our vision: to open ARMANDO as a space where artists from different disciplines, countries, and artistic traditions can come together to explore the potential of a project.
A place to begin, to experiment, to fail, to reinvent oneself, to discover, and to grow. A place to prepare the work for its encounter with the world. A new space where the exchange of unknown proposals, talents, and ideas becomes possible.
