Pablo Martínez-Zárate
Archival Speculations: Artistic Research and Transmedia Practice
20. 7. – 1. 8. 26
This course explores the archive as a generative method for artistic research and production. Participants will work with found and personal materials (photographs, documents, videos, sounds, memories) to investigate the relationship between memory, media, and creation. Through daily exercises, reading discussions, critical lectures and peer feedback, participants will develop individual or collaborative projects that culminate in a multimedia installation.
Participants will learn to activate archives using transmedia strategies, translate analogue into digital forms (and vice versa), and expand their own practice as a living archive. The course supports experimentation across media and offers both group workshops and one-on-one consultations. It is especially suited to those interested in deepening the conceptual and material foundations of their artistic process.
key data
- Venue
- Festung Hohensalzburg
- Date
- 20. 7. – 1. 8. 26
- Teaching language
- English (Spanish possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- Curiosity and a willingness to explore your own work as an archive. No specific technical skills are required. Openness to collaboration and experimentation across media is encouraged.
- What to bring
- Laptop (if available), camera (any type, including phone), personal archival materials (photos, documents, recordings, texts, letters), basic tools (notebook, pens, brushes, etc.).
- Maximum number of participants
- 18
Pablo Martínez-Zárate
Pablo Martínez-Zárate is an artist-researcher working at the intersection of cinema, performance, and installation. His transmedia work—rooted in memory, archive, and experimental pedagogy—has been exhibited, screened, and published internationally, weaving critical poetics across languages, geographies, and formats.
Website
Exhibitions
2025 Impressions on Colonialism. Notes on an Unfinished History, expanded cinema, premiere in English: Sunset Kino, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT); premiere in Spanish: Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival.
Límbica, collaboration with choreographer Aura Arreola. Museo Jumex, Mexico City.
2024 Transposiciones, collaboration with artist Julieta Gil, Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City.
Oblique Takes. Meditations on Art and Crisis, International Documentary Film Festival, DocsMX, Mexico City.
Esta imagen no desaparecerá [This image will not go away], live cinema performance, Centro Cultural de España en México, Mexico City.
Transposiciones, collaboration with Julieta Gil, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
Fugas Mediales [Media fugues], Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City.
2023 Studio Variations The Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam.
Publications
Eccentric Pedagogy. Artistic Research in Times of Crisis, Amsterdam University of the Arts, The Netherlands Film Academy, The Netherlands, 2023. https://pablomz.info/eccentric-pedagogy
“Radical Interventions. Archaeology, Forensics and Montage,” The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Art as a Beacon of Hope: How Creative Expression Can Transform our World, Audrey Plimpton, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg (AT), 2023. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/news/topics/article/art-as-a-beacon-of-hope-how-creative-expression-can-transform-our-world
