Eduardo Hurtado
Eduardo Hurtado (Valladolid, 1986) is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Contemporary History at the Universidad del País Vasco, BA in Fine Arts and Postgraduate in the Inter-University Program of Contemporary History. He is part of the research group Grupo de Investigación en Experiencia Moderna and of AHOA (Memory Archive).
He is interested in narratives of instruction and embodiment and moves between academic research, cultural critic and artist practice. His field of action is the analysis of the processes of image shaping related to the learning of technical movements, body experience and the narratives of instruction from a gender perspective and a beginning from the iconic turn. His doctoral thesis co-directed by Javier Diaz Freire and Juan Vicente Aliaga, deals with discourses evolution, imaginations and body experiences related to sport from 1898 until the end of the II Republic.
He has been awarded different prizes and grants within the field of cultural analysis and curatorship, among them Inéditos by Caja Madrid in 2010 and the research scholarship at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in 2009. He has also exhibited his artist work in different places and art centres as Instituto Cervantes in Berlín, the Centro Párraga, Windsor Kulturgintza, Nuble or the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. He has trained in parallel in workshops with Virginia Villaplana, Jon Mikel Euba, Valentín Roma or Esther Ferrer. He is a water polo player, swimming coach and responsible of the training project of the Club Natación Waterpolo Sestao. He has recently published “MontañaIslaGlaciar” and usually writes critics and reviews for other artists.
He is now working on his doctoral thesis and in a project related to oral history and Olympic experience and he is also preparing his stay as a visiting researcher at Oxford Brookes University in the film and image studies.