Upcoming activities

the flowering of the pita // the swan song // the green ray // the burning ships // the maps of the end of the world // the M-203/// Vaslav Nijinsky's last jump // exhausting the material // until we run out of voice // the paintings erased when light enters // for what we have left // taking away the fear of // disappearing

NAILS AND TACKS
Nails and Tacks is an activity aimed at young people from 13 to 21 years old, where they can discover new ways of doing things related to contemporary creation. An open and collective space in which to investigate artistic strategies based on do-it-yourself and self-publishing.

AN AMATEUR CHOIR 2023 - 2024
An amateur choir is a creative project in which any kind of voice is welcome to participate. Every other Thursday, the choir does its own research sessions as well as sessions with artists who work with voice and listening.

In recent years, the CA2M Museum has been working together with the educational community at Federico García Lorca CEIP on a number of projects, allowing us to build new relationships between the school and the museum. This school year, we are interested in delving with the students into the imaginaries of the unknown in order to subvert the usual way of classifying the world.

LEAVING FEAR BEHIND
An activity designed for groups of secondary-school students that revolves around exhibitions and focuses on generating meaningful experiences and establishing a direct link between contemporary artistic practices and students, encouraging curiosity and collective creation.

OUT OF THE MUD
In the classroom of the CA2M Museum there are numerous ceramic pieces that were moulded by the groups that visited us during the year 2022. We invited infant and primary school classes to take part in this collective action in which we imagine an answer to this question: What can we do with those clay pieces? Leave the school and enter the museum to touch, change, break, make noise and soften.

EASY: MEETINGS TO THINK ABOUT INCLUSION
We will focus on the concept of easy reading, i.e. the method that brings together a set of guidelines and recommendations on the drafting of texts, the design and layout of documents and the validation of their comprehensibility, aimed at making information accessible to people with reading comprehension difficulties.

COVEN OF FANZINES: READING GROUP
This year, we want to focus on the books that inhabit our shelves. Under the guidance of the library manager, Sonia Seco, we will bring to light some bibliographic oddities; these, in turn, will lead us to an endless number of possible texts and readings.

UNEVEN DANCE: WORKSHOP WITH OHIANA ALTUBE
Uneven Dance is a workshop where you can practise typical partner dances as part of a trio. It is designed for all body types and for those who have had all kinds of experiences on dance floors, in nightclubs and ballrooms. Dancing in threes means we have to arrange ourselves in a different way, and the resulting movements and dances become radically new.

EXHIBITION TOURS - JUAN MUÑOZ: IN THE VIOLET HOUR
We propose a tour of the exhibition "Juan Muñoz. In the violet hour". Through these visits we will get to know the works of the artist's early career to discover his interests in surveillance architecture, archaeology, hearing, domestic interiors, theatre, poetry, optical floors and much more.

TRAILS THROUGH THE CA2M MUSEUM
During these months, the exhibitions will be full of objects that we will be able to fly over, contemplate from above or from closer. We propose to wander among them, under their protection, let ourselves be touched and see what happens in this encounter.

PRESENTACIÓN DEL LIBRO "JUAN MUÑOZ. TODO LO QUE VEO ME SOBREVIVIRÁ"
Esta publicación recoge el doble proyecto retrospectivo de las exposiciones Todo lo que veo me sobrevivirá celebrada en la Sala Alcalá 31 y En la hora violeta, todavía visitable en el Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, ambas con motivo del setenta aniversario del nacimiento de Juan Muñoz.

MEETINGS ON THE EXHIBITION THE ORIGIN OF FORMS BY CRISTINA GARRIDO
In an open dialogue on the exhibition The Origin of Forms, the artist Cristina Garrido and the exhibition curator Tania Pardo will discuss the factors that will determine the survival of the art system.

SOUTHERN CITY. BROWN COAST.
Ciudad Sur (‘Southern City’) is a space for shared experimentation in which we will approach Móstoles as post-tourist guides to tour a series of architectures made up of layers of time, experiences and experiences around what we call free time. The dormitory town will become a holiday town.
Previous Activities

COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY LABORATORY 2023
Since its inception, the Roof Terrace Garden was conceived as a space with a mission to go much further than a simple organic agricultural school, and with the goal to build a community. Today that challenge is more pressing than ever, and for this reason we need to open up our horizons and underscore the need for a direct practice of sustainability in cities, reinforcing concepts like grow-your-own, self-sufficiency, DIY and kilometre-0 production, incentivizing a culture of proximity.

28th CONFERENCE ON THE STUDY OF THE IMAGE. CROSSING WORLDS: THE PUBLIC, CONTEMPORARY ART AND MENTAL HEALTH
The Conference on the Study of The Image is an event dedicated to collective reflection on the theory, practice, semantic openings and contemporary demarcations of visual cultures. It includes a forum for debate, seminar and workshops, as well as a public call for research projects (details below).

A MOUTHFUL OF TONGUES. PERFORMANCE BY STINA FORS
A Mouthful of Tongues is a performance by the artist Stina Fors that will be performed at the CA2M Museum as part of the Un coro Amateur voice-creation workshop. It is a performance that explores experimental vocal techniques and the power of communication via the mouth.

DOWN TO EARTH: FILM EXPERIENCES TO COME DOWN TO EARTH
This audiovisual programme is based on the hypothesis that the ecological crisis is also manifested in the image. The cycle is made up of four audiovisual works, each of them framed by an introductory activity in which the relationship with the climate crisis and the problem of its representation in the image are addressed. The programme is completed with talks, workshops and collective exercises.

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2023 CONFERENCE ON THE STUDY OF THE IMAGE.
The Conference on the Study of The Image is an event dedicated to collective reflection on the theory, practice, semantic openings and contemporary demarcations of visual cultures. It is structured to include a debate forum, seminar and workshops, as well as a public call for research projects (details below).

WHERE THE TIGER EATS THE CHILDREN: LULLABY WORKSHOP
A group of mothers in the physical post-partum recovery period will come together to create the lyrics, melody and rhythm of songs to help their babies sleep.
Activities Publications

Todo lo que veo me sobrevivirá, que recoge el doble proyecto retrospectivo de las exposiciones Todo lo que veo me sobrevivirá celebrada en la Sala Alcalá 31 y En la hora violeta, todavía visitable en el Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, ambas con motivo del setenta aniversario del nacimiento de Juan Muñoz.

3_Eras is an unpublished text by José Luis Brea based on the film version of the book Las tres eras de la imagen. This film, made by María Virginia Jaua and José Luis Brea, included visual and sonic imagery.

La réplica infiel se interroga sobre la compleja relación que el arte establece con su materialidad, planteándose de qué manera se encarna el pensamiento en la forma, en el objeto, en la acción o en el cuerpo, resistiendo tanto a la promesa implícita en la idea, como a las tensiones e incertidumbres generadas por su inserción en las instituciones, los rituales de la cultura y los órdenes de lo real y lo posible.

Con alrededor de sesenta artistas de reconocida trayectoria internacional, David G. Torres, comisario de la exposición "PUNK. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo", plantea una visión transversal del punk como catalizador de una serie de estéticas, políticas y actitudes culturales, que desde sus inicios hasta hoy han marcado un posicionamiento dentro del arte contemporáneo. Una corriente anímica ligada a un movimiento musical muy característico que se dilata en diferentes actitudes dentro de la acción artística y su planteamiento conceptual.
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La exposición "PER/FORM. Cómo hacer cosas con (sin) palabras" está comisariada por Chantal Pontbriand, figura fundamental para entender el desarrollo de la performance, desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad. En su labor como crítica y editora de la revista Parachute, Pontbriand, ha liderado la renovación en el discurso de la crítica de arte sobre las nuevas disciplinas que nacen en los años sesenta, tales como la performance, la instalación y los nuevos medios artísticos. Esta exposición es, en consecuencia, una actividad viva y en permanente desarrollo, donde las instalaciones, fotografías, películas, documentos, performances en directo, charlas y coloquios habitan el espacio del CA2M, proponiendo con todo ello una visión más amplia del tradicional concepto de exposición.

La exposición colectiva Sin motivo aparente es una muestra que nos aproxima a la obra de arte contemplada al margen de componentes externos. Partiendo de las palabras del artista Lawrence Weiner «Out of the Blue», la exposición gravita en torno a la posibilidad de que las obras de arte no tengan que ceñirse a una trama discursiva concreta. Una invitación al espectador a construir una reflexión propia a partir de las micro historias en las que nos adentra la obra, un territorio reservado para las emociones.

Aernout Mik es uno de los artistas holandeses más reputados internacionalmente. Su obra ha sido objeto de exposiciones individuales en importantes instituciones de todo el mundo, como el MoMA de Nueva York o el Jeu de Paume de París y ha participado en las grandes citas de Arte como las bienales de Venecia, Sao Paolo y Melbourne. A través de sus piezas en vídeo cuidadosamente instaladas, que llegan a incorporar físicamente al propio espectador, Aernout Mik desmenuza algunos de los conflictos presentes en nuestra sociedad.

A través de la exposición Pop Politics: Activismos a 33 Revoluciones, el joven comisario madrileño Iván López Munuera nos sumerge en el complejo mundo de los posicionamientos ideológicos contemporáneos, siempre puestos bajo la lupa de la relación entre música y artes visuales. La exposición está abierta a múltiples interpretaciones y a la actitud activa de sus visitantes, a quienes invita a disfrutar de la música, las imágenes, los films y la cuantiosa información que componen esta muestra.