The Autonomous Community of Madrid’s CA2M brings back the Picnic Sessions this spring

May 20, 2021. - The Autonomous Community of Madrid’s CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo presents This is how far we’ve come, the twelfth edition of the Picnic Sessions, which will take place on the terrace.

Maral Kekejian and Bwelke, a collective formed by María Buey, Juanito Jones, and Lorenzo García-Andrade, are in charge of curating this edition, which will take place every Thursday from May 27 to July 1, starting at 9:00 PM. As always, entry is free, but access will require prior registration in order to respect the security measures and capacity restrictions indicated by the health authorities.

The programme, put together by the CA2M in collaboration with Cervezas Alhambra, includes live music, performances, dance, visual arts and DJ sessions by national and international artists.

The first session, on May 27, Inauguration, will begin with Jardinismos: acción editorial para un picnic by Javi Álvarez and Javi Pérez Iglesias, both of whom propose an editorial action for a picnic, distilled from their work as artists, librarians, musicians, video journalists, cooks, singers, writers, readers, tele-operators, editors and gardeners.

Maider López, who has developed her work intervening in public space and architecture, proposes to walk around the perimeter of the museum measuring the place through the body and the time it takes to walk through it.

In fertile field :: terreno fértil, Enrico Dau Wey proposes a vocal composition that constructs itself via the understanding that monuments should be as fluid as the memories that sustain them.

Maral Kekejian, es licenciada en Historia del Arte y actualmente becaria de la Real Academia de España en Roma /MAEC. Bwelke, diseña estrategias, espacios y dispositivos para generar experiencias en relación con la arquitectura y las artes vivas y lo forman María Buey, Juanito Jones, y Lorenzo García-Andrade.

will be the focus of the second session on June 3 and will feature several DJs. Ylia, is a producer and DJ. Her sets and live performances move swiftly and confidently between different genres, sometimes more abstract and slower, sometimes more direct and danceable.  SLVJ is one of the most important DJs on Madrid’s scene under the label Abismal. She mixes rhythms from a wide spectrum of electronic music; bass, UK funk, techno, IDM, dub techno, Gqom, etc. And Bazofia, Lorenzo Soria’s project featuring breakdance elements, “chabacana” music, post-postpunk and electro superproductions accompanied by satirical lyrics.

Thursday June 10 is dedicated to Kata Guruma, with Aitana Cordero and David Cárdenas. It is a guided visit to the collective body, and it is also a dance of joint activations, serendipities and absurdities, moments that create a laid-back party that blends liturgies, rituals and new desires.

The sound project by Jonás de Murias; Dancing or the wild by Lara Brown, with her exploration of the Spanish jota dance in a performance of dance and movement; Landscape Two by Kike García and Jesús Bravo, who use the body as a place to return to in order to live it as it is; and Eliseo Parra, one of the greatest disseminators of traditional music, are the stars of the session on 17 June entitled In the air.

Nocturno, on June 24, will be in charge of Bosque REAL (Jacobo Cayetano and Javi Cruz) accompanied by a piece by Cuqui Jerez. Bosque REAL began as a festival in 2019 dedicated to the biography and anatomy of Madrid’s Casa de Campo park. Cuqui Jerez, artist, choreographer and performer, works on the creation of a choreographic language through the body in relation to space, time and objects; the production of signs and therefore of meaning through choreography;

The last of the Picnic Sessions will be held on Thursday July 1 with Orquesta, a musical duo formed by the artists Anto Rodríguez and Óscar Bueno, two Asturians based in Madrid. Orquesta is the result of many years working, singing and playing together in different artistic projects, most of them scenic, cinematographic and performative, in a very close relationship with music where they find the intersection between electronic music, traditional songs, Spanish popular music from the 70s, the melody of our alarm clock and a lullaby.

Maral Kekejian has a degree in Art History and is currently a scholarship holder at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome/MAEC. Bwelke designs strategies, spaces and devices to generate experiences in relation to architecture and the living arts and is formed by María Buey, Juanito Jones, and Lorenzo García-Andrade.