The IMAGE SYMPOSIUM is a programme dedicated to collective reflection on the theory and practice of visual cultures. It takes place over three days within the framework of a forum of debate, comprising a symposium and an open call for projects. These three days will be a space for encounter and intersection between various forms of production that counteract the overwhelming virtuality and reproduction of images today.

Sweet Fever is a choreographic proposal by the artist Pere Faura, based on the iconic movie Saturday Night Fever. It will be a choral piece in loop in which prolonged repetition shifts between faithful execution, modification, deformation and complete disfiguration while, at the same time, it will strike up a dialogue with other theatrical elements like video, music and lighting, which re-signify this iconic choreography.

Since ten years ago the Autoplacer/Sindicalistas collective has been promoting self-published music and independent music processes. Over the last year it has carried out various activities to celebrate its tenth anniversary, which reaches its climax at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo with the Autoplacer Festival 2019 10th Anniversary. An event not to be missed which will once again transform the museum’s exhibition halls into concert halls. 

The European Forum for Advanced Practices is a platform for artists, theorists, philosophers, educators, performers, curators, urban planners, anthropologists and other cultural agents, who come together to devise a series of perceptions, analysis and propositions for the mutant field of research generated by art practices, humanities and social sciences. This forum is the first public presentation in the world of a collective movement to transform academia and to recognise the contributions of research models coming from contemporary cultural practices.

DIDDCC is a space for study that researches into the CA2M and ARCO collections. In this latest course, we wish to take a look at the archive and the library, those ramifications of the collection that provide support for its study through documents and publications.

With the title The Films of…, we will get together to view the work of artists who use audiovisuals to speak about the here and now. There is no common theme as such between the different sessions, rather what unites them is a shared urgency to understand our surrounding world and its everyday effects on us inasmuch as inhabitants of techno-capitalism.

We invite you to bid farewell to 2019 with this exciting audiovisual event based on sound improvisation and projected images. Everything is brought together in an unreal Dada-like retrofuturist atmosphere combined with live experimentation by the multi-instrumentalist Severine Beata and the visual artist Beatriz Sánchez.

We are going to build a fort in the middle of the hall in the Children’s Home in Móstoles. For the floor we will use mattresses, for the ceiling we will hang sheets with clothes pegs and we will build walls with piles of pillows so that nobody can see what we are doing inside. Once a month, different artists will be invited inside this space to that they can share their practices with us.