Activity

In the context of the exhibition PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, we have programmed a day of intensity which will concentrate dialogs, performances, and concerts related to punk. Furthermore, we will introduce the selection of publications made by Sergio Rubira for the library of the Center, and that will remain open until the end of the exhibition.

PROGRAM

18:30 H. OPENING OF LIBRARY SELECTION AND PRESENTATION BY SERGIO RUBIRA: FROM ROCOCO TO ROCKOCÓ: AN INTERMITTENT HISTORY OF SUBCULTURES

LIBRARY

This conference is proposed as a route through the history of some of the fundamental subcultures, starting off with some notions which could be associated with the fanzine Rockocó, published by photographer Miguel Trillo between 1980 and 1984, and with the pioneering essay on punk, Subculture. The Meaning of Style, by Dick Hebdige, which explains this phenomenon premised on conflicts of race and class. This intermittent history of subcultures will start with exaggerated eighteenth-century macaroni; it will continue with nineteenth-century dandies and bohemians, and with the avant-garde Dadá-dandies; and it will end with the punk movement and its crimes against style.

19:30 H. PERFORMANCE: HATE VERSES, DISCOTECA FLAMING STAR

HALL

Discoteca Flaming Star (Consuelo Guijarro Rincón, CGB, WM), “Hate Verses”. As their contribution to the night, DFS will première a performance inspired by the sober drunkenness of Dorothy Parker, and Guy Debord's thoughts on Asger Jorn's "Le Jardin de Albisola", among others. Black lollipops play around in your mouth while you suck on poetry and perfume.
http://www.discotecaflamingstar.com/

20:00 H. CONVERSATION: SERVANDO ROCHA AND DAVID G. TORRES

AUDITORIUM

21:00 H. PERFORMANCE: BOX SIZED DIE FEATURING AVULSED, 2007-2015

3rd FLOOR

A performance based on the piece Box Sized DIE Featuring..., by artist João Onofre. With the participation of Spanish Death Metal band Avulsed.

21:30 H. CONCERT: AFILADOR

HALL

Three people, two races. Don't be fooled, there's no Lavapiés hippie multicultural aspect to this band. From post-everything to the principles of when there was nothing. Primitive and noisy. From the idea that backing vocals are for melodic hardcore, voice is the point of rupture with anything that might resemble music.

And here they are. They like drinking, and they have a Bandcamp account with some advance tracks of what will eventually be their first LP:
https://afilador.bandcamp.com/

22:00 H. CONCERT: WANDA Y LA MUJER PANTERA

HALL

Wanda y la Mujer Pantera are a punk duet (bass and drums), who belong to the Solar System, and live in Madrid. As they themselves say, "we play short and visceral songs that arise from the things we love/hate in everyday life, and in this disgusting society".
https://wandaylamujerpantera.bandcamp.com/releases

22:40 H. CONCERT: JUVENTUD JUCHÉ

HALL

Juventud Juché was born towards the end of 2012, with no pretense whatsoever. Nevertheless, a few months later, and after more than 70 gigs, in October 2013 they lock themselves up in the studio in order to give form to their first LP, Quemadero. A record made up of 12 songs in which they darken and make more radical their discourse, reminding us of bands such as The Pop Group, Fire Engines, or James Chance & The Contortions, but without ceasing to sound like themselves and like the different influences of their three members.

For the sixth year in a row, the self-publishing music festival organised by the Autoplacer/Sindicalistas collective arrives back to CA2M with a programme of live music throughout the whole day, with some of the best underground and independent Spanish groups.

Starting at twelve noon we will have a chance to catch eight concerts on the ground and first floor of the museum, including the presentation of the winning group in the Autoplacer annual rough-cuts competition and several Dance Floor sessions thanks to the collaboration of the electronic music collectives Paraíso Madrid and Valle Eléctrico. There will also be a chance to check out our screening room in “Sesión Continua” with video playlists by the editor Servando Rocha and the producer Kikol Grau. And, like other years, we also have an area for presenting independent projects where you will find loads of self-published records, cassettes, t-shirts, books, fanzines and comics as well as all kinds of underground merchandising. And to top it all off, we have a vermouth session on the terrace at midday and a few other surprises waiting in store. 

Admission free until capacity is reached.

PROGRAMME OF CONCERTS

Joe Crepúsculo is appearing at the festival to present his latest album, Nuevos Misterios. Music that conjures up beautiful visions: a gigantic, luxurious cruise ship full of curious tourists is majestically crossing a peaceful bay; pine trees swaying in the breeze blowing off the Mediterranean sea; big and little clubs with their dance floors flashing with light and the sound that wafts through the twilight.

WILD HONEY. Guillermo Farré is the composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist from Madrid hiding behind the moniker Wild Honey. Guillermo’s debut recording as Wild Honey was a bedroom project in which he did almost everything himself. In 2015 Wild Honey is releasing Medalla de plata singing for the first time in Spanish.

SIERRA. Sierra is the new project by Hugo Sierra (Margarita and Prisma en Llamas). In his latest guise as Sierra he is paving his own path as an artist creating true gems of passionate crystalline pop back with simple, direct instrumentation. With a range of influences spanning from Colin Newman and Julian Cope to early Depeche Mode and The Cure, the words are like blows of illuminated sincerity..

CORTE MODERNO. Corte Moderno is a Barcelona-based group formed by Xabel Ferreiro (Montañas, ¡Pelea!), Jordi González (Kana Kapila, Cotolengo) and El Ortiga (Anticonceptivas, Thelemáticos, ¡Pelea!). On Saturday 26 they are presenting their latest work, Negociudad, a dissonant dystopia in the shape of a conceptual concert with sound design by Guillem G. Peeters and illustrations by Antoni Hervàs.

RATA NEGRA. Rata Negra combines and plays with expressive styles that, over the passing of time, have led to their own signature sound, assimilating different influences to produce a unique mix. Some people will be able to detect echoes of Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Siouxsie and The Cure; others will be reminded of New Buildings making stripped-down punk.

MACARENA FVO. Macarena FVO is a group founded by the singer Macarena, the archaeologist-cum-saxophonist Santiago Rodrigo, the swagger poet Vicente Monroy, the producer and influencer from Valencia Muerte Horrible and the mezzosoprano and performer Anita Robla. They define their style as post electro fancy witch french touch.

JULIÁN MAYORGA. Julián Mayorga is a Colombian musician and artist based in Madrid. His music switches between poetry and machine, with elements from traditional songs, experimental music, electronica and surrealist poetry.

PAN TOTAL. Winner of the Autoplacer rough-cuts competition in 2015, Pan Total came about from a cult non-supergroup from Logroño called La Pantaloneta. Eduardo, Víctor, Miryam and Fernando play a kind of dark guitar pop indebted to the eighties, with reminders of post-punk and new wave. Their influences include such disparate names as Television Personalities, Golpes Bajos and Los Pegamoides.

OTHER EVENTS

DANCE FLOOR

PARAÍSO. Since 2012 the collective Paraíso Madrid has been carrying our public and private playful and aesthetic interventions in the field of clubs, night life and music culture. It has a long-standing collaboration with Autoplacer, and for the festival in 2015 it will be showcasing its own particular way of building up a dance floor.

VALLE ELÉCTRICO. Valle Eléctrico is a cultural platform with a mandate to provide visibility to music groups whose sound is built around a synthesizer. This instrument has been the backbone of electronic music and its derivations in new music genes

SESIÓN CONTINUA – PROYECCIONES

UN POCO DE PELEA, UN POCO DE RUMBLE – Vídeo Playlist by Servando Rocha. Back in 1958 Link Wray released his successful single Rumble, an instrumental song that immediately stirred up great controversy. Every time it was played it was almost as if an outbreak of subcultural violence was feared. Rumble was a slang word for a gang fight among the first black hipsters in Harlem. It proved to be one of the most influential examples of white appropriation of black culture, trying to imitate its streetwise, dangerous and uncontrollable undercurrent. Rumble!

MATERIA PRIMA – Vídeo Playlist by Kikol Grau. This session speaks to us of origins, of rights and of the process of how images are manufactured and also the quality of materials. He will be showing extracts from his own recordings made with film clips, promotional videos, from archives in the public domain and private archives or downloaded from YouTube.

PROYECTOS INVITADOS

MUSIC FOR PEACE. “We don’t want to change the world, only the bit around us”. Música por la Paz (Music for Peace) creates spaces where qualified teachers can lend educational support to young people who attend their centres, as well as giving them a good snack to eat every day. Música por la Paz is a non-profit organisation funded exclusively by contributions from its collaborators. It also offers activities related with music, theatre, sports, painting and sculpture, among others, in classes given by volunteers with the necessary background and qualifications". www.musicaporlapaz.org

SISTERHOOD. Sisterhood is a self-run community based on feminism, a mutant collective which produces a fanzine of the same name, parties and revolutions. Always in a process of construction, it is still in the making and creating new off-shoots. It takes shape in reverberations of cultural artefacts that echo in our thoracic cavity. sisterhood.es

MONOCROMO. Monocromo is a label producing DIY illustration, fanzines, t-shirts, and music. Negro metal is its first project: over 40 logos of icons of Spanish music reinterpreted in a black metal aesthetic, published in fanzine format, Tumblr, t-shirts and stickers. www.mono-cromo.com

LA INTEGRAL. For many years now, La Integral has brought together in the one space the work of various artists and designers with the purpose of promoting their work and other products which find it difficult to get a commercial release. La Integral are regulars at the Autoplacer and for them this festival means being able to provide a new platform for a few hours for its independent productions like records, books, fanzines, magazines and t-shirts. And also, of course, to have a good time. www.laintegral25.com

MINCHO. Minchō. Illustration & Graphic Arts Magazine is a quarterly publication for lovers of illustration and magazine collectors. Although every day we consume comics, cartoons, newspapers strips, concert posters … we have no in-depth knowledge of the work of the artists who have designed some of the most significant images of our time. The sixth issue of Minchō continues in its endeavour to bring together a good sample of the new trends and experimentation in graphics closely tied in with culture today. http://minchomag.com/

LA NEGRA. La Negra is a new vinyl record shop located in the heart of the Prosperidad district in Madrid. Its goal is to be a refuge for music lovers nostalgic for analogue formats. Its core focus is on classic vinyl and its stands contain everything from original editions by mythical bands all the way to new releases by contemporary groups. Rock, garage, pop, punk, folk, psychedelic, exotica, electronica… All these different ways of understanding music have room in this little neighbourhood record store. New releases and re-editions sit side by side with a second-hand section, one of La Negra’s strong points. https://www.facebook.com/Lanegrashop

... AND MUCH MORE! Vermouth, records, books, comics, merchandising, etc.

Admission free. More information on: http://autoplacer.tumblr.com/

Previous editions

The actor and activist Zahy Guajajara, the lead in the sci-fi trilogy and collaborator with Pedro Neves Marques in the exhibition YWY, Visions, is carrying out a performance lecture, laced with irony, in which she questions supposedly universal concepts from her own worldview.

In her own words: “UPAW – The End is a ritual with the intention of curing us of ourselves, intrepid, special beings that we are. The fact that human learning pretends to be superior to the learning of the rest of the world is an eternal tragedy. This is a ritual to reflect on what we have become and the world we have created. The end has come too soon.”

ZAHY GUAJAJARA

Zahy Guajajara was born in the Cana Brava indigenous reservation in Maranhão (Brazil). She currently works as a writer and a television, theatre and film actor in movies like Macunaima (2020) and Não Devore Meu Coração (2017).

During this three-day event some of the projects conceived and developed during the 2020 programme will be presented and a meeting place will be facilitated with the artists in the 2021-2022 programme. Over these days the two organising institutions wish to place the accent on ideas that arose during artistic experimentation using the body, understanding it as the social body and a political construct that produces knowledge through the senses.

The exhibition presenting the projects will be held on May 12, 13 and 14 at La Casa Encendida and at CA2M.

The artists selected in 2020 were: Pablo Araya, Clara Best y Siwar Peralta, Amaia Bono and Damián Montesdeoca, Luz Broto, Jacobo Cayetano García Fouz, Clara García Fraile, Iniciativa sexual femenina, Sofía Montenegro and Amaranta Velarde.

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In May several birthdays are celebrated in Madrid, and we are going to make a gift-tribute to our region. Through two workshops, the artist Clara Moreno Cela shows the public the process of her research on the identity of Madrid. In order for everyone to enjoy this activity, the first day is aimed at families, and the second and third days are aimed at teenagers and adults.

During the two get-togethers we will explore our relationship with the city through music, performance and games in workshops that aim to be a reunion with other people, and is also outdoor fun that makes the most of our terrace. A Chotistón to commemorate the festivities and traditional festivals – called verbenas – that are celebrated on these particular days. A celebration that also belongs to Móstoles – the 2^nd of May – that has given us our name; a festivity we want to partake in as spring awakes.

During this workshop we will think, sing and dance about the region we live in. What do we like most about Madrid? What would we change? How would we make it more ours? What if we could answer these questions by having a super-quick party? Sign up with your family and come to the museum’s terrace. Together, we’ll create a collective imagination of Madrid by dancing and singing.  

Workshop by Clara Moreno.

Clara Moreno Cela (1993, Madrid) is the daughter of woman who is a bookseller, artist and cultural mediator. Her work bounds between drawing, performance and music, and she loves using literature as a starting point for the creative process. Her solo musical project, called Clara te canta (Clara Sings for You), brings all her passions to light in a straightforward punk way. She likes producing pieces using everyday things and pours her energy into thinking about the function of intuition in Art, the relationships between different species, and supermarket conversations.

Image: spectrogram, the usual way of cleaning soundtracks of noises that get into recordings and which are detected on the basis of colours of different intensity and place on the spectrum.

In the summer of 1959 the Estonian non-fiction film producer and opera singer Friedrich Jürgenson and his partner tried to record the birdsong of a finch in order to use it in one of their documentaries. In the forest near their home Friedrich placed a tape recorder and remained silent as he tried to record the birdsong. On returning home, he played back what he had recorded.

The sound was clean and clear, the wind, the leaves as they moved, the song of the finch, but... there was something else. On the recording he could also hear a human voice imitating the sound of the finch which then started talking in Norwegian, commenting on the birdsong. Jürgenson supposed that it must have been someone who was also in the forest at the time who he had not been aware of. So, the following day he returned to the forest, but first checking the area to ensure that there was nobody about, and once again he placed the tape recorder beside the finch’s nest. When he returned home satisfied, Friedrich played back the recording. This time there was no one whistling but there was a voice. A voice which he recognized as his own dead mother calling him. Friedel … my little Friedel …. Can you hear me?

In this two-day workshop we will experiment with the boundaries between art and magic in order to defy the logic of our surrounding world.

A workshop led by Raisa Maudit, a multidisciplinary artist whose work is defined by representations of individual and collective desires, needs and expectations in conflict with socio-political standards, generating experiences that are transformed into little acts of subversion.

In May several birthdays are celebrated in Madrid, and we are going to make a gift-tribute to our region. Through two workshops, the artist Clara Moreno Cela shows the public the process of her research on the identity of Madrid. In order for everyone to enjoy this activity, the first day is aimed at families, and the second and third days are aimed at teenagers and adults.

During the two get-togethers we will explore our relationship with the city through music, performance and games in workshops that aim to be a reunion with other people, and is also outdoor fun that makes the most of our terrace. A Chotistón to commemorate the festivities and traditional festivals – called verbenas – that are celebrated on these particular days. A celebration that also belongs to Móstoles – the 2^nd of May – that has given us our name; a festivity we want to partake in as spring awakes.

On the first two mornings of May, we’ll create a show-gift to the city we live in. We’ll consider Madrid as a subject to pay tribute to through music, a show, a form of scripted madness. Madrid’s identity will be looked at from a folkloric and playful point of view during a two-day workshop, the result of which may be presented – time permitting – to friends and family.

1^st MAY: 10:00 –14:00h | 2^st MAY:10:30 – 13:30h

Workshop by Clara Moreno Cela.

Clara Moreno Cela (1993, Madrid) is the daughter of woman who is a bookseller, artist and cultural mediator. Her work bounds between drawing, performance and music, and she loves using literature as a starting point for the creative process. Her solo musical project, called Clara te canta (Clara Sings for You), brings all her passions to light in a straightforward punk way. She likes producing pieces using everyday things and pours her energy into thinking about the function of intuition in Art, the relationships between different species, and supermarket conversations.

REASON FOR THE REPAIRS

The sculpture consists of welded pieces taken from playground furniture. The top layer was painted by the artist.

The piece is part of a set created for the 9th Mercosul Biennial, Brazil, in 2013. It was later exhibited outdoors in Rio de Janeiro’s Botanical Garden. Then, it was moved to Spain, cut into fragments and welded back together upon arrival in order to be exhibited in the Sala Alcalá in 2019. Following the exhibition, it became a part of CA2M’s Collection and was kept on the rooftop for some time.

The material history of the piece, the various times it has been transported and exhibition conditions were considerations leading to its repair.

STATE OF CONSERVATION

Its state of conservation was fragile with damage to its structure caused by rusting that led to the loss of fragments and deformations, loss of metal welding and a weakening of the overall material. The pictorial layer also suffered damage due to dirt, stains, remains of adhesive tape, missing pieces and peeling layers of paint.

TREATMENT PERFORMED

The level of repairs to be carried out was agreed upon with the artist and with the institution, yet with the decision to leave some traces of the piece’s material history.
It was cleaned to remove dirt, remains of adhesive tape and peeling layers of paint. The areas affected by rust were stabilised and loose flakes of paint were fixed in place.
The support was secured with cold welding, fastening elements and structural reinforcements. This was followed by chromatic reintegration and the application of a coat of acrylic film to protect it from the elements.