Activity

Following the development of the artistic project If The Others Did Not Exist; Or The Mirrors, we wish to invite the public to an open appointment with the artists Vanessa López and Israel Cordero and the various participants and agents who made the formalization of the experience possible.

This latest encounter is conceived as a circular dialogue addressing some of the questions that cut across the different sessions integrated in this proposal, with the goal of questioning and evaluating key ideas in its development and conception, as well as the resulting perceptions. This collective becoming will engage with some of the filmic narratives and ways of doing that have helped to articulate and activate different problematics, like those pertaining to the capacity and relevance of the images and art to give an account of the “real” today; the mutation undergone as consumers of audiovisual narratives and experiences of duration; the possibility of alternatively reconstructing the facts of our lives, with the artistic medium acting as an effective instrument for transformation and as a medium of co-construction of alterity; or the need for frameworks of relations in which to share and operate from the unsayable and to reactivate a new political-affective possibility.

The If The Others Did Not Exist; Or The Mirrors project has proven itself to be a critical structure able to afford a unique space of confidence and commitment between artists, audience and institution, placing each of the parts involved in a horizontal and propositional scenario that has enabled a re-evaluation of the relationships that the artistic experience is able to facilitate. And everything in spite of cinema.

The world’s museum community has celebrated the International Museum Day on 18 May every year since 1977. This year’s theme is Hyperconnected Museums: New Approaches, New Publics.

We shall talk about pieces from our collection which we will see in different contexts: the storerooms they are kept in and in the exhibition galleries. The visits will be led by the artists Patricia Esquivias (morning) and Antonio Ballester-Moreno (evening), Olga García Caro and the museum’s education and conservation team who will all contribute their personal perspectives on the works.
 

Maximum of 20 people per group.

CA2M presents the film CA2M, 10 años en Móstoles, produced by López-Li Films and directed by José Luis López-Linares, which was premiered last October at Sala Equis coinciding with the art centre’s tenth anniversary.

Located in the city of Móstoles, CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo) opened its doors on 2 May 2008. Since then, it has hosted over 70 exhibitions and doubled the number of visitors. Currently directed by Manuel Segade, the art centre has staked out a position for itself in Spain as one of the forerunners in articulating narratives on artistic contemporaneity and it is now recognised as a benchmark in contemporary art in Spain. At the same time it has managed to integrate itself into the social fabric of its hometown and its surroundings thanks to its programme which is free and aimed at all kinds of audiences.

Its location in Móstoles is a key part of its identity, given that it has enabled it to question the complex definition of the metropolis and its role in contemporary culture. Its geopolitical position to the south of Madrid –with an immediate cultural catchment for over one million people and, in a wider radius, the five million inhabitants of the region in general– has helped to consolidate a space committed with innovative mediation strategies whose goal is to ensure that art fulfils its role in intellectually stimulating society and contemporary culture.

Over a period of several months, José Luis López Linares and the whole team at López-Li Films were directly involved in the day-to-day running of the art centre, speaking with members of staff, with artists and with the visiting public, with a view to rendering a polyhedral vision of the institution in this short auteur documentary which evinces the social and cultural transformation brought about by CA2M.

The short received funding from Madrid en Corto, a programme promoted by the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Region of Madrid and run by ECAM Distribución whose mission is to support the national and international distribution of shorts produced in the Region of Madrid.

Produced by López-Li Films

Directed by: José Luis López-Linares

Script: Cristina Otero Roth

Photography: José Luis López-Linares

Production: Cristina Moñívar and Pilar Barbat

Camera operator: Andrés Recio

Sound: Juan Carlos Cid Torrejón and Tomás Mantecón

Editing: Cristina Otero Roth

Postproduction: Roberto Gacio

Editing room and cameras: Canal Foto