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The third edition of the CA2M Museum Cuttings Exchange will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, 28 March. It is a time to share knowledge, bring cuttings and barter seedlings to make our homes greener and less boring.

Although the Cuttings Exchange is mainly about indoor plants, you are welcome to bring plants of all kinds to share. Bring the ones you don’t want, and take home the ones you like best. In addition, on this occasion, we will be holding a kokedama workshop so that you can take your new plant home ready to place in its final location.

This Japanese technique for making hanging baskets from organic materials is perfect for small plants and cuttings, such as the ones we’ll be sharing share in the Cuttings Exchange.

Bring your cuttings or unwanted plants in a small pot with soil or in a small cup wrapped in a wet napkin. Exchange them for the ones you like best.

Don’t miss out! Drop in anytime between 6pm and 8pm, and come and learn with us.

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March 28
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The CA2M Museum Cuttings Exchange will take place in its third edition on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 28. It is a time to share knowledge, bring cuttings and barter seedlings to make our homes greener and less boring.

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THE CA2M MUSEUM CUTTINGS EXCHANGE
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18:00 – 20:00

We start this year with a series of encounters in which students of education at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) will be visiting the museum. Together with their teachers from the Department of Art, Plastic and Visual Education, and based on the experience of the group visits, we want to create a space in which the university can work with the museum. What can the museum’s education departments contribute to the training of teachers, and vice versa; what place do art and contemporary artistic practice have in their learning experience?

Project in collaboration with the Department of Artistic, Plastic and Visual Education of the UAM Faculty of Education.

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Together with their professors from the Department of Artistic, Plastic and Visual Education of the UAM and based on the experience of the group visits, we want to generate a working space between the university and the museum.

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COLLABORATION PROJECT WITH THE UAM
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In the coming months, the exhibitions will be full of objects that we will be able to fly over, contemplate from above or close up. We suggest wandering among them, finding refuge under them, letting them move you to see what the encounter brings. We invite you to enjoy this collective experience, which is open to all kinds of groups.

Each trail will be different, deciding on the route as we go. Choose the trail you want to take; perhaps Susana Solano's previously-unseen canvases recently acquired for the CA2M Museum collection, or Cristina Garrido's research into the art system through 100 artist biographies. Discover Adolfo Schlosser's ecological side with his Bóveda installation, an investigation into organic materials that was already ahead of the curve in terms of sculptural interests and trends in the 1990s.

If you prefer, follow a trail through The Violet Hour, the exhibition dedicated to Juan Muñoz on the seventieth anniversary of his birth. The violet hour is the hour of art and of the exhibition visitor, an hour in which shadow creeps in to conquer the day. Learn about Muñoz’s early creative period and his interests in surveillance architecture, archaeology, hearing, domestic interiors, theatre, poetry and his optical floors...

On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, we invite you to spend some time with us in this refuge, where we can step back and find shelter from the elements.

This programme is designed for all types of groups: Associations, organisations or educational groups of up to 30 people.

Booking required. Contact 912760227 or at educacion.ca2m@madrid.org 

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TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS
Target audience
Acceso notas adicionales

PREVIOUS RESERVATION. CAPACITY: 30 PEOPLE.

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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.

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GROUP VISITS
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recorridos museo
TRAILS THROUGH THE CA2M MUSEUM
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11:00 – 12:00

We started this line of research last year, starting with the question: What do 0 to 6 year-old children like? In order to find answers, we visited crèches and nursery schools as an exercise in observation and took away a number of clues: 

  • The yoghurt lid. Remove it, ‘read’ it and put it away.
  • Stick the mandarin segment stickers in unusual patterns.
  • Feed other children
  • Mix colours. Paint over and over with a lot of tempera paint. Until the paper breaks.
  • Peel the stickers off the crayons.
  • Little things. A bit of fluff, a speck. A tiny sequin on the floor that hardly anyone sees.
  • Make a bracelet out of a slice of bread.
  • Shiny things. Sequins and iridescent fabric. *

With a notebook filled with new actions to put into practice, we continue into this year by giving shine to this research carried out by the education department at the CA2M Museum together with the EnterArte collective. For the coming months, we will be planning new actions, internal meetings and other open activities to think about how to make the museum a softer experience and prepare to open it up to the widest range of people.

*Notes taken by Goya Batalla, member of the EnterArte collective.

This activity belongs to the line Escuela desbordada / Talleres de educación (‘Overflowing School / Education Workshops’) held by the EnterArte collective, which is a part of Asociación Civil Acción Educativa.

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THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR
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With the notebook full of new actions to put into practice we continue this course giving brilli-brilli to this research that we carry out between the area of education of the CA2M Museum together with the EnterArte collective.

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RESEARCH PROJECT FOR CHILDREN AGED 0–6
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PROYECTO 0-6
PROJECT FOR 0–6 YEARS
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Our interest in these temporary encounters is to focus on the construction of knowledge through experience, rather than on the transmission of knowledge. We will start from the viewers’ point of view and how they see art at present. This will allow us to turn this time into a space for encounter in which the participants are not objects receiving an education, but subjects who collectively develop a critical discourse on contemporary works of art. In this way, visits will focus on a limited number of works in order to give rise to a more profound and open reflection, thus avoiding the more superficial exhibition itinerary and the idea of a single discourse. 

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Dates
Wednesday afternoon
Target audience
Acceso notas adicionales

Maximum capacity: 15 people

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The visits will focus on a limited number of works in order to give rise to a deeper open reflection, thus avoiding the epidermal tour of the exhibitions and the idea of a single discourse.

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EXHIBITION-FOCUSED ENCOUNTERS
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Visitas los miércoles
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON VISITS
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17:00 - 18:00

Welcome to Una Vibración Casi Imperceptible (‘An Almost Imperceptible Vibration’), a positional, performed visit that uses the audio guide as a tool to explore the exhibition put together by the artist Jon Mikel Euba, Animals That Bear the Weight of Mysterious Loads in Settings Created by Opposing Forces.

We invite you to enter a choreographed landscape that comes into existence as we walk through it and asks: where does your body end and this landscape begin? An experience to relive the past, time to hear, see and perceive what is vibrating and not visible to the naked eye, to stop before a reflection or an impulse, to ask ourselves: what is this landscape doing to us?

The body has no eyelids; it is a porous membrane that absorbs sensory stimuli and turns them into experience and knowledge. Shall we go for a walk? Bring your headphones.

Activating impulses, working from the experiential, promoting critical attitudes through action, involving the body in the learning processes and questioning social institutions. The CA2M Museum’s Department of Education and Public Activities is developing a line of work aimed at putting together themed visits in which artists and creatives are invited to bring the exhibitions closer to the visitors through their own artistic practices. This allows us to eschew the presumption of objectivity in the narratives put forward by the exhibitions by offering a break with hegemonic discourses. A space for research in which to encourage one’s own readings of the image and story, resulting in the creation of new archetypes.

Paulina Chamorro. I am a researcher, creative, performer and cultural manager. I work in the field of the performing arts in Latin America and Spain. I continuously collaborate with artists, collectives and institutions on projects that promote research and the creation of transdisciplinary dramatic languages engaged with contemporary issues.

REGISTRATION: By telephone on 91 276 02 21, by e-mail at ca2m@madrid.org or in person at the museum reception.

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Dates
Every Sunday
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Welcome to Una vibración casi Imperceptible, a positioned visit. We invite you to enter a choreographed landscape that is created as we walk through it and that asks where does your body end and this landscape begin?

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TOURS OF THE EXHIBITIONS GUIDED BY A CREATIVE
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visitas posicionadas
POSITIONAL VISITS 2023
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18:00-19:30

In recent years, the department has been working together with the educational community at Federico García Lorca CEIP. This experience has allowed us to rethink the ways in which relationships are established between the school and the museum. We are aware of the importance of creating a working group to develop innovative practices related to demanding, committed and long-lasting art education.

This school year, we will continue to investigate together through the Artist at Work Here programme, in which artists carry out a project in collaboration with the school community: teachers, pupils and families.

Given the phasing out of art education in formal education, it seems essential to us to continue to carry out these projects in educational institutions as tools with which to confront the prevailing attitudes. One of the basic aims of this project is to reflect on the power of the long-term projects carried out by artists to affect us. In this sense, we are interested in investigating how artists can affect the educational institution and, conversely, how educational institutions, state schools in particular, can give back to artists and the very education department in terms of experience.

This year, Belén Rodríguez will be the artist invited to carry out a project with the pupils of Federico García Lorca CEIP in Móstoles.

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From February to June
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In this school year, we will continue to investigate together through the program Aquí trabaja un artista, a program in which artists develop a project in collaboration with the school community: teachers, students and families.

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT THE FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA INFANT AND PRIMARY SCHOOL (CEIP) IN MÓSTOLES
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El triangulo
ARTIST AT WORK HERE
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Download the text Abriendo puertas, cerrando heridas (‘Opening doors, closing wounds’) HERE.

Listen HERE  to the text Abriendo puertas, cerrando heridas (‘Opening doors, closing wounds’).

We invited Costa Badia and Júlia Ayerbe to work with us on an educational project for the museum. We’ve started at the beginning, at the main entrance, whose closed doors are not easy to manage by everybody without difficulty. From there, we want to contribute our experience and explore what the limits are to what we can do from our perspective.

Together with the two women, we started an investigation that has led to the implementation of different practices, such as opening and closing the doors to everybody, placing a large drawing of Costa on the glass door at the entrance, and a host of other actions to make a transparent door visible and to make the impossible our priority.

You can consult all the information on accessibility at the CA2M Museum  HERE

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FROM JANUARY 26TH
Target audience
Acceso notas adicionales

Si necesitas apoyo específico de recogida en algún punto cercano del museo (parada de bus, taxi o metro) escribe un e-mail a educacion.ca2m@madrid.org

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We invited Costa Badia and Júlia Ayerbe to work with us on an educational project for the museum. We have started at the beginning, at the entrance doors.

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EDUCATIONAL PROJECT WITH COSTA BADÍA AND JÚLIA AYERBE
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OPENING DOORS, CLOSING WOUNDS
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Abriendo puertas, cerrando heridas

Last year, together with the boys and girls who reside at the Móstoles Children’s Home, fantasised about making a home inside our own tree house. We imagined what its shape would be like, what we would do inside it and what would happen around it.  

Some time later, in a conversation with the teachers at the Pablo Neruda UFIL, we saw the importance of learning by doing, and we assessed the need to turn educational spaces into places where real-life projects can be put into practice. We then thought it would be exciting to involve the Carpentry Department at the college in the construction of the house imagined by that group of children. 

We at the education department like to think that we can all take part in the construction of the world around us, so in January we will begin a process of collaboration with both groups to conceive, design and make this powerful image possible. 

For this purpose, we invited the designer Curro Claret to activate and guide us through this process. A long-distance dialogue that aims to rethink the idea of home and expand the concept of home and family. This creative process will be completed in early summer with the installation of the little house in the garden of the children’s home. 

Curro Claret. As a designer, Curro Claret’s interest lies in how people can participate in defining and building their environment by making use of their circumstances in a balanced and respectful way. His work often involves connecting a particular project with different groups of people. 

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From February 1 to June 20
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From the education department we like to think that we can all intervene in the construction of the world around us, so starting in January we will begin a collaborative process to imagine, design and make possible the construction of a shelter in a tree.

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PROJECT COLLABORATION BETWEEN STUDENTS OF THE PABLO NERUDA VOCATIONAL COLLEGE (UFIL), THE CHILDREN OF THE MÓSTOLES CHILDREN’S HOME AND THE MUSEUM
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Hacer una casa
MAKING A HOME
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Every Tuesday

Facilitated by: Adriana Reyes, Carolina Sisabel and Manuela Pedrón Nicolau. 

Thickets emerge everywhere, in seemingly hostile or meaningless terrain, with the ability to feed on what they can find to create a highly resilient system. Some take root around edges: for instance, where a stone falls on rough, dry ground. Their presence both camouflages and blurs the boundaries between objects that sustain their spontaneous and intense growth. By examining its internal cohesion, we are able to review knowledge that can only ever exist in that place. In this sense, a thicket is never just a thicket. Within it lies a unique network of knowledge, of resistances, of desires, of connections, of nourishment, of form: a soup through which its close and intimate materials take root. A way to the knowledge that comes with growing in whatever way it can.

The new edition of the Open University is dedicated to communication with non-human life forms, the knowledge that these connections offer us and their possibilities in sensible production. A diverse group of guests will show us different forms of knowledge and methods that intersect in the territory closest to us, the one we inhabit, and from there we will draw on them, not from the fallacy of the autochthonous, but from simultaneity. In them and between them, there is friction, overlaps, clashing codes and the assimilation of imposed forms in a combination of experiences, languages and bodies. Here, artistic, technological and ritual practices are called on to allow exploration of ways of accessing the knowledge that relationships with other forms of life and spirituality make possible in order to understand our environment. We rely on a metabolic type of learning, which assimilates and deforms, to set up an experimental session in the Open University, to walk through the facility, to snoop around the edges and to savour concoctions. 

As a prelude to each of these sessions, we will meet half an hour before each session in different spaces of the museum to share readings and experiment with the ingestion of plants.

The CA2M Museum designs a series of training activities in contemporary art and thought in the tradition of open universities. These courses address some of the considerations that are fundamental for the understanding and interpretation of art in the present day. They are structured into two parts: the first consisting of the presentation of a topic by a guest lecturer, and the second posing questions for debate that allow the audience to take the floor. This structure may change to favour more experimental formats depending on the guest lecturer at each session.

You can apply for course accreditation, which requires attendance at 5 of the sessions.

Thicket is a continuous process of investigation that systematises the times, ideas and experiences shared in recent years by the team comprising Manuela Pedrón Nicolau, Carolina Sisabel and Adriana Reyes through artistic practices and friendship.

Manuela Pedrón Nicolau is a curator and educator in contemporary art. Her work particularly deals with questions related to artistic research and forms of narration that explore the social and political aspects of this field. She is particularly interested in the more ritual dimension of artistic practices, an interest shared with Adriana Reyes that has led them to become facilitators of this experimental session. Something we don’t know we know, but we do know. She was a member of the Catenaria collective, and together with Jaime González Cela has curated exhibitions at different centres and directed programmes of activities, such as CRÁTER at the Sala de Arte Joven in Madrid, VENECIA at La Casa Encendida and Tabacalera//Educa at Tabacalera Promoción del Arte. She has held art residencies at the Royal Academy of Spain, Rome; Hangar, Barcelona; and Centro Huarte, Pamplona.

Adriana Reyes Rosón is an anthropologist and creative in the field of living arts. She has a master’s degree in feminist studies, undertaken specialist studies in sexualities and diversity, and has trained with different creatives in Spain, Brazil and Portugal. She is interested in social sciences, the living arts, transfeminist studies, spiritualities and forms of plant life, diverse fields that are also sources of pleasure and action in her daily practice.

Carolina Sisabel has a degree in architecture and a master’s in psychoanalysis and the theory of culture. Her field of interest encompasses both landscape painting and dream states in relation to the intermediate, ambiguous, subterranean and unconscious zones at the crossroads between architectural-urban space and the psyche. Her creative practice ranges from architecture and the performing arts to writing and publishing, and she exhibits and publishes on platforms in Canada, Switzerland, France and Chile. In Spain, she has collaborated on several projects with Adriana Reyes, writing three publications dedicated to metabolic documentation, as well as a great friendship.

PROGRAMME

  • 22 February. [...] vamo pal monte Palo Yaya (‘Let’s go to the bush, Palo Yaya’). José Ramón Hernández 
  • 1 March. Rediscovering the plant spirit: relationships between plants, lands and individuals. Júlia Carreras Tort
  • 15 March. You. Clara Montoya and Teresa Vicente.
  • 22 March. Reverse agential (dis)orientations (or any which way) Laura Benítez Valero.
  • 29 March. Healing plants. Collective transvestite contrabotanic invocation. Iki Yos Piña and Cacao Díaz.
  • 12 April. The thing is not to think too much, but to give a lot of love. El Primo de Saint Tropez and the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Toro (Zamora).
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Dates
FEBRUARY 22 - APRIL 12
Target audience
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The new edition of the Open University is dedicated to communication with non-human life forms, the knowledge that these connections offer us and their possibilities in sensitive production.

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OPEN UNIVERSITY
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Matorral
THICKET, FALLOW FIELD: LEARNING BY GROWING WHATEVER WAY YOU CAN
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Matorral. Fotografía: Carolina Sisabel.

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18:30 - 20:30