Education

Architects of Silence is a sound and musical journey that begins with a family building activity and leads to relaxation and listening. It is wordless building, a refuge against noise. Our journey will be accompanied by a soundscape created live, which invites us to relax and listen not only in the literal sense but also to pay attention to our children and perceive them from a new perspective.

This activity is designed for families to enjoy together, no matter the age. It is part of our family programme in which guest artists share their experiences and creative practices with us. Grandmothers, siblings, neighbours… you’re all welcome! We at the CA2M Museum want to offer a space where you can disconnect from your daily routine. Here, there are no adults that know more than children, who only obey; instead, we explore together, creating a corner where we can curl up and leave behind the roles we play at home.

Happy travels!

NOTE: This activity is recommended for people aged 3 and up, so they will have priority as the places are taken. However, if there is anyone under 3 in your group, they are welcome.

Tania Arias Winogradow

Performing artist, dancer, choreographer and mother. She creates devices that provide creative tools around play, movement and dance. Her projects invite us to fine-tune our listening through the sensitive body and to deploy each person’s potential for movement, enabling us to better interact with our environment. She has partnered with and participated in spaces like the Museo Reina Sofía, La Casa Encendida of Madrid and the Inspiration Persona collective. She has been investigating different languages within the live arts for over 25 years.

PROGRAMME

OCTOBER

• Saturday 19 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm
• Saturday 26 from 11 am to 1 pm

NOVEMBER

• Saturday 9 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm
• Saturday 16 from 11 am to 1 pm

This year, in the CA2M Summer Cabin, we spent four unforgettable days playing at being fish. We moved and danced in our own coral reef, the museum, and without realising it we turned into mute butterflies that dreamed when they were moving. We asked such curious questions as: Can a grandmother be a professional dancer? Can we dance in a museum? If we stay still, will we be dancing? These questions stayed with us and are still inspiring us.

This is why we decided to continue this adventure throughout an entire school year with this extracurricular activity. We’re going to keep playing and moving like animals to explore these and many more questions. Imagine everything you can discover and create in one year if fifteen fishes can turn into butterflies in just four days!

We are beginning with investigating our bodies and all the possible ways they can move.  We’ll dance together, with time and space, and we’ll create a place of artistic expression enriched by the group’s generational diversity.

The activity will be led by Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente. They are dancers, choreographers, sisters, cultural mediators and founders of the Baiven collective, an organisation that uses dance to foster the horizontal exchange of experiences, perspectives, knowledge and critical thinking. They develop exploratory activities around the performing arts and education. They seek engagement and interaction with communities and regions and try to expand the professional field of art by creating accessible, diverse spaces where anyone fits, no matter their situation, body or mind.

Some time back, the artist Jorge Satorre had the chance to enter a fascinating space within a factory. Invited to develop a project there, after hours of exploration his attention was drawn to a place that the employees called ‘the darkroom’. For more than twenty years, this space had been used as a repository of moulds and tools that had been discarded or replaced by more precise, productive ones. It was a hidden museum of objects that are equal parts obsolete and valuable, an archive of the factory’s unofficial history.

Jorge’s project reminds us of those spaces in schools that store objects and tools that were used in the classrooms at some point but have now been replaced or thrown out: overhead projectors, technical drawing tools, art supplies, old computers and screens… all inventoried and stored, awaiting an uncertain fate.

What do these collections of discards tell us about the productivity of educational spaces? What stories do these hidden places harbouring what was once useful tell us?

This class began by inviting the artist Jorge Satorre to hold a performance and education workshop targeted at teachers, educators and artists interested in education. For one week, we’ll work together to tighten our bonds of collaboration and reflect together on the performativity of education, on what we keep, what we get rid of and what this says about us.

We suggest joining together in a process of inquiry and collective action. We’ll visit those strange spaces, inventory them, reclassify them and, by doing so, try to go further. The goal is not only to rediscover what has been forgotten but also to understand what all of this reveals about our own educational processes and how we value knowledge and creativity.

This course’s educational activity programme is oral. If you are interested in this activity, write to us at educacion.ca2m@madrid.org or call us on 912760227 and we’ll tell you all about it.

You can sign up HERE

This project is part of the series of language workshops by the A.C. Banda Editorial Silvestre. Organised by  BOYA_~célula  in collaboration with Seminario Euraca.

Triggering impulses, working in an experiential way, promoting critical attitudes through action, involving the body in learning processes ... These educational practices, in tune with the centre’s educational philosophy, are based on the construction of knowledge through experience. Thus, the exhibition’s performative routes focus on the spectator's experience and turn their gaze towards current art. In this way, we create meeting spaces in which to experiment and construct critical discourse regarding contemporary work. 

At this time, we wish to invite you to visit two of CA2M’s exhibitions with us.
On Saturdays at 6:30 PM we propose visiting TRÉMULA, artist Javi Cruz’s exhibition, together. And on Sundays at 12:30 PM, VEROÍR EL FRACASO ILUMINADO (EXPERIENCE THE ILLUMINATED FAILURE) by the artist Cecilia Vicuña. There will be a maximum of 6 people.

To sign up, write to educacion.ca2m@madrid.org or call 91 276 02 21. You can also come directly to the museum and, if there are not too many of us, join the tour by leaving your details at reception. We take all of these measures in order to take care of ourselves and to take care of you, though we are aware that these measures may change according to the situation. We look forward to meeting up with you again.