Education

A star enters twilight when, due to the effect of the rotation of the planet, it crosses the plane of the horizon and passes from the visible to the invisible hemisphere. In the case of the Sun this marks the end of the day. Sunset is a pale tint of orange. A completely imprecise and ambiguous representation of colour that happens fleetingly during twilight. The first use of sunset as the name of colour dates back to 1916.

In this brief meet-up at the museum we are going to create a space for leisurely contemplation. We will take a slow walkthrough enlivened with stories about colour, the work of Mitsuo Miura and actions that happen with light. Over the course of the visit, we will look more intently, we will try to stimulate our pupils in order to perceive differently and we will talk a lot, an awful lot, about colour. We will take a tour of the museum through its spectrum of colours, we will submerge ourselves in its light and the geometries, and we will go up to the roof terrace at the exact time to contemplate the mysterious colour of the sky at the moment when the sun disappears from Móstoles.

Cities are responsible for the emission of 75% of all greenhouse gases. But cities are also at the forefront of the most far-reaching transformations to make sustainability a reality. To counteract ecoanxiety, the best remedy is putting into practice practical measures. To discover the kinds of actions that are already being implemented in other places. And to borrow inspiration from their experience. In this cycle of four workshops we will overview the main proposals coming from cities all over the world to fight the environmental crisis and we will take action by imagining, with pragmatism but also with poetry, a Móstoles where we can live happily within the limits of our planet.

PROGRAMME

• Tuesday 13. The city and sustainable food: growing food in the city.
• Wednesday 14. The city and sustainable energy: cooking with free energy from the sun.
• Thursday 15. The city and sustainable mobility: a three-in-one in rights.
• Friday 16. The eco-social revolution shall be urban or it shall not be.

This cycle of workshops is organized in collaboration with Instituto de Transición Rompe el Círculo [Break the Circle Transition Institute], a collective from Mostoles with plenty of experience in community sustainability projects, creating new imaginaries on new models of society and putting into practice some of their ideas.

Among the most notable projects in this line of action are the Roof Terrace Garden workshops at CA2M (2013 - 2021), the Hammockdrome at Finca Liana park (2018) and the exhibition Será una vez Móstoles 2030, plus a series of conversations and debates like Oil-free Móstoles (2012) or Transition Picnics (2015-2016). This cycle features input from two of its members: Emilio Santiago Muíño (climate anthropologist and researcher at CSIC) and Xisela García Moure (expert in agroecology and movement in transition).

Like a damp stain on the bathroom ceiling, this year Les Sin Nombre are back again. We are going to appropriate the museum waste to create termite nests.

We are going to inhabit, occupy and squat the crack as a place to take refuge, that will allow us to make out way inside, to infect the walls through actions and conversations as sticky as our hands after eating a gigantic ice-cream.

LSN is an activity for young people from the ages of 13 to 21 years in which we will explore new forms of relating with contemporary creation. An open collective space in which to investigate artistic strategies based on DIY methods using whatever we have at hand.

Throughout the various sessions, we will work on the critical construction of objects, images and actions, exploring our personal universes and searching for new ways of looking at everyday life. Together we will build the museum that we want to see, a place where we can chat, sing, show our drawings, sunbathe … Using the waste material thrown out by Museo CA2M (the remains from mounting exhibitions, workshops, activities, etc.) we will build a museum within the museum, like a parasitic organism.

Luisempar is a curatorial collective made up of Empar Polanco (Valencia, 1996) and Luis San Gregorio (Aranda de Duero, 1996), focused on research into performative action and its recording.

Aimed at secondary school students, this visit-workshop focuses on the act of painting, and more specifically on thinking about colours. If you give them time, colours become mysterious. Many of them came about initially as pigments for artistic painting; sometimes their names refer to the geographical regions where they were first used or found, or to the minerals and chemical substances used in their composition.

The names for colours vary depending on cultures and people: it could be the case that the same name for a colour might suggest a different shade to people from different countries. In addition, some have a very precise and unambiguous definition, while others only give vague hints. We can see, for instance, that the sky above Móstoles at 2:26 pm today is Móstoles blue, Thursday blue or sky grey. But that is not exactly it either.

One thing that strikes us as fundamental in Mitsuo Miura’s work is his way of looking at his surroundings, of noticing all the minute changes. Colours, but also humidity, shadows and the weather are all raw material to construct by using what is available to us and to expand the world we think we see.

Discover more about the exhibition  Mitsuo Miura. Almost 400 m² for Two Landscapes.

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To take flight and hover about the school is the practice with which we begin this school year.

In order to take a breather and to get a bird’s-eye view of the year that is just beginning we have invited the artist Olga Diego to lead a performance workshop with one single objective: to defy gravity.

In this workshop we will imagine and build our own airborne device. Collectively we will undertake a prior study, make calculations, sketches, scale models, preliminary tests and then the launch. The forms and systems of this aerostat will be experimental, defined and created by participants under Olga Diego’s watchful eye.

Here, there is no such thing as failure because the workshop provides room for all possible ideas: flying, pre-flying, pro-flying, pro-failure, pre-fall, anti-flight, pre-disaster, and so on.

Each school year we organize a workshop for teachers with a performance artist, consisting of an intensive week-long project during which we create bonds of cooperation between the school and the museum as we explore issues concerning educational processes and the performativity of teaching.

In previous years we have had workshops with Los Torreznos, Tania Bruguera, Pere Faura, Itziar Okariz, Norberto Llopis, Nilo Gallego, Dora García, Aimar Pérez Galí, Luz Broto, Aitana Cordero, Jiři Kovanda, Paz Rojo and Mónica Valenciano.