Educational Community

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During carnival, communities come together to celebrate. Each individual engenders a cell within a greater organism that comprises ritual, embodying some powerful being, a monstrous character, a mystic queen, or a magical fish that, generally speaking, represents the arrival or departure of a key moment for the community when darkness and light go hand in hand.

This is a workshop to create our own carnival; to transform ourselves into sonic beings, into wonderful creatures with fantastic movements. A workshop that encourages desires to flow freely, to reimagine how we can move, how we can dream; to create other roles and new realities that allow us to question—through sound, visuals and movement—our surrounding reality and how we live in it.

3rd to 6th year primary school students

Maximum number of students: 30

Now that normality has become the strangest of things and we know that strangeness is normal, we adapt like chameleons to propose an activity aimed at primary school students.

Danzónico moves into outdoor spaces. Carnival is now held in darkness. The new fertile space gives birth to the most fantastic beings in the galaxy: creatures with impossible bodies that howl, scream and chirp with sounds never heard before by human ears. The new organism gives off dancing lights and is driven by a communal desire, expressed in the bond between the bodies. Bodies that touch each other through light. Darkness and light go hand in hand.

Danzónico is a workshop-laboratory in which we will generate our own carnival. We will transmute ourselves into sound beings, into magnificent creatures with fantastic movements. A laboratory in which we will transform our desires, our fears, our longings, our best qualities into an animal from outer space that inhabits a museum. A laboratory that lets desires flow free, to re-imagine our movements, to understand ourselves as part of an organism that transcends our own individual bodies; to subvert our assigned roles and to create new ones, new realities that allow us to question the reality we live in and how we experience it, through sound, movement and visuals. A carnival that is always different every time.

This activity was conceived to adapt to the current circumstances we are living through.

A group of children meet every Tuesday after school with the dancer Elena Córdoba to try out and create new dances, based on three types of movements:

1. Everyday movements.
2. Extraordinary movements made by individuals, including awkward, inappropriate, shy, extravagant and other movements.
3. Movements made in play and games.

4th, 5th and 6th year primary school students.

Elena Córdoba has left us instructions for dancing at home. Everyone on the floor!
 

_ Instructions for dancing like a forest and with a wall (PDF)
 

_ Instructions for dancing in the corner of your bedroom (PDF)
 

_ Instructions for dancing your way around the house (PDF)
 

_ A magic spell for dancing (PDF)
 

_ Instructions for dancing from the ground to the sky (PDF)
 

_ Instruction for dancing and floating (PDF)
 

_ The last dance (PDF)

A few years ago we started a collaboration project with teachers from the Enterarte group. What started out as a teacher training course here at the museum has grown into a project on education between equals in which knowledge flows from the two parts: the educators at the museum and the school teachers. This is true to the extent that we not only share visits to exhibitions (inside and outside the museum) and artist workshops with Azucena Vieites, the Colektivof collective, Bárbara Fluxá, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Cabello/Carceller; but also, at the same time, Enterarte adds to the activities at CA2M and brings the everyday reality and experience of schools in order to help us grow as an education department.

This year we will continue this collaboration. We believe that it is critical to underscore the importance of passion and the work of this group of teachers and to continue thinking about the relationships between the museum and the school, opening up processes of research into artistic languages.

http://blogenterarte.blogspot.com.es

A place-archive-list to look in, to get lost in, to come out of … and many doubts too…

A desire to delve deeper into the realm of queerness following our experiences in the queer workshop with teenagers and with teachers and the need to share them has led us to create a changing space where we can continue exploring, thinking and losing ourselves together.

Project Q has no pretension to map queerness, rather it hopes to be a journey without a destination, eschewing the trap of closed categories, an action of moving forward, not of progressing but of getting lost, of turning back a little only to keep going on again.

De-organised by areas of probabilities, Project Q hosts a whole diversity of links and miscegenated, unstable in time, interchangeable, strange, shareable, chosen, and bastard materials.

Project Q:

https://proyectoq.tumblr.com

ENROLMENT FREE

Now that any future seems unthinkable, it is exciting to think about a possible future that will allow us to dance again. It is exciting to remember that we are alive, situating the body and experience at the very centre of life and artistic learning. Roland Barthes said that “we work with the act of apparition, the world that manifests itself through us and since we don't understand, we dance”. And so it is a question of dancing to understand the world and its potential. Dancing so that the interruption brought about by the current health crisis does not mean the end but a means through which we can dance once again. The workshop proposes a space in which we can rehearse the future(s) while dancing through different bodily practices, opening up a field of experimentation around the body (its uses, materialities and implications) and associating the experience with educational and learning spaces both inside and outside the classroom.

Paz Rojo is a choreographer, dancer and researcher with a PhD in performative practices specializing in choreography from the Stockholm University of the Arts (Stockholm, Sweden) with an artistic research dissertation called The decline of choreography and its movement: a body's (path)way. In 2019 she published the book To Dance in the Age of No-Future (Circadian), Berlin. More information here.

Every summer we organize a performance workshop for teachers, educators and artists interested in education. It involves a week-long work with the body in which we create bonds of collaboration and think about educational processes and performativity within education. In previous years these workshops have been led by Los Torreznos, Tania Bruguera, Pere Faura, Itziar Okariz, Norberto Llopis, Nilo Gallego, Dora García, Aimar Pérez Galí, Luz Broto, Aitana Cordero and Jiří Kovanda.

Enrolment free HERE.

This year we wish to see and to make film collectively and, with this purpose in mind, we have invited Chus Domínguez to design a workshop. Focused mainly on practice, it will be a space aimed at teachers and educators who want to use audiovisuals to question their workspace and to find new forms of images and sounds in the classroom. To listen and look again like never before.

Chus Domínguez is an audiovisual creator specialized in documentary film. Together with the Department of Education and Cultural Action at MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon), he has set up LAAV (Laboratory of Experimental Audiovisual Anthropology) to develop a range of collaborative research-creative projects. He is also a member of the experimental action group Orquestina de Pigmeos and is a lecturer in the Documentary Film degree course at ECAM film school.

Aimed at teachers and other people interested in education.

In a few thousand years a future archaeological excavation will discover what were the limits of the city of Móstoles in 2020 and there they will find, on the site of the Children’s Home, bits of ceramic which, when pieced together, will create objects with no recognizable use purpose. The experts will try to guess where they came from, as they are neither utilitarian or decorative objects. The forms would suggest some kind of mysterious practice closer to the rituals and customs of the former inhabitants of this place.

During this school year, together with the inhabitants of the Children’s Home, we will make loads of extensible, ephemeral, detachable or permanent attachments, traces and remains for the future, sounds that will fill the space and slowly become echoes and then memories. We will create a set of sculptural pieces, hybrids between musical instruments and masks, monstrous fixtures that will be the memory of experiences that took place in this house over the course of these months.

We want to invent our own biography, who we want to be together and how we want to be remembered.

Peña Cebollera: altitude of 2128 metres
123 km, 28 hours walking

El Berrueco: altitude of 925 metres
84.3 km, 17 hours and 33 minutes walking

Cercedilla: altitude of 1214 metres
59 km, 12 hours and 35 minutes walking

Hoyo de Manzanares: altitude of 1001 metres
40.7 km, 8 hours and 43 minutes walking

Chapinería: altitude of 680 metres
40.1 km, 8 hours and 12 minutes walking

The under-21 team is a group of young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one who are interested in culture, art and community life. It focuses on utopian art practices that propose experimental forms of organisation, dissident attitudes and collective processes of creation. For this new school year, we will be dreaming about the idea of travelling to other places and escaping to the mountain, which is why the team will become a mountaineering group to investigate climbing as creative practice. We will continue generating spaces where we can create, share and waste time.

At the moment, the members of the Sub21 team are: Diego Alonso, Alicia Arévalo Gallego, Cristina Bermúdez Garrido, Paula Díaz Cano, Miriam Domínguez García, Sandra Esteban López, Nadia Ettahri, Claudia Fernández Concepción, Marina Lillo García, Irene Lloret Miguel, Elisa Lozano Triviño, Fabiana Marques Abatemarco, Richard Moreno Campechano, Marina Olympia Rodriguez Ibáñez, Rosario O'Kelly, Hugo P, Daniel Perera García, Iris Perpiñá Fabra, Rubén Reyes Carrasco, Tamara Serrano Cabello and Marina Viñarás Germano.

Put your body in a place.

Move it, shake it, jiggle it. 

Put it to the test. 

Subject it to and free it from a tempo and a rhythm.

Stress it, push it, tire it.

Listen to how your body sounds now.

What are our capacities for listening? Can we think of the body and treat it like a sound body? What sounds do we associate with our body or with the actions it performs and what is the meaning it imposes on them? How does the body sound?

During the month of September, we have invited the artist Sandra Gómez to propose a workshop in which we will use the workspace as a space of resonance, and as an instrument that resonates. And we will do the same with the body: it will be both the instrument that resonates as well as the space of resonance. Pat, rub, brush, caress...

The workshop will focus on research and experimentation with the body’s sonic capacity as well as how we perceive this sonic quality and how it affects the body.