Thinking

On the occasion of the furniture creation workshop at CA2M, Peter Marigold will hold a open presentation of his work.

Peter Marigold is today a renowned furniture designer with a solid background as a sculptor and designer applied to means economy, in a search for new relationship between objects from a formal and conceptual setting and enabling designs to generate tiny modifications between the user´s behavior. His work has been displayed in diverse spaces as in MoMA or at London Design Museum. Peter Marigold was granted with the  'the designers of the future award` at Design Miami/ Basel.

Cambridge dictionary definition for Cluster is a group of similar things that are close together, sometimes surrounding something. Cluster is an eight-contemporary-visual-art organization net located on the periphery of capital cities (it cannot be overlooked Holon, located in an industrial area outside Tel Aviv). Cluster started in June 2011 in order to facilitate internal and public exchange of knowledge about how these types of institutions function and also to establish further collaborations between them. After the cluster meeting, it will take place an encounter-presentation from each of the member which will start an open discussion.

Cluster members include Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; CAC Brétigny; Les Laboratoires D’Aubervillers, Paris; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm,  The Showroom, London; CA2M Centro Dos De Mayo, Madrid; The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; and Parasite Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana.

During the CA2M meeting, it will be brought up several issues related to  Center working strategies as well as their response to a new institutional frame, conditioned by remarkable adjustments from the public financial support, and, in parallel, by a questioning of the management of  our forms of government. Attention would be mainly focused on the answers generated from  discussion,  rather than on the change of typology from the projects highlighted by a reduction in resources. May be generated a critical response to this situation from  culture? Can a Contemporary Art museum be a place to put into practice other institutionality forms?

This forth meeting between the Cluster member, follows the ones taken placed in London, Utrecht,  Aubervilliers (Bretigny) and Stockholm.

Participating: Maria Lind and Ulrika Flink, Tensta Konsthall; Julien Duc- Maugé,CAC Brétigny; Binna Choi and Sanne Oorthuizen, Casco Utrecht; Barbara Coffy, Les Laboratoires Aubervilliers; Emily Pethick, The Showroom London; Ran Kasmy Ilan, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon.

Chantal Pontbriand, art critic and curator, is currently Tate Modern's Head of Exhibitions Research & Development.

Besides, she is the founding-director of contemporary art magazine Parachute (1975).

After presenting her last projects and researches, Chantal Pontbriand will meet a reduces group of participants for a critic session. It will be the occasion for a debate on issues related to Pontbriand's cultural production. Participants will be able to show their own works to reflect with her and the rest of the group.

Workshop aimed at curators and cultural producers.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 

MAPEAR Madrid is a work group created in response to a shared desire to seek out and identify the artistic structures and various agents involved in the cultural sector of the region of Madrid. Following an initial period of research and investigation, an announcement will be made, and sessions open to the public will be offered on the first Tuesday of each month until July. At a later stage in the project, a tool for public use will be created to provide the agents and intermediaries of the contemporary creation and art scene with an efficient channel for pursuing professional projects.

The goal is to encourage interaction between artistic communities, strengthening professional ties to help the sector operate more effectively and efficiently; to democratise access to and use of information on the art and creative sector, and achieve greater transparency in its professional practices; and to promote dialogue between contemporary creation and civil society.

COORDINATED BY PENSART

Following the technical research phase – interviews with sector professionals and cultural agents in the region in order to detect and identify their professional relations with universities, industry, the authorities and the media – a tool has been created which allows us to visualise these interconnections.

Register now at http://www.mapearmadrid.net/ 

The multi-displinary work of Martín Azúa embraces both art and design. Through experimentation, his works are an answer to a quest for a committed and justified design. On the occasion of the creative workshop which is to be held on 22-26 February, Azúa will make a public presentation of his work.

On the occasion of the exhibition Punto Muerto, Gregor Schneider will introduce his work to the public, presenting both the installation displayed at CA2M and his overall work.

 This encounter is in conjuction with the Creative Workshop conducted by Gregor Schneider between Oct. 18 and 26.

On the occasion of the exhibition "Tied Up to the Table Leg", and the workshop “Tying and Untying", Wilfredo Prieto will make a public presentation of the works on display at the CA2M and other works never before exhibited in our country.

Coinciding with the Fold Along the Line exhibition, Guy Ben-Ner will offer a public presentation on his work at which he will talk about the pieces featured in the exhibition and others that have never been shown in Spain.

Free admission. The encounter will be in English.

This program is aimed at photographers working on editorial projects, with the objective of analysing and advise about edition, design and general concept for the projects.

PHotoEspaña and CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo of the Regional Govenment of Madrid organizes a pedagogic and profesional program to advise  30 photographers about editing, design and concept of their photography book projects. For the first time, CA2M takes part of  PHotoespaña with a programming with workshops, theorical seminars and a photomecanic and printing tour from Thursday 23 April to Saturday 25 April 

The attendees with have the chance to work side by side with Michael Mack, Chema Conesa and Fernando Gutiérrez as well as with the British photographer Martin Parr who will conduct a lecture Friday at 16.30 h.

Within the framework of Tejo Remy workshop, the Dutch designer will introduce some of his latest Works. Tejo Remy has become one of the greatest Dutch contemporary art designer. His principal interest is to create new relation between objects and their surroundings with the purpose of grant them with new meaning. Through reusability and the appropriation, he creates objects fraught by irony and sense of humor.

Free entry.

Colloquium over the exhibition Light Years. Three experts in visual studies and gender investigation take as starting point the proposals developed by Lucas´ work to debate about the current relations between power and gender.

Lead by CRISTINA LUCAS, INTI GUERRERO, ESTRELLA DE DIEGO AND FERRAN BARENBLIT.

Free entry.