Teacher training

This workshop continues with CA2M teaching investigation line  centered in new ways of knowledge buildings through the body and performance. This summer teacher´s  training workshop with Los Torreznos, a duo of vital, cultural and conceptual exploration, who works within the contemporary art through performance and videocreation.

This workshop intends to explore the expressive territory of the art action, the performance, basically bounded to the body and to its presence. This exploration will be developed according to Los Torreznos criteria: insistence, energy, repetition, presence, humor, simplicity of resources, constrictions and challenge.

These elements will be applied to investigate and train through practice the expressive resources of the participants. Thus, it involves an experience to put back into play and develop the using possibilities of the presence itself as a reflection and communication tool with the world.

For the workshop it is not required any previous artistic or performance tranning

Los Torreznos

Los Torreznos, Jaime Vallaure (Asturias 1965) & Rafael Lamata (Valencia 1959), is a duo of conceptual exploration covering the social and politic issues, and the most deep-rooted tradition.

In the pass, Los Torreznos´ members  have individually formed part of collectives of independent art creation (Zona de Acción Temporal, Circo interior Bruto, A UA CRAG, La Constructora, La Revista Caminada). They have also organized different programmes and events (Art Action Festivals, Series of Lectures, publications, international projects, etc.)

Los Torreznos was created in 2000. Among their creative activities, they have developed several art action works, video-installations and sound art works. They were also part of  the Spanish Pavillion in the 2007 Venetia Biennial, moreover, they have worked in different international festivals (Shangai, Glasgow, Phoenix, Noriega, Russia, Germany, Quebec, etc.) an in national ones (Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Bilbao, Cordoba, etc.)

Rafael Lamata and Jaime Vallaure have developed several works of joint intervention, videos, installations, actions ((ABC de la performance, Cuentos para la Cárcel de Carabanchel, La lógica del continente, 8 pasos para la destrucción del sistema capitalista, etc.)

Tania Bruguera is a multidisciplinary artist who works in the fields of performance, contextual, installation and video art. She has done extensive research on art and its political implications for everyday life. In her works, the audience is urged to play the role of citizens. In addition to her artistic practice, Bruguera is known for her philosophical reflections on education and knowledge building and how they are related to art. She is the founder of Arte de Conducta, the first programme for performance and political art studies.

By offering this 20-hour workshop, the CA2M continues to pursue a line of work associated with education and the potential educational applications of working with the body and the language of performance. Under the guidance of Tania Bruguera, we will reflect on education and art as political practices expressed through and from the body and the performative act.

During  2010, CA2M  offers visits and colloquiums about the exhibitions that CA2M helds. After touring the exhibition, we will engage a dialogue in the galleries where CA2M educators will propose different methodological strategies to work the exhibitions with the pupils. CA2M will give a dossier to the teachers with information and documentation concerning the exhibition to familiarize with contemporary art, its terms and meanings.

JAN 12. 18:30 H. 2010.
Doblar a lo largo de la línea. Guy Ben-Ner.
FEB 10. 18:30 H. 2010.
Sonic Youth etc. : Sensational Fix
APR 20. 18:30 H. 2010.
Visita-coloquio sobre la exposición Colección II
JUL 5 – 9. 10:00 - 14:00 H. 2010.
Performance Workshop with Tania Bruguera
6 OCT. 18:30 — 20:00 H. 2010.
Tour & Talks on the exhibition "Antes que todo"

To plan a performance as if it were a crime. To choose the location, to think about the attitudes, to consider possible setbacks, and to set our watches are only some of the actions and decisions we need to tackle. Once the script is done, coordination among the performers is essential, as well as the negotiation of unforeseen factors. We will dedicate the whole week of the workshop to the planning of this action, and to its later execution, as well as to analyzing and discussing the implications of this kind of performances, where, despite having calculated all factors, the audience is captive, since there is no predetermined way for the action, and the place where it happens is full of unforeseen factors, since it is the public space. We will also analyze works by other artists who have, at some point, "perpetrated" happenings, like Allan Kaprow for Calling, Oscar Massota in The Helicopter or Katerina Seda, Alex Reynolds or Dora García herself in some of her works.

Dora García is an artist whose work is focused on the creation of situations that can de-construct conventions and codes of behavior, especially between the work, the artist, and the spectator. Whether she works in the public sphere, in museums or in galleries, her work explores Brecht's theater, Artaud's impact, but also characters like Lenny Bruce, Jack Smith, or Guy de Cointet. She has researched areas from the inadequate as a mode of dissidence to the role of art practice in the configuration of subjectivity, as well as the questioning of the categories of health and illness.

Since 2009, we have been running a summer performance workshop aimed at teachers, educators, and artists interested in education, with the desire to establish bonds of collaboration, to reflect together with the educators at the Center, the teachers, the assistants, and the guest artist on educational processes and the performative aspect of education. After the workshops with Los Torreznos, Tania Bruguera, Pere Faura, Itziar Okariz, Norberto Llopis and Nilo Gallego, we are planning a new summer performance workshop, in this case, with Dora García.

Please send this registration form (download) up until the 7th of July to educación.ca2m@madrid.org .

More information at educacion.ca2m@madrid.org and at 912760227.

This workshop will be taking a critical approach to some of the possibilities for creative action that the open spectrum of identity brings to artistic practices today. New subjectivities are beginning to adopt a stance, proudly accepting their abjectness, and this enables them to structure their own discursive fields of action. These empowered attitudes are radically transforming presentation and representation in art.

The workshop will take the form of a walkthrough that explores some of the manifold narrative possibilities afforded by the new visual configuration which has emerged following a shift in identity politics. The journey will follow various paths through art practices in search of the transformation of collective portraits.

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 and Fernando Sánchez Castillo; 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.

http://blogenterarte.blogspot.com.es/

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.