Positioned visits

Welcome to Una Vibración Casi Imperceptible (‘An Almost Imperceptible Vibration’), a positional, performed visit that uses the audio guide as a tool to explore the exhibition put together by the artist Jon Mikel Euba, Animals That Bear the Weight of Mysterious Loads in Settings Created by Opposing Forces.

We invite you to enter a choreographed landscape that comes into existence as we walk through it and asks: where does your body end and this landscape begin? An experience to relive the past, time to hear, see and perceive what is vibrating and not visible to the naked eye, to stop before a reflection or an impulse, to ask ourselves: what is this landscape doing to us?

The body has no eyelids; it is a porous membrane that absorbs sensory stimuli and turns them into experience and knowledge. Shall we go for a walk? Bring your headphones.

Activating impulses, working from the experiential, promoting critical attitudes through action, involving the body in the learning processes and questioning social institutions. The CA2M Museum’s Department of Education and Public Activities is developing a line of work aimed at putting together themed visits in which artists and creatives are invited to bring the exhibitions closer to the visitors through their own artistic practices. This allows us to eschew the presumption of objectivity in the narratives put forward by the exhibitions by offering a break with hegemonic discourses. A space for research in which to encourage one’s own readings of the image and story, resulting in the creation of new archetypes.

Paulina Chamorro. I am a researcher, creative, performer and cultural manager. I work in the field of the performing arts in Latin America and Spain. I continuously collaborate with artists, collectives and institutions on projects that promote research and the creation of transdisciplinary dramatic languages engaged with contemporary issues.

REGISTRATION: By telephone on 91 276 02 21, by e-mail at ca2m@madrid.org or in person at the museum reception.

In this temporary encounter in the museum we will create a safe comfort zone where we can visit ourselves. We will visit ourselves from the gazes of others and the empathy that comes from the works on exhibit. We will revisit ourselves from gender, observe our performativity, laugh at ourselves and even transform ourselves. We will move about and we will dance Vogue, even if we do not know how to.

Javier Vaquero Ollero (Toledo, 1984) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, manager and manual therapist. He is obsessed with the body as an object of study, finicky when it comes to movement and passionate when it comes to dance. He trained in Holland, has lived in different countries, has flirted with voguing, and was a founding member of the House of Tupamaras in Bogota (Colombia).

In this temporal encounter we will engage with the materialities of works, of light, of screens, through bodies and the museum itself. A practice session to cast an eye on the peripheries and the entrails of the exhibition, discovering or dislocating its invitations to join its walkthrough.

The artists and lighting designers Irene Cantero and Víctor Colmenero having been thinking about and experimenting with light, the gaze and visuality for many years.

At the beginning of 2020 we will be opening the exhibition Absurd Humour: A Constellation of Folly in Spain and, similarly to other occasions, we have invited an artist to prepare what we call a Positioned Visit. This time Alba Rihe has created an audio-guide that will take us on a trip through the exhibition, with what could be considered a soundtrack which is a kind of pastiche, a chimera of voices, a word whispered in your ear that caresses the eardrum and which we hope will make us break out in hysterical laughter in the exhibition hall.

The audio-guides are available free of charge at the museum reception desk during the course of the exhibition. You can also listen the audio on Soundcloud or download in your devices here: