Reading Group

‘After walking aimlessly; we want to go back, go back to find ourselves (again), to drop anchor and renovate ourselves; through our bonds’.

A ‘bond’ is officially defined as the union or tie between one person or thing and another. But is a union the same as a tie? Do we need to feel bonded and/or tied to other people or things? What effect does these bonds or ties have on us? Do they make us free or suffocate us?

We want to tinker with what is taken for granted to discover new sea floors, embark on artistic expressions and dive into tales and stories, told and sung, to play and share voyages, ours and others.

We want to lay down roots, enter the cliché, tack around the conventional definitions of our unions and ties without fear of diving into the abyss, floating on the water or drowning, but in the same boat.

This is an invitation.

At the CA2M Museum, dispossessed but rooted, we’ll engage in sensorial and delightful interpretations like: The summer when my mother had green eyes. We’ll listen to the creaking of the woodworm. We’ll see if there’s any truth behind what Verónica tells us and whether our attachments are as fierce as Gornick’s. We’ll talk about love with Carver, and Lucía Berlín’s bitterness may make us tremble. Through our sessions, we may consider creating new kinship ties with Donna: will we continue with the problem or not?

We’re looking forward to seeing you.

Moderated by Las Hijas de Yocasta [Daughters of Jocasta]

We are Las Hijas de Yocasta: Ana Isabel Fernández, Ángela Solano, Rebeca Contador and Sandra Cabrera. A mother, a mother-grandmother and four daughters. We are driven by childhood, patients, walking amidst stones, what art suggests to us. We read. We reread.  We listen. We are the resistance of the CA2M Museum’s reading groups and we’re here to stir everything up.

This year, we want to focus on the books that inhabit our shelves. As ours is a library within a contemporary art museum, it is full of rare books, artist's books, fanzines and countless publications that explore other possible ways of reading and understanding the subject. These publications also tell us about exhibitions and activities that have given the library an unprecedented and extraordinary life. Under the guidance of the library manager, Sonia Seco, we will bring to light some bibliographic oddities; these, in turn, will lead us to an endless number of possible texts and readings. 

The requisite to participate will be reading the texts before each session, where you will be expected to participate.

Moderated by BOYA x Seminario Euraca. Ignacio Redrado, Paula Pérez-Rodríguez and Erea Fernández.

This course’s educational activity programme is oral. If you are interested in this activity, write to us at educacion.ca2m@madrid.org or call us on 912760227 and we’ll tell you all about it.

You can sign up HERE

This project is part of the series of language workshops by the A.C. Banda Editorial Silvestre. Organised by BOYA~célula in collaboration with Seminario Euraca.

ENROLMENT COMPLETED

Moderated by Eva Garrido and Marta van Tartwijk

We avoid touching, fluids and drops of saliva. We cover our mouth, our nose and hands. Our reading group over the last few years has explored the oddities of the body and queer bodies. Now that reality is like science fiction, we will turn our attention to the aliens, vampires and bearded women which we have met along the way.

Last year, Birds Fuck in the Air endeavoured to address and think about the different textures of desire and its strange manifestations. Given the unforeseen imposition of the prohibition of touching, a distance was established that nonetheless could perhaps increase the idea of eroticism. And how lovers start to write to each other. We write a lot. Even distances become elastic and we can feel something touching us, that words and tongues walk all over us.

The task of writing, like desire, is perhaps always an unfinished task. One writes to continue writing. The stroller, by definition, is not going anywhere in particular, but is driven by the mere desire to walk. Going nowhere in order to maybe eventually arrive somewhere.

Among our desires as a group, this year we wish to recover one, to read a single book. Perhaps it is the right moment to think together about distances and the potential of strolling. This motor action of putting one step forward and then the other, to take our bodies to different places, opens up a horizon of possibilities and readings to discover the world through the body and the body through the world.

Imparted by: Marta van Tartwijk.

Moderated by Eva Garrido and Marta van Tartwijk

We avoid touching, fluids and drops of saliva. We cover our mouth, our nose and hands. Our reading group over the last few years has explored the oddities of the body and queer bodies. Now that reality is like science fiction, we will turn our attention to the aliens, vampires and bearded women which we have met along the way.

Last year, Birds Fuck in the Air endeavoured to address and think about the different textures of desire and its strange manifestations. Given the unforeseen imposition of the prohibition of touching, a distance was established that nonetheless could perhaps increase the idea of eroticism. And how lovers start to write to each other. We write a lot. Even distances become elastic and we can feel something touching us, that words and tongues walk all over us.

The task of writing, like desire, is perhaps always an unfinished task. One writes to continue writing. The stroller, by definition, is not going anywhere in particular, but is driven by the mere desire to walk. Going nowhere in order to maybe eventually arrive somewhere.

Among our desires as a group, this year we wish to recover one, to read a single book. Perhaps it is the right moment to think together about distances and the potential of strolling. This motor action of putting one step forward and then the other, to take our bodies to different places, opens up a horizon of possibilities and readings to discover the world through the body and the body through the world.

INTEMPERIE ***

Upcoming sessions: 24 September, 15 October, 5 November, 16 November and 17 December at CA2M and the Delirio bookstore in Móstoles. There we will plan a series of routes based on the book Wanderlust. Una historia del caminar, by Rebecca Solnit.

The only requisite for taking part is to have read the texts before each session and to take part with a participative spirit.

More information: educacion.ca2m@madrid.org / 912 760 227