Anyone interested

Curated by Jesús Alcaide, Néstor García Díaz and Víctor Aguado Machuca.

Bogomir Doringer, Chenta Tsai AKA Putochinomaricón, Carles Congost, Ana Laura Aláez, Joan Morey, The Congosound, Magui Dávila, Nayare Soledad Otorongx, Gema Marín Méndez, Manuel Segade, Snap Bitch! X Don’t hit a la negrx (Galaxia, Wat3rmami AKA Donovan Toxic), Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló research group (Bartolomé Limón, Rubén Serna and María Sánchez), DIDDCC working group (Andrea Martín, Manuela Muñoz, Clara Neches, Manuel Padín, Natalia de la Piedra and Rita Zamora).

The idea behind the Image Symposium is to provide a space for collective thinking on the theory, practice, semantic openings and contemporary demarcations of visual cultures, taking the form of a forum for debate, a symposium and workshops, and an open call for research projects.

The point of departure for this year’s symposium is the work of a research group at CA2M which has sourced in Manel Clot’s texts a discursive output which has left us, more than anachronisms, reminiscences of the 1990s, like, for instance, underscoring the connections between the concept of club culture and art practice; or inventing and implementing appreciative and operative categories, where none previously existed, for the consideration of new expressive repertoires and new meaningful registers that would become symptomatic of a time and a place. In fact, the title given to this year’s symposium comes from Musée des phrases (2003-2015) by Manel Clot and the image is by Carles Congost, taken in Manel Clot’s studio with the assistance of Daniel Riera; in it one can see a young Fine Art student called Joan Morey.

The symposium is spread over three days with a full programme of conversations, reading sessions, performative lectures and listening sessions, which will help to situate a number of issues concerning club culture but, at once, they will also respond to the demand to expand the field of given representations of subjectivity, of the fluctuation of its value, of the position of desire; of recognizing possibilities of dissidence with regards social distribution or other relationships between the body and temporality.

PROGRAMME:

19 May. Impure Scenifications (1)
12:00–13:30 Research group at Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló. Reading session on the exhibition and archive for Hypertronix, by Manel Clot.
16:00–17:00 Magui Dávila: Escribir una session (Writing a Session), DJ session and performative lecture.
17:00–17:30 Manuel Segade: Hacer noche (Making the Night), presentation.
17:30–19:30 Ana Laura Aláez, Joan Morey, Carles Congost and Jesús Alcaide: Un soplo en el corazón (A Heart Murmur), selection of frequencies around Manel Clot.
19:30–20:30 The Congosound, DJ selector.

20 May. Dance this Mess around (2)
12:00–13:30 DIDDCC working group: Party and Protest, expanded reading session.
16:00–16:30 Néstor García Díaz: Dance this Mess Around, presentation.
16:30–18:00 Bogomir Doringer: From I Dance Alone to Dance of Urgency, lecture.
18:00–19:00 Manel Clot: Musée des phrases, video-screening.
19:00–19:30 Gema Marín Méndez: Notas a una/sola voz (Notes in one/single voice), performative lecture.
19:30–20:30 Cute aggression, DJ session.

21 May. Sonic, somatic fictions (3)
12:00–13:30 Shared reading session on More Brilliant that the Sun, by Kodwo Eshun.
16:00–16:30 Víctor Aguado Machuca: “Éxtasis; faktura subjetiva”, presentation.
16:30–17:30 Nayare Soledad Otorongx: Cuerpxs que da pánico soñar (Bodies we don’t dare to imagine), performance.
17:30–19:00 Galaxia, Wat3rmami AKA Donovan Toxic: Snap Bitch! X Don’t hit a la negrx.

INFORMATIVE NOTE:

Prior enrolment is required to attend the symposium. Attendance at individual sessions may be allowed although priority will be given to persons previously enrolled. We would also ask all persons enrolled to please be punctual. Ten minutes after the beginning of the first session of the afternoon, any remaining places will be given to persons who have turned up for the session without previous enrolment.

Bogomir Doringer’s lecture is in English with simultaneous translation. All morning reading sessions will be held in the Aula, and the afternoon activities in SUI. The audience will be invited to take part after each conversation and at the end of each session and each day’s symposium.

Certificates of attendance will be issued to enrolees who attend 80% of the afternoon’s session. The morning sessions are voluntary and free while places last, but will not be taken into account when issuing certificates of attendance.

A sustainable city is based not just on individual good practices but also on collective projects that give shape to a large mass of people conscious of the needs of this new era. It is important to re-establish community bonds, to find points in common and to recover the social weave that had characterized Móstoles for so many years and which had led to so many big achievements for its people. With this purpose in mind, CA2M’s Community Sustainability Laboratory has programmed a special day for exchanging cuttings and indoor plants. A place where local citizens can meet up, exchange know-how and barter.

Bring along any cuttings or plants you no longer want, in a small pot with earth, or in a container wrapped in damp tissue. Exchange them for other ones you want.

Wednesday 23 March. Drop by any time between 4:30 to 8:30 pm.

See instructions below on how to make cuttings.

We look forward to seeing you!

Even if we wanted to, we cannot kill our dead. There are certain tasks that the dead summon us to do. And so, we carry them with us in our day to day lives, in small gestures or flashes of very intense emotion. How to share the losses, that which remains bound to us, the strange impermanence, that eagerness to bury our hearts, the confusing and incessant buzzing blue pain? Mourning is a political task, it builds community, it is a ritual of caring that reproduces life. Mourning unites us. I often talk to my friends about this, I believe that our grandmothers were the last ones to truly understand that death was part of life. They knew how to reconnect with the soil, and now perhaps it is time for us to create other rituals, other ways of being, of living and of dying.

Between January and June 2021, Marta Echaves carried out extensive research into mourning, its representations, politics and rituals. She was accompanied by the choreographer Esther Rodriguez Barbero, the artist Julia Montilla and the researcher Maria Rosón. From that series of meetings and conversations emerge certain questions and approaches which have shaped the programme of public activities That Blue Buzzing Sound.

Understanding research as a way of accompanying other projects that also address our contemporary relationship to death and grieving, That Blue Buzzing Sound focuses on sharing practices and poetics that make it possible to grasp experiences when language fails us and the end is centre-stage.

Marta Echaves. She is the coordinator of activities in Spain for the publishing house Caja Negra. She has written for artists' catalogues and publications and is, alongside María Ruido and Antonio Gomez Villar, the editor of Working Dead. Post-work scenarios (La virreina at the Centre of the Image). Interested in writing and historical research, her projects aim to revisit images and metaphors by focusing on intimate experiences and anecdotes as detonators of poetic memory devices. “La Contrarrevolución de los Caballos” was an investigation into heroin and HIV in the context of Spanish neoliberalism, which took on various formats and was shown in places such as Can Felipa, MACBA, MNCARS, ARCO... More recently, she presented her research into post-dictatorship paranormal memory with the conference "De las Acechanzas" (On the Hauntings) at the Domingo Festival.

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The Autoplacer festival, the self-publishing music event held every year at CA2M since 2010, is back again this year on Saturday 27 November. This year the festival will focus on defending the creative and relational potential of the underground Spanish scene and its discourses in a series of concerts by independent groups and soloists.

The festival returns again lending support to various guest invited projects that promote concepts of self-publishing, self-distribution and collaborative networks in disciplines like comics, fanzines and illustration, among others.

In addition, Autoplacer and CA2M are once again organizing the Autoplacer Roughcuts competition. Growing in stature with every passing year, it is a platform presenting a major pool of talented young groups starting out on the scene, lending greater visibility to the diversity of music beyond the codes set in place by the industry and formula radio.

In such a fraught moment for live music as the present, projects like Autoplacer, in which institutions and the music scene join forces around concepts such as care, respect and mutual support, provide a big stimulus for contemporary creation. Let’s say it loud and proud: Long live Autoplacer!

Curated by Autoplacer/Sindicalistas

 AUTOPLACER 2021 – SATURDAY 27 NOVEMBER 12:30 - 20:00

12:30 – 15:00 NAVXJA, CABIRIA, XENIA

16:30 – 20:00 AMOR BUTANO, OKOMO, VIUDA, LUZ FUTURO

ADMISSION

Due to the characteristics of the venue in which the Autoplacer 2021 festival is being held, admission will be by prior enrolment only.

Enrolment opens on Tuesday 23 November at 12 noon. Forms are available on this webpage.

Enrolment is personal and non-transferable.

You can enrol for the morning and/or afternoon sessions:

Morning: 12:30 - 15:00 with Navxja, Cabiria and Xenia.

Afternoon: 16:30 - 20:00 with Amor Butano, OkOmo, Viuda and Luz Futuro.

Please be punctual.

Doors open between 12:00 and 12:30 for the morning session and between 16:00 and 16:30 for the afternoon session.

Doors close at the beginning of each session.

AMOR BUTANO

Raquel, Sara y Diego forman Amor Butano en Valencia a finales de 2019, un grupo de pop efervescente con reminiscencias a Mecano o a Vocoder. Conjugando el amor y la física, construyen canciones divertidas con un poso de pesar y nostalgia, un contraste musical que bien podría ser una metáfora de la vida misma.

Vídeo “Entropía”

Disco “Benimaclet” en Bandcamp

CABIRIA

Eva Valero es la mente que se esconde detrás de ese felliniano sobrenombre que es Cabiria y la responsable del disco “Ciudad de las dos lunas”(2021, El Volcán Música) un viaje personal, una toma de conciencia de las capacidades propias y una autoafirmación como artista pop. Donde antes había timidez y socarronería ahora hay canciones redondas y brillantes, donde antes había susurros y ambientes vaporosos ahora hay una voz rotunda que nos guía por un universo pop tan variado en sus referencias como redondo en su factura. Eva ha dejado de ser nuestra Cabiria, un hito underground, para convertirse en una de las grandes artistas de pop electrónico del país, y todo sin perder ni un ápice de su frescura o su personalidad.

Disco “Ciudad de las dos lunas” en Bandcamp

Video “Después de medianoche”

LUZ FUTURO

Luz Futuro es el proyecto musical del productor canario Daniel Benavides. Artista etéreo y avant-garde, transmite sensaciones encontradas entre el nuevo romanticismo y la electrónica más experimental. En su estética sonora está presente el post punk andrógino y su música está influenciada por el new wave de los 80's, el ambient y el electro.

Ha publicado este año su primer EP “Falsos Techos” con el joven sello americano Beso de Muerte Records y mítico el sello alemán Young & Cold Records. Haciendo justicia con su sonido atemporal, recorriendo el pop de la nueva ola y el post punk, con letras directas y melodías nostálgicas.

Luz Futuro en Bandcamp

Vídeo “La cura”

NAVXJA

Artista multidisciplinar, documentalista y parte de la nueva escena bedroom desde una visión racializada y disidente. La cantante afrodescendiente Naomy Salge ha sorprendido con su manera personal de acercarse al pop desde todas sus vertientes, pero sobre todo con una sinceridad que duele en el corazón.

Disco “Amor de verano” en Bandcamp

Vídeo “Mi chica”

OKOMO - Ganador Concurso de Maquetas Autoplacer 2020

OkOmO es un músico con toda una vida de experiencia en multitud de bandas del underground capitalino, inclinándose por la experimentación sonora extrema y sin complejos en la mayoría de proyectos en los que ha participado. Sin embargo para esta nueva aventura ha dejado atrás todo lo complicado e intrincado de sus etapas anteriores y se ha volcado en un sonido directo, sencillo y melódico con cierta querencia por el lo-fi.

Acaba de grabar su primer álbum, con el que promete sofisticar y refinar los sonidos expuestos en la demo ganadora de la última edición del Concurso de Maquetas Autoplacer.

Canción “Fuera” en Bandcamp

VIUDA

Con una inspiración casi demoníaca, cuatro asturianas han juntado su talento y brujería para dar a conocer Viuda. Decimos talento porque mezclar punk oscuro con copla no es fácil, pero ellas lo hacen como nunca antes se había oído. Puedes comprobarlo escuchando desde ya mismo su primer EP homónimo: cinco canciones de furia y puro veneno, traídas para corromper todas las almas puras que se presten a la ceremonia. Las letras pasarían perfectamente por conjuros y hechizos basados en la rabia y la perversión; sin dejar de lado su música imponente y acelerada, para que la fuerza y la magia de este cuarteto asturiano no pase desapercibida.

EP “Viuda” en Youtube

Viuda en Bandcamp

XENIA

Xenia, una joven de 20 años que ha demostrado adaptarse perfectamente a dicha definición explorando sonidos y letras en su música capaces de crear una atmósfera que mezcla los sonidos que irrumpieron en la década de los 80, así como el synth pop o new wave, con elementos de actualidad.

Vídeo “Desde la Luna”

EP “Esfera” en Bandcamp

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.