Enrolment free

Led by: Pastora Filigrana

With the participation of: Pedro G. Romero, Teatro del Barrio, Silvia Agüero, Tania Pardo, Sandra Carmona, Alba Hernández, Noelia Cortés, Cristina Trinidad Reyerta, Isaki Lacuesta, Paloma Zapata, Pablo Vega, Daniel Baker, Malgarzota Mirga-Tas and Inés Plasencia.

The Image Study Workshops are devoted to collectively reflecting on the theory, practice and semantic openings and contemporary demarcations of visual cultures. They are organised as debate forums, seminar and lectures accompanied by different artistic proposals.

These workshops aim to reflect on the image given throughout art history of the Roma, from the stereotypical image of the Romani woman and its appearance in visual culture to the Romani man represented as the heir of the Lorca’s reconstruction.

With this activity, we pause to think about the social importance of Romani visual culture and the analysis of these interpretations that bring us closer to the reality of the Roma in the twenty-first century. Different knowing and expert voices on the topic suggest a defolklorisation that is capable of breaking taboos and bringing us closer to a new way into the meanings inherent in Romani culture. This new understanding of Romani visuality offers a new picture of the social relations surrounding this people like nomadism, singing, marginality and folklore, all of which are so closely associated with this community.

PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER

• 5–5:15 pm Workshop Presentation. Tania Pardo, director of the CA2M Museum, and Estrella Serrano, head of the Education and Public Activities Department at the CA2M Museum.
• 5:15–6 pm Opening lecture: Counter-Images of the Roma. Pastora Filigrana.
• 6–7:15 pm Lecture: Defolklorising Flamenco, that is, the Roma. Pedro G. Romero. Colloquium with the audience.
• 7:15–7:45 pm Break.
• 7:45–8:45 pm Dramatised monologue: I’m Not Your Romani Woman, Silvia Agüero and Teatro del Barrio.

During the course of the workshops, you can track the process of Cristina Trinidad Reyerta making her artistic installation in the Museum’s foyer.

FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER

• 11 am–12:15 pm Lecture: Living Romani: Between Artistic Bohemia and La Libertá. Tania Pardo. Colloquium with the audience.
• 12:15–12:30 pm Break.
• 12:30–2 pm Round table: Images of the Roma from Romani Women Creators. Sandra Carmona (illustrator and editor). Alba Hernández (Romanja Feminist Library). Noelia Cortés (writer). Moderator: Pastora Filigrana. Colloquium with the audience.
• 2:30–4 pm Break for lunch.
• 4–5:15 pm Round table: De-folklorising the Roma in the Cinema. Isaki Lacuesta (film director), Paloma Zapata (film director) and Pablo Vega (film director).
• 5:15–7:45 pm Screening: La Leyenda del Tiempo [The Legend of Time]. (Film by Isaki Lacuesta), Malegro Verte [Glad to See You] (Short film by Nüll García), Proud Roma (Short film by Pablo Vega).
• 7:45–8:30 pm - Colloquium with the audience.

SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER

• 11 am–12 pm Lecture: Changing Visions: Gypsy Visuality and the Romani Aesthetic. Daniel Baker.
• 12–1 pm Lecture Dr Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, deputy director of the European Roma Art and Culture Institute (ERIAC).
• 1:30–2 pm Conversation with Daniel Baker and Dr Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka. Moderator: Inés Plasencia.
• 2–2:30 pm Closure of the workshop and presentation of the artistic installation Breaking the Folklore by Cristina Trinidad Reyerta in the Museum’s foyer.

Alexis Callado, the curator of the Santiago Sierra exhibition 1502 Persons Facing the Wall, invites us to accompany him on a tour focused on works that question representation and power, in which the curator will share the origin of the project and its different phases.

The artist’s first solo show in Madrid, it revolves around one of his hallmark resources: portraits of people with their backs facing us, where the subject’s identity is nullified, stripping them of their individuality. Through this approach, Sierra invites spectators to reflect on issues like immigration, exploitation, exclusion and war.

On the tour of the show, participants will reflect on the dynamics of control in art and contemporary society and explore how Sierra connects his work with minimalism, conceptual art and performance from the 1960s and 1970s, using these languages to reveal the power structures permeating the contemporary world.

The tour will also address the contrast between the Western vision of representation, focused on identity and visibility, and the Eastern perspective, which values absence and neutrality as spaces for new interpretations. Through this guided tour, visitors will be able to analyse how Sierra’s black-and-white images and videos reveal raw realities that challenge the public and generate profound awareness of the power dynamics that operate in art and in the world.

Dates:

Saturday 19 October 12 noon

Saturday 14 December at 12 noon

Register in advance by phoning 91 276 02 21 or emailing ca2m@madrid.org 

We are suggesting a group tour through the museum’s exhibitions to discover what happens in each encounter. It is a collective experience open to all types of groups on Tuesday’ and Wednesday mornings. Every tour will be different, and we’ll design it as we go, generating unexpected dialogues.

We’ll explore two exhibitions on our tour. The first is Busy Looking for Soursops, the show by the Venezuelan artist Sol Calero, who invites us to immerse ourselves in her colourful world. Her work revolves around the concept of movement and the fact of being born in one place and inhabiting another.

Migrating and being a migrant is a condition that connects us with the 1502 Persons Facing the Wall, the exhibition by Santiago Sierra, who is known for his critical eye. His work is immersed in the social reality and conditions of production and reception, and he confronts us with what often remains hidden and silenced. The ‘radicality’ of his works challenges spectators to reflect and debate.

Targeted at groups, associations and organisations.

Free of charge. Register in advance by phoning 91 276 02 27 or emailing educacion.ca2m@madrid.org.

‘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.