Attendance open and free while places last

Attendance open and free while places last

The book 1502 Persons Facing the Wall is the outcome of the research and work undertaken around the Santiago Sierra exhibition being held at the CA2M museum until 2 February 2025. This publication brings together images of Sierra’s characteristic ‘inverse’ portraits and finds resonance in the profound, insightful texts by Alexis Callado, Rosa Martínez, Georg Imdahl, Juan Albarrán, José Luis Corazón, Pilar Villela and Gonzalo Abaha. The book immerses us in a striking picture of the artist and the questions he asks about power and its effects. The publication not only documents the exhibition but also becomes a tool of reflection on the networks shaping our realities.

The activity will feature Carlos TMori (designer), Juan Albarrán (author of one of the texts), Sandra Guimaraes (director of the Helga de Alvear Museum), Alexis Callado (exhibition curator) and Tania Pardo (director of the CA2M Museum).

The ‘Variation 90’ sound activity, directed by Ugo Martínez Lázaro, will be held after the launch. In this piece, the artist aims to manifest and allegorically question forms of social domination and alienation by evoking purification rituals that combine creativity and community resistance. Four experimental musicians take part acoustically in the space for forty minutes to explore the conceptual tensions in Sierra’s work. This collective event will feature Ugo Martínez, Arianna Cana Mackenzie, Doris Steinbichler and Narcoléptica.

Carlos TMori is a graphic designer of publications, visual artist, contemporary art curator and associate professor in the Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. He has a PhD in Fine Arts and two bachelor’s degrees in Fine Arts and Audiovisual Communication. As a graphic designer, he has worked for companies like una más una and La Fábrica and for cultural institutions like the Ministry of Culture, the Foreign Ministry, the DA2 Art Centre, the Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Centre and the MUSAC and Es Baluard museums.

Juan Albarrán is a professor in the Department of Art History and Theory at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His lines of research revolve around contemporary artistic practices and discourses, especially the relationships between art and politics in Spain since the transition to democracy, theories of photography and performance, and representations of torture in contemporary visual culture. He has published the books Disputas sobre lo contemporáneo. Arte español entre el antifranquismo y la postmodernidad (2019) and Performance y arte contemporáneo. Discursos, prácticas, problemas (2019) on these issues, and he has edited the collectively-written volumes Arte y transición (2012 and 2018), Llámalo Performance: historia, disciplina y recepción (with Iñaki Estella, 2015) and Ensayo/Error. Tentativas interartísticas en el Estado español (with Rosa Benéitez, 2018).

Alexis Callado has a degree in Art History from the University of Havana. His curatorial practice includes solo exhibitions with Carlos Pazos (La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana), as well as group exhibitions (Ante nuestros ojos, Loop Festival, Barcelona; Culto Digestivo, Conarte, Monterey) and collaborative projects like Lab Latino, Eighteenth Arte Paiz Biennial, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. He is an active promoter of exchanges between the Spanish and Latin American art scenes. He helped to choose, coordinate and produce publishing projects in graphic art, photography and sculptural objects for the company Arte y Naturaleza of Madrid. He has organised artistic projects in Sweden, Spain, France, Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Cuba. He partners with publications, museums, associations and centres specialised in contemporary art. He is a member of the Transatlantic Network and is a co-founder of The Curatorial Bureau.

Tania Pardo is the director of the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo of the Community of Madrid. She was the Fine Arts advisor of the Community of Madrid until July 2019. Before that, she was in charge of the Exhibition Department at Madrid’s La Casa Encendida. She has also served as a curator at MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León, and as the head of programming in the Laboratorio 987 space. She has been the director of projects at the Fundación Santander 2016 (2009–2010) and associate professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid. She has recently curated the Cristina Garrido show The Origin of Forms at the CA2M Museum, and Bird Machine Dream by Teresa Solar Abboud at the same museum along with Claudia Segura in a co-production with MACBA and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.

Sandra Guimarães (Oporto) is the director of the Helga de Alvear Museum in Cáceres. Her career in the visual arts spans around twenty years and includes posts like the Artistic Director of the Bombas Gens Centre d’Art (Valencia) between 2020 and 2023. Guimarães was the curator of the Serralves Museum (Oporto, Portugal) between 1998 and 2010 and the founding director of programmes at the Remai Modern (Saskatoon, Canada) between 2015 and 2019. At Serralves, she organised exhibitions of contemporary artists like Alvess, Artur Barrio, Thomas Hirschhorn, Cristina Iglesias, Barry Le Va and Dan Graham, among others, and co-curated the exhibition The 80’s. At the Remai Modern, she co-curated the programme prior to the museum’s opening, as well as its inaugural exhibition, Field Guide. Her training includes a master’s in Art History and Archaeology (specialisation in Modern and Contemporary Art) and a master’s in Cultural Management, both from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).

Ugo Martínez Lázaro merges art and the social sciences with an experimental approach to sound and music. He combines documentary research, texts, music and on-the-ground experiences in projects involving comics, installations and sound art. He co-directs Pirotecnia, a trans-disciplinary improvisation ensemble, which issued an LP with the Madrid Town Hall in 2022, a limited edition of 300 hand-painted records, including a comic he designed, which is available in Madrid and Mexico.

Arianna Cana Mackenzie is a Cuban musician and producer living in Spain. She plays multiple instruments, like the clarinet, the saxophone and the flute. She started studying clarinet at the age of ten in Camagüey and continued at the National Music School and Art College of Havana, where she has also taught. She has worked with the Camagüey Symphony and the ICRT. She conducted the Limpopo Youth Orchestra in South Africa, where she explored Afro-Cuban folklore in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.

Narcoléptica is the alias of Beatriz Vaca (Seville, 1985), who holds a bachelor’s in Fine Arts and is a self-taught musician. She has been creating experimental electro-acoustic music influenced by psychodelia, ambient music, noise and post-rock since 2006. She processes electric guitar, piano, synthesisers and voice to generate exciting sound experiences. She has issued her own records, contributed to soundtracks and performance pieces and stood out on tours around Europe and Latin America with powerful live presentations.

Doris Steinbichler (Vienna, 1965) is a vocal improvisational artist and creator of transmedia performances in Austria and Mexico. She has won awards in Mexico in performance and radio and has founded projects like ‘Remediar’, ‘Trinchera Ensemble’ and ‘4shrooms’. Her works explore vocal experimentation and multimedia and have been presented at important museums and festivals. In 2023, she celebrated thirty years of her career at Ex Teresa Arte Actual (CdMX), reaffirming her contribution to transdisciplinary art.

 

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WEDNESDAY 18 DECEMBER
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Presentation of the book on the occasion of the exhibition 1502 people face to the wall by Santiago Sierra, with the presence of Carlos TMori, Juan Albarrán, Sandra Guimaraes, Alexis Callado and Tania Pardo. After the presentation, we will have the sound activation ‘Variación 90’, directed by Ugo Martínez Lázaro and featuring Arianna Cana Mackenzie, Narcoléptica and Doris Steinbichler.

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LAUNCH OF THE BOOK 1502 PERSONS FACING THE WALL AND ‘VARIATION 90’ SOUND ACTIVATION BY UGO MARTÍNEZ LÁZARO.
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Picture: Roberto Ruiz. © Santiago Sierra. VEGAP, Madrid, 2024.

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18:30 - 20:00

On 1 October we will present the publication Ciudad Sur. Costa Marrón. Un recorrido del ladrillo al gresite en la construcción del tiempo libre [Southern City. Brown Coast: A Journey from Brick to Stoneware in Leisure Construction] at the CA2M Museum, the outcome of the programme by the same name which was held with the artist Irene de Andrés and La Liminal collective over the course of eight sessions between October 2023 and May 2024.

This space of shared experimentation has proposed an approach to Móstoles as post-tourist guides to travel through a series of architectures made up of layers of time, experiences and lived moments around what we call leisure, based on topics like tourism, the idea of the hero, public space, the centre-periphery binomial, neighbourhood struggles, speculation, displacements, gentrification and urban planning programmes (PAUs). 

Like an archive, the reporting by Blanca Sotos contains the multiple voices of those who participated in its third edition. The compilation of different materials—texts, poems, stories, transcribed conversations, key terms and concepts and maps of the walks—aims to reflect the sessions in which the participants visited swimming pools and sports centres, shopping centres and (anti-)shopping centres, cultural spaces, public parks and the town’s famous bullring.

This space will also serve to kick off this year’s edition, which begins in late October.

 

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1 OCTOBER 18:00
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Blanca Sotos collects, as an archive, the multiple voices of those who have participated in the third edition of Ciudad Sur in the publication Ciudad Sur. Costa Marrón. Un recorrido del ladrillo al gresite en la construcción del tiempo libre, the result of the programme of the same name carried out between 2023 and 2024.

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STORYTELLING PRESENTATION. SOUTHERN CITY. BROWN COAST
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Picture: Blanca Sotos.

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18:00 - 20:00

Ciudad Sur is a space of shared experimentation that was launched in 2021 and aims to inquire into the many facets and riches that generate a sense of belonging in cities around Madrid’s outskirts, taking Móstoles as its point of departure.

In this fourth edition of Ciudad Sur, green is going to take us through different landscapes that that have marked the history of Móstoles and of what Móstoles is not in this and other times. With spectral green, we’ll take leaps through time in each session, which will propose a look at more specific issues in this city south of Madrid while also projecting it on a more global scale and connecting with other neighbourhoods and places in order to share and debate different issues that particularly concern us in this tumultuous political and social context.

In this 2024–2025 edition, the coordinators will once again be: Irene de Andrés, the La Liminal collective and the reporting of Blanca Sotos, accompanied by Estrella Serrano, head of the Education and Public Activities department at the Museo CA2M. Registration will be opened on the website at least 15 days in advance for participation in each session. The sessions are held on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 pm. The dates for this year’s edition are:

  • 22 October
  • 12 November
  • 3 December
  • 21 January
  • 18 February
  • 18 March
  • 29 April
  • 20 May

Irene de Andrés was born in one of the most popular destinations, the island of Ibiza, which has inevitably led her to inquire into the evolution of the concept of leisure and the very meaning of travel throughout history, from the first colonists to tour operators. Spas, cruise ships and discos are key settings for the artist, who uses films, sculptures and graphic works to create journeys through time and around different waters, connecting different historical deeds that make us reflect on the tourist consumption model, which is especially designed for the working class.

La Liminal is a cultural mediation collective which inquires into the city and uses urban routes as a tool for analysing the public space collectively. Our goal is to experiment with the urban landscape to suggest new interpretations that focus on the stories that have been rendered invisible over time, those that we have not valued, in order to build alternative discourses that are based on collective learning and allow us to reappropriate the idea of public space as a common good.

Blanca Sotos (Madrid, 1978) thinks, reads, writes, translates, corrects, edits and publishes different textualities. She has worked as an editor in ministries, publishers and museums and has directed artbook fairs. She has also taught courses and delivered lectures at the Casa del Lector-Matadero, CA2M Museum, Casa Encendida, Sala Mendoza of Caracas, Centro Nacional de las Artes of Mexico, Centro Cultural de España in Mexico, Tenerife Espacio de Artes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Community of Madrid. She has directed marcablanca since 2018, and she and Ramón Mateos are in charge for the first edition of MiraLookBook, the International Meeting of Publications Specialising in Contemporary Culture. She is currently a professor at American University and is pursuing a PhD in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid.

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TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER
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Acceso notas adicionales

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Ciudad Sur is a space for shared experimentation in which, taking Móstoles as a starting point, we want to investigate the many faces and the many riches that generate a sense of belonging in the cities of the metropolitan area of Madrid. 

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CIUDAD SUR. GREEN SPECTRUMS: FROM THYME GREEN TO RADIOACTIVE GREEN
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Picture: Irene de Andrés.

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18.00 - 20:00

The universe is an indomitable force that cuts through our very existence and shapes our spirit. We are sorceresses, clairvoyants and mediums from birth, experts in the power of divination, clairvoyance and communication with the great beyond. If you’re reading this, fate and cosmic vibrations attracted you to this page so you could communicate with us. We can channel the essence of elements to attract positive energy and stave off the evil eye. We will reveal the answers to your existential questions and attract balance to your life to fill it with light and spiritual wellbeing. Request information, no strings attached.

You’re not on the wrong page. Cultural mediation can have a bit of divination, witchcraft and esotericism about it. Mediation for Five Handrails is a collaborative project between AMECUM and the CA2M Museum throughout the 2023-2024 academic year, where we rethought mediation itself in its context by putting the mediator’s body in the centre, amidst so many objects and words. This project is also regarded as an inquiry revolving around two lines of action at AMECUM: reflection and experimentation in mediation, good practices and other ways of seeing it; and bringing visibility and recognition to the figure of the cultural mediator.

Through this announcement, we want to invite you to the project presentation, where we’ll share the results of the inquiry conducted by AMECUM, which started with an invitation from the CA2M Museum to conduct visits to the exhibitions. Thus, we wanted to engage in an open act/performance/ritual to freeze time and record the fleeting footprints of our mediations, which still exist as living spectres.

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12 June
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Through this announcement, we want to invite you to the project presentation, where we’ll share the results of the inquiry conducted by AMECUM, which started with an invitation from the CA2M Museum to conduct visits to the exhibitions. Thus, we wanted to engage in an open act/performance/ritual to freeze time and record the fleeting footprints of our mediations, which still exist as living spectres.

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MEDIATIONS FROM THE GREAT BEYOND
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Picture: AMECUM (Mar Sáenz-López, Ximena Ríos, Jesús Morate, Alex Martínez y Ana Folguera).

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19:00- 21:00
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We are celebrating the arrival of summer on 14 June, and we want to invite you to participate. It will be a kind of celebration where you can remember and enjoy a different kind of evening. We are inviting you to participate in this festival, led by the artists with whom we’ve worked this year in the families project.

We’ll begin with Ángela Segovia and Luz Prado, with whom we’ve created new lullabies in the workshop entitled ‘Donde el tigre se come a los niños’ [Where the Tiger Eats the Children], this time to get mothers to sleep. We’ll close our eyes, and perhaps someone will whisper something in our ear. We may sing or recall the songs from our childhood, or perhaps not because they’ve changed and now there are other songs.

This happened with Ruiseñora in the workshop called ‘Las canciones y los dulces. Mi casa sin patio’ [Songs and Sweets. My House without a Courtyard], in which the popular Spanish children’s song ‘El patio de mi casa’ [The Courtyard of my House] will never be the same again. Now, after the workshops we’ve held, this popular courtyard has a tree that blossoms in the autumn, as well as a Jacuzzi, bologna and pickles.

After that, for dessert, we’ll have De fruta, pastel—we’ll sample the sweetness of dulce de leche, the glazed texture of Portillo pastries and the scent of the honey flowers that flavoured our childhood. And with the aftertaste of so many memories still in our mouths, after dinner we’ll listen to Ruiseñora, who will hold a concert on the museum’s terrace, where her songs will also seem familiar yet different.

  • 6 pm Toma mi mamó. Ángela Segovia and Luz Prado. (SUI)
  • 6:30 pm De fruta, pastel. (terrace)
  • 7 pm Ruiseñora concert (terrace)
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14 June
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We are celebrating the arrival of summer on 14 June, and we want to invite you to participate. It will be a kind of celebration where you can remember and enjoy a different kind of evening.

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CELEBRATION. SONGS AND SWEETS
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Picture: Maru Serrano.

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18:00 - 20:00

María Us is a Guatemalan activist who was a guerilla member during Guatemala’s armed internal conflict between 1960 and 1996.

As the outcome of the partnership between her and the artist Ana Gallardo, we are presenting a play in the form of a biographical act which tells the story of a forest that is both the memory of land struggles and the community’s means of sustenance, in an attempt to disinhibit and publicise the resistance of several generations of female bodies violated by their family members and fellow political activists, too.

MARÍA US

I am a woman with K'iche' roots. I speak my native language. Ever since I remember, I’ve worked the land a lot. I went to primary school in my community. What I remember from primary school: most of the teachers were Latino and they would hit and punish us over anything. And they forced us to study or speak Spanish. I liked to play and run, and I imagined that when I was a bit older, I would go far from my family to study and teach the children of my village. Everything changed when the government of Guatemala began to damage and murder. That was my dream no more. I think that schools should not be enclosed; children should not be inside four walls; they should study in a place where they coexist with nature. Someday I’ll teach children.

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8 MARCH 10:50
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Performance by María Us on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Tembló acá un delirio" by Ana Gallardo.

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PERFORMANCE BY MARÍA US IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANA GALLARDO
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Maria Us
TE BUSCO EN OTRO NOMBRE [I’M SEARCHING FOR YOU IN ANOTHER NAME]
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Portrait of María Us. Photograph by Gregorio Díaz. Courtesy of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO).

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20 minutes

Continuing with the line of work that got underway in 2014, El Cine Rev[b]elado is offering a series of activities around audiovisual performance and film’s interrelation with other disciplines. It is an examination of the cinematographic experience beyond the darkened room and the projected image, relating it and transforming it to activate an experience around the audiovisual that questions not only its own language but also its entire structure and conventional logistics.

On 9 February 2014, the first edition of El Cine Rev[b]elado got underway at the CA2M Museum. Ten years later, we are still examining the interrelation between film and other disciplines by proposing a dialogue that rebels against the conventions of traditional cinematography in a constant quest for new revelations that lead us to other places and activate critical thinking.

In this anniversary edition, we are suggesting a reflection on the image itself in terms of its presence and especially its absence, associating it with orality, the word, the text and gesture via four performances by artists who inquire into and work within these contemporary artistic practices.

In 2024, we celebrated one decade and six editions of El Cine Rev[b]elado along with the CA2M Museum and everyone who has attended it, turning this series into a benchmark within the live and performing arts in the Community of Madrid.

Curated by Playtime Audiovisuales (Enrique Piñuel Martín and Natalia Piñuel Martín).

PROGRAMME

Sunday 11 February 6:30 pm ǀ NON-IMAGE: A TALK ABOUT PERCEPTION ǀ David Bestué, Marta Azparren and Haize Lizarazu.

Sunday 18 February 6 pm ǀ WASHINGTON ǀ Matías Daporta.

Sunday 25 February 6:30 pm ǀ FORTY-SIX SECONDS ǀ Los Torreznos.

Sunday 3 March 6:30 pm ǀ THINGS SAID ONCE ǀ Esperanza Collado.

Note: Only the session on 18 February will begin at 6 pm.

Playtime Audiovisuals

This is a Madrid-based cultural management platform founded by Natalia Piñuel and Enrique Piñuel in 2007 which is devoted to contemporary artistic practices. They undertake curatorial projects for art centres and cultural institutions like the Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Azkuna Zentroa, MUSAC, Instituto Cervantes, Centro Cultural de España en México and Tabakalera. They have also worked as programmers for film and music festivals like (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña, Festival de Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada, Actual de Logroño and Experimenta Club de Madrid.

Their most prominent projects include ‘Visiones contemporáneas - últimas tendencias del cine y el vídeo en España’ (Contemporary visions – latest trends in film and video in Spain) at Domus Artium 2002 (DA2) in Salamanca since 2013; the multidisciplinary festival ‘She Makes Noise’ at Madrid’s La Casa Encendida since 2015, which disseminates the role of women and nonbinary identities in electronic music and audiovisual experimentation; and the performance biennial ‘El Cine Rev[b]elado’ at the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles since 2014. They co-founded ‘L.A. OLA’, the contemporary Spanish film festival sited in Los Angeles, New York and Mexico City from 2015 to 2018. They also worked as independent film distributors for twelve years. They regularly contribute to different media and work as teachers.

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DOMINGOS DEL 11 FEBRERO AL 3 MARZO
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Continuing with the line of work that got underway in 2014, El Cine Rev[b]elado is offering a series of activities around audiovisual performance and film’s interrelation with other disciplines.

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EL CINE REV[B]ELADO #6
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Picture: Tzuan Wu.

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18:30 - 21:00

AUTUMN 2024

It’s time to get our hands dirty to understand, on-site, what it means to keep soil alive. In this series, we’re going to teach you how to cultivate your own organic garden while also sharing tips and useful practices so you can make the most of its potential in the city and make our day-to-day lives more sustainable. We’ll begin by taking out the summer crops to make room for the autumn-winter ones.

Friday 20 September. Introduction to regenerative agriculture. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Our farm soils are increasingly degraded, and now’s the time to begin understanding how the earth that feeds our plants works in order to help to improve its fertility in our crops.

Friday 27 September. Hands dirty. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

It’s time to get our hands dirty to understand, on-site, what it means to keep soil alive. Plus we’ll begin to take out the summer crops in order to make room for the autumn-winter ones. In this series, we’ll teach you how to grow your own organic garden while also sharing tips and useful practices so you can make so you can make the most of its potential in the city and make our day-to-day lives more sustainable.

Friday 4 October. Know your soil. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

In this workshop, we’ll share tips about what our soil is like and what we can do to improve its fertility.

Friday 11 October. Seed harvest. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Growing our own seeds is a good way to protect biodiversity and not depend on having to buy them every year. We’ll offer advice on how to harvest and store seeds so you can use them next year.

Friday 18 October. Autumn planting. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

We’ll grow what we have decided together to plant so they can begin offering their yields in the upcoming months and we can enjoy healthy, ecological, local produce.

Friday 25 October. Let’s make recycled paper. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

But it’s not just any paper; it’ll be paper that you can plant to sow life after you use it.

Friday 8 November. Superstitions and beliefs about wild herbs. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Weeds versus herbs that cure. How much do we know about the properties and culture of harvesting the herbs that grow around us?

Friday 15 November. Moss-graffiti. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

We’ll paint with the moss growing in Móstoles to decorate our walls.

Friday 22 November. Pottery for indoor plants I. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Let’s spark your creativity through clay to create self-watering pots for your favourite plants.

Friday 29 November. Pottery for indoor plants II. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

We’ll finish our crafts and learn how to use our clay pots.

Friday 13 December. Christmas arrangements and wreaths. 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

We’ll make Christmas decorations to bedeck our houses during Christmastime using plastic-free materials.
 

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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN IN THE CENTRE

The spring planting season is beginning, and the possibilities are infinite. In this series, we’ll teach you how to grow your own organic garden while also sharing useful tips and practices to make the most of its potential in the city and make our day-to-day lives more sustainable.

Friday 5 April. Planting flowers in the garden. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

We aren’t always aware of how valuable flowers are in a vegetable garden, not only because of their unique aesthetics but also because of their medicinal properties and the importance of introducing them into our organic gardens to support our crops’ development.

Friday 12 April. Spring planting. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

Now that we’ve designed what we want to plant, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty.

Friday 19 April. Planting and reproducing herbs. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

Another major ally in the vegetable garden is herbs. In this session, we’ll learn how to care for them, reproduce them and use them for both our own benefit and their usefulness in the garden.

Friday 26 April. Let’s make our own fertiliser. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

What’s an organic garden without a few basic lessons on how to make compost? Compost is essential to our plants’ growth and a key point in making a sustainable vegetable garden.

Friday 9 May. Natural remedies against pests and diseases in the garden. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

It’s important to know how to prevent problems in the garden that could ruin your harvest, along with possible ways to deal with them in organic farming.

Friday 17 May. Cleaning without toxins. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

Our home is where we spend the most time over the course of the day, so it’s important to pay attention to the type of products we use to clean it to avoid accumulations of toxic products.

Friday 24 May. Wax wrappers. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

Continuing with the theme of sustainable homes, we’re offering a practical workshop to learn how to make wrappers that replace the typical tin foil or plastic wrap. Come try it and see how you’ll fall in love with this simple technique.

Friday 31 May. Do we know how to recycle? 11:30 am—1:30 pm

By now, recycling has been part of our lives for decades, but do we really know how to recycle each product we want to throw away?

Summer Cutting Exchange. 5 June. 6—8 pm

In this Cutting Exchange session, not only can you bring your small indoor plants, as always, but we also want to encourage you to bring garden flowers to exchange as well.

Friday 7 June. The garden in the summer. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

It is becoming harder and harder to deal with heat waves in our vegetable gardens. In this workshop, we’ll give you a few tips so that your garden yields the bounty you want without drying up along the way.

Friday 14 June. Solar lunch. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

As always, we’ll finish the year with a very special farewell meal. We’ll cook in our solar kitchens and enjoy a pleasant picnic with zero energy expenditure.

Xisela García Moure has been putting farming and sustainability techniques into practice in the city for more than ten years. A member of the Instituto de Transición Rompe el Círculo and a resident of Móstoles, she is aware of our city’s possibilities and interests. An expert in organic farming and permaculture, she has worked in different estates and urban agriculture projects, and this year she aims to put her knowledge into practice by focusing on a greener Móstoles that is more aware of this great town’s needs.


The possibilities afforded by learning about the nature around us include more than just growing our own food. These months, we’ll explore local plants to learn what benefits we can gain from them and to make our own everyday items by collecting and transforming them.

Friday 19 January.  Kokedama. Bring it from there to here. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

Kokedama is a Japanese technique of keeping plants at home without pots. In addition to being a beautiful way to keep plants indoors, they also offer us the chance to learn more about our flora and how to care for them.

Friday 26 January. Hanging plants. A macramé workshop. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

We plant lovers like to fill as many spaces as possible with greenery. Hanging plants are a good way to fill places that would otherwise be out of reach. Learn how to make hanging pots with macramé, and along the way learn a bit more about how to care for creeping or hanging plants.

Friday 2 February. Art to ‘dye’ for[AS1] . Understanding natural dyes. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

One way or another, the majority of colours we know of come from the flora around us. This is a fun way to make prints using a very simple technique for creating decorations with plant motifs.

Friday 9 February. Soap workshop. Care for your skin while caring for the planet. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

This is a simple workshop where you can make your own soap using natural materials and learn about homemade natural cosmetics.

Friday 16 February. Candles and air fresheners. Another way of viewing our home. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

Learn more about the properties of plants, this time with a look indoors. After all, that’s where we spend most of the day, so it should be a safe, toxin-free space.

Understanding where our food comes from and how it is produced is the first step towards a healthy, sustainable diet. Join us and learn how to make seedbeds and different organic farming techniques.

Friday 8 March. Drop by drop. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

It may not seem like it, but the time of year when water is increasingly scarce is approaching, so we have to use piped water to water our crops. Learning techniques to lower the amount of water needed for plants helps to lessen the hydric stress on our environment during the summertime.

Friday 15 March. A garden in the city. 11:30 am—1:30 pm

This workshop will answer questions and teach you how to grow plants in the city, an artificial system where we can all do our part to make it as natural as possible.

Wednesday 20 March. SPRING CUTTINGS. Exchange of vegetable seeds 6—8 pm

In addition to being able to bring your indoor plants, as always, at this cutting session we want to expand the possibilities by sharing vegetable seeds and seedlings for those who like growing their own food. Plus, we’ll also hold a mini-workshop on vegetable gardens on terraces.

Xisela García Moure has been putting farming and sustainability techniques into practice in the city for more than ten years. A member of the Instituto de Transición Rompe el Círculo (Break the Circle Transition Institute) and a resident of Móstoles, she is aware of our city’s possibilities and interests. As an expert in organic farming and permaculture, she has worked on different estates and urban farm projects, and this year she aims to put her knowledge into practice by committing to a greener Móstoles that is more aware of this large town’s needs.

 

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FROM 20 SEPTEMBER
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The possibilities afforded by learning about the nature around us include more than just growing our own food.

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Huerto
2024 MÓSTOLES PLANT LAB
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Picture: Sue Ponce.

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FRIDAY 11:30 - 13:30

A Mouthful of Tongues is a performance by the artist Stina Fors that will be performed at the CA2M Museum as part of the Un coro Amateur voice-creation workshop.

It is a performance that explores experimental vocal techniques and the power of communication via the mouth. Turning the mouth into a theatre, she uses techniques such as grunting, ventriloquism, tongue exercises and dinosaur calls, among others.

These techniques create a journey where multiple bodies and sounds meet in dissociated relationships. The body’s connection to its voice and sound is disrupted, leading to confusion and overlapping forms of communication. This work celebrates the mouth as a powerful channel for shaping, expressing, distorting, destroying and resurrecting communication. Audiences will experience fragmented stories, thoughts and emotions from other places to create surreal landscapes that sound familiar but are, at their core, alien.

Stina Fors, born 1989 in Gothenburg, is a choreographer, performer, drummer and vocalist. She studied choreography and performance at SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam. Stina’s passion for sound and voice led her to create a repertoire of solo performances, including her one-woman-punk-band: Stina Force. Her live performances often incorporate experimentation and improvisation as creative strategies. Stina is currently based in Vienna.

With support from Fabra i Coats: Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.

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2 NOVEMBER 20:00H
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A Mouthful of Tongues is a performance by the artist Stina Fors that will be performed at the CA2M Museum as part of the Un coro Amateur voice-creation workshop. It is a performance that explores experimental vocal techniques and the power of communication via the mouth. 

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Stina Fors
A MOUTHFUL OF TONGUES. PERFORMANCE BY STINA FORS
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Stina Fors. Tongues. Picture: Franzi Kreis.

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40 minutes

The fourteenth edition of the Autoplacer (‘Self-Pleasure’) Festival will be held on Saturday, the 23rd of September at the CA2M Museum from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will feature several performances on the Museum's terrace, including Infanta, Seggs Tape, Miss España, the artist Firmado, Carlota and Animadora, the winner of the Autoplacer 2022 Demo Contest, which will be held again this year in October.

There will also be techno sets playing in the SUI (Sala de Usos Infinitos on the ground floor), featuring a concert by Stephen Please and the special participation of Radio Relativa, a community, independent and experimental online broadcaster, which will be in charge of the Dancefloor's techno music programming, as well as sets by Feet & Gostoso (the creators of Radio Relativa), Loyalty XIX, Gideo and Emilia Grima.

Autoplacer 2023 will also feature various guest projects related to self-publishing, design, illustration and comics in the entrance hall, accompanied by the music of various festival collaborators on the turntables.

PROGRAMMING FOR SATURDAY, 23RD OF SEPTEMBER FROM 12 P.M. TO 9 P.M.

- Featuring concerts by:

  • 12:30 FIRMADO, CARLOTA
  • 13:30 ANIMADORA
  • 17:00 SEGGS TAPE 
  • 18:00 MISS ESPAÑA
  • 19:00 INFANTA

- Dancefloor with Radio Relativa:

  • 15:00 STEPHEN PLEASE LIVE
  • 16.00 FEET & GOSTOSO
  • 18:00 LOYALTY XIX | GIDEO 
  • 19:30 EMILIA GRIMA

- Guest projects

LA INTEGRAL | TURBULENTAS EDICIONES | CUIR MADRIZ | AUTSAIDER CÓMICS | LA GRANJA EDITORIAL | KIT CANÍBAL | PRIETO & CUERVO

- FREE ENTRANCE UNTIL FULL CAPACITY IS REACHED - 

cartel Autoplacer

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SATURDAY 23th SEPTEMBRE
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The fourteenth edition of the Autoplacer Festival arrives on Saturday 23 September at the CA2M Museum from 12 to 9 p.m., with several performances on the terrace and in the SUI. Autoplacer 2023 will also feature the presence of various guest projects related to self-publishing, design, illustration and comics in the entrance hall, accompanied by the music of several festival collaborators on the turntables.

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Autoplacer 2023
AUTOPLACER FESTIVAL 2023
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Design: Valeria Xu.

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FROM 12:00 TO 21:00H