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Inspired by Dorothy Iannone’s A Cookbook, made in 1969, the writer María Arranz proposes a workshop aimed at the creation of a collective recipe book. Based on a survey of the literary and artistic works of different creators who have made cooking a focal point of their lives, Arranz invites us to take part in a space designed to identify connections between the world of food and other fields like creation and writing that combine art, food and life.

In A Cookbook, Dorothy Iannone shows us that a collection of recipes can reflect not only daily life but the author’s existential musings. While a recipe book can be intimate and introspective, it also speaks to us of domestic and popular culture, of the time and place in which it was compiled. On loose sheets of paper, in notebooks or in published works; with or without drawings; with notes in the margins; with stains and splashes or pristine; inserted with tips honed from years of trial and error, or with precise instructions that leave no room for improvisation. A recipe book reveals many things and therefore demands attentive reading, much more attentive than has historically been granted to these texts. In this workshop we’ll talk, reflect on, discuss and, above all, read recipes, relating these readings to Dorothy’s work and those of other artists and authors who have also found a unique form of expression and thought in cooking.

María Arranz is a writer and a journalist specialising in cultural, feminist and gastronomic topics. A regular contributor on gastronomy to media like El País, she is the author of El delantal y la maza (Col&Col ediciones), an essay about the role of women in the kitchen from a feminist perspective. Among many other interests, in 2013 she founded FUET Magazine, which examines the relationships between food and culture, and she was a member of Cocinar Madrid, a multidisciplinary collective that uses cooking as a tool of anthropological research.

MATINEES: EXPANDED CINEMA FOR FAMILIES 2026

Matinees is an open, flexible space in which cinema expands: the cinematographic experience spills out of the screen and invites your active participation, regardless of your age.

The white cinema screen—that flat, opaque surface—is also a place to plunge into, to dive down to unsuspected depths. It can spill out of the sides, splashing and soaking everything around it, rising up to the ceiling and raining down from above. The images can adopt unimagined forms: unspeakable, immeasurable. We can watch them from a seat, or alternatively lying down, arm in arm, scattered across the room. Even with our eyes closed. We can touch the light, feel its colours, listen to it like a whisper, like a song. And we can do all of this together, in a room with no seats, no tickets and no popcorn. We believe there are many ways to watch cinema that have yet to be discovered. To explore them, we’ve invited various artists and filmmakers to imagine what those ways are and what other type of cinema has yet to be experienced. The Matinees take place on Saturday mornings and each session will be different: a proposal, an experiment, a challenging experience. We invite you to come with your best friends, your siblings, sons, daughters, dads, mums or grandparents and discover cinema like you have never imagined it. You’ll find all the details and session times here very soon, but for now here are the sessions dates and guests.

PROGRAMME 

28 FEBRUARY | MAIDER FERNÁNDEZ IRIARTE

7 MARCH | MARTA AZPARREN IN COLLABORATION WITH TANIA ARIAS WINOGRADOW

14 MARCH | GÉNESIS VALENZUELA AND MANUEL MUÑOZ 

21 MARCH | ANGIE DE LA LAMA

TIMES: 11.30 am** Time subject to change

Everyone is welcome at the Matinees. We want this programme to be a place for sharing, regardless of age. Babies, boys and girls, young people, adults and seniors: come and join us. You’re free to enter and exit the room during the sessions.

Since 2009 we have been running a performance workshop for teachers, educators and artists interested in education. The week-long activity consists of working with the body to forge collaborative ties and reflect collectively with the Museo CA2M educators, participating teachers and guest artists on educational processes and the performativity of education.

This year we’ve invited the art duo formed by Libia Castro (Spain) and Olafur Olafsson (Iceland), who started their partnership in the Netherlands in 1997. Working with a wide variety of media, their practice is collaborative, conceptual and cross-disciplinary.

The duo’s interventionist projects often involve other people. Over the years, they have teamed up with activist groups and invited other artists, professionals and people from different backgrounds to work with them on art and activism initiatives, creating temporary and flexible collectives governed by a “Do It Together” approach.

They have presented their work on rooftops, in public squares, on building facades, at socio-cultural centres, on radio and television, in living rooms and kitchens. They have also taken part in festivals like the 8th Havana Biennale, Manifesta 7, the 54th Venice Biennale and the 19th Sydney Biennale, and in exhibitions at venues like La Casa Invisible and the Van Abbemuseum. In 2009 they received the third prize of the Dutch Prix de Rome award for their video Lobbysts, and in 2021 they won the Icelandic Art Prize for their polyphonic performance and video In Search of Magic: A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.

More details about the workshop will be available here soon.

Previous performance workshops have featured Los Torreznos, Tania Bruguera, Pere Faura, Itziar Okariz, Norberto Llopis, Nilo Gallego, Dora Garcia, Jiri Kovanda, Olga Diego and Jorge Satorre.