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At the start of every academic year, Museo CA2M opens the new season with its Performance and Education Workshop, a space for learning, exchange and research aimed at teachers, artists, mediators, cultural workers and anyone interested in the relationships between education, culture, territory and artistic practice.

The workshop marks the beginning of a conversation that we hope will accompany us throughout the year. A space to share questions, try out methodologies and begin to identify some of the concerns that will run through our programmes and projects. A time for collective reflection on how we inhabit educational and cultural spaces and how we relate to the social, institutional, material and ecological environments that sustain them.

This workshop invites us to collectively explore the poetics and politics of negotiating atmospheric and climate-related fears, through the analysis of administrative and archival texts and the ways they are preserved and catalogued. We will explore how we name, classify and manage what we perceive as threats and sources of uncertainty: heat, floods, drought and hailstorms. Through exercises in reading, rewriting and giving voice to documents from a more or less distant—or more or less recent—past, we will explore the poetics of the languages of bureaucracy, religion, magic and technology, delving into their inner workings and navigating our own contradictions.

Led by Mariona Moncunill, artist, educator and researcher. Her artistic practice typically responds to the specific context in which it takes place, exploring how symbolic value is created and the epistemological sediments that shape contemporary social and cultural conventions. In this way, she has explored different fields of knowledge, including botany, museography, library science and the measurement of time and length. In recent years, she has focused much of her work on exploring the social construction of nature through specific case studies, whether institutions, social practices or particular territories.

Reading books by the pool, a special summer edition, making books that can survive a day at the swimming pool, reading underwater, wearing diving goggles to read, a book for applying sun cream, a sudoku puzzle book, a book for fanning yourself, a book for topping up your tan, a book for looking intriguingly intellectual on the lawn, a book for shielding yourself from the sun...

What is a book? What is a library? What does it mean to publish? And does any of this have anything to do with summer? We think it does.

For four days, we will transform the museum and its surroundings into a laboratory for editorial creation and bibliographic reflection. We will explore the practice of making books, reflect on the relationship between books and summer, and collectively publish and create a small library to see us through the warmer months.

As we do every summer, we invite you to join this workshop led by Conchi Tabares and Iria Pero, two creators whose work centres on self-publishing and the fanzine universe.

Conchi Tabares (2000) is an artist, researcher and designer. Her work focuses primarily on reading as a hybrid concept that extends beyond literature into other formats, and on the ways literary forms are transformed when opened up to alternative modes of reading. Language, chance and attentiveness to everyday phenomena are among the elements that currently shape her practice. Since 2022, she has co-coordinated Pichi Fest, a self-managed transfeminist fanzine festival, together with fellow zinesters, and many of her zines can be found on her Instagram profile, @_conchipcion. She studied Fine Arts and Comprehensive Design and Image Management at Rey Juan Carlos University, and is currently completing an MA in Art Research and Creation at Complutense University of Madrid. 

Iria Pero (2001) is an arts mediator and visual artist. Iria's principal interest lies in working with discarded materials and exploring the notions of waste, residue and noise in contemporary culture through a variety of published formats. A graduate in Fine Arts from Complutense University of Madrid, Iria is currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture. Iria publishes fanzines under the name Peromedapereza. Iria also regularly runs self-publishing workshops and keeps a small fanzine library inside a dollhouse. Currently, Iria coordinates Index(a)1.1, an amateur fanzine cataloguing group at the Marcablanca community library.

Have you ever stopped to think about how the bonds between people are manifested? Friendship, family and romantic relationships, needs and plans, desire... The emotional fabric is packed with feelings and concepts that become invisible lines leading and connecting us, constantly tightening and slackening, sometimes without us even noticing.

On this occasion we propose to enrich the research project Un juego de cuerdas y sus 12 leyes [A String Game and Its 12 Laws] with a collective game dynamic in which we’ll explore these and other bonds in a palpable, sensory way through knots and links.

We invite you to get tangled up with us and let go of the rope with the artist and researcher Inés Sorlat, who will use her practice to move the strings. Thus begins Intermittences, with the focus on what is there but might not always be there, on what is tightened but might also slacken.

Inés Sorlat (Madrid, 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist and Audiovisual Communication graduate of the Carlos III University in Madrid. Her work combines audiovisual narrative, installation and sewing, investigating the bonds between people and the invisible laws that uphold them. This exploration led to Un Juego de Cuerdas y sus 12 leyes, a series of twelve conceptual installations that reflect on relationships as a single interconnected system.

In 2025 she presented the first two pieces, Ley 8 and Ley 11, and she is currently developing the following works in the series, visually representing the system and its strings, and, one by one, reinterpreting their laws.

Donde Continúan las Cosas is a group formed by past participants of our programmes for young people, united by their interest in culture, art and community work. The project aims to redefine relationships with the museum, fostering the self-management of the group members and involving them in the definition of programmes for young people.