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Our interest in these temporary encounters is to focus on the construction of knowledge through experience, rather than on the transmission of knowledge. We will start from the viewers’ point of view and how they see art at present. This will allow us to turn this time into a space for encounter in which the participants are not objects receiving an education, but subjects who collectively develop a critical discourse on contemporary works of art. In this way, visits will focus on a limited number of works in order to give rise to a more profound and open reflection, thus avoiding the more superficial exhibition itinerary and the idea of a single discourse. 

In recent years, the department has been working together with the educational community at Federico García Lorca CEIP. This experience has allowed us to rethink the ways in which relationships are established between the school and the museum. We are aware of the importance of creating a working group to develop innovative practices related to demanding, committed and long-lasting art education.

This school year, we will continue to investigate together through the Artist at Work Here programme, in which artists carry out a project in collaboration with the school community: teachers, pupils and families.

Given the phasing out of art education in formal education, it seems essential to us to continue to carry out these projects in educational institutions as tools with which to confront the prevailing attitudes. One of the basic aims of this project is to reflect on the power of the long-term projects carried out by artists to affect us. In this sense, we are interested in investigating how artists can affect the educational institution and, conversely, how educational institutions, state schools in particular, can give back to artists and the very education department in terms of experience.

This year, Belén Rodríguez will be the artist invited to carry out a project with the pupils of Federico García Lorca CEIP in Móstoles.

Last year, together with the boys and girls who reside at the Móstoles Children’s Home, fantasised about making a home inside our own tree house. We imagined what its shape would be like, what we would do inside it and what would happen around it.  

Some time later, in a conversation with the teachers at the Pablo Neruda UFIL, we saw the importance of learning by doing, and we assessed the need to turn educational spaces into places where real-life projects can be put into practice. We then thought it would be exciting to involve the Carpentry Department at the college in the construction of the house imagined by that group of children. 

We at the education department like to think that we can all take part in the construction of the world around us, so in January we will begin a process of collaboration with both groups to conceive, design and make this powerful image possible. 

For this purpose, we invited the designer Curro Claret to activate and guide us through this process. A long-distance dialogue that aims to rethink the idea of home and expand the concept of home and family. This creative process will be completed in early summer with the installation of the little house in the garden of the children’s home. 

Curro Claret. As a designer, Curro Claret’s interest lies in how people can participate in defining and building their environment by making use of their circumstances in a balanced and respectful way. His work often involves connecting a particular project with different groups of people. 

Last year CA2M started working with the EnterArte teachers’ group. The collaboration gave rise to a workshop exploring the interrelationship between school and museum which exceeded all expectations. This year the project will continue experimenting with the mysterious; an activity inviting us to let ourselves be carried along and discover the space of the museum, paying particular attention to minimum detail, to little things and what normally goes unnoticed.

"Let’s get soaked by a wave, aahh!" is a project working with ideas of transformation, art education and aesthetic play. It is a workshop-parcours-action in which we will experiment with different media, materials and spaces at CA2M for artistic expression.

Anyone turning up to this event will actively generate new narratives with the artworks and spaces at the museum, will compose and decompose, and play. But above all else, they will look at art from a totally different perspective, from childhood. We will imagine new ways and messages to arrive at these new collective narratives and imaginaries.

EnterArte is a group of teachers who work with different areas of education. Its work investigates how to bring art into their respective fields of education. Its mission is to rethink through the filter of art, to take a look at teaching from the optic of contemporary art practice and the relationship between school and museum. Art that reaches out and makes us think and act.

The Under-21 team is a group of young people from the ages of 16 to 21 who are interested in culture, art and community life.

We focus on artistic practices that foster dissident attitudes and collective processes of creation.

Our way of working is in constant evolution. It almost seems like a miracle now to be able to physically meet up in the museum to share time, but it is important to us.

In the new 2022-2023 school year we wish to recover the museum with meetings and hook-ups with artists and collectives, to don high heels, to think about unsustainability, to think about small ways of changing our world through art and to adopt to changing circumstances like chameleons.

We are launching a call to increase the team and so begin with greater strength. Join us and discover the team!

If you are interested, enroll HERE

There are unused ceramic kilns in the storeroom for the sculpture workshop at the Europa secondary school. When we asked about them we were told that, back in the early 1990s, a group of teachers managed to introduce a Visual Arts course at the school. They spoke nostalgically about when the arts building was built and about the long teachers’ meetings to discuss experimental ideas they would introduce in the classrooms.

It strikes us as incredibly important to try to bring back this passion, especially at a time when art is being pushed out of the curriculum at schools. This year we want to start a project together with José Luis, Mercedes and Carmen (art teachers at the Europa secondary school) so that the students can create their own space for creativity. A place where they can turn on the kilns once again, increase the number of hours in creating, and defend the importance of art.
 

PHASE ONE: collaboration project between the CA2M library, Education department and IES Europa secondary school

A box of fanzines published by women, a shelf of books classified by weight or by colour, an envelope with minimum publications... A library can be almost anything.

This school year, along with Sonia and Andrea, the librarians at CA2M, we will begin a collaborative project to create an archive of art publications with art students at IES Europa secondary school: a strange, unsuspected library created from holdings discarded from the CA2M library. Students will take discarded books, catalogues and fanzines on a journey to the art classes at IES Europa. Once they find themselves in their new emplacement, we will start to think about and construct a collective archive where we will bring into question the conventional logic of a library in order to create a new archive narrative from materials which were initially rejected and which therefore are situated, from the outset, against the grain. The project seeks to develop new possibilities from creativity and resistance, to bring students into closer contact with contemporary creation and to create new bonds of collaboration between departments and institutions.The first activity will be a three-day workshop to create furniture in which we will jointly design and build an artefact or piece of furniture that will serve as both transport container and display case for the publications.

PHASE TWO: publishing with nothing

During the recent confinement we wanted to continue developing this project, even at a distance. For that purpose, we invited Andrea Galaxina to come up with a proposal to send to students. Taking the form of a tutorial, Andrea prepared a fanzine to explore the creative possibilities of self-publishing.

“In these strange times we are going through, when you cannot leave home to buy things, or perhaps you cannot leave home at all, it is important to realize that the materials we have at hand can open doors to fascinating worlds that perhaps, during our everyday lives, we don’t pay any real attention to. To create with nothing is a political and transformative action. And so too is publishing with nothing. The most subversive way of publishing in history is the fanzine. Furthermore, publishing fanzines allows us to expand our creativity. But we can also turn it into a vehicle to connect with others. Now that our interpersonal relationships have been seriously affected, we can take advantage of this state of emergency to introduce new ways of expressing ourselves and communicating with one another. That’s why in this guide I am going to show you how to make a fanzine with things that you probably have ready access to during confinement: ordinary everyday stationary materials with which we can nonetheless do extraordinary things. I will also give you a brief recap of the history and philosophy behind it and how to distribute our creations without leaving home".

Read Editar con nada. Una pequeña guía práctica (y un poco teórica) para hacer fanzines.

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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.