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Following the line of work begun in 2014, Cinema Revealed has organized a range of different activities revolving around audiovisual performance and the interrelationship between film and other disciplines. This engagement with the cinematographic experience goes beyond the dark film theatre and the projected image, interrelating and transforming it through other practices in order to activate an audiovisual experience that questions not only its own language, but its entire structure and conventional logistics.

Similar to previous editions, we are presenting various transversal proposals that connect film with sound art, new media and dance. We do our best to bring to our audiences some of the most notable contemporary art practices revolving around issues of concern to us, both within Spanish production as well as international experimentation.

The cycle gets off to a start with the artist Rose Kallal. Recognised internationally for her experimental film and electronic music praxis, this is the first time that Kallal has performed in Spain. This will then be followed by a double session with theatrical proposals created by four emerging artists: Julián Pacomio, Ángela Millano, Carmen Main and Elena Juárez, which straddle sculpture, media-art, film, philosophy, body and sweat. The third session merges dance, reality and fiction in a collective proposal called Kopfkino, by Los Detectives.

A notable addition this year is the introduction of live radio with Andrei Rublev, una Panicografía. Engaging with the near at hand and playing alongside the people from Mostoles is always interesting, which is why we are organising an intergenerational workshop with Sra. Polaroiska for the penultimate weekend. This year’s edition of Cinema Revealed will be brought to a close with the audiovisual performance Falaises, from Canada, which can be seen for the first time in Spain.

Cinema Revealed is consolidating its growing reputation as a performance biennial, and one of the most important events in winter in the Region of Madrid for so-called live art.

PROGRAMME

19 JANUARY 18:30

Spectral Points, by Rose Kallal (Film and audio performance). Premiere in Spain

This is the only opportunity to see this New York based sound and visual artist in Spain, presenting her new performance with 16 mm film and live music. Spectral Points is created using a wide range of technical processes including traditional animation techniques, video synthesis/feedback, and computer animation. The 16mm film loops cycle at varying speeds creating a hypnotic nonlinear flow. Accompanying the films, Kallal will perform a live electronic sound score using modular synthesis.

26 JANUARY 18:30

Make it don't fake it, by Julián Pacomio and Ángela Millano (Performance)

This work invites the audience to make itself comfortable in a space which will gradually be informed by various layers of meaning. Images, voice, memory, body, movement, tiredness and sweat meet the gazes and bodies of the audience to create a shared universe during a unique span of time. This performative proposal takes materials from the film Trash Humpers, directed by Harmony Korine in 2009. But it could have been any other film, it could have been any other audiovisual content filmed in the past by another person.

“We would like to understand this work as a piece of live art that focuses its interest in perpetuating the cultural content of images that could be overlooked, forgotten, floating or vanished, by preserving and protecting them in our bodies and in our memories”.

Vanitas, by Carmen Main and Elena Juárez (New media performance). World premiere

A collective action based on a still life exhibited in the hall with different elements which rethinks the Vanitas, a classic genre in the history of painting, through a 3D installation using object mapping. For the occasion, a smartphone app has also been designed that allows the audience to access a video in augmented reality on their devices. Depending on the number of people taking part in the performance and on the time during which the videos are activated, an original soundtrack will be constructed with the addition of the audios which will change in function of the choices made by each participant. The piece is created specifically for this season by Carmen Main and Elena Juárez.

2 FEBRUARY 18:30

Kopfkino, by Los Detectives (María García Vera, Marina Colomina and Mariona Naudin) (Performing arts). Premiere in Madrid

Our brain stores images and operates like a search engine, looking for links in order to understand what is going on, links that will trigger a kind of mental YouTube. We call this ability to link images and build mental films “Kopfkino”. Based on this concept, the members of Los Detectives pose a question: To what extent do the fictions we consume influence our worldview and ourselves? This is the driving engine of Kopfkino, a piece that uses the body as a key tool to explore the margins created when fiction meets reality. This collective work is created by Mariona Naudin together with a team of women working in live art, coming both from dance as well as gestural theatre: María García Vera, Marina Colomina, Mar Median and Laia Cabrera who were all involved in the process of creation and direction of the piece.

9 FEBRUARY 18:30

Andrei Rublev, una paniconografia, by Societat Doctor Alonso (Sofía Asencio and Tomás Aragay) (Radio performance). Premiere in Madrid

The starting point for Andrei Rublev, una paniconografia is Andrei Tarkovsky’s film from 1966, in which the icon painter Andrei Rublev (1360-1427) undertakes a long journey through medieval Russia to paint frescos in the Cathedral of the Annunciation in the Kremlin. The work of this singular painter, with his unique iconographic style, provokes in the spectator an impact and inner withdrawal due to the use of inverted perspective that speaks to us of art, not as a portrait of reality but as a reality among realities. The company revisits this piece in radiophonic format, premiered at the Temporada Alta Festival in 2016, with the purpose of continuing to investigate in numerous formal, sound and material moments in the script and thus further explore this conversation. This is not a conventional radiophonic format, and instead co-opts the presence of a live audience. Furthermore, besides paying particular attention to sound, it also introduces any medium within its reach in a live presentation of the performing arts: screenings of Tarkovsky’s film, subtitles, plays of lights, couples dancing or a parade of icons by Rublev.

Creation and performance: Sofía Asencio and Tomás Aragay (Societat Doctor Alonso) with the collaboration of the filmmaker Virginia García del Pino and Nazario Díaz in performance.

16 FEBRUARY 18:30

No hay edad para el ritmo, by Sra. Polaroiska (Audiovisual installation with intergenerational dance). Premiere in Madrid

The Sra. Polaroiska collective invites us to take part in the installation No hay edad para el ritmo (There is no age for rhythm). In it, it will project its latest audiovisual piece No hay nada más moderno que envejecer (There is nothing more modern than growing old) and will activate a device that invites people of all ages to join in a collective, family and intergenerational dance. It is an invitation to contemplate bodies in motion. Bodies sculpted or not by the passing of time, each one completely different, constructing a dance that speaks of love, desire, beauty, sex, fun and affection. Bodies that move, feel, vibrate and inhabit the present. This proposal brings into question the construction of canons with the purpose of demonstrating a social and cultural imaginary plagued with prejudices and stereotypes. There is no age for rhythm, and that is why we make the most of a unique moment by dancing for the pure pleasure of doing it.

_Intergenerational dance workshop with Sra. Polaroiska

16 February | 10:00 - 14:00

Sra. Polaroiska is made up of Alaitz Arenzana and María Ibarretxe. Collaboration in the workshop and the performance by the visual artist, music producer and DJ: Agnès Pe.

Enrolment free HERE.

The group of collaborators will be made up of 20 to 25 people.

Aimed at all publics, of any age, interested in dance.

More information en actividades.ca2m@madrid.org / 912 760 227

23 FEBRUARY 18:30

Falaises, by Guillaume Côté, Alexis Langevin-Tétrault and Dave Gagnon (Audiovisual performance). Premiere in Madrid

Falaises, a project of audiovisual performances made up of a piece in three acts, combines the musical practices of the composers Guillaume Côté and Alexis Langevin-Tétrault with the work of the visual artist Dave Gagnon. Straddling artistic installation and video art, in its actions the Canadian collective uses digital audio tools and modular synthesizers that alter the video projections and lights in real time, presented in an exclusive multiple support device with screen and lightboxes.

Following the development of the artistic project If The Others Did Not Exist; Or The Mirrors, we wish to invite the public to an open appointment with the artists Vanessa López and Israel Cordero and the various participants and agents who made the formalization of the experience possible.

This latest encounter is conceived as a circular dialogue addressing some of the questions that cut across the different sessions integrated in this proposal, with the goal of questioning and evaluating key ideas in its development and conception, as well as the resulting perceptions. This collective becoming will engage with some of the filmic narratives and ways of doing that have helped to articulate and activate different problematics, like those pertaining to the capacity and relevance of the images and art to give an account of the “real” today; the mutation undergone as consumers of audiovisual narratives and experiences of duration; the possibility of alternatively reconstructing the facts of our lives, with the artistic medium acting as an effective instrument for transformation and as a medium of co-construction of alterity; or the need for frameworks of relations in which to share and operate from the unsayable and to reactivate a new political-affective possibility.

The If The Others Did Not Exist; Or The Mirrors project has proven itself to be a critical structure able to afford a unique space of confidence and commitment between artists, audience and institution, placing each of the parts involved in a horizontal and propositional scenario that has enabled a re-evaluation of the relationships that the artistic experience is able to facilitate. And everything in spite of cinema.

This course, tirelessly twirling and entranced, we will continue revolving around doubts and the astonishment induced by the inexplicable: what is art and what is not art. We will take advantage of the fact that we are a little dizzy and we will explore the desire to leave our bodies and our minds and wander. That is, with a lot of emotion and a lot of feeling. We wish to set out on different paths, to examine with awe what we believe we know well and we will go to where we thought (though can we be sure?) we had never been to before. We will let art take us by the hand and we will let ourselves be carried along. To places as close as our own skin, which will be dyed and renewed; as far away as we could possibly imagine, because it is still waiting to be, and besides, does not wish to define itself.

We will make a different kind of contact with what is around us in order to take distance with customs and habits. We feel like losing control. And stretching time and space: an infinite and eternal present and reinvented places it is difficult to return to. And if different when we do return, let it be because we will have known each other in a different way through other things and other people. And now that we no longer look at the world in the same way as when we started, we will understand it better. We will experience life by letting ourselves be carried along by whatever happens and art as something that transforms.

CA2M organises educational activities on contemporary art and thinking that can be framed within the tradition of community colleges, aimed particularly at young and adult students. The courses it offers address some of the key issues for a proper understanding and interpretation of art today, to use it to think. These activities can be divided into two parts: the first consists of the presentation of a theme by a guest speaker and the second part involves a debate open to the audience. But this structure can also change to adapt to more experimental formats depending on the guest at each session.

Directed by Selina Blasco

Aimed at anyone interested in the art of today. No prior knowledge required

23 January

Tatuarot. Whisky and religion

Julio Linares

Whenever it gets a tattoo, the day becomes Sunday. Without a prior conscious decision, tattoo sessions end up as a kind of ritual. A strangely intimate bond is formed through the penetration of ink and metal. The skin is broken, impregnated and changed for ever. And it is this forever-ness that gives everything a certain mystic quality.

It is beautiful to be the vehicle through which the materialisation of the desire of another is channelled. It requires such total concentration that the present takes on absolute splendour.

And with the magic and power of the present, the miracle of transmutation takes place.

Julio Linares. Saga of antiquarians, then a pirate, scientific servant, master of feng shui and painter.

30 January

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Elandorphium, xx/xx/xxxx (date unknown) is a body that studies the limits between organic mass and the digital dimension. What is matter and what is artifice?

6 February

art during

Selina Blasco

In art, one is here and there. Are there states of total concentration and isolation when creating? How does one create when one is doing something else? Creating, building, in fantasy, in intoxication, in illness, in care, in waiting, in ecstasy and in tears. We will explore practices that, more than between, are in. Some arise explicitly, but we can look back at others which, in principle, seem to be something else and seem different from another perspective.

We will look for an art of being in two things at once, subversively and pleasurably.

Selina Blasco lectures at the School of Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense.

13 February

A kind of poor stone

Amalia and Luisa

Clay is granite decomposed and disintegrated by erosion.

A friend once said that if I was a stone, I would be a poor brittle kind of stone like sandstone or serpentine, or maybe schist. Or maybe not even rock but clay, or not even clay but earth. I am only earth. I give way. I try to fit in. I am still here and I am still earth, but I am full of footprints and deep holes and traces and alterations.

We want to talk about the world, which is made of earth. To think about material and its processes in order to talk about things. And to talk about ceramics. We have understood some things better after we have touched earth.

About a year or so ago we got together every week in Luisa’s studio in Leganés. We always started by speaking of ourselves, and then we spoke about earth; what it can do.

Amalia currently works at CA2M. Luisa is a self-taught ceramist, active in Adult Learning since the beginning.

20 February

Latino-Futurism

Julián Mayorga

Many immigrants living in Spain ask themselves about the absence of Latin America in dominant futurist imaginaries, and about the value of their community’s cultural practices in art categories. A possible response, from art, could be to focus on exploring tactics of re-invention, resistance/re-existence and re-identification from music and its mise en scène.

We get together to question whether it is possible for these local practices to converse with forms we understand as universal/global, whether it is possible to kick the habit of the modern narrative and to re-inject the enigmatic into our forms of doing and saying; whether we can imbue with importance a new mythology that represents a local landscape and experience.

Julián Mayorga is a Colombian musician and artist based in Madrid; his music spans from sound experimentation to traditional Latin-American music and pop.

27 February

VenidaDevenida

The production of space through dissident practices. The construction of non-normative spaces begins with acts of resistance against dominant structures that create networks of dissidence in the city and which, in many cases, can be mapped.

The queer appropriation of space is one of the clearest examples to demonstrate how the hierarchies of spatial distinction can be distorted, altering preconceived binary ideas that have to do with perceptions of the public and the private, the legal and the illegal, and so on.

The production of space is not just the remit of city planners, architects and builders, but is also the result of social action and cultural construction. Through the study of different dissident practices localised throughout history and their corresponding cartographies, we will demonstrate how users can pervert and generate personal spaces by means of tactics of re-appropriation.

VenidaDevenida are architects and artists.

6 March

Drifts of the self in our environment: walking to explore (ourselves)

Tonia Raquejo

Through a series of practical awareness-raising exercises we will analyse the implications of the experience in the territory, paying attention to how we feel what it is we feel and how we organise the perceptions and kinesic behaviours they generate. Taking this as our starting point, we will analyse how we communicate with our surrounding environs and what kind of mental maps we create, both individually and collectively.

Tonia Raquejo teaches classes in Theories of Contemporary Art in undergraduate degree courses and Theory of Art and Neuro-linguistic Programming in the Master in Art Education in social and cultural institutions at the School of Fine Arts at UCM.

More information at actividades.ca2m@madrid.org  or at 912 760 227