Anyone interested

Over the course of three sessions, we will learn how to produce our own publications, such as fanzines and posters . We will look at different fanzines and low-cost publications, from punk to DIY, queer, photocopies, cut and paste, appropriation, drawing, photography, etc.

Guerrilla communication strategies will be developed aimed at creating a collective publication for distribution at points chosen by the participants.

TARGETED AT YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 AND 23

Activity organized in collaboration with Dirección General de Juventud

Autoplacer, the music and self-publishing festival held at CA2M for the last thirteen years, is back again in 2022, on Saturday 24 September. Like previous years, the Autoplacer/Sindicalistas collective will bring to Móstoles a selection of groups from the underground Spanish scene in an event which has been defending the inclusion of contemporary forms of music in institutions for over a decade, lending visibility to new sounds and their truly independent processes of publishing, production and diffusion.

This year’s event has scheduled punk veterans Sudor, nouvelle garage melodies from Eterna Joventut, Galician energy with Grande Amore, razor-sharp dream pop from Sofía, old-school pop by La Media Distancia and the techno meets post-punk head-on clash of Alfa Estilo from Valencia. And alongside them, making their debut at Autoplacer are EQX, the winners of the Autoplacer 2021 Rough-Cuts competition, with their brand of disruptive avant-pop.

Autoplacer 2022 has also set aside a section dedicated to electronic music curated by Mosul Mosul in which various DJs and a live set will outline a musical path through afrobeat to witch house, passing through dark techno and trance.

Besides there will also be various invited projects in the field of music and editorial self-publishing.

With concerts by:

SUDOR / ETERNA JOVENTUT / SOFÍA / GRANDE AMORE / ALFA ESTILO / LA MEDIA DISTANCIA / EQX (Winners of Autoplacer 2021 Rough-Cuts)

+ DANCEFLOOR WITH MOSUL MOSUL:

UMBRÍA / GARRITA / GOTHIC SANS / ÜVERDRIVER (Live)

Save the date: 24 September, at Museo CA2M!

Admission free until reaching full capacity.

Art. Education. Pedagogy. Learning. Unlearning. Critical exercise. Political imagination. Wet knowledge. Visionary fictions. Counter-pedagogies. The one thing that we cannot deny, or escape, is that we are contemporaries of our pedagogic processes. And pedagogy, understood as a model, is at once a project for the privatisation of thinking. There are still words that are battlegrounds, and these, more than associated with reason, speak from bodies. Inappropriate, untimely, improper, inconvenient, displaced and angry, they dwell in unease and malaise and are like flows that leak out of all pores.

In this workshop Mônica Hoff, through experimental games, actions and readings, invites us to dwell in the unease we feel with our pedagogic processes and perhaps from there we can boost our individual and collective potential for political and poetic action.

The notion commonly built around current art and its creators usually appears as linked to the discourse spread by mass media. Therefore, it is perceived as a legacy of a romantic ideal and modern paradigm which conceive art as autonomous. But artistic production created under aesthetic and thought paradigms since post-modernity has given up on the autonomy of the artistic object and is starting to look beyond the traditional conception of Art: it is related to its environment and deals with other current actors to build a discourse. 

In Looking at the present. Seven sessions to think about current art, we will have theoreticians and artists analysing, along with some of their proposals, subjects that affect in depth the way we perceive ourselves in the late-capitalist context: our shared past, our role as spectators-citizens, the way we relate with authority or the influence of the institutions on ways of life are only some of the debates’ starting points. This way of thinking with objects and art images may be the only possible approach to find out about its dialectical capacity as well as its capacity for agency. So that, in the end, we’ll see the way art lives amongst us as a manner of looking critically at the present. 

The CA2M offers a number of training activities in contemporary art and philosophy as part of its public education programmes specifically designed for young people and adults.These courses offer a clear and concise insight into some of the basic concepts for understanding and interpreting contemporary art. The activities are divided into two parts: the first part consists of the introduction of a theme by a guest speaker, who in the second part opens the floor to a discussion involving the participants.This seven-session course will be completed by a tour to the exhibition Before everything.

WED 20 OCT
Course Presentation and Introduction
Pablo Martínez. Head of Education and Public Activities.
Ferran Barenblit. CA2M director

WED 27 OCT
Yayo Aznar, PhD in Art History, is currently teaching as a tenured professor in the Art History Department of the UNED University in Madrid.
Amongst her publications, some books like El cauce de la memoria. Arte en el siglo XIX (Madrid, Istmo, 1998), Arte de acción (Madrid, Nerea, 2000), La memoria pública (Madrid, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2002), El Guernica (Madrid, Edilupa, 2004) or La memoria compartida. España y Argentina en la formación de un imaginario cultural (Buenos Aires, Paidós, 2005) are particulary worth pointing out. In addition, she is co-manager with Javier Hernando Carrasco of the collection Arte Hoy, published by Nerea’s publishing company.

WED 3 NOV
Dora García (Valladolid, 1965) is an artist focused on dismantling conventions and codes of conduct in particular those between the artwork, the artist and the spectator by use of performance, or an unusual treatment of the exhibition space.

WED 10 NOV
Pablo Marte (Cadiz, 1975) works with videos playing with its fictionality and facing it to reality. In his work, we can also sense a political concern captured by his treatment of the relation between body and space.

WED 17 NOV

Since the mid-sixties, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina (Murcia, 1937) is a conceptual artist who has been questioning, through his work, the status of the artwork and its aestheticized value as well as the institutional frameworks where it takes place. His practice goes from experimental poetry, music and mail art to film, performance or sound intervention.

WED 24 NOV
Fernando García (Madrid, 1975) works intentionally mixing formats to deal with different concerns related to his personal experience and condition of artist. As a matter of fact, his pieces refer ironically to contradictions on the contemporary creator position and the structures of the art world.

WED 1 DIC
David Bestué and Marc Vives (Barcelona, 1980 and 1978 respectively) collaborate as artists since 2002. Their work consists of incisions on quotidianness through fictional elements using a plurality of references on art history as well as philosophical or popular culture. 

Educational programme 2010 - 2011

Targeted at people with interest in current art. No prior knowledge is required

Free registration through the web at the link below, by phone to 91 276 02 or CA2M front desk  as of January 16th.

For a single assistance to a lecture, free entrance is permitted until seating capacity is filled.

For the fourth year running, the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo is offering the But… Is This Art? Introductory Course on Contemporary Art. The course will be broken down into one-and-a-half-hour sessions, discussing key themes in current art: from the death of the author, the new role of the viewer, crisis of the subject to the decline of the great narratives and the formation of art as a critical space.

From the active position of the viewer, it is important to learn to look at different proposals from the artists, but we can even go further. Looking is thinking, thinking with all the knowledge, feelings and readings we have. Our own experience becomes part of the experience with the artwork, and from that point of view, we could start a discussion on themes that affect our position as contemporary subjects. Over the nine sessions, contemporary art professionals will address those themes. This Class Programme is in conjunction with tours to the exhibitions on view and encounters with artists.

CA2M offers a number of training activities in contemporary art and philosophy as part of its public education programme specifically designed for young people and adults.

These courses offer a clear and concise insight into some of the basic concepts for understanding and interpreting contemporary art. The activities are divided into two parts: the first part consists of the introduction of a theme by a guest speaker, who in the second part opens the floor to a discussion involving the participants.

PROGRAMME
FEB 22. WEDNESDAY
UTOPÍA Y CRISIS -UTOPIA AND CRISIS-
Carlos Granados, educator of CA2M and artist
This session will introduce us into the analysis of new behaviors and into the artistic practices after the 68s. We will study the different roles of an artist under a constant construction and crisis and, also, we will discuss about her/his role in the present

FEB 29 WEDNESDAY
MÁS ALLÁ DE LA MUERTE DEL AUTOR -BEYOND THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR-
Pablo Martínez, Head of education and public activities at CA2M, and associated professor in the Art History Department of the Faculty of Fine Art from Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
In this session, we will approach that 60´ practice that has questioned the traditional notions of authorship and spectator. We will review some of the main proposals centered in the construction of the collective sense and had gone further the optical regimes of art.

MARCH 7 WEDNESDAY
LOS NUEVOS PAPELES DEL ARTISTA -THE NEW ROLES OF THE ARTIST-
Yayo Aznar, Lecturer of  the Faculty of Geography and History. UNED (National Distance Learning University).
The idea of the death of the author, quite nourished by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault´s texts, becomes a constant within the artistic thinking since the late 60´. We will discuss on how that crisis of the authorship obliges artist to assimilate new roles as conservators, historian, analyst, etc.

MARCH 14  WEDNESDAY
HASTA QUE TENGA SENTIDO -UNTIL IT GETS SEENS-
Victoria Gil-Delgado, educator at CA2M and curator
We will discuss on the spectator position against current art and on the museum as an odd place that needs an active receiver to generate sense. We will address how that new position can drives us to new unknown areas of relation, experience and thinking.

MARCH 21 WEDNESDAY
ALTERATION OF  REALITY
Ferran Barenblit, director of CA2M
A large part of the contemporary art production has used, as strategy, the alteration of the way the world normally works. From that Duchampian heritage, which quotes a shred from reality, many artists have inverted processes or changed the use of objects to carry out their projects. All of this, with the goal of subverting that reality, turning it against itself, forcing to question themselves why that order and origin of their contradictions.

MARCH 28 WEDNESDAY
¿DE QUÉ OTRA COSA PODRÍAMOS HABLAR?-WHAT ELSE CAN WE TALK ABOUT?-
Pablo Martínez
What is the politic capacity of art? Can it exist an art socially useful? Is it about a commitment or just about responsibility? These and other questions will join us in the discussion.

APRIL  11 WEDNESDAY
UN PASEO POR LA CRISIS DE SIEMPRE -WALKING THROGHT  THE ONGOING CRISIS-
Yayo Aznar
The “Me” rational and contemporary (Western, heterosexual, male, white and middle class) exploited in the 80´ over thousands of pieces  by the recognition of new subjectivities hitherto ignored. Those that are with and within us: women, homosexuals, ills, mad, villain… We will analyze the way art has dealt to join its voices and its crisis.

APRIL 18 WEDNESDAY
ARTE Y COLONIALIDAD- ART AND COLONIALITY-
María Iñigo Clavo, artist and researcher.
The discussion will focus on art pieces that dialogue with problematic related to Post-colonial theorization mostly within the Latin-American context, but also in the Western: coloniality, colonial difference, intern colonialism, border thinking, new multiculture, creolization of the world and metonymies of the presence.

APRIL 25 WEDNESDAY
ESPEREMOS QUE NO PASE NADA -LET US HOPE NOTHING HAPPENS-
Luis Ortega, artist
It will take place a visual experience of time through the features of cartography and the material.

Everyone dreams of flying, the artist Olga Diego tells us, but if you haven’t yet dreamed of flying, there is still time.

During the last school year Universidad Popular took up the challenge to bewitch us again with art, to rediscover the ability to inspire awe. Starting out from this idea, the museum’s educational department has conceived this year’s programme as a place where the incredible can happen because it makes us believe in it. The sessions will focus on thinking about or experimenting with occult practices related with art that subvert scientific logic and conventional forms of knowledge: art practices that deceive the eye, that work with the inexplicable and turn lead into gold.

The course will use a series of publications which will be available for consulting at the CA2M library. In addition, before each session, we invite participants to join in a group reading of a publication selected for the occasion.

CA2M organises further educational activities in contemporary art and thinking within the tradition of community adult education centres. Its courses address some of the fundamental issues for a proper understanding of art today. They are divided into two parts: the first consists in the presentation of a theme by a guest speaker and the second consists in opening a debate to all participants. This structure can change to accommodate more experimental formats introduced by the individual guest speakers at each session.

SESSIONS

24 OCTOBER
Make Yourself Matter to Someone
Raisa Maudit is preparing a performative conference which will explore the laws of desire in force both in the practice of magic and the occult as well as in art. Through a survey of different occult practices ranging from the nineteenth century until the present moment and the core axes of her artistic and curatorial work, we will address questions on dissident identities, surviving the system, inhabiting darkness, and how to achieve your desires but only perishing a little in the attempt.

Magic is the definitive art. We understand Magic and the Occult as all those processes that are based on symbolism and imagination which, through actions and words, wish to affect their surroundings by engendering changes and transformations in natural laws, in space, in time, in bodies, in psyches and in identities. No form of magic is possible without putting it into practice. In magic, practice starts out from an almost suicidal openness to leap into the unknown and letting it hit you with all it has got. It is based on questioning each and every one of the things that we take for granted. Magic hopes to alter the very weft of reality itself. Magic and Art have points in common such as speculation and the allegorical but at once they have a beef in which Art always loses out. We will take a look at Dion Fortune and psychic self-defence, The Craft, otherkin identities, vampires as the definitive evolution, demonology, Magic Battles, neuro-divergent rebellion, and how to get your hands on a free home.

Raisa Maudit is an artist and curator
http://raisamaudit.com/

31 OCTOBER
Queer Spirituality as Resistance. Yet Another Path in the Conspiracy.
Diego Rambova will lead us on an exercise in fragmentary mapping through a range of contemporary performative practices which are presented as a kind of common ground between new age and queer politics, revealing how, both for the artists who propose them but also in their own right, the confluence is a powerful site of agency, resistance and transcendence. Represented by artists of different ages and from different origins around the world from the seventies onwards, they appear under many different guises. But the truth is that they all respond—as we shall see—to the same “conspiracy”.

Diego Rambova is an artist and researcher.
www.diegorambova.com 

7 NOVEMBER
Performance Lecture for Flying
Is it possible to fly? We all know that you can, but … What happens when you realise that you can fly on your own? This lecture explores the irrational desire to fly and its materialisation in artistic creation, in manifold studies and calculations, prior sketches in flight books, failed attempts and disappointments. And also the involvement of the public. Flight artefacts built from a sculptural gaze and attempts to fly as performance art.

We will take a look at, among others, the projects created by Olga Diego since 2003, when she managed to take to flight on the beach of Carabassí in Alicante, as well as other flights with cameras in the Western Sahara and in Salamanca, or more interactive projects like the one developed by the University of California in 2017.

Olga Diego is an artist
http://olgadiego.blogspot.com/ 

14 NOVEMBER
Just as Up is Down, Down is Up
In this lecture Marian Garrido has devised a walkthrough of the symbolic dimensions of lost forms of knowledge and the narrative constructed through the bonds between art and magic or alchemy. Is there really any difference between an extract from The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, in which Carlos Castaneda learns to fly guided by the expert hands of a shaman, and the experiences related by Terence McKenna or Douglas Rushkoff in Cyberia in a framework of comparison with online culture; virtual realities, flight simulators, videogames or the visual rendering of almost vaporous omniscience in Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void and neo-touristic journeys in Google Earth?

Marian Garrido is an artist and researcher
www.mariangarrido.com 

21 NOVEMBER
Angels of Anarchy. Modern Shamans, Artists of the Invisible
Servando Rocha reveals to us a secret tradition that unites art and magic through the masked figure, both in popular culture as well as in movements like Dada or Surrealism which were fascinated by the primitive, the mask, the world of spirits and the unknown. The intervention includes a Cabinet of Curiosities of the world of secret societies and masking as a tactic but also as transformative potential.

Servando Rocha is a writer and editor.
www.servandorocha.com 

28 NOVEMBER
From Spell to Spell, from (Magical) Gesture to Gesture
Ana Contreras invites us to a performative lecture which will uncover the ways in which bonds between feminism and witchcraft have been woven over time, from the medieval period to postmodernism. It will take us on a secret journey through its appearances and persecutions from which we will be able to extract lessons about its dangers and its powers. A witches coven that discloses the importance of occult practices and performative tactics, as well as their conscious and unconscious use in contemporary art.

Ana Contreras is a stage director, researcher and lecturer

Anyone interested in art today. No prior knowledge necessary.

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