


This was MADRID31 "Contemporary Phantasmagorias" 2023
Visual Arts Program 2023
La Alcalá 31 Hall One more year, Madrid31 hosts a program of continuous artistic and visual training that is articulated through conferences and workshops with the aim of completing those aspects that are not specifically included in the academic programs linked to the arts and visual culture.
In the 2023 edition, under the title "Contemporary Phantasmagoria," we journey along the shores of the invisible to situate ourselves at a level of symbolic reasoning that forces us to see and understand from the shadow of the immaterial. A journey that invites us to delve into dark terrain to reflect on phantasmagoria today, its influence, representation, and forms in contemporary art. Starting from the XNUMXth century, we discover a series of suggestive stories and experiences that allow us to reflect on absence and shadow, immaterial bodies, and the resonance of the intangible as an impulse for artistic creation.
Echo, levitation, shadow, dreams, the occult, the immaterial, and absence are the themes suggested to each of the invited artists, whose work and research are linked to these concepts. In the lectures and workshops, we champion and resort to a poetic approach in which individual narratives, experimental work, and stylistic diversity allow us to challenge our understanding of the physical world.
All workshops began with a lecture open to the general public in the auditorium of the Sala Alcalá 31 of the Community of Madrid, and continued with two days of workshops, which took place at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in the morning (and for which advance reservations were required).
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Aimed at: students of the Fine Arts degree, Art History and related careers, postgraduate and doctoral students, artists, curators, art critics and anyone interested in the creative field.
- Free activity
- Reservations are required through the registration form provided for each workshop. Admission to the lectures is free; no prior registration is required.
- To obtain the workshop attendance certificate, it was necessary to attend both days and complete 100% of the scheduled hours.
- For those who signed up for a workshop: attendance at the lectures in the Alcalá 31 auditorium was not required, but it was recommended for the workshop.
Conferences
Location: Auditorium of the Alcalá 31 Hall (c/Alcalá, 31. Madrid)
Participants:
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Wednesday, September 20 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Pilar Soler Montes "Mediums, magicians, shadows and art".
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Thursday, September 21 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Laia Estruch "Blow the mud"
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Wednesday, October 4 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. (Canceled) Regina de Miguel "Catabasis and elevations".
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Wednesday, October 18 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Itziar Okariz "If not, winter"
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Thursday, November 2 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Alberto García Alix "Absence as a stimulus"
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Wednesday, November 15 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Maria Jerez "Shadow Thing".
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Wednesday, November 29 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Peter G. Romero "An immaterial materialism".
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Wednesday, December 13 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Servando Rocha "The Hidden".
Free entry until complete seats
The lectures were not recorded nor are they available on any digital platform. Attendance certificates are not issued.
Workshops
Participating artists
Laia Estruch
Laia Estruch (Barcelona, 1981) lives and works in Barcelona. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. In 2023, she will be studying her final year of her degree at The Cooper Union (New York, 2010).
He has received the 'Ciutat de Barcelona 2021' award, the 'Cervezas Alhambra 2022' award and the 'Premis Galeries 2019 from Núvol magazine'.
miguel regina
Regina de Miguel is known for her interdisciplinary artistic and cinematic practice, which combines research and the development of processes that result in the production of knowledge, films, and hybrid projects. One of the main discursive threads of de Miguel's work is the critical analysis of the supposed objectivity of scientific representational devices and the conditions of scientific knowledge production. Using a methodical approach, she establishes complex networks of connections that draw on the philosophy of science, ecofeminism, speculative fiction, and horror, giving rise to theoretical, existential, and poetic shifts where fragility operates as a form of resistance.
Itziar Okariz
Itziar Okariz (San Sebastián, 1965) works within the framework of action and performance, questioning the ways of regulating language and the production of signs that define us. His work –performances vocals, actions, videos, installations and text pieces – examines the links between architecture, territory, body, ritual, sexuality and semiotics.
Alberto García-Alix
Photographer, audiovisual creator, writer and editor. He held his first exhibitions, at the beginning of the eighties, in the Moriarty and Buades galleries (Madrid) and Portafollio Gallery (London). Throughout his career, his photographic and audiovisual work has been shown in spaces such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Les Rencontres Internationales d'Arles, the Parisian European House of Photography, Museum House of Photography in Moscow, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC), and in the Prado Museum, among many others. His works are found in large art collections around the world, such as the German Deutsche Börse or the National Funds for Contemporary Art in France.
Servando Rocha
Servando Rocha (Santa Cruz de La Palma, 1974), writer and editor for La Felguera Editores and Agente Provocador, has been involved for three decades in various radical expressions related to artistic creation and underground history, with a special interest in territory, memory, psychogeography, magic, and violence in dominant culture.
Maria Jerez
The work of Maria Jerez (Madrid, 1978) is situated “between” choreography, cinema and the visual arts. Beyond her interest in her early pieces by theatrical and film conventions, and the viewer's implicit understanding of them; In her latest works, she seeks to question this relationship by opening spaces of potentiality through encounters with what we find strange and alien.
Peter G. Romero
Pedro G. Romero (Aracena, 1964) has been working as an artist since 1985. He also works as a curator and curator of exhibitions. He was part of UNIA arteypensamiento and a member of the PRPC (Platform for Reflection on Cultural Policies) in Seville. He is part of the pie.fmc team (Independent Platform for Modern and Contemporary Flamenco Studies). He is a participant in Documenta14 Athens / Kassel and a resident at the Spanish Academy in Rome.
Organisation
Organized by: Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Community of Madrid
Curator: Pilar Soler Montes
Collaboration: Circle of Fine Arts
Headquarters: Auditorium Alcalá 31 and Circle of Fine Arts