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MADRID31 "Contemporary fantasmagories"

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 this edition, under the title "Contemporary Phantasmagories", we will travel on the shore 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 tour that invites us to enter dark terrain to reflect on phantasmagoria today, its influence, representation and forms in contemporary art. Starting in the XNUMXth century, we are going to 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.

The echo, levitate, the shadow, dreams, the hidden, the immaterial and the absence are the themes that have been suggested to each of the invited artists, and whose works and research are linked to these concepts. In the conferences and workshops we will claim and resort to a poetic thought in which individual stories, the experimental and stylistic diversity allow us to challenge the concept we have of the physical world.

All the workshops begin with a conference open to the general public in the auditorium of Sala Alcalá 31 of the Community of Madrid, and continue with two days of workshops, which will take place in the spaces of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in the morning (and for which it is necessary to book in advance).

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
It is essential to reserve your ticket through the registration form provided for each workshop (see opening and closing dates for each session). Admission to the conferences is free (pre-registration is not required)
For people who enroll in a workshop: attendance at the conferences in the auditorium of Sala Alcalá 31 it is not essential but it is recommended for its development.

Conferences

Upcoming:

Wednesday, December 13 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Servando Rocha "The Hidden".

Finished:

Wednesday, September 20 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Pilar Soler Montes "Mediums, magicians, shadows and art".
Thursday, September 21 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Laia Estruch "Blow the mud"
Wednesday, October 4 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. (CANCELLED) Regina de Miguel "Catabasis and elevations".
Wednesday, October 18 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Itziar Okariz "If not, winter"
Thursday, November 2 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Alberto García Alix "Absence as a stimulus"
Wednesday, November 15 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Maria Jerez "Shadow Thing".
Wednesday, November 29 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Peter G. Romero "An immaterial materialism".

Location: Auditorium of the Sala Alcalá 31 (c/Alcalá 31, Madrid)

Free entry until complete seats

The conferences will not be recorded nor will they be available on any digital platform.

Workshops

"The hidden" with Servando Rocha - December 14 and 15

Workshop "The hidden" with Servando Rocha

In this workshop we will work on "The ghostly city." Through the creation of countermaps and psychogeography, we will imagine a new cartography of Madrid based on the creation of the Gran Vía (1910), a true turning point in urban modernity, and we will reflect on the light and darkness in that ghostly city.

Dates: December 14 and 15, 2023

Schedules: of 10.30 to 14.00 hours

Location: Engraving Workshop at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (c/Alcalá 42, Madrid)

El Wednesday December 13 a conference with the artist will be offered in open. See -CONFERENCES-

Essential registration -CLICK HERE*-

Registration opening: December 4 at 10.00 hours
Registration closing: when the waiting list is covered (30 people)
Tickets will be delivered in strict order of registration. If you do not get a place, you will be registered on the waiting list and we will notify you when a cancellation occurs.
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“Blowing the mud” with Laia Estruch - September 21 and 22 COMPLETED

Workshop "Blowing the mud" with Laia Estruch

Dates: 21 and 22 September 2023

Schedules: of 10.30 to 14.00 hours

Location: Engraving Workshop at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (c/Alcalá 42, Madrid)

Registration is essential* -CLICK HERE-

Registration opening: September 11 at 10.00:XNUMX p.m.
Registration closing: September 19 at 9.00:XNUMX p.m.
Tickets will be delivered in strict order of registration. If you do not get a place, you will be registered on the waiting list and we will notify you when a cancellation occurs.
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"Catabasis and elevations" with Regina de Miguel - CANCELED

"If not, winter" with tziar Okariz - October 19 and 20 FINISHED

Workshop "If not, winter" with Itziar Okariz

Itziar Okariz offers us a workshop that revolves around dreams and the way of telling Ghostly stories. An activity where the voice and writing will be practiced experimentally

Dates: 19 and 20 October 2023

Schedules: of 10.30 to 14.00 hours

Location: Engraving Workshop at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (c/Alcalá 42, Madrid)

El Wednesday October 18 a conference with the artist will be offered in open. See -CONFERENCES-

Essential registration -CLICK HERE*- (TICKETS SOLD OUT. Waiting list open)

Registration opening: October 9 at 10.00:XNUMX p.m.
Registration closing: October 17 at 09.00:XNUMX p.m.
Tickets will be delivered in strict order of registration. If you do not get a place, you will be registered on the waiting list and we will notify you when a cancellation occurs.
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"Absence as a stimulus" with Alberto García Alix - November 2 and 3 COMPLETED

Workshop "Absence as a stimulus" with Alberto García Alix

Dates: November 2 and 3, 2023 (Tickets sold out. Waiting list open)

Schedules: of 10.30 to 14.00 hours

Location: Engraving Workshop at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (c/Alcalá 42, Madrid)

El Thursday November 2 a conference with the photographer will be offered in open. See -CONFERENCES-

Essential registration -CLICK HERE*-

Registration opening: October 23 at 10.00:XNUMX p.m.
Registration closing: October 31 at 9.00:XNUMX p.m.
Tickets will be delivered in strict order of registration. If you do not get a place, you will be registered on the waiting list and we will notify you when a cancellation occurs.
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"The shadow of the thing" with María Jerez - November 16 and 17 FINISHED

Workshop "The shadow of the thing" with María Jerez

When we perceive the effect of something and not the cause of that something, a phenomenon occurs; a rupture of linear time that alters consciousness and produces ghosts, presences, shadows... In this workshop we will work with the disturbing nature of the shadow that escapes from bodies; surfaces on which there is something where there should be nothing, or where there is nothing when there should be something.

Dates: November 16 and 17, 2023

Schedules: of 10.30 to 14.00 hours

Location: Auditorium Alcalá 31 (c/Alcalá 31. Floor -1, Madrid)

El Wednesday November 15 a conference with the artist will be offered in open. See -CONFERENCES-

Essential registration -CLICK HERE*-

Registration opening: November 6 at 10.00:XNUMX p.m.
Registration closing: November 14 at 9.00:XNUMX p.m.
Tickets will be delivered in strict order of registration. If you do not get a place, you will be registered on the waiting list and we will notify you when a cancellation occurs.
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"An immaterial materialism" with Pedro G. Romero - November 30 and December 1 FINISHED

Workshop "An immaterial materialism" with Pedro G. Romero

Ghosts also respond to material conditions of appearance. The invisible operates under the rules of historical materialism with even greater precision than the visible. What is touched, what is seen, what is heard, have a material continuity: everything is palpable. And this tactile capacity responds to physical rules in which plasticity is fundamental for the type of operations that we continue to call art.

Learning, moving, appearing are performative categories that operate at the very limits of matter, of the city, of the political. We'll look at some of these ways of seeing, some ways of doing, some ways of talking.

In the landscape of current art, the popular, for example, acts as an invisible, a ghost that travels the world. In entertainment culture everything is exchange value, however, this commodification is not its only form of materiality. We will talk about it, we will see it, we will touch it.

In reality, ghosts not only respond to the production that old Marxism called superstructure but, today, constitute the structure, the infrastructure, that holds our societies together. The marks of class, race and gender are a kind of will-o'-the-wisp, at once ghosts, at the same time skeletons.

First session: Ghosts.

Second session: Skeletons

Dates: November 30 and December 1 of 2023

Schedules: of 10.30 to 14.00 hours

Location: Engraving Workshop at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (c/Alcalá 42, Madrid)

El wednesday november 29 a conference with the artist will be offered in open. See -CONFERENCES-

Essential registration -CLICK HERE*-

Registration opening: November 20 at 10.00:XNUMX p.m.
Registration closing: when the waiting list is covered (30 people)
Tickets will be delivered in strict order of registration. If you do not get a place, you will be registered on the waiting list and we will notify you when a cancellation occurs.
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Participating artists

Laia Estruch

Laia Estruch (Barcelona, 1981) lives and works in Barcelona. She has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. She is studying her last year of undergraduate at The Cooper Union University (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 cinematographic and artistic practice that combines research and development processes that result in the production of knowledge, films and hybrid projects. One of the main discursive threads in de Miguel's work is the critical analysis of the supposed objectivity of scientific representation devices and of the production conditions of scientific knowledge. From a methodical approach, she establishes complex networks of connections that are nourished by the philosophy of science, ecofeminism, and speculative fiction and terror, which give rise to theoretical, existential, and poetic displacements 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 – vocal performances, actions, videos, installations and pieces of text – 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 Photographyplatforms, 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) is a writer and editor for La Felguera Editores and Agente Provocador. He has participated for three decades in different radical expressions related to artistic creation and underground history, with special interest in territory, memory, psychogeography, magic and violence in the 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.