


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).
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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
- 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:
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Wednesday, December 13 from 19.00:20.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Servando Rocha "The Hidden".
Finished:
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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. (CANCELLED) 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".
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
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.
Organization and contact
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
Further information: reservations.activitiesartes@madrid.org
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