Extended Mediation Program
Arte Joven Hall
La Arte Joven Hall annually hosts, and since 2019, the Extended Mediation program. In this exhibition space we find creations by artists under 35 years of age that, on some occasions and to a large part of the public, may seem somewhat “strange”. For this reason, it is our duty to offer resources that expand and enrich the possibility of generating their own experiences. If we do not trigger ideas and meanings through practices such as mediation, it becomes difficult to generate new interpretations.
Emerging from the dynamized visits, Extended Mediation is a project conceived and led by Christian Fernández Mirón and Patricia Raijenstein, mediators in this Room from 2016 to 2021. Since its inception, they work for ten months and each year with a stable learning group and continuum made up of people and groups that, in some way, learn, know, experience and share their experiences through contemporary art.
Through monthly meetings, both in the Sala de Arte Joven and in other cultural spaces, we achieve an extended relationship over time and continuous and common learning among all of us.
Every year we address groups with different profiles, but they all have something in common: towards the end of the sessions and dynamics we generate a return with them that helps the rest of the visitors to get closer to emerging art: an audio guide, a video-decalogue, a sound map, a game board... enormously useful supports that we encourage you to consult and use in your educational and/or artistic practices.
Program 2022 - Families
4th Edition
During 2022 Extended Mediation was developed with a group of families (children from 4 to 6 years old with their parents or grandparents), formed through a public call. Both adults and children explore from the child's gaze, so often underestimated, the exhibitions that have taken place in the Hall (Yupi, Raíces by default, Cabeza de lobo and Circuitos) and its surroundings, streets, squares, mailboxes and puddles on rainy days . This look allows us to imagine, play and learn without prejudice with and through art.
As in each edition, we have made a return that aims to reflect part of our process and give it new life, a way of sharing what we have lived and learned. On this occasion, we have designed a game board to visit as a group any exhibition you find, either in the Young Art Room or outside of it. It is entitled De puddle in puddle and we encourage you to pick up a physical copy in the Room or to download and print it freely. This year we have the collaboration of the art historian and educator Julia Cabrera, and the board is illustrated by the collages of Aurora Gorrión (participating artist and mother).
2021 Program - Neighbors and associations
3th Edition
During 2021 the learning group has been made up of people from the environment of the Young Art Room. The neighborhoods of Prosperidad and La Guindalera, through their neighborhood, family and cultural associations* have formed this edition of Extended Mediation.
With them we have learned through relational art, together with the exhibitions of the Sala de Arte Joven, about memory, desires, connections and interferences that exist in this area of Madrid. The return we have made is a sound map of the neighborhood that we encourage you to listen to. A tour of places around the room that evoke memories and personal moments.
*Valle-Inclán Neighborhood Association of Prosperity, “La Prospe” Popular School, “La Atenea” Cultural Association and the “Jaire” Family Association.
2020 Program - Funprodami
2th Edition
This edition took place during the complicated year 2020. The group chosen to work throughout the course, in collaboration with funprodami, was a group of people with functional diversity and intellectual disabilities, with whom we developed a new approach to emerging art. We have the advice of the expert in art and functional diversity, Costa Badía.
Through face-to-face and virtual meetings, we designed a return materialized in a video decalogue with tips for approaching contemporary art. In addition, we made a summary video that makes it clear how confinement truncated our idea of time and space. In this video they share with us the possibilities and treasures that we can discover in virtuality and contemporary art.
2019 Program - Seniors
1th Edition
Extended Mediation arose with a group of older people, a group related to the Sala de Arte Joven since they used to participate regularly in the dynamic visits to our temporary exhibitions.
To encourage conversations, express ideas and opinions, we use different dynamics, games and debates in relation to the exhibitions and other spaces (the CA2M, the galleries on Dr. Fourquet Street and the Faculty of Fine Arts). To close the year, the group built an experimental audio guide as a "return" that provides any visitor, regardless of the institution, exhibition and moment, the experience of facing art accompanied by the voices and reflections harvested by the group itself during the anus.
This autonomous mediation device is entitled "For beautiful things, there are already sunsets" and it can be very useful in your next visits to any museum and exhibition.