Open Research Zone Subtramas

November 16, 23, 28 and 30; December 13, 14 and 21, 2012
Place
Sabatini Building, Workshops, and La Trasera-Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
With the collaboration of

Organized by
Museo Reina Sofía, Vicedecanato de Extensión Universitaria of Facultad de Bellas Artes at UCM and Subtramas Research Group (Diego del Pozo, Montse Romaní, Virginia Villaplana)
In collaboration with
French Institute-French Embassy in Madrid, Goethe Institut de Madrid and Casa de Velázquez – Académie de France in Madrid
Subtramas. Diagram. drawing, 2012
Subtramas. Diagram. drawing, 2012

Each week, during the months of November and December, projections and project presentations by researchers, artists and cultural producers will be held. How do these creators approach and activate collaborative processes in their audiovisual productions? How much of a political and social transformation dimension do such processes have?

Program

Friday November 16
7:00 p.m. Place: Sabatini Building, Workshops

Projection of the documentary video essay Subtramas
Presentation of the research with Diego del Pozo, Montse Romaní and Virginia Villaplana, Research Group Subtramas. Collaborative audiovisual production practices.

Friday November 23
7:00 p.m. Place: Sabatini Building, Workshops

A mapping of the emotions of improper bodies
Presentation of the project with Sara Fuentes and Rosalía Jordán, researchers at the Museo Reina Sofía Study Centre.
Collaboration project that explores the relevance of feelings and emotions in the daily life of the vulnerable and precarious bodies that experience discrimination based on gender, class, functionality, race and/or sexuality in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés (Madrid). The presentation will include the activation of the audiovisual mechanisms generated: map and video essay by Marta Huertas and Lydia Fernández.

Wednesday November 28
3:00 p.m. La Trasera-Faculty of Fine Arts at UCM

Screening of the film Nightcleaners (Part 1)
Berwick Street Film Collective, 90', United Kingdom, 1972-75, B/W, original language with Spanish subtitles
Collective film set during a unionisation campaign in London that targeted women cleaners working the nightshift, who were employed under very precarious conditions. This film is considered to be of key importance in the experimental political filmmaking of the 1970s in Britain.

Friday November 30
7:00 p.m. Place: Sabatini Building, Workshops

Audiovisol Madrid
Presentation of the collective with Christian Lehman, María Otero and Paolo Pistolesi
The audiovisual commission of Madrid's May 15th movement has been providing – since May 2011 – audiovisual information about the actions carried out by the movement and also about alternative critical narratives regarding the current economic crisis. It has also produced documentaries and films that make use of collaborative and collective methodologies. http://madrid.tomalaplaza.net/tv/

Thursday December 13
3:00 p.m. Place: La Trasera-Faculty of Fine Arts at UCM

Screening of the film Children of Srikandi
Children of Srikandi Collective, 74’, Indonesia-Germany, 2012, colour, original language with Spanish subtitles
The first documentary to be made about queer identity in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population. The participants worked collectively using personal situations and experiences, creating works that range from observational documentary to concept art and personal essay, exploring queer policies, violence, social exclusion, religious belief and sexual identity.
www.childrenofsrikandi.com/film/

Friday December 14
7:00 p.m. Place: Sabatini Building, Workshops

Citoyens? Film program created by the collective 100jours, from Poitiers, France.
+1: On the personal and the political, Odile Magniez , 2012, 6'. Original language with Spanish subtitles.
+42: Indignant Feminists, Irene Bailo, 2012, 5'30. Original language with French subtitles.
-66: The signs of power, Jesús Acevedo, 2012, 2'20.
+7: Life and death of a group in a video game, Damien Dedieu, 2012, 5'30. Original language with Spanish subtitles.
+33: Plato's Cave and the City-Image, Benoît Perraud, 2012, 6'. Original language with Spanish subtitles.
+44: Participatory council, Carmen Comadrán, 2012, 5'45. Original language with French subtitles.
+46: Colonial anthropology, Pilar Monsell, 2012, 5'41. Original language with French subtitles.
+89: Persecuted and hidden, Sylvain George, 2012, 6'20. Original language with Spanish subtitles.
100jours is an ephemeral collective of persons and an online project comprised of 100 short films directed by visual artists from different countries. Shown during the 100 days prior to the second round of the presidential elections in France in 2012, at the rate of one film per day, these creations attempt, each in their own way, to understand the history of our relations as the foundations of the political and also to imagine what the future has in store for them.
www.100jours2012.org/

Screening of the short film I want to talk with those who are far away
Claire Glorieux, 2011, 16´.
Presentation by Xabier Baudoin, director of art studies at Casa de Velázquez - Académie de France de Madrid.
One of the Canary Islands has a whistling language that was used, prior to the advent of roads or cell phones, to speak with those who are far away. The filmmaker went there to learn this language, by attending classes at whistling school.

Friday December 21
7:00 p.m. Place: Sabatini Building, Workshops

Diary of a Collaboration
Presentation of the project with the presence of the Catenaria Collective, formed by researchers at the Museo Reina Sofía Study Centre. The collective promotes debate about questions related to collaboration, so as to give visibility to and invert the mechanisms that establish the prevailing criteria regarding conduct in museums.
Remodelling La Paz
Presentation of a project carried out by students from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad de Murcia and Pedro Ortuño, artist and professor at the same institution.
This is a collaborative audiovisual project carried out as part of the class Interventions in urban and natural space. It focuses on La Paz, a working class neighbourhood in Murcia that is known for its cultural diversity and its controversial nature. For years the city council has had plans for an urban remodelling project here, plans which will no doubt alter the neighbourhood's identity.