Double Reina Performance with Pakita Inside the framework of equipo1821, drag artist Pakita activates Female Figure, a performative action conceived by artist Élan d'Orphium which reflects the illusion traditionally produced by images of the “the feminine” and presents them as artifice. Activities Education
Notes for a Time Apart A non-linear rapporteurship This video is the last stop in Notes for a Time Apart, a programme held in the Museo Reina Sofía from 30 June to 16 December 2023 with activities that looked to address other modes of conceiving time, beyond its normative and purely metric dimension. The programme was made up of a range of activities such as artistic and architectural installations, workshops, lectures, performances and encounters. The audiovisual piece here, which now works as a non-linear rapporteurship, gathers some of the gestures, sounds and encounters that took place, and aims to acknowledge and thank those who were willing to share time (and their time) during the programme. Activities Seminars and conferences Live Arts
After It’s All Said A Lecture by Denise Ferreira da Silva This lecture saw artist and anti-racist theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva present a new conception of aesthetics, her own approach to countering the colonial, racial and cisheteropatriarchal matrix inherent in Enlightenment and modern Western thought. Activities Cinema and video
Documents 27. Chris Ware’s Worlds Conversation between Chris Ware and Carla Berrocal, Enrique Bordes and Raquel Jimeno This conversation took place on 11 October 2023 inside the framework of the Documents programme, the 27th instalment of which revolved around pre-eminent draughtsman and cartoonist Chris Ware (Omaha, Nebraska, 1967). Activities Seminars and conferences
Music to Break Down Mastery Interview with Alexandra T. Vázquez For researcher and writer Alexandra T. Vázquez, listening is a unique way of approaching the realities facing cities, where sound works as underground architecture to render an account of their inhabitants. Activities Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
New Approaches to Picasso’s Early Work (1906–1912) International Congress In this video, four participants in the international congress Picasso from Cultural Studies. The Dream and Lie of Spain (1898–1922) address some of the aspects colouring their interventions. Activities Seminars and conferences
Indigenious Visions A Conversation with Kidlat Tahimik Este vídeo da cuenta de la entrevista realizada al cineasta Kidlat Tahimik (Baguió, Filipinas, 1942), uno de los pilares del cine de vanguardia filipino. En la pieza audiovisual el cineasta comparte algunas reflexiones que atraviesan su obra. Exhibitions Activities Cinema and video
equipo1821 The Santo Serano Procession The Santo Serano Procession is a performative intervention conducted by equipo1821 around certain folk traditions from the Easter period, particularly those which take place in the Iberian Peninsula. Activities Education
equipo1517 #PointOfFoot #PointOfFoot is a challenge devised by equipo1517 which involves recording videos by placing a mobile around your foot — held inside a sock, placed in the gap between foot and shoe or strapped on the calf muscle with an elastic band. Activities Education
From the East. Female Film-makers and the Iron Curtain (1943–1993) Film Series This video presents From the East. Female Film-makers and the Iron Curtain (1943–1993), a film series held from 3 November 2022 to 22 March that surveys the work of thirty-four women film-makers from fifteen Eastern European countries. Activities Cinema and video
Archipelago 2022 The Material Conditions of Our Music Every year the Archipelago concert series invites the audience to delve deeper into the complexity of the contemporary world through listening. The starting point of this edition was the image of the Ever Given container ship stranded on the Suez Canal. Activities Live Arts
Rompente Collective (1975-1983) The Rompente Collective, an endeavour of unrest and cultural resistance, was formed in Vigo in 1975. This intentionally random video looks to continue this initial exploration of Rompente. Activities
There Is Nothing to Understand Here A documentary on Elena Asins The Museo Reina Sofía presents this documentary on artist Elena Asins. The film is the result of research conducted in the artist’s archive, assembling unseen documents and interpretations around a key figure in Geometric Abstraction and art as research. The Collection Cinema and video
Guernica Study with Gigapixel This video, made in conjunction with the Museo Reina Sofía’s participation at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021, sketches out the journey to the inside of Guernica The Museum The Collection Restoration
Margarita Ledo The Feminist Film Essay Margarita Ledo (Spain, 1951) is among the pre-eminent theorists of essay film from a feminist perspective, her work combining research and film practice. Activities Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios