A Short Century A Lecture by Ibrahim Mahama The artist, curator and cultural manager Ibrahim Mahama, surveys his professional career, underscoring the connections between academic research, artistic creation and contemporary cultural strategies as entwined practices. Activities Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
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
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
In the Face of Violence Interview with Stephen F. Eisenman Eisenman explores issues with ethical and disciplinary significance, elucidating a critical standpoint and acknowledging the ideological ties that join somewhat distant pasts to the present we inhabit. Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
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play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Gerald Raunig Revolution as an Expressive Machine 30 April, 2014 Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
Interview to Kaurismäki on his film series "After the Shipwreck. The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki (1983-1996)" February 2014 With the title After the Shipwreck. The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki (1983-1996), The Museo Reina Sofia proposed in 2014 the first retrospective of the Finnish filmmaker in a museum of modern art. This interview, written as a conversation, reveals some of the keys to his films: the existential desolation mixed with parody and black humour, gritty realism revised by quotes and fable, an ethic but nihilistic gaze to society and above all, unwavering belief in cinema as a space of freedom. Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Aki Kaurismäki, Loïc Díaz-Ronda and Pilar Carrera Aki Kaurismäki, in conversation with Loïc Díaz-Ronda and Pilar Carrera 21 febrero, 2014 Seminars and conferences Cinema and video Centro de estudios
Wols: Cosmos and Street, interview with Guy Brett February, 2014 Guy Brett, the curator of the show Wols: Cosmos and Street, talks about this new approach to the work of the German artist, not only about his drawings and paintings, but also about his lesser known photographs. Exhibitions Centro de estudios
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Amos Gitai and Jean-François Chevrier Amos Gitai, in conversation with Jean-François Chevrier 5 february, 2014 Exhibitions Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
Idea: Painting-Force. The Hinge Between the 1970s and 1980s Interview with Armando Montesinos November, 2013 Armando Montesinos, curator of the exhibition, explains in this interview the keys of Idea: Painting-Force. The works of Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Ángel Campano, Ferran Garcia Sevilla, Juan Navarro Baldeweg and Manolo Quejido, dating from 1978 to 1984, comprise the proposal put forward in the exhibition in Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro. They carried out this activity at the height of the crisis affecting the modern movement and the idea of the avant-garde. Plus, they were working in Spain, in a setting that, on the hinge between the 70s and the 80s, was experiencing some newly-arrived democratic liberties and whose artistic scene had derived from the dominant acritical formalism to the emergence of the market and the aesthetics of success. Exhibitions Centro de estudios
About ± I96I Founding the Expanded Arts Performances by Simone Forti July, 2013 On June 19th, to mark the opening of the exhibition ± I96I Founding the Expanded Arts, the following performances were put on, with contribution from Simoni Forti: Huddle, Platforms, Slant Board, Accompaniment For Sound and Censor; all of them dating from 1961. ± I96I presents the first detailed analysis of the decisive year in the 1960s that led to the invention of the “expansion of the arts”. The exhibition looks at the origins of the change, the experimental activity and the earliest collective actions that pointed to the beginning of an unprecedented expansion of the notion of “composition” and soon generated a multidisciplinary project that took place in real time/simultaneously over the course of that year. Activities Centro de estudios
Interview with Julia Robinson and Christian Xatrec about ± I96I. Founding the Expanded Arts July, 2013 The curators of this exhibition, Julia Robinson and Christian Xatrec, explain in this video some of the keys to understand why 1961 was a decisive year that led to the invention of the “expansion of the arts”. The exhibition looks at the origins of the change, the experimental activity and the earliest collective actions that pointed to the beginning of an unprecedented expansion of the notion of “composition” and soon generated a multidisciplinary project that took place in real time/simultaneously over the course of that year. Exhibitions Centro de estudios
Interview with Andreas Huyssen March 2011 Structured around various core ideas, this interview with the author of the book Modernismo después de la postmodernidad (2011) shows the dilemmas arising between a revision of the melancholic and contemplative past, returned in the form of the architectural memorial, and a critical reading from the museum, in which history and memory are confronted. Huyssen discusses the foundations of a new modernism, which has future prospects and projects but lacks a geographical centre and power hierarchies. The Collection Centro de estudios