WALKS. ‘Fluxus to the people’. Urban itineraries
These days, walks have become our main form of leisure away from home. For this reason, the Reina Sofía Museum has decided to recover a series of urban itineraries that were part of the program Fluxus to the People in 2012 to invite us to tour Madrid with a different look. The itineraries were designed by four architectural groups (Transverse Landscape, Todo X La Praxis, Zuloark and Cunctatio), inspired by the fluxtours devised by the artists of the Fluxus movement between the 60s and 70s. These peculiar tours They were presented as critical and comic tours, which revealed unexpected images of the city. Thus, through these four itineraries we will be able to know the battle spaces of the Arganzuela district, the conflicts between freedom and police surveillance in the Lavapiés neighborhood, the places of worship in the center of Madrid and reflect on the common strolling around the Reina Sofía.
When: Anytime Where: Different spaces in the city. Price: Free
EXPOSITION. An unnatural alliance of desire
Swinton Gallery resumes its activity and does so with the exhibition that was about to open before the confinement began. This is the multimedia installation by the artist Andrés Senra, which revolves around dissident figures and which offers us an imperfect future dominated by “monsters, hybrids, queers or mestizos”, as opposed to patriarchy and prevailing gender binarisms. A future in which technology has emancipatory and creative potential and serves to create new assemblies. The gallery can be visited with a mask, from Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (until Madrid goes to phase 1) and with a maximum of two people at a time. No appointment is necessary within the gallery opening hours.
When: From May 22 to July 11. Where: Swinton Gallery (c / Miguel Servet, 21). Price: Free
Inner Town It was the name that Chico-Trópico had given the festival that was going to take place in La Casa Encendida to celebrate the tenth anniversary of this group. With the declaration of the state of alarm and the closure of all cultural centers, the festival had to convert to a format on-line, using the Miro collaborative platform to carry out its activities. Registration is free and works as a meeting space that, from video, audio, images and text files, has built a sort of virtual town – with its plaza, its dances, its patron saint festivities, its mountain and even his cemetery–, in which he reflects on such interesting issues as community, folklore, community creation or public space.
When: From May 1 to May 31. Where: Online (through the Miro platform). Price: Free
EXPOSITION. Lock Collection
Do you want to make your own art collection? Espacio Valverde gives us the opportunity to do so thanks to this initiative that they have launched during the quarantine. It works like this: from the gallery they propose a series of works devised by their artists that we, from home, can carry out by following some simple instructions. There is from a portrait of Luis Vassallo to make a “paint and color” to a dance with pieces of paper created by Jacobo Gavira, through recreations of photographs, paintings of dreams on canvas or collages automatic. Once finished, we can send a photo of our work by email to Espacio Valverde and they will take care of sending us a certificate of authenticity, signed by the artist in question and sealed by the gallery.
When: At any time (until quarantine ends). Where: Online. Price: Free
MUSIC. Archiplace
If nothing prevents it, the Autoplacer festival will return to the CA2M in Móstoles on November 7. Meanwhile, its organizers have wanted to make the wait (and the confinement) more enjoyable by creating a playlist with 101 songs from the lost files of Autoplacer. All the songs are from groups that have gone through the festival in its ten years of life and among them we find names like Le Parody, Joe Crepúsculo, Los Punsetes, Caliza, Aries, Las Odio, Doble Pletina, Soledad Vélez, Juanita and Los Feos, Los Ganglios, Lorena Álvarez or Julián Mayorga, among many others. Since this year we run out of festivals in spring-summer, what less than having our own at home.
When: At any time. Where: Online (Spotify). Price: Free
CHAT. Measuring the size of the universe
Since April, the Madrid Planetarium has launched a talk program on-line on astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology that have dealt with topics as varied as black holes, meteorites, telescopes or astronomical clocks. This Tuesday it will be the turn of the astronomer and professor Nicolás Cardiel, who will talk about the difficulties that the human being had in obtaining the first precise estimates of the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, which is known as the astronomical unit. This unit is key to know the size of our own galaxy and to know how far other stars and galaxies are. All sessions of Planetarium at home They are available on YouTube, including a space exploration aimed at children, which is accompanied by a video game.
When: May 26 at 6:00 p.m. Where: Online. Price: Free
MOVIES. A mustache for the 21st century
The # DoréEnCasa initiative, which Filmoteca Española launched during the quarantine, is giving us real film gems. In the next two weeks they offer us a double program, organized in collaboration with CA2M and linked to their exhibition Absurd humor: a constellation of nonsense in Spain, in which we can enjoy a series of encounters and dubbing of films created in the setting of the legendary magazine The Quail. In the first week, researchers Santiago Aguilar and Felipe Cabrerizo and filmmaker Carlo Padial will present films by Neville, Mihura and Chumy Chumez; in the second, we will be able to see the crazy dubbing of the comedians Joaquín Reyes, Venga Monjas and Canódromo Abandonado on the Cine-Club Newsletter Ernesto Giménez Caballero and A mustache for two by Tono and Mihura.
When: From May 22 to 26 and from June 5 to 8. Where: Online (# DoréEnCasa channel of Filmoteca Española on Vimeo and CA2M website). Price: Free
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