What’s Happening to Us? How Are We? Diagnosing the Queer Condition in the Post-Pandemic Period

People who are persecuted in some way over their sexual orientation, gender identity or sexual characteristics can request asylum as refugees. Many of these people look to countries like Spain. The experience of those who have embarked upon this forced migration forms the starting point of El delito de existir (The Crime of Existing, 2022), a documentary made by Fabiola Barranco and Olmo Calvo. In this edition of Situated Voices, the screening of the aforementioned documentary is followed by a conversation on the protagonists’ experience after arriving in Spain.

Organised by: GRIGRI, Museo Situado and ONG Rescate

Revealing the Unmanageable seeks to explore how the devaluation of reproductive work also takes place inside the psycho-dynamics of the Museo, understanding it as a living social body and an artefact that replicates hegemonic social practices. The programme includes public debates which, respectively, revolve around the questions: How does the devaluation of the reproductive spread inside the Museo? What are the restorative strategies to deactivate the devaluation of the reproductive inside it?

Coordinated by: Luisa Fuentes Guaza
Organised by: Museo Reina Sofía

Cerdas (Sows) depicts the problems and consequences that materialise when body worship fails. By way of a series of scenes and seemingly unconnected “re-performances”, a landscape is devised to prepare the body for an “other” that is seldom present, creating vagueness in the narcissistic relationship between another possible body and another body-subject. The participating artists, harnessing repetition and the theatre of the absurd, show the violence inherent in certain regulated spaces that prevent queer corporality, for instance marriage, cybersex, dance, the beauty salon and the fashion show.

Artistic direction: Carlos García de la Vega
Organised by: Museo Reina Sofía

This year’s edition of the summer cinema centres on musical film, viewed at once as a genre which is both playful and high-spirited and also a discourse which incorporates striking ruptures in formats and narratives. The opening week is devoted to the queer musical and comprises two sessions, showing in the first Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido (Trailer for Lovers of the Forbidden, 1985), a short musical film by Almodóvar which opens the programme, and Luis María Delgado’s Diferente (Different, 1962), the first film with a homosexual protagonist in Spanish film. The second session features John Greyson’s film Patience (1993), a musical on AIDS and the black legend of its origins. 

Curator: Chema González
Organised by: Museo Reina Sofía

Violence pervades queer people, who constantly face barriers to social structures which hinder and constrain the development of subjectivity and the free expression of affections and desires. In an era of widespread malaise, this vulnerability intensifies, often leading to a downward spiral of solitude, pathologisation and victimisation that is hard to evade. Queer Malaise seeks to share and politicise these situations, which isolate people and single them out, through tools that include dialogue, narration, make-up, performance and the collective production of images.

Coordinated by: Izan Parra
Organised by: Museo Reina Sofía