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
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
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
Neighbourhood Picnic The Joy of Being Together The encounter between different collectives, associations and residents of the Lavapiés neighbourhood in the Garden was special, constituting a new opportunity to keep on vindicating what is considered just, but never at the expense of joy. Activities Seminars and conferences
The Powers of Memory in the Little Things Closing lecture given by Judith Butler On 8 October 2020, in the framework of the 2020 edition of the Politics and Aesthetics of Memory Chair, directed by Chilean theorist Nelly Richard, American feminist theorist Judith Butler gave a lecture based around the idea of memory outside hegemonic readings of history. She began by reflecting on the virtual medium of the lecture she was presenting, on a situation that brings us together but creates a longing for contact and encounter as it leaves us in solitude. She went on to refer to the right-leaning and volatile political situation in the United States on the eve of the election and in the midst of the pandemic, characterising it is as necropolitical exhilaration. She also contrasted this context with the resurgence of Black Lives Matter, at once a movement and a slogan, and also an archive of live, just as Richard has put forward. Finally, her lecture centred on a reading of Marx from a feminism perspective, connecting the exist/resist of Palestinian claims and the performance “Un violador en tu camino” by Chilean collective Las Tesis. The lecture was followed by a conversation with Nelly Richard and Ana Longoni.Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Hannah Arendt Chair and is a Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School (EGS). Her work, initially focused on gender studies, also sets forth notable reflections in the field of ethics, politics and human rights. She is one of the foremost intellectuals of our time. Activities Seminars and conferences
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
From Art, Despite Art Interview with Lucy Lippard Lucy Lippard (1937) is one of the foremost critics and creators in the conception and history of contemporary art. Her writing, exhibitions and biography have been the subject of far-reaching studies and shows, for instance the recent Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of the Conceptual Art (Brooklyn Art Museum, 2012–2013) and From Conceptualism to Feminism. Lucy Lippard’s Numbers Shows 1969–74 (Afterall, 2012). Lippard was a guest at the opening of the Juan Antonio Ramírez Chair, which explores different approaches to art history – understanding it as a constantly evolving discourse – and signalled the start of activities in the Museo Reina Sofía’s Study Centre. Therefore, on the occasion of her visit, a master lecture, workshop and interview were all conducted, the latter of which looked over, for the first time, her career as a whole, for example the landmark exhibition Eccentric Abstraction (1966), representing a feminist and organic critique of Minimalism, a key term in the “dematerialisation of art” (1972), or the displacement of the institutional systems of art by community- and territorial-based aesthetic practices. Activities Seminars and conferences
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
What is the Anthropology of Images? Interview with Hans Belting October, 2013 Author of some key studies in recent years in the field of art theory and visual culture, Hans Belting introduces in this video his influential anthropology of images project. It is defined as a methodology that takes part while distances itself from art history, while opening the discipline into the field of the analysis of images. The video of his interview, that includes related works in the Museo Reina Sofía Collection, was made on with the occasion of the fourth installment of the Master Lectures series. Seminars and conferences
For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working. Emmanuel Rodríguez (Traficantes de Sueños) From 2 to 3 July, 2010 Interview produced during "For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working". Workshops on precariousness and self-organization in "creative" work, organized by Traficantes de Sueños, YProductions, Casa Invisible, Universidad Nómada and Museo Reina Sofía. Emmanuel Rodríguez is a historian, sociologist, and co-founder of Universidad Nómada and Traficantes de Sueños, a militant project consisting in a bookshop association and an independent distribution chain in Madrid. Seminars and conferences
For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working. Pablo de Soto Hackitectura From 2 to 3 July, 2010 Interview produced during "For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working". Workshops on precariousness and self-organization in "creative" work, organized by Traficantes de Sueños, YProductions, Casa Invisible, Universidad Nómada and Museo Reina Sofía. Hackitectura is a collective of architects, hackers and social activists who experiment with networks, public space and physical bodies. Seminars and conferences
For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working. María PTQK From 2 to 3 July, 2010 Interview produced during "For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working". Workshops on precariousness and self-organization in "creative" work, organized by Traficantes de Sueños, YProductions, Casa Invisible, Universidad Nómada and Museo Reina Sofía. María PTQK is a cultural producer, independent researcher, a consultant at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and coordinator of projects with the collective Amasté. Seminars and conferences
For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working. Felipe G.Gil (Zemos 98) From 2 to 3 July, 2010 Interview produced during "For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working". Workshops on precariousness and self-organization in "creative" work, organized by Traficantes de Sueños, YProductions, Casa Invisible, Universidad Nómada and Museo Reina Sofía. Felipe G. Gil is a member of Zemos98, a cultural management collective that works in the fields of networked society, remix culture, and experimentation with formats. Seminars and conferences