Interview with Eszter Salamon About MONUMENT 0.7: M/OTHERS Choreographer Eszter Salamon explores in depth the creative process of the piece MONUMENT 0.7: M/OTHERS (2019), made with Erzsébet Gyarmati, surveying the mother-daughter binomial from a commitment to producing intersubjective temporalities. Activities Live Arts
Archipiélago 2019 Concert Series September 2019 For the third year running, the programme Archipelago encourages an understanding of the complexity of the contemporary world through listening, exploring what is understood by experimental music and the relation it bears to popular culture by way of different narratives and geographies. The present edition explores the concept of tradition: a term predominantly associated with conservatism and regression in the face of change, but with a meaning that implies the transfer of knowledge from one person to another and from one generation to the next. Activities Live Arts
Corbeaux (Crows) Interview to Bouchra Ouizguen As part of the performing arts series staged in collaboration with the Community of Madrid’s Teatros del Canal, the Museo Reina Sofía presents, over two sessions, Corbeaux (Crows), by choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen.Corbeaux is a kind of “living sculpture” with no contrivance, comprising raw elements, gestures, silences and, at times, the cries of a group of women dressed in black, their bodies creating figures and forms in the space they share with spectators. As the piece evolves, pre-conceived notions of time and space vanish, making way for a hard-to-classify lived experience intended to be both intimate and universal. Activities Live Arts
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Gamelán Internacional de Madrid Concert. MadGamelan October 27, 2018 Gamelan is a traditional ensemble of percussion instruments from the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. Activities Live Arts
Archipelago 2018. Concert series In its second edition, Archipelago asserts its approach to listening as a form of both knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. Attendants are encouraged to approach the complexities of the cotemporary world not only through the ear, but also through the body, by absorbing sound with all their organs and bones.Participants: Janneke van der Putten, Agnès Pe, Hashigakari, Tutu, Clara de Asís, Cedrick Fermont, Toukadime, Sofyann Ben, Youssef (Ammar 808), Áine O’Dwyer, Tarawangsawelas + Rabih Beaini, Nadah El Shazly, Errorsmith and Dj Lag. Activities Live Arts
The Words of Others by León Ferrari A Theatre of the Present This video assembles a series of interviews, carried out in conjunction with the presentation of León Ferrari's literary collage The Words of Others, which explore the Argentinean artist's approaches to his work and the challenges and research entailed in staging this theatre piece in the Museo Reina Sofía.Participants: Ruth Estévez. Independent researcher. In charge of direction and mise en scène. Ana Longoni. Director of Public Activities, Museo Reina Sofía. Javier del Olmo. Representative of the León Ferrari Foundation. José Antonio Sánchez. Researcher. In charge of dramaturgy and mise en scène. Isabel de Naverán. Dance advisor, Museo Reina Sofía. Live Arts
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Lecture by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor y Yayo Herrero Six Contradictions and the End of the Present. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Yayo Herrero 29 june, 2018 Raciality and Care in the Dispute Over Other Lives Activities Seminars and conferences Live Arts
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Lecture by Akira Takayama Theatre and Politics 13 april, 2018 A Theatre of the Present Session 2 Activities Seminars and conferences Live Arts
Archipelago 2017. Éliane Radigue by Emmanuel Holterbach + Agnès Pe Archipelago is a new series of concerts that views listening at once as a form of knowledge and aesthetic enjoyment. In this, the first edition, Archipelago is enveloped in drone and minimalist music, exploring its influences and unexpected offshoots.In this session, Emmanuel Holterbach performs the full version of Trilogy on Death, by the French composer Éliane Radigue. Agnès Pe, a self-taught and multidisciplinary musicologist and researcher, performs her own interpretation of the concept of Archipelago, approaching a musical theme via different styles and places. Activities Live Arts
Archipelago 2017. Yoshi and Tashi Wada + Damián Schwartz Archipelago is a new series of concerts that views listening at once as a form of knowledge and aesthetic enjoyment. In this, the first edition, Archipelago is enveloped in drone and minimalist music, exploring its influences and unexpected offshoots.The programme welcomes the Japanese musician and artist Yoshi Wada, linked to Fluxus, and his son Tashi Wada, who works with experimental music, art and interdisciplinary performance. They perform in this session a specific piece with the collaboration of the percussionist Ingar Zach and the Banda de Gaitas Lume of Biqueira. To complete the session, Damián Schwartz, producer, DJ and artist based in Madrid explores the edgier side of dance music, relating figures such as Jamal Moss and his more experimental strands to composers such as Terry Riley and Robert Ashley. Activities Live Arts
Archipelago 2017. Severine Beata and Javi Álvarez + iNSANLAR Archipelago is a new series of concerts that views listening at once as a form of knowledge and aesthetic enjoyment. In this, the first edition, Archipelago is enveloped in drone and minimalist music, exploring its influences and unexpected offshoots.This session presents Severine Beata, name chosen by Marta Peláez for a new sound project, who performs some of these new tracks alongside Javi Álvarez (Fluzo, Dúo Cobra, Néboa, Dj de la muerte, La Follable, etc.), producer of the record presented on this occasion; and the band iNSANLAR (literally meaning “humanity” in Turkish but with more profound and esoteric connotations), whose album Kime Ne, gained international admiration, catching the ear of the listener with its idiosyncratic blend of traditional Anatolian-Mesopotamian instrumentation, electronic music and spiritual and philosophical lyrics. Activities Live Arts
Interview with Joan La Barbara Voice Is The Original Instrument November, 2016 Throughout her career as a performer and composer, Joan La Barbara, a hugely influential figure in the sphere of contemporary experimental music, has explored the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument, developing a true and signature vocabulary of experimental techniques. She uses these techniques to explore the potential range of timbres in a single pitch, circular breathing inspired by French horn playing, and multiphonics, in addition to recovering classics such as choral singing. Activities Live Arts
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Boris Charmatz and João Fernandes Encounter with Boris Charmatz December 13, 2016 Boris Charmatz, the French choreographer, in dialogue with João Fernandes, deputy director of Museo Reina Sofía, will analyse the relationship between Seminars and conferences Live Arts
Resonance Concerts for Another Listening June, 2015 Resonance is a series of sound interventions for a specific site, activating the acoustic and historical space in the Museo Reina Sofía’s Sabatini Building. The programme refrains from using the auditorium and electronic amplification, which means guest artists, musicians and composers will present a series of pieces that set in motion alternative contexts for sound and contemporary music.This series lays out a set of interventions that work with unwanted echoes and resonances, developing the properties sound possesses, depending on where it is produced – a quality that the careful design of auditoriums, speakers and earphones have tried to make us forget. Activities Live Arts
Poetry Lecture by Ben Okri January, 2014 Poetry lecture by Ben Okri on the opening of Elly Strik. Ghosts, Brides and other Companions, on January 22, 2014. Exhibitions Live Arts