The music, dance and performance activities that feature in the Museo Reina Sofía programme are closely linked to the theoretical discourse in the organisation of the exhibition programme and the narrative in the Collection. Along with its own activities, the Museo also produces other shared activities that are the result of ongoing dialogue with a number of established collaborators. These activities include festivals, theatre performances, music conservatories, independent spaces, etc.
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Wednesday, 20 November 2024 - 7pm
Black Awareness Day in Brazil
Art to Rescue Our Ancestry
To celebrate Black Awareness Day on 20 November, the figure of Zumbi dos Palmares, a key figure in the fight against slavery in Brazil, will be commemorated on the same date of his murder. The Maloka Association, in collaboration with Museo Situado, will pay homage via a collective concert which, through music, dance and the interventions of anti-racist projects such as the Sindicato de Manteros (the Union of Street Vendors), honours the legacy of the Black and Afro-descendent population in Brazil.
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Wednesday, 9 and 16 and Thursday, 17 October 2024 - Check programme
Esperpento. Popular Art and Aesthetic Revolution
Encounters Around the Exhibition
This encounter series, which revolves around the exhibition Esperpento. Popular Art and Aesthetic Revolution, comprises presentations of the show by its curatorial team and two theatre pieces which reflect on the notion of “esperpento” and are performed by the companies Lagartijas tiradas al sol and ButacaZero.
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Saturday, 29 June 2024 - 6pm and 8pm
Performance Day
Reactivations of the Performance Work of James Lee Byars and Miguel Benlloch
The performances of James Lee Byars (Detroit, Michigan, 1932 – Cairo, 1997) bring together the aesthetic and life concerns of this unique artist. In conjunction with the exhibition the Museo Reina Sofía devotes to the artist, under the title James Lee Byars. Perfect Is the Question, and inside the framework of the programme Living Matter. Other Approaches to Material, this day re-stages, over two sessions, a selection of James Lee Byars’s performances, which open a dialogue with his visual work inside the space of the show. In the form of a coda, the activity also includes the presentation of a new performance conceived specifically for the occasion, Acaeció en Granada, which explores Byars’s relationship with the artist Miguel Benlloch (Loja, Granada, 1954 – Seville, 2018) in the city of Granada.
Activity of: Living Matter
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Saturday, 9 March 2024 - 10pm
The Shore, the Tide, the Current: An Oceanic Caribbean
ARCOmadrid 2024 Party in the Museo Reina Sofía
The Museo Reina Sofía welcomes Caribbean tides and currents, which flow through the Sabatini Building’s Garden and Cloister from 10pm until midnight as part of the ARCOmadrid 2024 closing party. Embracing the themes of this edition of the Madrid art fair, The Shore, the Tide, the Current: An Oceanic Caribbean, DJ Valerie Brathwaite and Toccororo will unfurl a sound-based connection between distant shores, and with influences and approaches that are as interesting as they are different.
Activity of: The Caribbean Relation
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4 October - 30 November 2023 - Check programme
Not Yet, Still
Probationary Stage Practice with Paz Rojo
Across the months of October and November 2023, the artistic investigation Not Yet, Still will be developed inside the Museo Reina Sofía. The project by artist and researcher Paz Rojo is articulated via two laboratories, an encounter, a stage experiment and a conversation.
Activity of: Notes for a Time Apart
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30 June - 16 December 2023
The Institute of Suspended Time
Exhibition at the Office of the Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido and Activations
The Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido (Institute of Suspended Time, ITS) is a project by Javier Bassas and Raquel Friera which came into being as a fictitious (non)institution seeking to revise temporal regimes established in society.
Activity of: Notes for a Time Apart
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Friday, 16 and Saturday, 17 June 2023 - Check programme
Archipelago 2023
El Hierro Will Once Again Be the Centre of the World
El Hierro is not any volcanic island. For centuries, it was considered prime meridian before being replaced by Greenwich Mean Time at the International Meridian Conference in 1884. This occurred after the United Kingdom had standardised the measurement of time for the rest of the planet in 1840 via the Great Western Railway company. El Hierro, sitting halfway between Africa, Europe and South America, is a metaphor for music that circumvents Western media’s powerful grid, which rules the taste, presence and even fees of musicians from the experimental scene. El Hierro will once again be the centre of the world.
Activity of: TIZ 9. Relational Ecologies
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Thursday, 4 May 2023 - 8pm
Ornithology
A Conversation on Music Between Quico Cadaval and Pablo Castaño
This encounter pays tribute to Charlie Parker and Benny Harris’s classic Ornithology, and brings together two figures from Galicia who are both distinguished in their respective spheres: storyteller Quico Cadaval and jazz saxophonist Pablo Castaño.
Activity of: TIZ 9. Relational Ecologies