This Christmas the IVAM has a surprise… for everyone!

The IVAM invites you to its headquarters in Valencia – Centre Julio González – and in Alcoy, so you can enjoy the museum’s modern and contemporary art, through a special programme filled with culture, leisure, and entertainment: workshops for families, guided tours for the general public, city tours, autonomous games, etc.

In addition, the museum will remain open, free of charge, during the holiday period so that you can continue to enjoy all the exhibitions..

You can check the opening hours and plan your visithere.

What better way to end the year and start 2022 by celebrating the museum that is full of art?

More information: ivam@ivam.es / teléfono 96.3176600

This second edition of El Berenar comes in the form of a conversation in which the invited artists –Diego Navarro and Darío Alva (artists of the Program), Guillermo Ros and Laura Costas– will create a virtual stage where they can share their work or research.

As an activity, El Berenar constitutes an informal meeting place for the presentation of projects by artists, authors or other cultural practitioners working in Valencia. In each edition, two guests together with one of the artists from the Art and Context Program will discuss their projects or interests. The conversation is open to everyone present.

The activity will be on Tuesday, 21st December, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. The link for online attendance will be published in due course.

ONLINE. NO ADVANCE REGISTRATION NECESSARY

connecting link: https://www.twitch.tv/zgh2005os00676097731

Diego Navarro is a multidisciplinary artist born and living in Valencia whose works in the fields of both sound –through the composition of electronic music and sound design for contemporary media– and visual media, mainly influenced by the aesthetics of video games and fantasy.

Darío Alva is a digital artist based in Madrid whose work involves audiovisual creation and CGI. His artistic practice is influenced by a wide range of media and disciplines, mainly focused on time-image studies or attentional economies.

Laura Costas is a manufacturer of dolls and artefacts born in Vigo.
Her work revolves around toys, childhood and violence with works such as Another foolish contender, To die in the countryside or Demon baby has its mother eyes. Her production goes beyond sculpture, to encompass sound, performance or paper media.

Guillermo Ros lives and works in Alboraya. The violence inherent in the creative process lies at the centre of his work: an exercise in analogies and the imaginary, culminating in a production of epic overtones. Ros takes the concept of “lore” – typical of the language of video games where it pertains to a story or a character’s background-, and transfers it to the artistic field: the “lore” of the elements, the material, the space, the context and – last but not least – his own, presenting a mixture of references that make up his personal conceptual framework.

Nowadays, reading is a practice that involves the convergence of various media pertaining to literate culture, going beyond the printed book. It thus has at its heart a type of subject that adapts and changes constantly according to reading practices. We want to promote reading of the mutant subject, the implementation of mutant reading, activated according to the paradigm of printing capitalism as it grasps and multiplies the implications of the new parameters presented by literate societies of the 21st century.

The Lectura Mutante reading group is a program aimed at activating reading practices around the resonances generated by the interplay between the exhibits, the bodies that pass through them, and the museum’s library. We intend to open up the concept of “reading” until it loses the passive status that ties it to the product-book. We want to deconceptualize reading in order for it to spill beyond its confines and become something more practical, thus arriving at a way of reading that can continuously activate processes, discover resistances and generate open and mutant literate spaces.

We will work in bimonthly sessions based on conceptual itineraries that span the museum’s exhibitions. Our goal is to experience the full potential of a group reading practice understood as a performative and constituent process that operates via relationships with texts.

WHAT’S IN THE F**KIN ‘BOX. A mutant reading attempt

[ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED]

The sessions will be as follows:

1. Intro. THE MUTATIONS OF THE BOX
   C1/ We will prepare a box with a bibliographic selection based on the inspirations, suggestions, influences, connections, lines of flight, etc., of the exhibition and we will leave it at the disposal of the participants. You can consult it in the library and even take a copy home, if the library allows it, which you will need to bring the day we meet. (Limited to one copy per participant.).
   C2/ You can expand the box’s selection with library funds if you know of any suitable work, or you can dive into the catalogue and choose a contribution to the selection from magazines, exhibition catalogues, books, DVD’s… Speak to the room staff to have it incorporated into the box.
   C3 / On session days, prior to starting, you can add a personal reference to the box.
   
2. Development WHAT’S IN THE F**KIN ‘BOX.
   The session will take place based on the sharing of the selection of works that are in the box. It is not necessary to have consulted the contents of the box prior to each session, since our aim is that the dynamics be a processual reading experience, generated from the very act of sharing.
   
3. Mutant memory. TRANSLECTURE
   We will set up a digital platform that serves as a repository for the sessions and functions as a common digital memory of transmedia references. A publication will be created at the end of all sessions using the material available. The mutant reading group is coordinated by Letra Salvaje (David Marote & Víctor Navarrete), a group whose activity is devoted to the emergence or disruption of alternative forms pertaining to the processes of reading, publishing and producing books.

1st SESSION. Mutations based on the exhibition “An exercise in violence. Guillermo Ros”
2nd SESSION. Mutations based on the exhibition “Essays on the crappy. Readings from the Miguel Benlloch Archive”
3rd SESSION. Mutations based on the exhibition “Anna Boghiguian. Sometimes, unexpectedly, the present meets the past”
4ª SESSION. Mutations based on the exhibition ” Zanele Muholi”

• Mutations based on the exhibition ” Zanele Muholi”
• Wednesday June 1st at 18h

Upon registering, participants will receive an email with additional information regarding the dynamics of the working group