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España Negra (Black Spain). Open call

Travel towards the blackness in spacetime. Research team call

 
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01 sep. 2022 – 15 sep. 2022

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“Black Spain” – EN- is a group and situated research, a proposal from the Diaspora LAB from Radio Africa, at a time of awakening from the blackness in Spain. The main goal of the EN project is to build a common cultural background about black experience and thought in Spain, from the first traces of “Blackness” to the modern day, passing through the most famous facts and those that have been ignored, hidden or deleted. In the current context, we start from a fragmented knowledge, dispersed in the academic world, in African studies, in art, in museums, in music, in activism or historiography, which have generated disjointed and partial views, often enclosed in their own bubble of knowledge or buried in a hidden silence. That’s why, EN proposes this piece of research in order to trace, reunite and weave these snippets and link them together in a rich written and visual narrative, which is rigorous and creative, based on nosologies and epistemes belonging to experience and black thought, and working with methodologies of Black Studies that are still non-existent in the country today. All, over time, to build a specific story of Iberian blackness, always connected to the Black Atlantic and with a strong protagonism of its diaspora throughout history. This recognition of a shared path with black people in Spain will enable the complexity of the relationships with and between blackness to be dealt with, in addition to re-evaluation of its contribution to black thought in modern day society.

In order to cover multiple realities, the Black Spain project, coordinated by Africa Radio, builds its structure of work on a network of museums in different regions of the country in the years 2022, 2023 and 2024. IVAM will accompany the research in the Valencian Community and Murcia.

Place: hola@radioafricamagazine.com.

A project by: Diaspora LAB from Africa Radio.

Researchers, academic or not.

Diaspora LAB from Africa Radio IVAM Valencian Community and Murcia region

Al voltant de la carbonera. Laura Palau

Confluències. Els Ports

 
 
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18 dec. 2022

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Vallibona sometimes builds a coal bunker to remember one of the professions to which the town owes a large part of its identity, given that it was what locals lived off for many years. In this context, Laura Palau, an artist participating in the Confluencies programme includes this in her process of historic recreation and starts with guarding the coal bunker for one week, from 8th until 16th October 2022. During that time, she invites locals and visitors to meet around this fiery mountain to talk about natural and cultural extraction, tell stories, sing songs, read tarot and guard the fire until it emits blue smoke and the fire point is no longer white.

We propose this trip from Valencia to discover the process and research that the artist is carrying out in Vallibona, within the context of Confluències.

IVAM Centre Julio González, 09:30h
Estimated arrival: IVAM Centre Julio González, 18:00h

Any person who is interested.

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Visit to the artistic interventions of Torralba del Pinar – Pavías and Higueras (Castellón)

Confluències. Artistic interventions in the towns of Route 99

 
 
 
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17 sep. 2022

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Departure by bus: 9.30. IVAM main entrance. (Guillem de Castro, 118. Valencia)
Approximate return: 19.00. IVAM main entrance.

We suggest you connect with the landscape of the Sierra de Espadán Natural Park via Bleda and Rosa at Torralba del Pinar and Pavías and Carlos Izquierdo at Higueras, within the context of Confluències, a program developed within theIVAM al territori line of action.

From September 2021 until April 2022, the smallest towns of the regions of Alto Mijares and Alto Palancia have welcomed a selection of artists who, after spending time there and through active listening in these contexts, have created specific interventions in each town.

Res Communis is the project that Bleda and Rosa have presented to connect symbolically with Torralba del Pinar and Pavías, two small adjacent municipalities which, although they share the same landscape in the heart of the Sierra de Espadán mountain range, actually belong to different regions –Alto Mijares and Alto Palancia, respectively-. Initially presented as a brief intervention in the landscape – with the installation of a goal post in each town-, Res Communis hhas transformed during the process into a series of photographic images that are directly connected to the series that was the starting point for the artists, Campos de Fútbol (Football Pitches).

Higueras, espacio sonoro (Higueras, soundscape) is the project belonging to Carlos Izquierdo to provide attentive listening experiences in the soundscape of Higueras, materializing in two actions: firstly, a call to actively and consciously listen to the sounds that surround us and, from there, starting a sound walk through the town and its nearby surroundings so we can collect our own archive of listenings.

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International Dawn Chorus Day

Live stream from Albufera Natural Park

 
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01 may. 2022

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The Dawn Chorus is the morning song of birds at the start of a new day. Depending on the species, the place, and the weather conditions, the Dawn Chorus can vary in terms of its start time (although it is nearly always in the early morning before sunrise) and its tone. Depending on the time of year, it is usually mixed with other bird calls.

The International Dawn Chorus Day is held each year on the first Sunday of May. On that day, various people and groups get up early (or stay up all night), and meet in a suitable town to welcome the Dawn Chorus. The tradition dates back to 1984. Since then, it has been celebrated in a plethora of towns all over the world.

Since 2014, the international group, SoundCamp, has organized the Reveil event. This consists of celebrating the International Dawn Chorus Day by streaming on the internet the sounds of the Dawn Chorus all over the world. It is a stream that usually lasts a little longer than 24 hours, following the rotation of the planet, time zone by time zone, like a sound wave that travels the entire globe.

In the 2022 edition, IVAM joined this initiative in the context of the ‘Presentes densos’ (dense presents) cycle and will live stream the dawn chorus of the birds that inhabit the Albufera Natural Park. Our soundcamp will take place at the Tancat de Mília Tower. The stream will be available to listen to between 5.00 and 6.00 in the morning through the link below:

5 a.m. – 6 a.m.

Art on a wasteland, 1939–1959

Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante MACA

 
 
 
 
 
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19 oct. 2022 – 29 jan. 2023

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The end of the Spanish Civil War and of the Second World War suggest opposing worlds, radically different settings, but both have been built on wasteland; on pain, on ruins and on material and ethical debris which causes the absolute destruction of the war. And all of this takes place in complex living conditions: in exile, in migration, in repression.

The two post-war eras meant a radical censorship for the history of culture. In Spain under the dictatorship, the aesthetic project envisioned by the Falange would try to reduce culture to state propaganda, to break with the experimentalism of the vanguard and return to a certain academicism articulated from the ideal of what is national and Catholic. In the 1950s, the Regime’s need for international legitimacy would seek to continue to exploit culture, but with an approach to more contemporary language. Indeed, without losing the essence of all that is “Spanish and Catholic”. Throughout the rest of the world, defeated by the war and its horror, the breakdown of the previous vanguards would come from the disturbing question about the relationship between civilization and brutality. In both cases, totalitarianism, violence or cultural misery forced numerous artists to migrate, go into exile and work far away. But their journey uniquely enriched the territories that welcomed them.

Mainly comprising works belonging to the IVAM collection, this exhibition contains a reading where, more than the differences in style, it considers the continuities, similarities, mutual echoes, shared efforts, where the weave of historical events is such that it is absolutely decisive in poetic, discursive, formal or stylistic decisions; in the way humanity looks at and thinks about itself. Arte en una tierra baldía, 1939–1959 includes works by: Albers, Alfaro, Appel, Brossa, Buch, Buñuel, Chillida, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Ferrant, Fontana, Francés, Gil, Julio González, Gorky, Gottlieb, Gumbau, Krasner, Lucebert, Soulages, Masson, Michaux, Millares, Miró, Newman, Oteiza, Palazuelo, Pascual de Lara, Renau, Matilde Salvador, Saura, Sempere, Tàpies, Reinhardt, Val del Omar… and a photographic glimpse of the reconstruction of day-to-day life using the images of Catalá Roca, de Miguel or the Mayo Brothers.

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CONFLUÈNCIES, artistic interventions in the Alto Palancia.

Creation and mediation project in the rural environment

 
 
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01 jun. 2021 – 31 dec. 2023

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CONFLUÈNCIES. Artistic Interventions in the Rural Environment continues its process of artistic activations in the least populated municipalities, within the context of IVAM al territori. Following those carried out in the first six villages in the Alto Mijares region, the project continues to develop in another six municipalities in the province of Castellón, this time in the Mancomunidad del Alto Palancia.

The actions carried out by the team of artists during the process, seek to establish links with the municipalities and the people who live there. Through dialogue, attentive listening and shared learning, the resulting interventions attempt to connect contemporary art with places that are not accustomed to these languages, becoming the instigator of new imaginaries, as well as a reason to visit and discover these places.

The selection of artists who have developed their residencies in these six towns not only includes those who were already part of Confluències in the Alto Mijares -such as Luce, Carlos Izquierdo, Sandra Mar or Bleda y Rosa- but also incorporates the new perspectives of Makea Tu Vida and Pilar Beltrán.

These are their proposals for the villages of the Mancomunidad del Alto Palancia:

** The twenty-four localities where the Confluències programme is being developed are the villages of the so-called Route 99, and their interventions are the result of the Generalitat Valenciana’s invitation to the IVAM to take part in this initiative. In addition to the villages of the Alto Mijares phase, other municipalities that make up the route and in which Confluències proposes its intervention programme are: Fuente la Reina, Villanueva de Viver, Matet, Sacañet, Higueras and Pavías (Mancomunidad Alto Palancia) Vallibona, Herbés, Palanques, Villores and Castell de Cabres (Els Ports) in the province of Castellón: Sempere, Carrícola and La Puebla de San Miguel in the province of Valencia; and Benillup, Benimassot, Famorca and Tollos (El Comptat), in the province of Alicante.

Coordinator and curator: Eva Bravo
Alto Palancia Commonwealth Artists: Bleda y Rosa, Carlos Izquierdo, LUCE, Makea tu vida, Pilar Beltrán and Sandra Mar.

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01 jun. 2021 – 31 dec. 2023

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CONFLUÈNCIES. Artistic interventions in rural areas is a project of artistic activations in the smallest villages of the Valencian Community*, within the context of l’IVAM al territori. This project aims to open up, move and decentralise the museum beyond the physical space of its main headquarters, and instigate a dialogue with other contexts and institutions.

The programme of residencies, interventions and artistic mediation began in September 2021 in the Alto Mijares, one of the least densely populated areas and most urgently in need of repopulation in the Valencian Community. Here, six artists visited several municipalities, both individually and in groups, and talked to the neighbours, listened to the environment and presented their artistic proposals to the population, in a sort of open assembly. After this process of exchange and dialogue with the different contexts, the artists made specific interventions for each locality.

Confluències in the Alto Mijares comprises the following selection of artists and towns:

  • In Espadilla, LUCE has carried out four interventions in different parts of the village with the aim of reflecting on the municipality and its inhabitants, as well as making visitors aware of its uniqueness.
  • In Fuentes de Ayódar, Carlos Izquierdo has generated a sound piece, like a radio clip that evokes feelings of identification with this territory and stresses the importance of protecting its natural heritage.
  • In Torralba del Pinar, Bleda and Rosa produced an ephemeral intervention in the landscape with the aim of symbolically connecting this municipality with the neighbouring municipality of Pavías.
  • In Torrechiva, Sandra Mar, using ceramic pieces, invited us to walk through the exteriors and interiors of the town and discover the places and people who inhabit them.
  • In Vallat, Laura Palau turned three fruit trees into artistic objects thanks to the technique of cuttings and, in doing so, tells us about the traditional knowledge, lore and habits of the people and their land.
  • In Villamalur, the collective Fent Estudi interprets the swing as an element that takes us back to childhood, symbolising the passage of time. By activating it with our impulse, its swinging allows us to admire the marvellous views of the surroundings.

*The twenty-four localities where the Confluències programme is being developed are the villages of the so-called Route 99, and their interventions are the result of the Generalitat Valenciana’s invitation to the IVAM to take part in this initiative. In addition to the villages of the Alto Mijares phase, other municipalities that make up the route and in which Confluències proposes its intervention programme are: Fuente la Reina, Villanueva de Viver, Matet, Sacañet, Higueras and Pavías (Mancomunidad Alto Palancia) allibona, Herbés, Palanques, Villores and Castell de Cabres (Els Ports); in the province of Castellón: Sempere, Carrícola and La Puebla de San Miguel in the province of Valencia; and Benillup, Benimassot, Famorca and Tollos (El Comptat), in the province of Alicante.

Coordinator and curator: Eva Bravo
Alto Mijares artists: Bleda y Rosa, Carlos Izquierdo, Fent Estudi, Laura Palau, LUCE and Sandra Mar

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‘Presentes Densos’. About the arts of living on a wounded planet

 
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22 jan. 2022 – 18 jun. 2022

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In her latest book, Staying with the Trouble, Donna J. Haraway refers to contemporary times as a “thick present.” It is dense and problematic, because the situation in which “all beings on Earth” find ourselves is complex, as well as delicate. Ecological damaging circumstances are present in every region of the planet, involving and affecting many diverse agents who do not necessarily share a diagnosis, position, desire or proposal for action with regard to such situations. As Haraway warns us, it is therefore difficult to reach a solution that resolves the problem, that repairs the damage and that at the same time brings all the agents involved into agreement. It would be too “naive” of us to aspire to such a definitive solution. Instead, Haraway invites us to become capable of a responsible and perhaps biased response to the challenges and horrors of the Anthropocene.

This cycle aims to take up this invitation. Its modest proposal is to create a space in which we can share some tools for putting our responsibility into practice (response-ability). Or as Anna Tsing would say, to learn “the arts of living on a wounded planet.”

The cycle will take as its starting point the current ecological emergency unfolding in the Albufera de València. In the 2nd edition we will focus in particular on the birds that live temporarily or permanently in the Natural Park.

The program of activities for this edition concentrates on what these animals require of us. It is an aural program that invites us to listen to some of these beings that indeed reveal more of themselves via their singing than with their presence. Throughout the cycle, we will hold three bird watching sessions, each in a different season of the year; we will observe what happens with the birds’ migratory routes and corridors; we will obtain sound recordings and record a “dawn chorus” during a spring sunrise; and we will learn to track the different colonies that inhabit the park in order to become familiar with their habits and learn to live with them with kindness. The activities are organized by employees at the Natural Park or by artists such as María Jerez, Kamen Nedev, María del Castillo and Edu Comelles.

Curated and coordinated by Miguel Ángel Martínez.

With the collaboration of SEO-Birdlife and Acció Ecologista AGRÓ.

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2022 Edition

Cualladó

Fragments of the human landscape IVAM Collection

 Gabriel Cualladó / París, 1962. IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Generalitat. Artist donation
 Gabriel Cualladó / Children playing. Paris, 1962. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Generalitat. Artist donation
 Gabriel Cualladó / La Albufera, Valencia, 1985. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Generalitat. Artist donation
 Gabriel Cualladó / Gitanilla. Sama de Langreo, Asturias, 1978. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Generalitat. Deposit Collection Gabriel Cualladó
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21 jan. 2022 – 01 may. 2022

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To coincide with the designation of Bocairent as Cultural Capital of the Community of Valencia in 2021, the IVAM is presenting an exhibition of the work of Gabriel Cualladó at Museo Antonio Ferri. The show is the result of a serious process of research, cataloguing and digitalization of the holdings by Gabriel Cualladó in the IVAM, undertaken in collaboration with experts in documenting and cataloguing photography, preventive conservation and digitalization.

Gabriel Cualladó was born in Massanassa (Valencia) in 1925 and moved to Madrid in 1941. He was a member of the AFAL group and an active agent in the movement to renew photography in Spain during the second half of the twentieth century. His earliest photographs are of his first-born child and his friends taken with a Capta camera. From then on his interest in photography grew and he started to learn the secrets of the medium as a self-taught practitioner. Cualladó defined himself as an amateur photographer at a time when this expression was associated with artists unbounded by the restrictions of disciplines. This allowed him to push back some hitherto unexplored limits of photography, to dismantle the framing and to break with the conventions of composition.

Cualladó’s work is notable for adding a patina of humanism to the sad reality of the postwar period and for having forged a personal world all of his own. Cualladó did not seek out the major issues or famous people of the time, but rather, he chose to capture moments of everyday life with his humanist gaze, using his friends, family and anonymous people to compose an intimate world.

Cualladó became a member of Real Sociedad Fotográfica in 1956, and one year later he joined the AFAL group. Like other artists from his generation, including the filmmakers Juan Antonio Bardem in Death of a Cyclist (1955) or Luis García Berlanga in Welcome, Mr Marshall (1952), both close to social realism, Cualladó endeavoured to introduce the ideas of Italian neo-realism in his work. From 1980 onwards he was included in the group of Spanish photographers chosen by Nueva Lente magazine to take part in Rencontres d’Arles. In 1994 he was awarded the National Photography Prize by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Museo Antonio Ferri, Bocairent

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