On Friday 16 and Saturday 17 September, FCAYC, together with MUSAC and the University of León, is organising a course on Contemporary Culture that proposes, through lectures, practical sessions and performances, an opening to the sense of listening and the possibilities that artistic creation weaves around it from a broad perspective. The activity is an opportunity to delve into contemporary art, both in its keys and its relevance at the present time and is aimed at artists, students and anyone interested in art, artistic practices and research, art history, cultural management, aesthetics, anthropology, curatorship, art education and critical thinking.
The course has the possibility of recognition of one ECTS credit for university students, and is aimed at artists, students and anyone interested in art and artistic research, without previous knowledge of art being necessary to participate in it.
The first day will take place at MUSAC and will feature two sessions by art critic, teacher and curator Haizea Barcenilla and artist and researcher Susana Cámara Leret. At 19:00, the day will culminate with a performance by the artist Derek Van Den Bulcke in collaboration with the dancer Carmen Muñoz.
On Saturday 17 September, the participants will travel to Cerezales del Condado, where they will be given presentations by the cultural researcher and curator Natalia Piñuel and the cultural researcher, visual artist and memera Laura Tabares. At 7 p.m., the artist Laia Estruch will give two performances.
The course is articulated as a learning space that runs through three symbolic layers: Surface, Atmosphere and Subsoil. The transversality of artistic practices in the 21st century occupy the section Surface area; the importance of including the living - in all its registers -, the hybridisation of knowledge or the recognition of artistic research outlines the contours of the Atmosphere. From Underground we will be guided by performances that amplify less orthodox and conventional listening processes.
All this makes up a programme that will show unforeseen links with contemporaneity; languages, bodies and archives that make audible some territories that we do not count on.
Practical information
Dates, venues and times:
- Friday, 16 September, MUSAC, Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.
- Saturday, 17 September, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia - FCAYC.
From 11:00 h. to 13:00 h. and from 17:00 h. to 20:00 h.
* A free bus service will be provided to travel from León to Cerezales del Condado.
Addressed to: Artists, students and anyone interested in art, artistic practices and research, art history, cultural management, aesthetics, anthropology, curating, art education and critical thinking. No previous knowledge is required.
Registration: Until 11 September, via the online form at https://musac.es/ or at the MUSAC box office.
Price: Free activity with prior registration.
ECTS credits1 ECTS credit.
Organisers: MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León and Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation - FCAYC
In collaboration with: University of León through the Department of Cultural Activities and the Institute of Humanism and Classical Tradition.
They lead: Eneas Bernal [Laboratorio 987, MUSAC], Koré Escobar [Head of Programming Area, MUSAC], Zaida Llamas [Coordination, FCAYC], Alfredo Puente [Curatorial Area, FCAYC] and Luis David Rivero [Artistic and Documentary Heritage Department, University of León].
Participants/speakers:
Haizea Barcenilla García [Art critic, teacher and exhibition curator] Susana Cámara Leret [Artist and researcher] Derek Van Den Bulcke [Artist. DJ and music producer] Carmen Muñoz [dancer, choreographer and researcher] Natalia Piñuel Martin [Cultural researcher and curator] Laura Tabarés [Cultural researcher, visual artist and memera] Laia Estruch [Artist] Julia R. Gallego García [Educator and cultural mediator at MUSAC], Luis Martínez Campo. [Artist, Head of sound and listening area, FCAYC].
Programme
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Venue: MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and León)
11:00 h. Welcome. Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, [Director, MUSAC], Julia R. Gallego [Educator, MUSAC], Koré Escobar [Head of Programming Area, MUSAC] and Eneas Bernal [Laboratorio 987, MUSAC].
11:30 - 13:00 h. Listening to the genre. What exhibition spaces tell us. Haizea Barcenilla García.
17:00 - 18:30 h. Chrysalises, minimal images and other registers. Susana Cámara Leret
19:00 - 20:00 h. FLAMANTE: Theory of the flamenco. Derek Van Den Bulcke with the collaboration of the dancer Carmen Muñoz. Performance
SATURDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER
Venue: Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation- FCAYC
11:00 h. Welcome Zaida Llamas [Coordination, FCAYC], Alfredo Puente [Curatorial Area, FCAYC], Luis Martínez Campo [Education, FCAYC], Luis David Rivero [Artistic and Documentary Heritage Department, University of León].
11:30 - 13:00 h. Mutant natures. Natalia Piñuel
17:00 - 18:30 h. LANdon: Local Area Network Storytelling. Laura Tabarés
19:00 - 20:00 h. Improvisation #3 (2022) y OCELLS PERDUTS / LOST BIRDS (2021-22) performances by Laia Estruch
Image: SUSANA CÁMARA LERET. Chrysalises, take shape. (Imaginal Cells, 2018). Courtesy of the artist.
