Archipelago 2023 El Hierro Will Once Again Be the Centre of the World From 2018 onwards, the Archipelago concert series invited the audience to delve deeper into the complexity of the contemporary world through listening, seeking to foreground music genres and modes of listening which provide an alternative to European and US cultural centres. This video, made by Javi Alvárez and Irene de Andrés, documents the seventh, and final, instalment of Archipelago, which was centred on El Hierro, a volcanic island which was considered prime meridian for centuries. Located halfway between Africa, Europe and South America, the island is also a metaphor for all music that circumvents the Western media’s powerful grid.This edition featured the screening of the film Eles transportan a morte (2021), by film-maker’s Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado, from Galicia and Tenerife, respectively; a performance by the Folkloric Ensemble of Sabinosa; music by DJ Travella from Tanzania and Malian DJ Diaki; and a concert by the Sardinian ensemble Tenores di Bitti “Mialinu Pira”. Activities Live Arts
Notes for a Time Apart A non-linear rapporteurship This video is the last stop in Notes for a Time Apart, a programme held in the Museo Reina Sofía from 30 June to 16 December 2023 with activities that looked to address other modes of conceiving time, beyond its normative and purely metric dimension. The programme was made up of a range of activities such as artistic and architectural installations, workshops, lectures, performances and encounters. The audiovisual piece here, which now works as a non-linear rapporteurship, gathers some of the gestures, sounds and encounters that took place, and aims to acknowledge and thank those who were willing to share time (and their time) during the programme. Activities Seminars and conferences Live Arts
Archipelago 2022 The Material Conditions of Our Music Every year the Archipelago concert series invites the audience to delve deeper into the complexity of the contemporary world through listening. The starting point of this edition was the image of the Ever Given container ship stranded on the Suez Canal. Activities Live Arts
play pause stop Download Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine Mette Edvarsen, memory and living books This podcast offers an interview with Mette Edvardsen as she recounts the beginnings of Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine and the diversity of forms she has adopted across its development, which spans more than a decade. Activities Live Arts
Performance by Itziar Okariz, in a collaboration with Izar Ocariz “The Ocean Breath” Itziar Okariz reflects on The Ocean Breath, a performance made in collaboration with Izar Ocariz. It starts from the breathing used in yoga, whereby the artist is the instructor. Activities Live Arts
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
Archipelago 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