Concert. Thomas Ankersmit. Perceptual Geography. About Maryanne Amacher

Thomas Ankersmit performing at Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, 2019. Photograph: Quentin-Chevrier

Perceptual Geography is a project by Dutch artist and musician Thomas Ankersmit and is based on the research conducted by American composer Maryanne Amacher (Kane, Pennsylvania, USA, 1938 — Rhinebeck, New York, USA, 2009) and the search to make sonic phenomena three-dimensional via the distribution of space. The project title, taken from a well-known article published by Amacher in 1979, alludes to the physical and spatial dimension the composer evoked at her concerts conceived as landscapes and geographies, whereby different sounds unfolded around the architecture as if they were characters in a narrative, coming into contact, crossing, overlapping.

Date: Friday 10 May, 2019 
Location: Nouvel Building, Protocol Room 
Hour: 19:30 h 
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía 
Curated by: José Luis Espejo 
Admission: free, until full capacity is reached
With the technical support of: the Laboratory of Computer and Electronic Music (LIEM), the Centre of Performance Technology (CTE), the National Institute of Performance Arts and Music (INAEM)

Film series. Sarah Maldoror, Négritude Poet and Film-maker

Anonimous. Portrait of Sarah Maldoror. Photography, 1984

The first retrospective on Sarah Maldoror (Gers, France, 1929) in Spain rediscovers a vital film-maker whose work remains obscure, despite her huge commitment to the decolonial movement and the struggles for social diversity from 1960 onwards. Born Sarah Ducados to an Antillean father and a French mother, she took on the name Maldoror in homage to Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) by Lautréamont, a poet admired by the Surrealists. Such a gesture sought to breathe life into Surrealism from the tenets of Négritude, an artistic, social and political movement she would become a major exponent of, with her work responding at once to the search for poetic form with which to express an alternative identity and the promise of a future society offering new black culture emanating from anti-colonialism and Pan-Africanism during the 1960s.

Dates: 11 -19 May, 2019 
Hour: check the programme
Locations: 
Museo Reina Sofía, Sabatini Building, Auditorium
Matadero Madrid, Cinematheque, Azcona and Borau Theatres
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía and DocumentaMadrid 2019 (16th International Documentary Film Festival)
With the support of: Institut français d´Espagne 
Curated by: Chema González 
Admission: 
Museo Reina Sofía sessions: free, until full capacity is reached
Matadero Madrid, Cinematheque sessions: 3,50 € per session / 30 € for a 10-session pass