Hannah Collins is a multifaceted artist specializing in large format photography. She lives in Barcelona, London, and California, where she teaches at UC Davis University. Professor at the Royal College of Art in London, she exhibits in galleries and public institutions and museums in Europe and North America.

At the same time and in the same space, by the same person, theory and practice together: Speaks and acts, acts and speaks. Theorizes and practices, practices and theorizes, and begins again. But it never repeats itself. In the end someone must have understood something, but it is difficult to say who and what has been understood from this discourse on performance.

Because in reality, what is performance?

A hybrid? A torture? A leg-pull? A pleasure? Anything? A surprise? A shame? A boredom? An amusement? A lack of ideas? A new genre? A discovery? An artistic expression? A risk? A joke? A perversion? A gag? A gratuitous act? A challenge? An effort? A scam? A knowledge? A theatrical deviation? A communication? A desire to please? A desire to provoke? A desire to do directly? A new artistic experience? A natural, illegal, adulterous offspring of art? A major genre? A minor genre? A deviation? A path? A dead end? A rupture? An ideal of artistic integration? A practice of artistic integration? A practice of freedom? A search for a new language?

As it did in 2011, the Alicante Music Festival will have one of its venues at the MACA.

THE PROMOTION OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

With José Luís Turina and Antonio Moral.

THE PROMOTION OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC II

With Luis Suñén, Jorge de Persia and Luis Mazorra.

PERFORMANCE

With artist Ester Ferrer, who will perform a performance in one of the museum's spaces.

INTERVENTION IN THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF ALICANTE

A proposal related to the search for and knowledge of the sensible qualities of urban space and the representations that inhabitants have of them.

Artistic action, in addition to acting on the individual, can awaken collective debate. The installation proposes a journey on two planes (real and virtual), a continuous dialogue between audiovisual language and everyday situations in the city of Alicante.

It is about capturing the character of the city, its sensory identity, transforming an architectural space (The Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante) into an open space and projection of other spaces.

The staging, of a face-to-face and virtual nature at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, is situated at a point of balance between the documentary, the theatrical and audiovisual creation. The real and the virtual merge in a dialogued reflection about forms of knowledge and communication through the sensory (art as a form of knowledge).

This central action will be complemented with an audiovisual installation that will remain in the Museum's spaces. Finally, a website will be created, a meeting point between creators and citizens. People and groups will be able to participate by sending sounds, texts, images… This information will serve to build a collective sensory map of Alicante.

Freed from the structure of time and space, I coordinate all points of the universe, wherever I can register them. My mission is to create a new perception of the world. I decipher in a new way a world unknown to you. But it is not enough to show fragments of truth on the screen, separate parts of truth. These parts must be organized thematically so that the whole is also a truth. (Dziga Vertov and Kino-Eye).

DIRECTION: José Luis Carles and Cristina Palmese

SCREENPLAY: Estrella Sánchez, Jesús Barranco, Cristina Palmese, José Luis Carles

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Cristina Palmese

SOUND: José Luis Carles

PERFORMERS: Jesús Barranco and Mónica Gracia

WEB DESIGN: Sergio Ramirez

The city of Alicante received last May the 'Google Digital City Award', an honor that according to Google's own representatives is granted to those Spanish municipalities whose small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a "strong presence" on the internet and regularly use 'online marketing' tools, as reported in a statement by the city council.

The MACA hosts the Google Academies, which is nothing more than a specialized workshop in Google AdWords where you acquire the knowledge to know how to promote your business or your clients' business online.

The workshop is divided into two parts. The advanced Google Academies, from 10 to 1:30 PM, aimed at an audience more knowledgeable in the subject, and a second part, the basic Google Academies from 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM.

Corporate mobility event prior to the annual strategic program of Móvil Forum 2012, which is part of Telefónica's Partners Program, an initiative by the company to bring its customers the best ICT solutions on the market. With its origins almost eleven years ago, it originated one of the first technology forums promoted by an operator. Currently, Movilforum is made up of the main technology partners in the ICT world (software manufacturers, terminals…) and more than 120 participating companies (in Spain alone), as well as thousands of associates.

Therefore, the main clients of Telefónica attended the event.

The Museum, represented by Ester Guixot, responsible for guided tours on weekends, and its librarian, Aranzazu García, attended the headquarters of the Surco Association to conduct workshops divided into two days

Through the materials, the Surco youth were able to put into practice what they learned in a Chinese ink workshop and another in stamping.

Learning while having fun was the objective we set for ourselves with these workshops, in which what is truly positive is the relationship established with groups and associations in the city.

From MACA we want to thank the managers and members of Surco for their interest and collaboration, which will continue over time, as we consider it positive for both the youth and the Museum.

Below we leave you a sample of what we did in the workshop.

In collaboration with SURCO.

Saturday, May 19th began with a trip through the MACA, where through a theatrical visit the youngest visitors were able to understand the true meaning of a museum and its role in society.

Kiki, Velázquez, a human statue in the purest informal style or a replica of Le Parc's work served as guides to the visitors during the journey.

The last stop was Plaza de Santa María, where visitors created a collective mural in which each one expressed their own idea of a museum.

From the MACA we want to thank Explicarte and VDH Comunicación for their collaboration in making this activity possible, but above all to the travelers who wanted to accompany us during this adventure.

The OtraDanza company, represented by dancers Asun Noales and Sebastián Rowinsky, participated in DIM2012 with a performance in the temporary exhibitions room.

The performance had the collaboration of violinist Gabriel Jiménez Olariaga.

Around a hundred visitors wanted to come and enjoy a brilliant performance that had the "help" of a work by José María Sicilia from the Art in Airports exhibition.

A gift for the senses, which we can once again enjoy at the museum thanks to the generosity of Asun Noales and her team.

For seven editions, from 2012 to 2018, the Museum held a photography contest coinciding with International Museum Day. In it, anyone who wished was invited to take a photo, alone or accompanied, in front of or inside the museum. The winning photo will be selected according to the following criteria:

◦ Originality of the location and pose or framing

◦ Dynamism and enthusiasm of the people posing in the photograph

◦ Creativity

From Friday, March 23 to Sunday, March 25, the museum gave away books to anyone who wanted them. With this initiative, visitors could take a maximum of two books from the Museum's collection.

Exhibition catalogs, photography books, sculpture, art history, or Valencian painting completed the offered collection. Despite being the first time this activity was held, it was a great success and the books sold out during the weekend.