Junquera Architects. Ana Junquera and Jeronimo Junquera. 3 climates 3 houses. Comfort vs energy

Modern architecture has forgotten the wisdom of traditional architecture, entrusting comfort to energy consumption. Today more than ever we must design housing as a response to the climate of the place.

Coordinates: Santiago Varela

Collaborates: College of Architects of Alicante

The Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, inaugurated in 2008, has become a benchmark in contemporary art at both national and international levels. Located in Móstoles, in the south of the Community of Madrid, it has made its own territorial position one of its greatest strengths. Its peripheral, decentralized, eccentric and outlying location is understood as a possibility for building imaginary geographies. This public museum, with low institutionality, safeguards the contemporary art collection of the Community of Madrid and the ARCO Foundation and works around the potentialities of contemporary practice through artistic production, exhibitions, thought, research and conservation of its collections. The CA2M is a museum that speaks volumes to establish dialogues that allow expanding institutional boundaries through its exhibitions and activities based on affective policies. A center that debates between the idea of a powerhouse, as Alexander Dorner conceived it—an electrical power plant in continuous operation—and the experiential body of radical imagination that Pontús Hultén spoke of.

Tania Pardo (Madrid, 1976)

Degree holder in Art History, curator and researcher, she is currently director of the Museo CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, where she previously served as Deputy Director (2019-2013). She has also been Advisor for Plastic Arts of the Community of Madrid (2019-2023). Head of Exhibitions at La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2015-2019). She was Director of Projects at the Fundación Santander 2016 (2009-2010); was part of the team at MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León, León (2003-2009) and was a professor of Art History at the UCM, Complutense University of Madrid (2014-2019). As a curator, she has developed various projects in both national and international institutions, has regularly written as an art critic in different media and develops various projects at the intersection of artistic, social, and educational fields.

Other museums, other perspectives is a lecture series in which directors of other museums are invited to speak about their experiences, histories and knowledge in the management and direction of the museums in which they have worked.

Coordinated by: Isabel Tejeda

In collaboration with: Consellería de Educación, Cultura, "Consellería de Educación, Cultura, Universidades y Empleo de la Generalitat Valenciana (201)"

Brooklyn, Calderón and other improbable combinations. Directing Golden Age theater on both sides of the Atlantic. Meeting with Daniel Alonso Piñero within the Alicante Classical Theater Festival 2025.

Daniel Alonso de Santos is a creative director specializing in Classical Theater. He has worked in New York, Washington D.C, London, Budapest, as well as throughout Spanish geography, exhibiting his Golden Age productions at the Festivals of Almagro, Olmedo, Alcalá de Henares, Los Veranos de la Villa de Madrid, Teatros del Canal, etc.

A graduate in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, his career is defined by an interdisciplinary perspective that has shaped his approach to theater. For four seasons he was part of the National Company of Classical Theater as an actor, an experience that solidified his connection with the great authors of the Baroque.

In 2024 he was awarded the ATI Prize from New York for Best Theater Director and the Talía Prize from New York for Best Theater Director, for his production La Monja Alférez.

He has collaborated as a teacher and speaker with various universities such as Complutense de Madrid, Europea Miguel de Cervantes, UNED, Sagardoy Business&Law School, and in the Performing Arts degree at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. His work advocates for re-reading classical texts with critical sense, creative freedom and a strong connection with the present.

With this meeting he proposes a journey between centuries, languages and stages: from a corral de comedias to the Manhattan subway. Because the theater audiences of New York also know what it is to dream of justice, identity and honor.

Elvira Dyangani, Director of MACBA: "Anticolonial Barcelona and the possibility of a Black planet". Coordinated by Isabel Tejeda

Other museums, other perspectives, is a lecture series in which museum directors explain the history and purpose of the institution they represent and its uniqueness within the Spanish context of contemporary art museums.

A new cycle of talks begins under the name "Other Collections, Other Perspectives". At this beginning, we will have the presence of the curator of TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Isidro Hernández Gutiérrez, with whom we will delve into the idea of "Óscar Domínguez and the Canary Islands: The Conquest of the World through Image".

Hernández will address some of the keys to the scope and significance of the Canarian avant-garde and the international culture magazine Gaceta de arte (1932 - 1936), dwelling especially on the work of painter Óscar Domínguez, who has been considered, along with Miró and Dalí, one of the great contributions of Spanish painting to international surrealism.

With Sonia Martínez, Esther García Ejome and Tania Safura Adam. "Black Spain: a journey towards blackness in space-time" is a collaborative and situated research project, proposed at a moment of awakening of Spanish blackness in which there is an imperative need to incorporate new histories and discourses into the public sphere. Initiated in 2021 by Diáspora LAB of Radio África, it has revealed the great need to deepen understanding of the relationship of blackness in Spanish territory. Its passage through different museographic institutions such as ARTIUM in the Basque Country, CCCB in Catalonia, MNCARS in Madrid and IVAM in Valencia and surrounding areas, has been a fundamental pillar in bringing forth from the archive and from public and domestic territory, a new collective black subject.

During this session we will be able to delve into the vicissitudes of this unprecedented project in the Spanish context. On one hand, Sonia Martínez as director of IVAM, will tell us how the institution, which had been conducting explorations around blackness for some time, incorporates the research within the museographic framework; Tania Safura Adam, coordinator of "Black Spain", will share its methodological limits, challenges and crossroads; and, finally, Esther García Ejome, as a researcher of the Valencian territory, will share some findings from the area.

"The Contemporary Art Museum as a Space for Social Transformation" Led by Manuel Segade, director of the National Museum Reina Sofía Art Center (MNCARS). Other Museums, Other Perspectives is a lecture series in which managers and directors of other museums are invited to speak about their experiences, histories, and knowledge in the management and direction of the museums in which they have worked. Coordinated by: Isabel Tejeda

Anna Bofill. ABSTRACT CONFERENCE

COMPOSING SPACES AND SOUNDS

Three perspectives: architecture, music, feminism. Composing to give meaning to the forms in which we live. To inhabit them, to listen to them, when one inhabits a space, it is perceived through all the senses. Sounds are there in everything, whether we want them to be or not. We can fill space with created sounds or not, and if there are no sounds, then the natural environment or your own body sounds or resonates. Composing is organizing (chaos). Distributing pure or complex geometries. Organic forms (existing in nature) can be pure or complex as well. Everything can be formalized from a landscape to sounds.

Architecture and urban environments also from other perspectives, music and feminist theories. Examples at different scales from residential complexes to urban fabrics and buildings, and some musical compositions.

Presentation of the book by Pedro Marín Boza Presented by: Begoña M. Deltell

Art galleries are essential for understanding contemporary art and the development of its most innovative artistic trends. They are the precursors of what will later appear in museums and institutions and are creators of cultural content. However, most texts that reflect on them do so from the perspective of the art market. What is an art gallery? How do they work? Why are they important? What are gallery spaces like? What has been their historical evolution? What moment are they in? What will their future be? The book addresses these questions by tracing the history of art galleries, from conceptual and practical issues to reflections on the expectations and challenges of the future, while defining the moment and the conditions in which they emerged and their fascinating evolution.

Presentation of the poetry collection resulting from the collaboration between Mexican poet Brianda Zura and Alicante-based artist Cayetano Ferrández.

Presented by: Begoña Deltell.