Within the program of activities on the occasion of the exhibition Esther Ferrer. the body crossed by gender, space and time.

Course/Workshop taught by Margarita Aizpuru (curator of the exhibition, art critic and educator).

Days: December 11, 12 and 13, 2024

Schedule: 4 to 8 p.m.

And a selection competition for up to 4 performance projects, chosen by Margarita Aizpuru and Rosa Castells, to be carried out in the PERFORMANCE AND GENDER CYCLE to be held at MACA, as part of the practices of the Course-Workshop on a date to be determined in 2025.

Admission requirements for the course: Interested persons wishing to enroll in this course must submit the following documentation:

• Registration request by email, providing your personal information

• Abbreviated curriculum or curriculum summary of the applicant if they are a natural person

Registration deadline: It will end hours before the start of the course as long as places are available. Corresponding course certificates will be issued, signed by the instructor.

Information

The content of the course-workshop will focus on the conceptual, visual, theoretical and practical aspects of performance in interrelation with gender discourses and positions and feminist practices.

From the origins of performance and body art in general, to these recent years in which we have witnessed a revival of this artistic practice, different generations of artists have developed mechanisms and languages, and have opened paths as specific and forceful in the territory of performance as to speak of the importance, in its evolution, of female presence and even of feminist performances.

Discourses on the body, in the first decades, to which would have to be added the paradigm of gender identity from the 1980s onwards, coincide with a change in attitude in art.

After 1970, many women developed specifically feminist works. There was an increase in works that reinserted the experiences of being a woman into art practice.

From the second half of the eighties, and especially in the nineties, changes were going to occur in the sense of opening to a new aesthetic that rediscovers happenings and performance, while re-analyzing the relationships of the body and performance in contemporary societies.

For all these reasons, students will be informed about what performance carried out by women artists has meant from gender perspectives and feminist practices. And this by carrying out a theoretical-practical journey, with numerous visualizations in class, which will be explained and analyzed and debated, of performances carried out by the artists, in their different tendencies, approaches and practices, from the sixties to the present day, both at the level of our country and internationally.

Objective

The fundamental objective of the course is to inform/train in the field of performance from artistic, as well as gender and feminist perspectives, emphasizing the study of historical development, women artists and performance trends, their fusions and crossbreeding with other artistic areas and their exhibition in different spaces and modes of intervention and exhibition.

This information and training will be carried out by the course/workshop instructor who will teach it herself, incorporating performance practices, through a competition among the students, of which Margarita Aizpuru will select 4 performance projects to be carried out at MACA, within a Cycle organized for this purpose in 2025.

Methodology

Phase 1

Theoretical-practical course, accompanied by abundant and varied audiovisual material, on performances, their tendencies, practices and interventions. The discourses and analysis of performances and performative works will be accompanied by visualization of performances by different artists on video and fixed projections, which will serve as a documentary basis for the debate and discussion that will accompany the course at all times.

Phase 2

Performance competition for course/workshop students. As established in the "Performance Competition" section in the last section of this information.

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Thinking about the process with the objective of photographic practice.

The immediacy of the click in a context of global overproduction is forcing artistic practice to review the processes on which photographic heritage is built.

Today, the creative process is understood as a method, a preparation, or a connection with critical thinking. Without this focus that redirects importance toward the process, photography, increasingly, finds itself immersed in doubt about the overproduction of images and visual culture without reflection.

By objectifying its value, thinking about the process offers an opportunity to solve problems based on creative experience. This willingness puts current photographic languages at the service of artistic practices that, in one way or another, propose non-linear processes or narratives, capable of challenging current concepts of space and time.

For all these reasons, from BEPHOTO we want to open a space for dialogue and reflection through proposals that analyze these issues and help add richness toward greater chronodiversity.

Program

Mitar Terzic

Screening and talk

Chat with Félix

23/03/23 at 18:00h.

Antonio Guerra and Carolina Diego

Conference

Creative processes in residence projects for the FOTO program. Aterriza Creative Residencies Las Cigarreras

24/03/23 at 18:00h.

Manuela Lorante, Alex Domenech and Paula Ártes

Conference How do we approach the process in a photographic project?

25/03/23 at 18:00h

10:30 Conference A Happy World

11:30 Presentation of the project "Do You Think What You Say?" by students from the 2nd Cycle of Advertising Graphics at EASDA

12:15 Round table "Possibilities of education and design for social change in matters of equality"

13:00 Jury decision of the Poster Design Contest organized by EASDA and awards ceremony

Events organized by the Juan Gil Albert Institute of Alicantine Culture, the MACA and the Miguel Hernández University. Participants include Olga Cuadrado, Rafa Cervera, Óscar López and Carlos Navas.

Digital communication and/or analog communication. The difference between a digital system and an analog one is that the former develops through discrete, finite values, while the latter does so with continuous, infinite values. Viewed this way without mediation, without interpretation, neither from the world of technology nor from that of philosophy, it doesn't say much and, at the same time, it says everything, since it evokes, in a somewhat poetic manner, the bone of contention of communication, and therefore, of the transformation of information into knowledge, in the contemporary world.

While in the first ComunicAlc Events, in 2021, debate centered around the false dichotomy between local and global, in 2022 the division of the cultural world between the analog and the digital is put on the table, not as a confrontation, but as an approach.

The people who are part of the two round tables, as well as the speakers, come from very diverse fields of cultural management and communication, sharing their experiences, dialoguing about them, the differences perhaps are not so great.

Coordinates: Miquel González Ivars

Moderates: Eduard Aguilar Lorente

Program

Free admission until capacity is reached.

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MACAlistens … is to create a space to share and exchange ideas, open debates and new ways of thinking around art and education.

On September 22nd we present our Educational Program. In this meeting we propose our intention to organize different meetings or encounters with teachers interested in discussing and reflecting on other ways of working with art and education, in exchanging ideas and actions.

These encounters aim to be open and flexible with the idea that the more diverse the participants, the more enriching the result will be. However, we think we should start by levels; teachers of early childhood education and first cycle of primary school, then organize encounters with primary school and finally with secondary school. Similarly, we think it would be ideal to start with two sessions per level, with the aim of exchanging ideas and reflections in a first meeting and deepening and sharing experiences in the second.

The encounters would take place in the MACA library at 5 p.m. The calendar of sessions would be as follows:

Early Childhood and Primary:

-November 8th

-November 15th

-December 1st

Secondary we propose in January 2023.

If this proposal interests you, please complete this registration form so we can get to know you and contact you.

Museums play a key role in the promotion of culture and art, which requires proper management of intellectual property rights of the works they house, in particular, those of reproduction and public communication.

To debate the management of these rights, the present Museum and Intellectual Property Conference is organized, which bears the title "Between the Public and the Private", due to this vocation of service to the general interest and, in particular, the promotion and access to culture, which Museums hold, but which must be combined with the recognition and protection of the rights of authors and, of course, the relationship of works with the public, especially in the digital sphere.

Speakers

ANA JOSÉ GANGA FERRIZ. Lawyer. Specialist in cultural rights and intellectual property. Cultural manager. Currently, Legal Counsel in the Legal Services of the Illustrious Provincial Council of Alicante.

JESÚS PRIETO DE PEDRO. Doctor of Law, Professor of Administrative Law at UNED and holder of the Andrés Bello Chair of Cultural Rights. He has been Dean and Vice-Rector of UNED and Director of the Inter-University Institute for Cultural Communication (UNED, UC3M, UIMP). Director General of Fine Arts, Cultural Heritage and Archives and Libraries. His research and work has been fundamentally focused on the Law of Culture.

JAVIER GUTIÉRREZ VICEN. General Director of VEGAP, the management entity for visual plastic artists.

JOAN LLINARES. Law graduate. Currently in the Legal Services of the Barcelona City Council. Management technician and administrator of IVAM almost since the museum's founding, for 13 years he was its Deputy General Director of Administration. Manager of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) between 2001 and 2009. Expert in intellectual property and management of cultural and museum heritage.

RAFAEL AZUAR RUIZ. Doctor of Philosophy and Letters from the Universitat d'Alacant (1987) and Conservator-Cataloguer by competitive examination of the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante since 1982. He directed the project and execution of the new Archaeological Museum of Alicante, the current MARQ, where he is currently Head of the Collections and Excavations Unit. He has been President of the executive committee of ICOM-Spain.

In charge of the artist Bárbara Allende Gil de Biedma, who passed away in 2022. She was a Spanish artist, painter, poet and photographer. She won the National Photography Award in 2005.

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.

Around 75 professionals from different sectors attended the "First Conference on LED Lighting in Museums" organized by ERCO in collaboration with the Aural gallery.

The program included a theoretical presentation by ERCO technicians, the seminar organizers, in the MACA auditorium and continued with a practical workshop in the temporary exhibitions room, where professionals were able to observe and study the different applications of LED technology applied to the lighting of various artworks.