Live Arts
Implied in the very name Museo Reina Sofía is the Museum’s dedication to offering programs that enrich its exhibitions through Live Arts performances (Theater, Music, Dance and Performance Art.)
The Museum aims to offer these kinds of performances, which for their very nature are not welcomed in more conventional spaces. Keeping in mind the overlapping borders among different artistic disciplines today, the Museum’s objective is not to become just another performing arts space in the city, but to provide a platform for creating, experimenting and innovating in the Live Arts milieu, a mission directly related to the Museum’s theoretical discourse.
Likewise, the Museum collaborates with leading festivals for contemporary theater and creative dance in Spain in order to welcome representations from these festivals into its space, foster continuous dialogue with all of them and participate in forming their own discourses.
Reactivate/reinterpret. Theatre and performative practices in contemporary art museums
Type of activity: Seminar and performances
Date: January 12, 19 February 9, 16, 17, 23 and March 1, 15, 22 and 29, 2012
Place: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200, Auditorium 400, Sabatini Auditorium and Protocol Room
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Several international museums have in recent years placed performative approaches and practices at the centre of their institutional logic, their programming and even their spatial organization. This series of lectures and performances examines whether the repetition of these practices indicates a shift towards the post-modern museum (i.e. one focused on the production of events as spectacles), or towards a late-modern museum (i.e. one aware that the narrations of art history surpass the exhibition format).
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Jérôme Bel. Cédric Andrieux
Type of activity: Performance art
Date: February 9, 2012
Place: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 400
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Part of the program called Reactivate/reinterpret, this piece by Jérôme Bel examines contemporary dance by re-enacting the experiences and memories of the dancer Cédric Andrieux, who was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company between 1999 and 2007. Performed by Andrieux himself, in this piece the body functions as a subjective archive of dance over the last twenty years, bringing together fragments of pieces by Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Philippe Tréhet and Jérôme Bel himself.
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Falke Pisano. The Body in Crisis (Housing, Treating and Depicting)
Type of activity: Performance Art
Date: February 17, 2012
Place: Nouvel Building, Protocol Room
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In this performance, which is part of the program Reactivate/reinterpret, Falke Pisano (Amsterdam, 1978) explores the development of modern medicine by looking at the history of the Sabatini Building (originally a shelter for beggars, it later became a general hospital), linking its history with certain critical moments of 20th century Spain, which are reflected in the Museum's collection. The performance takes place inside an exhibition space designed specifically for the occasion.
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Sound situation. Aural drift
Type of activity: concerts, workshop and seminar
Date: March 23 - 24, 2012
Place: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200, Auditorium 400, Children's Workshops and Protocol Room
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As part of their critique of spectacle as a new social regime, lettrism and situationist art would, in the 1950s and 1960s, come up with the idea of escape manoeuvres such as drift, détournement and the construction of an unprogrammed daily life. Such strategies have had a decisive influence and transformative effect on contemporary sound production. This program of activities explores the situationist re-reading through practices such as soundscape, the acoustic experience or aural spaces.
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Associated proyects
CNDM
García Abril Quartet, Isabel Rey, soprano
Type of activity: Concert
Date: February 6, 2012
Place: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 400
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The Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM) presents the program Series 20/21 at Museo Reina Sofía, Auditorium 400. A total of thirty concerts comprise the 2011-2012 season, which is dedicated to the music of the past century and to contemporary creation. The program features seventeen world premiers and nineteen works commissioned by the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical.
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