Body to Body

Meetings + Actions

Aimed at: Secondary and High School Students
Days: Monday (Center) and Wednesday (Museum) or Tuesday (Center) and Thursday (Museum) of October 25, 2010 to June 2, 2011
Hours (session at the Museum): 10:30 - 13:30
Seating: Maximum 25 students per session

Registration dates: From October 6, 2010 at 9:00 pm onward.
Registration procedure: Complete and send the registration form.
Further information: Tlf. 91 774 10 00, ext. 2031
Free participation

Instructions

The body, and the behaviour we reveal through it define, to a large extent, our identity, and have an important role in how we present ourselves tot he world and how we are being recognized in it. We present a proposal in which the Museum and a School Center will be the context where we will engage in a reflection on the body and on what it implies, focusing our analysis from different standpoints.

Throughout two work sessions, which will take place in the school center and in the Museum, the students will be prompted to pose questions pertaining to the construction of their own bodily image, and the imposed nature of the social uses of the body in relation to the canons of beauty, sexuality, and gender. For this purpose, we will start of from a treatment of the present corporeality in a selection of video works and other pieces form the Museum's Collection. Above all, we will resort to art action as a means for the student to research their own bodily reality, and that of the others.

Optionally, the students will be able to continue working in the classroom on the duality of the canons derived from the mass media and their personal physicality, with the aim of generating and sharing ideas, and presenting them in a meeting of the different school centers that participate in the program, to take place in the Museum at the end of each quarter.

Preparatory session for educators (mandatory for participating institutions) 20 de octubre, 18:30 h.

Designed in collaboration with Collective mmmm
Production: Rebeca París, Eva Sanguino, Francisco Orts, Gemma García

Guided visits by cultural volunteers

Aimed at: Secondary and High School Students
Days: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from October 2010 to June 2011
Hours: Shifts at 10:15, 11:15 and 17:00 h

Registration dates: From September 2010 onwards
Seating: Maximum 50 students per site per day (two class groups)
Free participation

Secondary Education school centers have the opportunity to come into contact with the Collection of the Museum with the aid of a cultural volunterr, thus favoring a transgenerational approach to contemporary culture. The two tours offered troughout this academic year respond to an intention of bringing the new discourses of the Museum closer to different curricular areas, not only those referred to Art education, but also to educational fields such as Literature or History.

Modernity and Avant-Garde

This itinerary covers the Spanish art scene from the late 19th Century to the 1930's, focusing on the artistic experimentation that took place in that period, manifested in the so-called historical avant-garde. A lo largo de este recorrido, se abordarán temas tales como los cambios sociales acontecidos en ese período o el amplio avance de las tecnologías, puesto que de ellos derivan consecuencias directas para el desarrollo cultural y artístico del momento.

War: Poetics and Documents

This itinerary involves an approach to the historical and political context of Spain in the 1930's, at the time of the 1937 Paris International Exhibition, for which Picasso created his work Guernica. For this purpose, we weill review the materials relative to the Spanish Civil War, buittressing our arguments both with documents and posters from that period, and with contemporary works and the model of the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the World Exhibition.

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