Held on 22, 23 Jun 2023
The Museo’s Study Centre organises two public sessions based on the first edition of Connective Tissue, the Museo Reina Sofía’s Programme of Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices and Cultural Studies. During the encounter, the team of mobilisers — researchers who drive forward and coordinate, from their different fields, the Programme’s different Seminars and Critical Nodes — share the works developed up to this point and reflect on their predictions. Equally, the group of Resident Student Researchers present their work on posters and in installations and talks with people interested.
The aim of the activity is to share knowledge, learning and projects carried out to date in the different Seminars and Critical Nodes, fibres of a shared research fabric which looks to be projected towards different outlying social, academic and cultural places.
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Juan Andrade is a professor of Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Raquel Arias Careaga is a professor in the Department of Hispano-American Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
David Becerra Mayor is a professor of Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Kira Bermúdez is a cultural mediator, social pedagogue, translator and occasional writer.
Carme Bernat Mateu is a student researcher who is writing her doctoral thesis at the University Institute of Women’s Studies and in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at Universitat de València (UV).
Alberto Berzosa is a researcher with the “Fossil Aesthetics” group from the Spanish National Research Council.
Rubén Blanco Merlo is a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and a member of the Sociología Ordinaria (Ordinary Sociology) research group.
Jesús Carrillo is a professor in the Art History and Theory Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Florencia Claes is the president of the Wikimedia España association.
Claudia Delso is a cultural manager and mediator.
Xavier Domènech is a professor of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
Ntone Edjabe is a Cameroonian writer, journalist, DJ and founding editor of the Chimurenga magazine.
Yinka Esi Graves is a dancer and choreographer
José Luis Espejo is a researcher, curator and teacher.
Patricia Esquivias is a storyteller and narrator of events, characters and cultural objects through videos and installations.
Oier Etxeberria is the head of the Contemporary Art Department at the Tabakalera International Centre of Contemporary Culture (Donostia-San Sebastián).
Carolina Fernández Cordero is a professor in the Spanish Literature Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Maite Garbayo-Maeztu is a Serra Hunter professor in the Art History Department at the University of Barcelona (UB).
Antonio García García is a professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Jorge Gaupp is an adviser in the Study Centre from the Public Activities Department at Museo Reina Sofía.
Pablo Jarauta is a professor of Design Theory and Culture at the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid.
Germán Labrador is the director of the Public Activities Department at Museo Reina Sofía.
Matteo Locci is a multimedia artist and architectural researcher.
Luisa Martín Rojo is a linguistics lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the director of the international interdisciplinary research centre MIRCo (Multilingualism, Discourse and Communication).
Javier Maseda works in the design and development of digital products, and is a lecturer at the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid and at the University of Castilla la Mancha.
Pedro Medina Reinón is a curator and contemporary art critic.
Pedro Oliver Olmo is a head professor of Contemporary History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).
Jaume Peris Blanes is a professor of Latin American Culture at Universitat de València (UV).
Julia Ramírez-Blanco is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
María Rosón is a professor of Contemporary Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
María L. Ruido is a film producer, visual artist, researcher and teacher.
Tania Safura Adam is a journalist, cultural critic and the founder of Radio África Magazine.
Mabel Tapia is the deputy artistic director of Museo Reina Sofía.
Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer, cultural theorist and professor at the Braunschweig University of Art and a Theory tutor at the Dutch Art Institute.
Laura Villa is a contract researcher on the Tomás y Valiente programme at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Jaime Vindel is a head researcher in the “Fossil Aesthetics” and “Energy Humanities” groups at the Spanish National Research Council.
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Thursday, 22 June 2023
9am Presentation
10am First Research Fabric Workshop
12:30pm Second Research Fabric Workshop
4:30pm Activation of Panels and Discussions
Friday, 23 June 2023
9:30am Third Research Fabric Workshop
12:30pm Fourth Research Fabric Workshop
4:30pm Activation of Panels and Discussions
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