In the Context of 8M and the Feminist Tide

This encounter, from an intersectional perspective, sets forth a space of collective reflection with which to intertwine an international network of feminist alliances amid a historical cycle marked by new forms of fascism. By way of the exchange and visibility of ties between different forms of violence suffered by feminised, racialised, sexualised and precarious bodies, the aim of this network is to imagine and test modes of resistance, care and organisation.  

Participants: Lucía Cavallero, Pastora Filigrana, Verónica Gago and Tatiana Montella
Conducted and coordinated by: Sara Buraya, Lotta Tenhunen and Sara Naila Navacerrada
Co-organised by: Foundation of the Commons 
Admission: free, until full capacity is reached

In her political documentaries, film-maker Pratibha Parmar places sexual dissidence at the centre of a nation state critique during the era of neoliberalisation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her activism in black feminisms and in support of lesbian rights around the world puts forward diaspora as a critical tactic with capitalism and coloniality. This encounter sees the film-maker discuss her work and features her short films Khush (1991) and Wavelengths (1997).

Participants: Tania Adam, Rebecca Close and Pratibha Parmar
Co-organised by: Foundation of the Commons 
In collaboration with: La Virreina Centre de la Imatge
Admission: free, until full capacity is reached

This lecture sees philosopher and academic Nancy Fraser expound, via a questioning of so-called ‘neoliberal feminism’, her assertion of a feminist radicalism capable of tackling the current crisis of the capitalist system and its modes of value production and social reproduction. 

Before lecture, the publication Feminisms, edited by the online platform L'Internationale, will be presented. The publication can be downloaded from its website.

Participants: Nancy Fraser
Admission: free, until full capacity is reached

This round-table discussion reflects on the need to develop critical feminist narratives to ensure that neither the subjective footprints that shape identity, sexuality and gender, nor the emergence of women as a collective subject of political articulation and social transformation, are marginalised or shut out from the symbolic and cultural survey of the analysis of transitions in Spain and Latin America.

Participants: Maite Garbayo, Ana Longoni, Nelly Richard and Clara Serra.
Admission: free, until full capacity is reached.

Inside the framework of the research group Situated Feminisms, from the Museo’s Study Centre, this workshop is conceived as a collective process of discussion, dialogue and learning around the affective backgrounds enveloping diasporic memory in Spain, from a cross-border and decolonial feminist perspective. Across a number of sessions, the cross-border memories and corporality of the participants will be addressed in the search for a common narrative that can politicise different paradoxes surrounding migrant experiences in Madrid.

Participants: Héctor Acuña/Frau Diamanda
Conducted and coordinated by: Elisa Fuenzalida and Jeannette Tineo
Admission: free, with prior registration.
Registration: by sending an email to afectosenreexistencia@museoreinasofia.es, including applicants’ name and surname(s) and a brief explanation of reasons for participation (a maximum of 500 words). Although this activity is devised as a flexible process adapted to the expectations, interests and desires of those taking part, registration on the course requires full attendance.

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This critical debate analyses and reflects on the visibility, re-signifying and quantification of a set of activities comprising that which is termed social reproduction and maternal work. With the aim of sharing practices, experiences and struggles, and questioning rigid and imposing forms of motherhood, the debate revolves around three thematic intersections: motherhood and body, motherhood and work, motherhood and psyche.

Participants: Marta Busquets, María Llopis, Patricia Merino, Lucas Platero and Javier Rosa
Conducted and coordinated by: Luisa Fuentes
Admission: free, until full capacity is reached.

From influences such as cyber feminism, post-humanism, trans* activism and materialism, xenofeminism casts horizons that are neither non-essentialist nor binary and that flow beyond notions of gender, sex, race, species and class, understanding nature as a place of conflict traversed by technology and which must be reconquered and hacked continuously. From a trans-hack-feminist standpoint, this collaboratory, based on Do It Yourself and Do It Together bio(info)technology — self-managed and collective forms of organisation, work, care, learning, etc. — sets forth a critical survey of gynaecology via tools and technology of biological exploration.

Conducted and coordinated by: Laura Benítez and Paula Pin
With the collaboration of: Caja Negra
Admission: free, with prior registration. The registration process will begin in April

Wednesdays at 7:15 and Sundays at 12:30pm / Meeting point: the adjoining area between the Sabatini Building the Nouvel Building, Floor 1
A Feminist Gaze at Avant-Garde Movements

This guided tour covers the rooms of the Collection devoted to historical avant-garde movements, questioning the roles and visibility of women in Art History through the analysis of their social, cultural and creative role in the early decades of the 20th century, in addition to the image of the feminine built in the artistic manifestations of that era.

Aimed at: adults
Design: Marián López Fernández-Cao
Admission: free, with prior registration at the Meeting Point half an hour before the beginning of the visit.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10:15, 10:45, 11:15am and 5pm; Fridays at 10:15, 10:45 and 11:15am / Meeting Point: Sabatini Building, Floor 1, Education Desk
Women in the Avant-Garde

This tour of the Collection, aimed at Secondary School and Sixth Form students and people over 65, analyses female stereotypes attached to the art of the early twentieth century and the creative work of many female artists at the heart of historical avant-garde movements, thus questioning the implications of art-making from a feminist perspective.

Aimed at: groups of Secondary School and Sixth form students and groups of people over 65
Design: Carmen Cabrejas
Further information: visitasescolares@museoreinasofia.es