Yo antes, es ahora
Held on 22 jun 2012
Once again Museo Reina Sofía is collaborating with Mov_s, an event directed by professionals of the moving arts, dance and contemporary creation. The previous edition of Mov_s was held in Madrid, with the Museum hosting its thought and debate activities.
On this occasion the Museum provides a space in which to reflect on operations in the area of dance in Latin America today, and to share lines of thinking and experiences. It is a collaborative working process that culminates in the gathering of Spanish and Latin American professionals, groups and organisations related to dance, the moving arts and contemporary creation held in Cádiz from June 14 to 17.
From among the series of shows that Mov_s has programmed in Cádiz, as part of that city's International Dance Festival, the Museum presents in its own venues the work of the Mexican company tumàka't contemporary dance , “Yo antes es ahora” by the director Luis Biasotto. This performance is an opportunity for the Museum to put the spotlight on contemporary artistic proposals. In this piece, the performers recreate false identities developed from their own experiences and the voice of the spectators.
About the company
tumàka't contemporary dance was created in 2007 under the direction of Vania Duran. The company's mission is to stimulate and promote contemporary dance through the creation, production and dissemination of choreographic works, through teaching activities and through artistic exchange.
The company has been presented at the Oc-'Ohtic Festival of Contemporary Dance, the Cultural Autumn Festival and the Festival of the Arts in Mérida, Yucatán. It has also participated at the International Dance Festival of Oaxaca, at Teatro de la Danza, in Mexico City, at the 1st Circuit of Performing Arts in Zona Sur, as part of the Festival Puro Teatro 2010, at Festival Revueltas (Durango, Mexico), at Cádiz en danza, at Barcelona's Dies de dansa, and others.
About the director
Luis Biasotto
Born in Cordoba, Argentina, he studied performing arts and is now a playwright, choreographer, dancer and actor. As co-director of the company Krapp, which he created in 1998 with Luciana Acuña, he directed various works that have been performed in the U.S., Brazil, Venezuela, Portugal, Spain and Mexico. He has received support for his creative activity in the form of funding by Fundación Antorchas, El Instituto Prodanza, Fondo Nacional de las Artes and INT, and was a nominee for the Knox Foundation merit award for the activity of the Krapp group in 2009 and also for the Trinidad Guevara prize for best choreographer in 2010. He currently teaches composition at the National University Institute of Art associated with the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
En colaboración con
Participants
Idea and direction: Luis Biasotto
Music: Hot Chip, Raum, Elias Puc
Performers-co-creators:
Diana Bayardo
Gervasio Cetto
Melisabel Correa
Manuel Fajardo
Verónica Santiago
Lighting, costume and stage design: Mauricio Ascencio
![Miguel Brieva, ilustración de la novela infantil Manuela y los Cakirukos (Reservoir Books, 2022) [izquierda] y Cibeles no conduzcas, 2023 [derecha]. Cortesía del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/ecologias_del_deseo_utopico.jpg.webp)
![Ángel Alonso, Charbon [Carbón], 1964. Museo Reina Sofía](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/perspectivas_ecoambientales.jpg.webp)
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The visit sets out an in-situ dialogue between the works hung around the painting and a selection of key documents, selected by the Museo’s Education Team and essential to gaining an idea of the picture’s historical background. Therefore, the tour looks to contribute to activating critical thought around this iconic and perpetually represented work and seeks to foster an approach which refreshes our gaze before the painting, thereby establishing a link with the present. Essentially revisiting to rethink Guernica.
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In the current context fraught with war and genocide, the criminalization of migration and hyper-identitarianism, concepts such as un/belonging become unstable and in need of collective rethinking:
How can we reframe the sense and practice of belonging away from reductive nationalist paradigms or the violence of displacement? How to critically hold the entanglement of the colonial routes and the cultural roots we are part of? What do we do with the toxic legacies we inherit? And with the emancipatory genealogies and practices that we choose to align with? Can a renewed practice of belonging and coalition-making through affinity be part of a process of dis/identification? What geographies —cultural, artistic, political— do these practices of de/centering, up/rooting, un/belonging and dis/alignment designate?
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The encounter between Spanish DJ and producer Ylia and visual artist Marta Pang is presented in the form of a premiere in the Museo Reina Sofía. Both artists converge from divergent trajectories to give form to a new project conceived specifically for this series, which aims to create new stage projects by setting out from the friction between artists and dialogue between disciplines.
Situated Voices 36
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Territorio Doméstico is a feminist collective made up of female domestic and care workers who live in the Community of Madrid. They form a cross-border space which responds to a number of urgent problems: defending labour rights for female domestic workers and demanding the regularisation of migrant workers, as well as the right to family reunification, social recognition and the reparation of care debt by institutions.
The collective will provide accompaniment in this encounter by putting forward a cross-sectional round-table discussion centred on professional illnesses suffered by specific collectives of women doing jobs that are predominantly physical, such as care and domestic work and farm work. The aim is to shine a light on the physical and psychological tolls these body-oriented jobs take on the people that do them, in addition to the scant social, legal and healthcare recognition they receive.
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His work, framed inside art history and theory, has constantly championed expanding, interrogating and questioning the limits of discipline until it becomes theoretical and (self)critical. Throughout his trajectory, Lütticken has aligned his interest primarily towards historical, critical and theoretical research around autonomy. An important landmark in this working strand is his participation in the The Autonomy Project, an initiative from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven with different art schools and university departments and resulting in the published volume Art and Autonomy (Afterall, 2022). A second strand is made up of the long-term project Forms of Abstraction, which analyses contemporary artistic practices as interventions in forms of “real abstraction”, such as value-form, precisely as Marx theorised it.
Sven Lütticken will be a resident on Studies Constellation, the Museo Reina Sofía’s annual fellowship programme, and will work on the research project Unacting Personhood, Deforming Legal Abstraction.