Activities

In this seminar, Salvador Cidrás and Vicente Blanco will discuss their work as promoters of the group Escola Imaxinada (Imagined School), an independent, non-profit group made up of professionals in the fields of the arts, architecture, philosophy and nursery and primary education, whose objectives are: to provide schools with arts-based methodologies and to contribute to the design of quality educational spaces and resource

This course offers a reflection on the origins of fashion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With this premise we will analyse its historical, semiotic and social contextualisation, and its relations with other artistic disciplines such as literature and art. As Emilia Pardo Bazán pointed out in her work Cuarenta días en la Exposición, ‘Fashion is not something arbitrary.

For every film that comes into being, there are many more that are relegated to the limbo of the unfilmed. The latter are the only perfect films, because they exist only as a potential, as an idea or a dream, and have never clashed with reality. In contrast, the ones that have materialised will always and necessarily be imperfect, a catalogue of promises and resignations and, maybe, of some happy encounters. ‘Anything is possible if it is…

The term ‘opera’ can evoke an art intended for the bourgeoisie or at the very least, detached from the concerns of the twenty-first century, with its controversial and multi-faceted views of art and the human being.

Upon completion of the first series of courses focusing on globalized education in language skills, mathematics and the natural environment through art, a cross-cutting theme has been added to this art education program; one that is present at all levels of education: identity. This axis, of great importance in contemporary art and in life, allows us to gain insight into a number of different creative and research references relating to I and…

Online access for all registered participants, through the Zoom platform.Time: Wednesday from 7.00 to 8.30 p.m. The second edition of the Intrahistory of Architecture course will continue to address cross-cutting areas to this discipline. We will discuss topics such as innovation, architect-inventors, education through the construction game, eco-construction, the rich relationships between architecture and design or architecture and art, as…

Tailor-Made Arguments follows the meandering social, economic and cultural path explored by the twentieth-century Western world through the evolution of clothing. Throughout the century, fashion, in close relation with art, music and cinema is clearly aligned to the history of its time.

Timetable: Wednesdays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ‘Splitters!’ (Dissidents). This was how the members of the People’s Front of Judea characterised those of the Popular Front of Judea, and was also the cry addressed to the sole member of the latter, sitting a few steps below. This legendary scene from Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (1979) graphically illustrates the etymology of dissidere (dissidence): the physical act of ‘sitting apart,’ of…

The CGAC relaunches this series of practical courses for teachers, which propose the use of contemporary art as a learning tool for the classroom. The programme is structured around three themes of great importance to formal education (mathematics, narrative and knowledge of the natural environment). It is designed to explore the limits between knowledge areas and invite the teachers to experiment and learn before using these ideas in their…