Selma Uamusse sings her own world, with a whole world inside of her. Her powerful voice, genius performances and versatility have led her to shine in diverse realms: from rock, to afrobeat, to gospel, soul and jazz bands, she has enriched her journey with different languages, always conscious of the social and political transforming power of music.
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Thursday 4th July, 7:30 p.m.CGAC Auditorium David Lamelas is a key figure in Conceptual art and one of Argentina’s artistic scene’s most important exponents in the nineteen-sixties. From its very origins, his work has been characterised by a unique ability to adapt to different contexts, be they artistic, architectural or geographical, in cities such as London, New York or Berlin.
19 and 20 June at 7 p.m. CGAC Auditorium Free and open to the public Manthia Diawara (Bamako, Mali, 1953) is a filmmaker and cultural theorist.Trained in Guinea-Conakry and Paris, he travelled to the United States where he worked as a teacher as well as extensively making films and writing essays. Much of his research focuses on the study of the culture of the African diaspora.
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 ‘being separated’ and hence, by extension, discrepancy, resistance and ultimately, maybe, uprising.
WOS Festival x SON Estrella Galicia has been held every September, for six years now, gathering a dozen exceptional locations in the city of Santiago de Compostela, all within walking distance from the cathedral, in a historic district protected as a World Heritage Site. The locations include two museums, two theaters, an 18th century church, unique buildings such as Ciudad de la Cultura or the headquarters of the SGAE Foundation, a market, two concert halls and an independent cinema hall, among other spaces destined to create unique experiences for a reduced audience.
With this festival, we are seeking to revitalise and promote contemporary dance in some of the most iconic and beautiful spots in the city. HerDanza is a different proposal that people of all ages can enjoy. The festival will run for a week, offering different activities revolving around contemporary dance: training workshops, talks with professionals from the world of dance, small- and medium-format projections and shows in the streets, cloisters and open spaces of Santiago de Compostela.
This exhibition, presented at MACBA early in 2011, arrives at CGAC with the intention of showing audiences in Compostela how very different ways of understanding the images and the life of concepts have ended up tracing the horizon of our cultural present.
10 am-2 pm The artist’s workshop conceived by Elo Vega and Rogelio López Cuenca for the CGAC consists of a critical reinterpretation of the way in which our perception of the migratory phenomenon can be built on contemporary artistic practices. Through a series of specific cases, the artists invite us to analyse different strategies applied in art intervention projects relating to the theme of the exhibition We Refugees, on view until October 13. Possible practical projects will also be considered, taking into account the specific context in which we find ourselves.
Once again this year the CGAC collaborates with the 16th edition of the Curtocircuíto International Film Festival.The festival started in 2003 and was an initiative created by the City Council, with the intention of promoting filmmaking in the field of short film.
Based on some of the works on display in the We Refugees exhibition, the seminar addresses, through artistic and theoretical texts, a genealogy of the constitution of modern, contemporary space as a residual space, where displaced persons, dissidents, refugees or those considered a threat to the political-racial-social order are funnelled, contained and, in certain historical circumstances, even annihilated.
The CGAC presents the fifth edition of this cycle of workshops on contemporary architecture aimed at children.This year we will close the programme with a workshop aimed at families. The workshops, which will take place the last weekend of each month, will be run by the architect Fermín Blanco, with the support of the Sistema Lupo teaching team.The goal is to provide the children with tools and skills needed to interpret present-day architecture through the theories, projects and works of the most important architects of recent times.The themes will be addressed transversally using architecture as a guiding thread and featuring different figures from the world of architecture to introduce us into creative worlds through their thoughts.
The history of the twentieth century is traversed by the drama of military conflicts, resulting in millions of people becoming displaced persons, exiles, expatriates and refugees.Collective dramas and individual dramas.The history of humanity itself has been built on experiences such as forced displacement, flight and asylum.The We Refugees exhibition adopts the title of a well-known essay by Hannah Arendt, published in 1943 in the Menorah Journal, a Jewish magazine in New York. Its aim is to signal and highlight the universality of exile and the construction of democratic societies under the protection of the right to asylum. To complete and accompany the exhibition, a comprehensive programme of activities has been designed, beginning last May with two seminars, directed by Matías G. Rodríguez-Mouriño and Santiago Olmo, and focusing respectively on the musical and literary manifestations of exiles and refugees.
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Free entry until full capacity is reached.
2020 is going to start off in the CGAC with a new edition of Workshops for Families.The activity is aimed at families with children aged between 4 and 9 who want to discover the wide world of contemporary art or deepen their knowledge. We will continue our journey around the world inquiring about different cultures and ways of doing things.On this occasion, we will press the stop button in Argentina, where we will get off to explore the work of five artists whose perspectives, interests and artistic resources will give us clues to experiment and create while playing with space, perception and colours, proportion, distortion, atmosphere and sensory illusion.
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.
This Christmas, we are holding four workshops on two of the exhibitions we have in progress.We will approach contemporary art from a leisure perspective, immersing ourselves in creative processes through the multiple languages, supports, materials, techniques and concepts of the most contemporary art. We will visit the exhibition of the artist Jesús Madriñán, who transfers the experiences he had on the Camino to the museum through the portraits of the people he met along the trail.Portraits that will help us to develop an educational workshop on the multiple possibilities this genre offers. We will pass by the works of the artist Pedro Cabrita Reis to enjoy his ‘found’ objects, the idea of construction from destruction and his interventions in space.
The exhibition entitled How they See Us gathers together pieces from the permanent CGAC collection and the ARCO Foundation collection; pieces that cover a period of almost thirty years (from 1970 to 2007) by artists from different generations and geographies, laying special emphasis on the ways in which self-representation is shown as the process of questioning historically constructed conventions.
The CGAC wishes to continue with the events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the institution by accommodating one of its most successful and highly anticipated initiatives.The Music Department, founded by Manuel Rodeiro between 1994 and 1995, established itself in just a few years as an active platform and a management model that succeeded in combining innovation and artistic demand with an unprecedented public interest.For this reason, the person behind it all has been invited to coordinate a series of activities that serve to revive the spirit of that adventure in two intense days of seminars, which will also serve as an opportunity to pay tribute to the people and impulses that made this feat possible. Territory of the Imagination attempts to summarise, from its very title, a journey through music that, far beyond technical or conceptual contributions or always subjective aspects of appreciation, casts a look at the primordial images that, with a new kind of sensitivity, have forged the image of the sound of contemporary music.
We’ll begin the new year with a brand new edition of the Philo Café. On the first Sunday of each month (except long weekends) from January to May, the CGAC, in collaboration with the Galician Critics Association, will be offering new encounters where you can participate in philosophical discussions while enjoying a cup of coffee while contemplating a work of art. The Philo Cafés at the CGAC are public conversations open to anyone interested in discussing philosophical concerns and points of view from any discipline or level of knowledge. The sessions will be directed by professionals from various disciplinary backgrounds. Joining us this year will be Quico Cadaval, playwright; Beatriz Busto Miramontes, anthropologist; Manuela Palacios González, philologist; Antón Lopo, author; and a well-known figure in the world of art, Miguel Ángel Cajigal Vera (known on Twitter as El Barroquista). Every month, we’ll take a work of art from the CGAC Collection out of the museum’s storage area. The idea is for it to join us and lead us into a discussion. The selected artwork will serve as a take-off point to spark the conversation. But the conversation will not be focused on art, or not only on art, but rather it will encompass any topic suggested by the piece on many different levels—conceptual, formal or superficial. The conversation may revolve around science, gastronomy, politics, music, philosophy, cinema, aesthetics, current events… anything from the mundane to the sublime, inviting everyone to give his or her opinion and thoughts on the issues that crop up spontaneously.
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 we through visual and plastic experimentation. The name, the body, the footprint, objects and places, relationships, image or action will be our playing field. By using a dynamic and participatory methodology, we will alternate work with works of art, observation sessions, reflection and debate as well as creative workshops.