"Black Spain: Escapes and Resistances of Blackness". Tania Adam Safura, Sonia Martínez and Esther García Ejome

With Sonia Martínez, Esther García Ejome and Tania Safura Adam. "Black Spain: a journey towards blackness in space-time" is a collaborative and situated research project, proposed at a moment of awakening of Spanish blackness in which there is an imperative need to incorporate new histories and discourses into the public sphere. Initiated in 2021 by Diáspora LAB of Radio África, it has revealed the great need to deepen understanding of the relationship of blackness in Spanish territory. Its passage through different museographic institutions such as ARTIUM in the Basque Country, CCCB in Catalonia, MNCARS in Madrid and IVAM in Valencia and surrounding areas, has been a fundamental pillar in bringing forth from the archive and from public and domestic territory, a new collective black subject.During this session we will be able to delve into the vicissitudes of this unprecedented project in the Spanish context. On one hand, Sonia Martínez as director of IVAM, will tell us how the institution, which had been conducting explorations around blackness for some time, incorporates the research within the museographic framework; Tania Safura Adam, coordinator of "Black Spain", will share its methodological limits, challenges and crossroads; and, finally, Esther García Ejome, as a researcher of the Valencian territory, will share some findings from the area.