THIS [NO] IS A BOOK, a new activity for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante (MACA), on the occasion of the temporary exhibition TEXT [NO TEXT] Books and Artist Publications. Universitat Politècnica de València Collection. It is a project through which anyone who wants to participate (yes, YOU TOO!) will be able to create an Artist's Book based on a series of literary, visual, photographic and visual activities that we will publish in a dossier and that will serve as a guide and content for this artistic creation.

This is an activity that is not exclusive to any group, we insist. Our intention is for it to be global, inclusive and intergenerational, that it can be done at home, individually or as a family, in educational or social centers, by different groups of any kind and, of course, by artists. Although, as we usually say, we are all creators, we are all artists!

In light of the circumstances we are experiencing and that everyone already knows about, the project will initially be carried out outside the museum, but we will monitor all the creations you send us, to publish them on our networks, and to be able to show the results of an activity that, we guarantee you, will be creative and also a lot of fun.

In this link you will find the complete guide of activities so you can start creating your [NO] book.

«Altre Temps» is a visit that will transport you to another time.

Exploring the works and artists of the Mediterranean Foundation Collection of the MACA is like stopping the sands and hands of clocks, because this experience will take each participant beyond the timeline. Sometimes, you will feel that you are in the past, at other times you will be aware of your present, and almost always, reflection will lead you to direct your gaze toward the future.

During this tour, you will have references and inspiration from

artists such as Joan Brossa, Carmen Calvo, Miquel Barceló, Antoni Tàpies, among others. Each step will be filled with reflection,

creativity and emotion. «Altre Temps» is a free and inclusive activity, aimed at all people and groups. Our objective is to make the museum accessible to all citizens.

It is a mediation project aimed at groups with different abilities, functional diversity or at risk of social exclusion, to motivate, discover and learn through art by providing them with the possibilities of contemporary creation and reflection

offered by MACA, for their enjoyment and improvement of living and leisure conditions.

SORPRENDE is much more than a conventional guided tour, it is about immersing yourself in MACA's 20th Century Art Collection which, by the way, is one of the greatest artistic treasures of this city. An ideal place to learn, discover, be inspired and, above all, be surprised. This visit will be accompanied by an easy-to-read notebook that rediscovers artists and works from a different perspective, with an approach that starts from the playful to reach the pedagogical and, of course, emphasizing inclusion.

«Breathing MACA» goes beyond a conventional guided tour.

These are visits in which the content and forms of communication are adapted, with the aim of transforming the museum into a space oriented toward promoting social inclusion, driving education and art as mediating agents to strengthen the quality of life for all people.

In all visits we propose participating in art and culture and coming into contact with it, having a voice in the first person and generating meaningful experiences that stimulate dialogue, reflection, imagination, critical thinking, and the possibility of sharing and participating in the project making use of all the senses. An always exciting project.

Breathing MACA is aimed at groups with different abilities, functional diversity or at risk of social exclusion.

It was born as a selected project in the public call 'Lugar Común', from the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, within its 'Culture on Equal Terms' program. Created and carried out by David Gil and Ester García from 'Daguten. Escuela Gráfica de Barrio', it has been developing since 2019.

Tirando del Hilo has always aimed to be an opportunity to awaken creativity in people with intellectual disabilities from the Terramar Occupational Center of APSA. The sessions aim to create a meeting space in the museum where participants have learned to enjoy art and have experimented with the various expressive possibilities offered by graphic arts.

And so the participants from the Terramar Occupational Center of APSA in Alicante, the "Equipo Seri", were able to design and create, projecting their ideas in each proposed project, and their results have been reflected in various designs such as the t-shirt for the Plataforma Festival and an exhibition in the D Space of MACA during the months of December 2019 and January 2020.

MACA/San Rafael Objective was born in 2019 from MACA's interest in promoting and providing tools for the dissemination of art and artistic production, with the aim of contributing to the transformation of society through culture from collective work. The program was designed for users of the San Rafael Center, San Francisco de Borja Foundation. Due to its multidisciplinary nature, it is expressed through workshops that cover disciplines such as drawing, painting, sculpture, photography..., generating social value in people with intellectual disabilities, and emphasizing their creative work rather than the disability.

In 2020, due to the health situation, it was postponed.

The illustrated poetry collection You and I. Modernity and Memory. Memory and Modernity is one of the projects that emerged within the 3 x 3(1) Visits/Collections/Workshops program at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante, although it soon gained its own dimension. In this case, five young people with Down syndrome from ANDA actively participated. Association of Children and Young People with Disabilities in Alicante. A poetic-artistic journey through five works belonging to the Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Collection, transforming poetry into art and art into poetry through emotion and creativity, with the aim of allowing participants to experience the process of creating a work of art inside and outside the Museum. To achieve this, we had the active collaboration of Pedro Rodríguez, illustrator P. Strange and Javier Calabria, poet and DJ to generate a dialogue in front of the works through creative processes, with the activity directed by Ester G. Guixot, museum educator at MACA and Cristina Barrachina, Social-Labor Integrator at ANDA to exchange knowledge and experiences.

Project Objective. To achieve the participation of young people with functional diversity in the Museum, in order to work, through dialogue in front of artworks, creative processes as a vehicle to enhance their social, emotional and creative abilities.

Materials and Methodology Applied. This project was structured around five works from the Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Collection that allowed for discovering the relationships between poetry and art in an exemplary way.

The practical implementation of the project took place during the months of April and May 2016, in two sessions: Memory and Modernity at ANDA facilities and Modernity and Memory at MACA, both lasting one and a half hours.

In the first session, Memory and Modernity, poetry and art were used with two very specific purposes: on one hand, having participants express through images and words what they felt with a poem by Javier Calabria, linked to each of the selected works, and on the other, using art and poetry as an inclusive dissemination channel. In the second session, Modernity and Memory at the Museum, it was discovered which work the illustrated poetry belonged to and the poetry collection was completed with new creative processes developed by the young people, thus completing the Visual Poetry Collection.

Selected Works:

Miquel Barceló, Il pittore a Bologna, 1983. Mixed media on paper glued to canvas and collage.

Jaume Plensa, The Porter, 2000. Tempered transparent glass, stainless steel and light.

Curro González, The Melancholic One, 2002. Mixed media on canvas

Carmen Calvo, Self-Portrait, 1994. Mixed media/collage of objects on satin mattress.

Juan Muñoz, Staring at the sea III, 1997. Polyester resin, mirror and cardboard.

Results and Conclusions. The illustrated poetry collection You and I. Modernity and Memory. Memory and Modernity has been created based on experiences in which artistic expression has been used as a means to facilitate communication and integration of young people with functional diversity in the Museum. And the result is beautiful. Our intention has been to create an "artist's book" that illustrates poems, a work of art where the most important thing has been the people and their process. This poetry collection addresses both literary and visual writing and has made it possible to raise awareness and create consciousness about the need to give continuity to this artistic project with other groups. It promotes the cultivation of a sensitivity that allows one to grasp the Museum, communicate and express oneself through creative processes. The sharing of the reading of the poems in front of the works was so moving that it ended up giving meaning to the much-mentioned social function of museums.

The experience was part of the festival Poetry is News in Alicante in April 2016.

Extrarradio. Art and Mental Health is an educational project for museums, designed and directed for people with mental illness, with the objective of generating meaningful experiences that lead to the development of skills not only artistic, but also social, emotional and communicative. It has been created and developed by Ester García Guixot, a graduate in Fine Arts and museum educator, allowing to describe and put into practice an intervention methodology, through which it has been possible to develop the research The Museum. Art and creative processes as a means and tools for dialogue for people with mental illness in the university Master's program Education and Museums. Heritage, identity and cultural mediation taught by the University of Murcia during the years 2015 and 2016.

The participants of the project have been 25 patients from four Rehabilitation Units of the Dr. Esquerdo Socio-Assistance Center dependent on the Mental Health Area of the Provincial Council of Alicante

3 x 3 is conceived as a cultural outreach program, developed together with Extrarradio, which includes elements that are interesting and attractive for groups with functional diversity and/or at risk of social exclusion. The starting point of this project is the MACA's permanent collections as spaces of expression, which provide tools to activate inclusion pathways and routes for social transformation.

We use a working methodology that adapts content and forms of communication to the age, cognitive development, or physical, psychological, sensory, intellectual, or mental characteristics of the participants, promoting personal development and enhancing different capacities.

In all visits, these groups are offered the opportunity to participate in art and culture and come into contact with it, have a voice in the first person, and generate meaningful experiences that stimulate dialogue, reflection, imagination, critical thinking, and the possibility of sharing and participating in the project using all the senses. A project that is always exciting.

With this program of 3 visits to the 3 permanent collections of the museum: the 20th Century Art Collection, the CajaMediterráneo Collection, and the Eusebio Sempere Collection, we propose, starting from the works in these collections, to work to formulate new ones based on experiences and encounters in the museum and in life. We want to start from the concrete, not from abstractions. From the premise of proposing, we initiate individual and collective work that can culminate in an exhibition to show the created work, inviting other audiences to participate in the process carried out and experienced, giving visibility to everything done and valuing the participants as protagonists.

This proposal invites participants to explore the 20th Century Art Collection, where they will discover stories, characters, and places connected with the artworks. The different materials and techniques that artists employed in their creations will be explored, with the aim of having the works serve as a starting point for establishing connections with the interests and daily lives of the participants.

As part of the experience, an artistic workshop called "The Inner Chaos" is offered, which provides the opportunity to experiment with the materials and techniques explored during the tour. This workshop is designed to foster creativity and personal expression, allowing each participant to create their own artwork inspired by the collection. In addition to developing artistic skills, the workshop seeks to strengthen self-confidence and promote the integration of participants, respecting and valuing the diversity of their abilities and perspectives. Through the informalist technique, participants will explore their creativity by creating a work that reflects their emotions and personal stories, working with textures, colors, and abstract forms to express ideas and feelings in a free and spontaneous manner.