We begin complementary activities around the new temporary exhibition with the screening of: "COLEC-002, the Hidden Force" by Natalia Molinos and Maxi Velloso. "The Hidden Force: COLEC-002" presents the artistic trajectory of Alicante-born painter COLEC-002 from her birth in Alicante in 1924 until her death in Madrid in 1990, tracing her different creative and life stages through interviews with family members, artist friends, professional colleagues, managers and specialists in contemporary art—and specifically about her figure—who had direct contact with the artist, thus offering a human and professional approach as close and accurate as possible.

The figure of COLEC-002 needs to be vindicated and disseminated in the best possible way and currently, audiovisual language is what most broadly connects with the public, with the documentary form being the best vehicle to achieve this dissemination.

The script interweaves the oral narration of a narrator with interviews with people relevant to COLEC-002's life and images of her work. It features the participation of photographer Jorge Lidiano in a final composition based on his work with mathematical algorithms.

With the support of Generalitat Valenciana, Culture Department of Alicante and MACA, and in collaboration with Casa Mediterráneo and the support of Espejo de Alicante.

Juana Francés: context, experience and role. Lecture by María Rosón, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid.

After earning her doctorate from the Autonomous University of Madrid, she has worked as a researcher in the Collections Department of the Reina Sofía Museum and in the Department of Theory of Languages and Communication Sciences, University of Valencia. She has conducted research stays at Southampton University; New York University; University of Oxford and University of Leeds. In the field of museums, she stands out for curating the exhibition José Ortiz Echagüe: representing women, types and stereotypes (2010, CAM, Red Itiner) and co-curating the exhibition Women under suspicion: memory and sexuality (2013, UNED). Her research focuses on visual and material culture, mainly from twentieth-century Spain, at the intersection with feminist/gender studies. In addition to articles and book chapters, she has published, with Cátedra publishing house, Gender, memory and visual culture in early Francoism (everyday materials, beyond art). As co-editor, her work stands out in the following monographs: Poetry, cinema and humor. Tales of exception in the years of autarky (Reina Sofía Museum, 2017) and Queer barbarisms and other proparoxytone words (Bellaterra, 2017).

Her research connects the visual and material culture of twentieth-century Spain with perspectives of intersectional feminisms, dissident memories and archives.

With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment of the Generalitat Valenciana.

Screening of the audiovisual essay "Juana Francés and the City" directed by Sol Spinelli about the relationship of COLEC-002 with technique, alienation, and the city.

Completing the City / Housing Projects with Mónica Alberola. Thursday, October 30 at 7:30 PM. Free admission.

Associate Professor in the Department of Projects at ETSAM of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Since 1996, together with Consuelo Martorell, she founded the alberolamartorell studio, and in 2018 with the incorporation into the team of architects María Casariego Córdoba and Guiomar Martín Domínguez and architect Enrique de Teresa Trilla.

The studio has focused its activity on heritage recovery works and new construction projects in which competitions have been the main driver of our professional activity, highlighting awards in project competitions and built works, among which stand out: 1st Prize Reclassification of the Ex Macello area in Arona, Italy. VPO Prize IX BEAU Building of 22 social housing units for young people in El Rastro, Madrid. 2011. 1st Prize Housing in the PAU of los Ahijones, Madrid. IVIMA. 2007. 1st Prize Housing Building Pza. General Vara del Rey, Madrid. EMVS (2005) and recently the 1st Prize of the competition for the Auditorium and National School of Public Health of the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid.

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: College of Architects of Alicante

In charge of Ingrid Wildi. Subsequently, the book "Aesthetics of the Fragile. Catastrophe and Imagination" coordinated by Teresa Marín García, director of the research group Artistic and Media Interference Laboratory (IAM-Lab), will be presented. The event will conclude with a conversation between both of them about the essay as an aesthetic practice. The event will be presented by cultural manager and independent curator Begoña Deltell.

Policies and collective housing projects in Spain. Josep María Montaner

Starting from the current framework of the new Law for the Right to Housing and the measures adopted in Spain, we will review throughout the twentieth century to understand the anomaly of the Spanish case, in relation to housing policies that, since the interwar period, were implemented in most European countries, also covering the period of the Franco dictatorship. Three are the dominant characteristics: absence of strategic and continuous policies; absence of regulations toward a little professional real estate sector; and emphasis on home ownership.

Furthermore, we will address the criteria and reference projects to face current challenges: specialize, make flexible, participate, industrialize, cooperate, and make housing affordable. To do this, we will resort to examples in Spain and housing policy in Barcelona from 2015 onwards.

In the general context, we will analyze the most urgent current measures: authentic housing policy; no to the disqualification of protected housing; and regulation of rentals in general and seasonal ones, to address the effects that the excess of tourism and tourist apartments are producing.

Coordinates: Santiago Varela

Collaborates: College of Architects of Alicante

Presentation of documentary Sempere: Geometry of the Timeless. With the presence of the director, Sol Spinelli and several of the participants, experts in the artist's work, colleagues and friends. The documentary traces the life and work of Eusebio Sempere, the most internationally recognized artist from Alicante and one of the most relevant Spanish artists of the second half of the 20th century. Through interviews and archival documents, we will be revealing key moments in the artistic and personal journey of this pioneer in the construction of artistic modernity in Spain and creator of the current Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante. A document that reconstructs in an engaging and detailed manner the figure of an unavoidable figure in the European artistic landscape. Project selected in the 2023 call for subsidies for the development of cultural and artistic projects by the Culture Department of Alicante.

Encounters where artists whose work is represented in the museum's collections, together with critics, curators and experts in visual arts, will analyze their creative trajectory in a conversation format. Different professionals will participate in various days of analysis and reflection, always starting from different works in the museum's collections, which will also serve for the people of Alicante to learn firsthand about the MACA's heritage.

Coordination: Isabel Tejeda.

Carried out in collaboration with the Fundació General de la Universitat de València and the Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection with the presence of José Mª Yturralde, Jordi Teixidor and Tomás Marco. Moderated by Santiago Pastor, curator of the exhibition Before Art. Fifty Years Later.

Hang music at the museum performed by musician Guillermo Peña. Hang Experience

Alicante proposes year after year the White Night, with an attractive cultural offer. The initiative is jointly programmed by the city's museums and art centers. The proposal that emerges from several meetings between technicians from different museums is to celebrate the first edition of the White Night in Alicante, on July 19, 2015, with an attractive offer of activities. The purpose is to enjoy contemporary artistic creation through different activities and free cultural events, thus promoting citizen participation. In Spain, this initiative is developed in cities such as Madrid, Burgos, Málaga, Albacete and Barcelona, to which others have been added such as La Laguna, Badajoz, Teguise, Alcalá de Henares, Zaragoza, Nerja, Seville, Almería, Cáceres, Oviedo or Granada.

With this purpose, Alicante proposes year after year the White Night, with an attractive cultural offer. The initiative is jointly programmed by the city's museums and art centers: MARQ Archaeological Museum, MACA Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, MUBAG Gravina Fine Arts Museum, MUA Museum of the University of Alicante, Las Cigarreras, Volvo Ocean Race Museum, Museum of Waters of Alicante, Exhibition Hall of the Fish Market, Juan Gil Albert Institute of Culture, and MUSA, Alicante City Museum. The project aims to bring together all types of public and private cultural initiatives, promote the participation of people from Alicante, individually or collectively, and suggests rediscovering the city with the opening of different spaces that are not usually accessible to the public at night.