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.

We are starting a new book club: African Book World, through Sonia Fernández Quinconces; a graduate in Law (UPV-EHU) and specialist in Human Rights in a global world from the same University.

Sonia Fernández collaborates with various media outlets as a columnist for the newspaper El País, and with initiatives always related to African literatures and the African Letters award granted by the Blue Bird Foundation. Her space on the web, "Literáfricas," which she calls "Simply Literature," revolves around these letters and their universe. Literáfrica is a project led by Sonia Fernández Quinconces and created to promote African Literature and Orality.

The history of women's presence in African literatures has been a story of strength, resistance and, above all, of great talent. They had to face multiple obstacles and fight against prejudices and undervaluation. Sidelined, set aside and cornered, their voices, despite all this, managed to be heard. And they grew in number, filling spaces that were previously empty, writing about issues that directly concerned them, as women, as Africans.

The representation of African women has been woven from false or distorted images. Many, incomplete. For this reason it was so necessary that women recover the word that, since ancestral times, has belonged to them. And write. In doing so they have returned to us countless visions, helping us understand multiple situations and inviting us to accompany them through their thoughts and experiences both intimate and collective.

Reading them is adding worlds to the world.

Within the Giroscopia event, the MACA hosts the screening of the short film "Insurrección" by Jorge Hinojosa and Daniel M. Caneiro and a subsequent roundtable discussion with director Jorge Hinojosa and some actors and crew members of the short film. As a closing, the making-of video of the shoot will be screened. Moderators: Enric Mira and Ingrid Granda

Creation and direction: Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou Performance and musical composition: Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou

External eye: Alessandro Sciarroni

Production: Ariadna Miquel and Management: Art Republic

Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou are composers, creators and performers at the forefront of the performing arts. Their main research revolves around the human voice and its intricate connections with the body, movement, space, stage and light. Their compositions go beyond the traditional boundaries of artistic genres, treating music as a multidimensional entity with physical, scenic, visual, dramaturgical, expressive and poetic qualities. Their unique artistic approach involves a physical and movement practice that decomposes the resonant movement of sound (singing) from visual movement, creating a distinctive interaction. Choreography, viewed through an acoustic lens, merges fluidly with musical composition, shaping the essence and dramaturgical structure of their interdisciplinary work.

I AM (T)HERE is a scenic and musical work that explores the relationship between body and voice. Through the obstinate repetition of a vocal melody, and accompanied by an electronic atmosphere, the performer/singer moves in search of a body emancipated from the voice, breaking with the classical musical tradition in which the body is silenced and subordinated to vocal discourse. I AM (T)HERE seeks a physical and vocal language that proposes new forms of interaction between body and voice. An interdisciplinary, hybrid and transversal language that constructs its own semantics within the body/voice relationship and that does not hierarchize between disciplines of the living arts such as movement and sound. The piece embodies a body trapped between two different dynamics, voice and movement, that evolve in opposite directions, creating a body in tension, a subject in conflict with its own identity.

The Grand CoroDelantal, composed of singers from CoroDelantal MACA and CoroDelantal Madrid, premieres the work Without Body, created specifically for the occasion by the renowned composer and architect Anna Bofill Levi, academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. The poem that inspired the work is written by Cinta Montagut, Catalan poet. Both artists have been working on this project for months alongside Sonia Megías, director of CoroDelantal, and have already held several rehearsals and in-person meetings with both branches of the choir in Alicante and Madrid respectively.

Without Body is a work commissioned by MACA and will be rehearsed by CoroDelantal MACA together with Anna and Cinta starting Tuesday, March 25 in the various spaces of the museum, to hold the world premiere on Sunday the 30th at 12:30. The work blends the sound of the smooth stones from Cadaqués (where the creators of the piece reside) and Altea, with the voices of the choir singers and the resonances of the different spaces of the museum. It is a work in movement, in which the behavior of the group evokes the choirs of Ancient Greece.

A beautiful and very original creation, a fusion between music and architecture that will not leave anyone indifferent.

We look forward to seeing you!

On this occasion we will focus on Víctor Vasarely. An artist considered the father of Op Art.

We propose a new way of relating to the museum with the aim of consolidating and promoting mutual enrichment and an exchange of experiences.

Through these guided visits and activities, we want to reflect on concepts and ideas that will emerge throughout the visit, relating the works from the MACA collections to their context, in a transversal way, analyzing current reality and how artists represent their experiences by creating a collective memory through the great diversity of contemporary languages that have emerged in the 20th and 21st centuries.

For inquisitive adults. Led by Explicarte. With the support of the Consorci de Museus de la Generalitat.

The Fruto project aims to showcase different Alicante creators, deepen and expand knowledge about contemporary art, and learn to view the collections housed in the MACA from another perspective.

On this occasion we will focus on Alexander Calder. American engineer and sculptor, creator of the innovative mobiles or chupin (hanging mobile toys), which would eventually become the seed of kinetic sculpture.

We propose a new way of relating to the museum with the aim of consolidating and promoting mutual enrichment and an exchange of experiences.

With these guided visits and actions we want to reflect on concepts and ideas that will emerge throughout the visit, relating the works from the MACA collections to their context, in a transversal way, making an analysis of current reality and how artists represent their experiences creating a collective memory through the great diversity of contemporary languages that have emerged in the 20th and 21st centuries.

For restless adults. In charge of Explicarte. With the support of the Consorci de Museus de la Generalitat.

"The Contemporary Art Museum as a Space for Social Transformation" Led by Manuel Segade, director of the National Museum Reina Sofía Art Center (MNCARS). Other Museums, Other Perspectives is a lecture series in which managers and directors of other museums are invited to speak about their experiences, histories, and knowledge in the management and direction of the museums in which they have worked. Coordinated by: Isabel Tejeda

Anna Bofill. ABSTRACT CONFERENCE

COMPOSING SPACES AND SOUNDS

Three perspectives: architecture, music, feminism. Composing to give meaning to the forms in which we live. To inhabit them, to listen to them, when one inhabits a space, it is perceived through all the senses. Sounds are there in everything, whether we want them to be or not. We can fill space with created sounds or not, and if there are no sounds, then the natural environment or your own body sounds or resonates. Composing is organizing (chaos). Distributing pure or complex geometries. Organic forms (existing in nature) can be pure or complex as well. Everything can be formalized from a landscape to sounds.

Architecture and urban environments also from other perspectives, music and feminist theories. Examples at different scales from residential complexes to urban fabrics and buildings, and some musical compositions.