Intra-actions with Uriel Fogué.

In its latest reports, the United Nations Environment Programme calls for a "rapid transformation of societies" to address the climate crisis. In them, architecture is identified as one of the basic fields of action where a possible ecological collapse is at stake.

What can we do?

Inaction is not an option. Architecture must shift from its usual positions. This lecture will present four shifts that, we believe, reposition architectural practice within an ecological framework.

Uriel Fogué

Doctor of Architecture (extraordinary award UPM 2015, finalist X BIAU 2016). Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Columbia University. Was visiting teacher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Co-directs the architecture office elii, which was part of the Spanish Pavilion at the 18th and 15th Venice Architecture Biennales (the latter, Golden Lion 2016). Among other international recognitions, it has two works selected in the European Union Prize For Contemporary Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe Award (2015, 2019) and one work awarded the Golden Prize Holcim Awards 2023 (together with Husos and Ultrazul, promoted by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation). His work Yojigen Poketto was selected as one of the 20 visionary domestic spaces of the last 100 years in the exhibition 'Home Stories 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors', Vitra Design Museum (2020). He is co-founder of the Crisis Cabinet of Political Fictions.

Presentation, screening and discussion of the film "Mondays in the Sun" (Fernando León de Aranoa, 2002) with Ignacio del Moral, nominated for the Goya Awards for Best Original Screenplay. February 20 at 6 p.m. Free admission.

Ignacio del Moral (San Sebastián, 1957) is a prolific and award-winning Spanish playwright, screenwriter for film and television, and educator. He began his theatrical career in 1977 as an actor, although since 1990 he has worked as a screenwriter for film and television, and is vice president of the Association of Theater Authors.

He is the winner of a Goya Award for the screenplay adaptation of The Adventures of Tadeo Jones, and nominated on three other occasions for: Mondays in the Sun, The Sleeping Voice, and Ashes from the Sky. He has won the Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers on two occasions, and the Egeda Award.

He is a screenwriter for films awarded at the festivals of Málaga, Montreal, Valencia Film Festival and Nanterre in France. Mondays in the Sun is, among other awards, Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival and selected by the Film Academy for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

His notable works in television are: Pharmacy on Duty, The Commissioner, Tell Me How It Happened, Sisters, and Ulysses Syndrome; directing the screenwriting team in several of them.

He has more than 30 published dramatic works, with translations and performances in more than ten languages, for which he has received the SGAE Awards and Hogar Sur Theater of Comedies Award, and the Circle of Writers Award on two occasions.

Alba Asensi is an emerging artist with one of the most original proposals in the current musical landscape. She is a harpist, singer and composer specializing in early music with influences from jazz, traditional music and singer-songwriter music. 'SÓC POETA' is the title of her latest album, published by the Microscopi record label in January 2023. All the songs are original and are inspired by contemporary poetry.

The show Celebrating 'SÓC POETA' is an embrace of its two years of life; a life shared with the birth also of her first daughter. It will be a show that will feature the collaboration of numerous artists from our locality, including the Alquimia Women's Choir directed by Elena Cremades.

It will be a unique event full of music, unity and celebration of beauty.

Presentation of the book by Pedro Marín Boza Presented by: Begoña M. Deltell

Art galleries are essential for understanding contemporary art and the development of its most innovative artistic trends. They are the precursors of what will later appear in museums and institutions and are creators of cultural content. However, most texts that reflect on them do so from the perspective of the art market. What is an art gallery? How do they work? Why are they important? What are gallery spaces like? What has been their historical evolution? What moment are they in? What will their future be? The book addresses these questions by tracing the history of art galleries, from conceptual and practical issues to reflections on the expectations and challenges of the future, while defining the moment and the conditions in which they emerged and their fascinating evolution.

First MAV Debate of this third edition.

Following the model of the latest editions and betting on territorial balance, the first day will be held at the MACA. On this occasion, Juncal Caballero Guiral will present us with "Surrealist Women and Photography". At the event, we will have the presence of the president of MAV, Rosalía Torrent.

Ramón Esteve "Design as Sensory Experience. From the City to the Object".

In this presentation, we explore an experiential vision of design, unified by architecture and encompassing all scales, from urban planning projects to object design. We analyze the importance of production processes, both industrial and artisanal, in defining design details that emphasize the conceptualization of each work. We focus on the sensory perception of spaces, conceived as 'design ecosystems', with the aim of promoting the well-being of inhabitants.

Discover a hidden and fascinating world through the microscope in the workshop "Microworlds: Hidden Art in Plain Sight". We will explore the complex organic forms of a museum artwork, revealing details and textures that normally go unnoticed. Inspired by this invisible beauty, each participant will be able to reinterpret these patterns and fragments in their own fanzine, creating a unique publication that captures the essence of this hidden world and transforms it into art.

The MACA Choir presents a proposal about the temporary exhibition: "Esther Ferrer: the body crossed by gender, space and time".

Directed by: Sonia Megías

Exhibition produced by the Consortium of Museums of the Generalitat and organized by the MACA.

MirAcle architects. Sonia Miralles Mud and Arturo Calero Hombre "...something more than a congress center..."

The beach is the public space par excellence. This is where our proposal for the Alicante congress center starts: it is not just about building a structure, but creating a great public space. The proposals and locations that over the last sixty years have tried to make the construction of the palace a reality are so varied that if we were to combine them all on a plan, we would almost be drawing the most significant references and identities of the city: its coast, its neighborhoods, its mountain, its history, its castle, its port and the sea… something more than a congress center…

Coordinates: Santiago Varela

Collaborates: Territorial College of Architects of Alicante.

Within the program of activities on the occasion of the exhibition Esther Ferrer. the body crossed by gender, space and time.

Course/Workshop taught by Margarita Aizpuru (curator of the exhibition, art critic and educator).

Days: December 11, 12 and 13, 2024

Schedule: 4 to 8 p.m.

And a selection competition for up to 4 performance projects, chosen by Margarita Aizpuru and Rosa Castells, to be carried out in the PERFORMANCE AND GENDER CYCLE to be held at MACA, as part of the practices of the Course-Workshop on a date to be determined in 2025.

Admission requirements for the course: Interested persons wishing to enroll in this course must submit the following documentation:

• Registration request by email, providing your personal information

• Abbreviated curriculum or curriculum summary of the applicant if they are a natural person

Registration deadline: It will end hours before the start of the course as long as places are available. Corresponding course certificates will be issued, signed by the instructor.

Information

The content of the course-workshop will focus on the conceptual, visual, theoretical and practical aspects of performance in interrelation with gender discourses and positions and feminist practices.

From the origins of performance and body art in general, to these recent years in which we have witnessed a revival of this artistic practice, different generations of artists have developed mechanisms and languages, and have opened paths as specific and forceful in the territory of performance as to speak of the importance, in its evolution, of female presence and even of feminist performances.

Discourses on the body, in the first decades, to which would have to be added the paradigm of gender identity from the 1980s onwards, coincide with a change in attitude in art.

After 1970, many women developed specifically feminist works. There was an increase in works that reinserted the experiences of being a woman into art practice.

From the second half of the eighties, and especially in the nineties, changes were going to occur in the sense of opening to a new aesthetic that rediscovers happenings and performance, while re-analyzing the relationships of the body and performance in contemporary societies.

For all these reasons, students will be informed about what performance carried out by women artists has meant from gender perspectives and feminist practices. And this by carrying out a theoretical-practical journey, with numerous visualizations in class, which will be explained and analyzed and debated, of performances carried out by the artists, in their different tendencies, approaches and practices, from the sixties to the present day, both at the level of our country and internationally.

Objective

The fundamental objective of the course is to inform/train in the field of performance from artistic, as well as gender and feminist perspectives, emphasizing the study of historical development, women artists and performance trends, their fusions and crossbreeding with other artistic areas and their exhibition in different spaces and modes of intervention and exhibition.

This information and training will be carried out by the course/workshop instructor who will teach it herself, incorporating performance practices, through a competition among the students, of which Margarita Aizpuru will select 4 performance projects to be carried out at MACA, within a Cycle organized for this purpose in 2025.

Methodology

Phase 1

Theoretical-practical course, accompanied by abundant and varied audiovisual material, on performances, their tendencies, practices and interventions. The discourses and analysis of performances and performative works will be accompanied by visualization of performances by different artists on video and fixed projections, which will serve as a documentary basis for the debate and discussion that will accompany the course at all times.

Phase 2

Performance competition for course/workshop students. As established in the "Performance Competition" section in the last section of this information.

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