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Presentation of the report titled "Feminicide in Spain 2010-2012" and the new project, an investigative journalism laboratory.
Feminicide.net

Thursday 28 February at 7 pm

Feminicide.net is a news portal with a gender perspective, specialized in violence against women. Its ongoing work includes digital art campaigns and data visualization related to GeoFeminicide, an online application for documenting Feminicide in Spain and Latin American countries. At this meeting, they will present their report titled “Feminicide and other murders of women 2010-2012” in Spain and their new project: “Investigative and Data Journalism Laboratory with a Gender Perspective”.

Feminicidio.net

ARCO 2013 / Escucha Pública (Public Listening) #3. How can we portray a person with sound? with Nacho Arias
Radio Sures

Saturday 16 February at 7 pm

Radio Sures is an a la carte web radio for radio documentaries. With no extra photos or supporting videos or multimedia bonus features. We stand for telling stories exclusively with sound resources! We illustrate this aesthetic stance each month in a public gathering devoted to listening. We offer a selection of sound narrative documentaries, in Spanish and other languages, with translations planned. We listen in the half-light, seated or lying down, as if we were a cinema audience for a movie with no pictures. Orson Welles might have said it: “Radio is better than the movies because in radio, the screen’s bigger”.

In each session a guest joins us to share his or her point of view (and hearing) about the documentaries we have heard. Not sound or radio experts, our guests come from other fields of creative endeavours such as cinema, painting, photography, literature, theatre, and so on. Instead of an analysis, they share their sensations and impressions as auditors. Their contributions create bridges between sound and other artistic disciplines.

For the third session, our guest is photographer Nacho Arias.
We will reflect on “How to portray a person with sound”. We are not talking about ID photos but rather portraits taken from an auteur point of view. The person behind the camera or microphone leaves all pretensions of objectivity aside in order to transmit his or her own perception of the person portrayed. In this creative process, the person becomes a “character”.

Nacho Arias has a degree from the Fine Arts School at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has worked as a photographer for over 15 years. He has shown his work at museums, galleries and art centres including the Círculo de Bellas Artes, La Casa de América and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid. His work has also been selected at festivals such as PhotoSpain, Emergentes (Braga, Portugal), and the 2010 International Vienna Festival. At present he is working on several series that will be completed in 2013.

Open Studio by The Authorless Film Factory
Colectivo Cine sin Autor (Authorless Cinema Group)

Space to meet and show work processes. From Tuesday to Sunday during Intermediae opening hours.

Screening of works in progress. Wednesday 27 February at 6 pm at Cineteca.

The Authorless Cinema Factory started its activities in May 2012 at Intermediae.
Since then, many people who have nothing to do with film production have taken part in making their films collectively.
 
Throughout 2013 films in progress will be shown monthly at the Cineteca at Matadero Madrid. A meeting space open to everyone interested in actively taking part by offering their opinion and even getting involved in the production process.
The participating public can do more than just see films here: they can do so in a new social model of filmmaking.
Social Cinema. Horizontal. Participatory. Inclusive. 21st century Cinema. Cinema XXI

Open Terrario / Streaming Scenarios: ON & ON Presentation of Season #2
PlayDramaturgia

Saturday 19 January at 7 p.m.

Three months have passed since the start of Streaming Scenarios, a process of exploring the possibilities for dialogue among live arts and real-time video broadcasts via the Internet. 
Something along those lines was said by Pablo Gisbert, one of our collaborators, when we sat down to reflect on it: “Our times require we take action. And since we are too cowardly to take up arms, we have to do our best in our field: the world of ideas. They need to be specified, filled with content, and shot.” That is what we are doing.  ON&ON serves to recharge and present the second phase of the project. More ideas, more action, more playwriting and hard punches… more Streaming Scenarios.

Open Terrario / Public Listening #2. How to create sound spaces? With Enrique Rivero.
Radio Sures

Friday 18 January at 8 p.m.

Radio Sures is an on-demand web radio with radio documentaries. With no additional photos, supporting videos, or multimedia extras. We tell stories using only sound resources!  We illustrate this aesthetic proposal each month at a public meeting devoted to listening. We offer a selection of documentary sound narratives, in Spanish and other languages, with translations planned. We listen in the semi-darkness, seated or lying down, as if we were in a cinema watching a movie with no pictures. As Orson Welles said, “Radio is better than the cinema because in radio, the screen is bigger.”

At each session, we will have a guest with a point of view (or better said… hearing) on the documentaries we have heard. The guest is not a specialist in sound or radio but rather, another creative field such as painting, photography, literature, theatre, etc. Instead of offering an analysis, the guest will share sensations and impressions as a listener. This intervention will create bridges between sound and other artistic disciplines.

In this second session, our guest is filmmaker and producer Enrique Rivero.

At each meeting, we will discuss the sound documentary from a different perspective, starting with a question. This month it is: “How to create sound spaces?” A film director frames the shot with a camera. Do radio documentary makers also create a shot with microphones? Other questions we will explore include: What is a “sound space”? How is it constructed by the person recording and perceived by the listener? We will discuss distance, movement, and field depth.

Enrique Rivero has worked in various areas related to film production, from photography to art. As a director, he started with two short films, Nidra and Schhht!, making his first feature length film, Parque Vía, in 2008. It garnered various international awards including the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival (Switzerland). His second feature length film was Mai Morire (2012); it won awards in Rome (Best Photography) and Huelva (Special Jury Award, and the Radio Exterior de España award, among others.) Currently he is in development with his next project, Pozoamargo, to be shot in Spain in a town in La Mancha.

Open Terrario/ Screening of Evelyn and meeting with Isabel de Ocampo, Beatriz Gimeno and Feminicidio.net.
Feminicidio.net

Thursday 17 January at 7 p.m.

Otro Tiempo works to fight violence against women, with a focus on documenting the murders of women in Latin America. That is the purpose of the news portal it created, Feminicidio.net, with information on gender issues and online education. The group recently offered the course, “Prostitution: contributions to an open debate”, led by Beatriz Gimeno.
The formative process comes to a close with the screening of the film Evelyn (2011), directed by Isabel de Ocampo. Evelyn travels to Spain from her hometown in a Latin American country. She believes she will be working as a waitress but she is deceived and kidnapped, forced to work as a prostitute at a roadside brothel.

PROYECTOR (PROJECTOR) / International Video Art Festival.

Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 FROM 6-9 pm. Screenings and meetings.

PROYECTOR continues exploring international dialogue (especially between Portugal and Spain, who once again seem consigned to the stigma of the periphery) and formal experimentation. It takes an active, critical, citizens’ look at the issue of location. Location of the body and the street. We take on space as a political element, aiming this year to focus of the dimension of the body and public space as venues for civic empowerment, debate and activism. We believe visual practices must be focused centrifugally toward the population and that is why we stand for the street, independent spaces, and artists’ workshops as venues which should be close to citizens. PROYECTOR wants to reaffirm the “social performativity” of art, working through visual language to strengthen its inherent capacity for agency and transformation. 

In keeping with the importance the festival gives to the social role of cultural mediation, there will be guided visits. In addition, PROYECTOR will have a set of talks and roundtables conceived as a niche for generating a critical mass and creating work in a network.

CLUB GAMESTART / Presentation of projects by club participants
Arsgames

Saturday 15 December at 11 a.m. Presentation of projects by club participants

Since September, the children and teens who take part in Club Gamestar(t) have been investigating, experiencing and exploring the universe of games as a creative playful tool.

In this session they will present the work they have done on their collective projects: creating video games, databases, blogs and servers, among other things. This meeting is open to all friends of the Club, where they can be members for a day and enjoy a session of play and work.

Want to know how they do it? The participants of Gamestar(t) will tell you.

Gamestar(t) has guides who orient the process, drawing their inspiration from free pedagogies, facilitating communication, decision-making and conflict resolution. Through an assembly, the club’s working process is decided, as well the activities to be carried out at each session.

OPEN TERRARIO/ Streaming Scenarios
PlayDramaturgia

Théa: contemplation. Wednesday 12 December as of 4 PM.

Theory and theatre share the same Greek root: Théa: contemplation.

Theory was born as a contemplation practice and theatre as a place for it: it is not by chance that before they were buildings, the first Greek theatres were overlooks, always facing monumental landscapes.
In the 20th century, going back to its origins, this contemplative attitude was recovered for the stage: the viewers’ attentive gaze became an essential active element in forming discourses. Wasn't Gertrude Stein’s idea really quite ancient, something the stage arts had lost? Doesn’t Pieza Paisaje, the source of so many renewing aesthetics, show originality possible only in resonance with the origin?

THÉA: A THEORETICAL FESTIVAL aims to highlight this contemplative theoretical attitude in a sort of thought marathon structured in brief micro-presentations that are always oriented in some way to the vast landscape of the stage.

In this first showing, framed within Streaming Stages, we will focus our discourse on problems in using streaming in relation to stage arts.

OPEN DIALOGUES
Toxic Lesbian

Mujeres bajo sospecha (Women Under Suspicion). Saturday10 November at 7 p.m.
* The session will be broadcast live as of 7 p.m. via the channel www.toxiclesbian.org and on @toxiclesbian as of 6.30 p.m.

Toxic Lesbian’s Open Dialogues present Mujeres bajo sospecha (Women Under Suspicion), a book that collects the research carried out from 2007 to date, along with a video directed by Cecilia Montagut titled Memoria y sexualidad de las mujeres bajo el franquismo (Memory and Sexuality of Women during the Franco Years).
Female sexuality, denied, silenced or repressed, is made visible in this project that goes beyond the model of an immaculate woman, a mother and wife, placing special importance on non-normative sexualities and homoerotic/affective relations among women.
The lack of any traces of female sexuality from that period impedes a linear history, aggravated by the silence imposed by the context and women themselves. Many suffered repression but there were also resistant subjects who lived out forms of sexuality that questioned the sole heterosexual model, moving away from passivity as destiny.

Participants at the meeting will include the project coordinator Raquel Osborne in dialogue with writer  Raquel (Lucas) Platero, researchers María Rosón Villena and Fefa Vila, and professors Jordi M. Monferrer Tomás and Kira Mahamud, as well as the public in attendance.