Conversation "Leraning from the Others"
November 12, 2019 | Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
November 12, 2019 | Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Rafael Doctor and Maria A. Blasco, speakers in the conversation “Learning from Others". Photo: courtesy the speakers.
12 November, 5:00-7:00 pm.
Auditorium at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
More-than-humans exhibition public program
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TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary continues its programme of public activities for More-than-humans, the exhibition showcasing works by the artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza until this coming 1 December.
This Tuesday 12 November, María A. Blasco (molecular biologist and director of CNIO, the Spanish National Cancer Research Center) and Rafael Doctor Roncero (curator and art critic committed with animal rights, former director of MUSAC and of Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía) will talk about possible ways of learning from animals in the anthropocentric culture in a conversation called “Learning from Others”.
TBA21’s multidisciplinary spirit promotes this platform for exchange between Science and Art, a conjunction already familiar to the scientist María A. Blasco, whose remit at CNIO Arte is to establish contacts between scientists and internationally renowned artists in order to explore areas common to scientific research and artistic creation. At the same time, throughout his professional career Rafael Doctor Roncero has combined museum management and research with cultural activism and, more recently, with a committed engagement with Animalism. Moderated by Carlos Urroz, director of the TBA21 foundation, the conversation which “ties in with the exhibition More-than-humans, underscores TBA21’s values, exploring non-human thinking and fostering respectful coexistence between humankind and Nature during the era of the Anthropocene.”
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Maria A. Blasco
Scientific Director of CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Center) and Head of the Telomeres and Telomerase Group - CNIO.
Maria A. Blasco is a molecular biologist who studies the importance of telomeres and telomerase in cancer, as well as in age-related diseases. She has contributed to the isolation of telomerase genes in mammals and, together with her group, has demonstrated that it is possible to slow down aging and age-related diseases by activating this enzyme.
Since 2011 she is the director of CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Center) in Madrid. Her achievements have been recognized by prestigious awards such as: Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award, Körber European Science Award, EMBO Gold Medal, the Santiago Ramón y Cajal National Award in Biology and Rey Jaime I Award, among others. Blasco also holds three Doctorate Honoris Causa in Spain: Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (2014), the University of Alicante (2017) and the University of Murcia (2018).
Rafael Doctor
An art historian specialized in the history of photography and contemporary art, Rafael Doctor is the driving force and director of various benchmark cultural initiatives in Spain such as the symposium Jornadas de la imagen organized by the Region of Madrid, the Espacio Uno space at MNCARS (1997-2000) and MUSAC-Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León (2002-2009), while his most recent post was as director of Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía (2017-2019). As a freelance curator he has created a dozen contemporary art projects including Encontros de Santiago de Compostela (2011- ongoing). He has also penned books on art and photography and directed the Los Doscientos publishers.
His engagement with the animal liberation movement and environmentalism is reflected in the curatorship of exhibitions like Animalista. Representación, violencias y respuestas (2016, La Casa Encendida) which defended animal rights and in the Capital Animal festival he founded in 2015 together with Ruth Toledano, as a platform for the defence of animal rights through culture, art and philosophy, whose goal is to introduce animalism into art institutions.
Carlos Urroz
Carlos Urroz is the director of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), an institution founded by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, dedicated to the production, exhibition and collection of contemporary art. It commissions artists from all over the world to produce environmentally and politically inflected projects that challenge predetermined categories. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza have signed a four-year agreement to work together to present a series of exhibitions at the museum, with contemporary artworks from the TBA21 collection and an ambitious public programme of associated activities.
Admission free. Prior registration here.
Preceded by free visit to the exhibition More-than-humans.
Auditorium at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
More-than-humans exhibition public program
EN / ES
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary continues its programme of public activities for More-than-humans, the exhibition showcasing works by the artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza until this coming 1 December.
This Tuesday 12 November, María A. Blasco (molecular biologist and director of CNIO, the Spanish National Cancer Research Center) and Rafael Doctor Roncero (curator and art critic committed with animal rights, former director of MUSAC and of Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía) will talk about possible ways of learning from animals in the anthropocentric culture in a conversation called “Learning from Others”.
TBA21’s multidisciplinary spirit promotes this platform for exchange between Science and Art, a conjunction already familiar to the scientist María A. Blasco, whose remit at CNIO Arte is to establish contacts between scientists and internationally renowned artists in order to explore areas common to scientific research and artistic creation. At the same time, throughout his professional career Rafael Doctor Roncero has combined museum management and research with cultural activism and, more recently, with a committed engagement with Animalism. Moderated by Carlos Urroz, director of the TBA21 foundation, the conversation which “ties in with the exhibition More-than-humans, underscores TBA21’s values, exploring non-human thinking and fostering respectful coexistence between humankind and Nature during the era of the Anthropocene.”
CVs
Maria A. Blasco
Scientific Director of CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Center) and Head of the Telomeres and Telomerase Group - CNIO.
Maria A. Blasco is a molecular biologist who studies the importance of telomeres and telomerase in cancer, as well as in age-related diseases. She has contributed to the isolation of telomerase genes in mammals and, together with her group, has demonstrated that it is possible to slow down aging and age-related diseases by activating this enzyme.
Since 2011 she is the director of CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Center) in Madrid. Her achievements have been recognized by prestigious awards such as: Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award, Körber European Science Award, EMBO Gold Medal, the Santiago Ramón y Cajal National Award in Biology and Rey Jaime I Award, among others. Blasco also holds three Doctorate Honoris Causa in Spain: Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (2014), the University of Alicante (2017) and the University of Murcia (2018).
Rafael Doctor
An art historian specialized in the history of photography and contemporary art, Rafael Doctor is the driving force and director of various benchmark cultural initiatives in Spain such as the symposium Jornadas de la imagen organized by the Region of Madrid, the Espacio Uno space at MNCARS (1997-2000) and MUSAC-Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León (2002-2009), while his most recent post was as director of Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía (2017-2019). As a freelance curator he has created a dozen contemporary art projects including Encontros de Santiago de Compostela (2011- ongoing). He has also penned books on art and photography and directed the Los Doscientos publishers.
His engagement with the animal liberation movement and environmentalism is reflected in the curatorship of exhibitions like Animalista. Representación, violencias y respuestas (2016, La Casa Encendida) which defended animal rights and in the Capital Animal festival he founded in 2015 together with Ruth Toledano, as a platform for the defence of animal rights through culture, art and philosophy, whose goal is to introduce animalism into art institutions.
Carlos Urroz
Carlos Urroz is the director of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), an institution founded by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, dedicated to the production, exhibition and collection of contemporary art. It commissions artists from all over the world to produce environmentally and politically inflected projects that challenge predetermined categories. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza have signed a four-year agreement to work together to present a series of exhibitions at the museum, with contemporary artworks from the TBA21 collection and an ambitious public programme of associated activities.
Admission free. Prior registration here.
Preceded by free visit to the exhibition More-than-humans.
