Proximity Program
September 24, 2022 –
March 5, 2023
C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
Past
Programming
C3A Córdoba
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On the occasion of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition, C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary present a proximity program oriented to all audiences.
On the occasion of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition, C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary present a proximity program oriented to all audiences.
MAINS HUM. VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Sunday, March 5, 2023, 12 pm
Abundant Futures, the first exhibition of works from the TBA21 collection at the C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, will come to an end on March 5, 2023. Since its inauguration in April 2022, this exhibition, composed of installations, videos, photographs, paintings and sculptures, fostered the imagination of thousands of people who had the opportunity to discover and enjoy other ways of conceiving the future through art.
To celebrate its success and closing, next Sunday, March 5, 2023 a last session of mains hum will be held, one of the most awaited encounters of the Abundant Futures program. Mains hum is a vocal performance created in collaboration between conductor Donald Nally and composer David Lang that explores electric buzz, that low, continuous noise that old or incorrectly installed electrical transformers give off. The result will impress you.
Come join us! The event is open to all audiences and you can book your place for this Sunday at 12 pm here.
To celebrate its success and closing, next Sunday, March 5, 2023 a last session of mains hum will be held, one of the most awaited encounters of the Abundant Futures program. Mains hum is a vocal performance created in collaboration between conductor Donald Nally and composer David Lang that explores electric buzz, that low, continuous noise that old or incorrectly installed electrical transformers give off. The result will impress you.
Come join us! The event is open to all audiences and you can book your place for this Sunday at 12 pm here.
COMMENTED VISIT TO ABUNDANT FUTURES IN TROUBLED TIMES EXHIBITION AT C3A CENTRO DE CREACIÓN CONTEMPORÁNEA DE ANDALUCÍA
Sunday, March 5, 2023, 9:30 am
Pick-up time: 9:30 am
Pick-up location: CAAC, Avda. Américo Vespucio, 2
On the occasion of last opening day of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition, a co-commission of C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, a free bus will leave Seville on March 5, 2023 at 9:30 am and return from Córdoba at 8 pm.
Includes an exhibition commented visit and attendance to mains hum vocal performance by Allora&Calzadilla, created in collaboration with orchestra conductor, Donald Nally and composer David Lang which delves into electric buzzer, a low and constant sound from old or incorrectly installed electrical transformers, which main thread is energetic crisis in Puerto Rico.
TIMING
9:30 am – Departure from Seville (CAAC, Avda. Américo Vespucio, 2)
11:30 am – Commented visit to Abundant Futures exhibition + vocal performance mains hum
1:30 pm – 6 pm – Free time until bus departure back to Seville (C3A, Carmen Olmedo Checa, s/n)
8 pm – Arrive to Seville
Book your free ticket here
Pick-up location: CAAC, Avda. Américo Vespucio, 2
On the occasion of last opening day of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition, a co-commission of C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, a free bus will leave Seville on March 5, 2023 at 9:30 am and return from Córdoba at 8 pm.
Includes an exhibition commented visit and attendance to mains hum vocal performance by Allora&Calzadilla, created in collaboration with orchestra conductor, Donald Nally and composer David Lang which delves into electric buzzer, a low and constant sound from old or incorrectly installed electrical transformers, which main thread is energetic crisis in Puerto Rico.
TIMING
9:30 am – Departure from Seville (CAAC, Avda. Américo Vespucio, 2)
11:30 am – Commented visit to Abundant Futures exhibition + vocal performance mains hum
1:30 pm – 6 pm – Free time until bus departure back to Seville (C3A, Carmen Olmedo Checa, s/n)
8 pm – Arrive to Seville
Book your free ticket here
MAINS HUM. VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Saturday, February 18, 2023, 12 pm
Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba are back this Saturday to hold mains hum, a vocal composition conceived in 2017 by artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla which main thread is energetic crisis in Puerto Rico. The performance consists of a musical confrontation between a vocal choir and ruined remains of an electrical transformer.
Book your ticket for this Saturday here
Book your ticket for this Saturday here
ABUNDANT FUTURES CATALOG LAUNCH
Friday, February 17, 2023 12 pm and 7:30 pm
Next Friday at 12 pm C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía and Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation (TBA21) will present Abundant Futures exhibition catalog in the museum that holds the exhibition. Trough more than 300 pages, this publication includes different voices and artistic practices from Abundant Futures imaginaries in its installations, paintings, photographies and sculptures. This event will count on CAAC Director, Juan Antonio Álvarez, exhibition curator, Daniela Zyman and PLATA collective (Jesús Alcaide, Gaby Mangeri and Javi Orcaray).
At 7:30 pm celebration continues: accompanied by music and wine, you will also have the opportunity to discover the Abundant Futures catalog in Jugo Vinos Vivos. Located in Plaza de San Andrés, this magical place will be the meeting point to celebrate this launch of the publication (Pl. San Andrés, 5).
At 7:30 pm celebration continues: accompanied by music and wine, you will also have the opportunity to discover the Abundant Futures catalog in Jugo Vinos Vivos. Located in Plaza de San Andrés, this magical place will be the meeting point to celebrate this launch of the publication (Pl. San Andrés, 5).
MAINS HUM. VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 11:30 am
TBA21 inaugurates the new year of public programming at C3A with a very special event mains hum (electric buzz) is a vocal composition conceived in 2017 by artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla which main thread is energetic crisis in Puerto Rico.
The performance consists of a musical confrontation between a vocal choir and ruined remains of an electrical transformer. Performed by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba.
Allora & Calzadilla is a duo of contemporary Puerto Rican artists.
The performance consists of a musical confrontation between a vocal choir and ruined remains of an electrical transformer. Performed by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba.
Allora & Calzadilla is a duo of contemporary Puerto Rican artists.
VIBRANTING MATTER - COMMENTED VISIT TO ABUNDANT FUTURES IN TROUBLED TIMES
Thursday, December 15, 2022, 6:30 pm
Next Thursday at 6:30 pm, researcher, art critic and independent curator Jesús Alcaide will propose an approach to the works of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition from a perspective that points to a new form of knowledge: one that recognizes that everything that surrounds us (whether a coral, the sand from which it emerges, or the water in which it grows), is alive and affects us. To this end, Alcaide will perform a fragmentary reading of Jane Bennet's book Vibrant Matter. Una ecología política de las cosas (2010), translated into Spanish in 2022 by publisher Caja negra, to take up a key question: "What are political implications of recognizing that everything, including rocks, garbage dumps, is alive?"
Free and open to public.
Free and open to public.
ABUNDANT FUTURES EXHIBITION | MAINS HUM PERFORMANCE - COMMENTED VISIT AND VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Saturday, December 10, 2022, 5:30 – 7 pm
C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary invite you to enjoy Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition. A commented visit will take place on Saturday at 5:30 pm trough some outstanding works, which will allow you to know different threads behind the exhibition, as well as, curatorial notes that characterizes it. Seize this opportunity to discover works from the TBA21 Collection that are part of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times.
Also from 7 pm you can enjoy mains hum, a vocal composition conceived in 2017 by Donald Nally y David Lang from Blackout, a sculpture by artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla which main thread is energetic crisis in Puerto Rico. This performance takes places in front of the work and it consists of a musical confrontation between a vocal choir and ruined remains of an electrical transformer. We strongly recommend you watch it, as it is the last one from this year.
Free and open to public.
Also from 7 pm you can enjoy mains hum, a vocal composition conceived in 2017 by Donald Nally y David Lang from Blackout, a sculpture by artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla which main thread is energetic crisis in Puerto Rico. This performance takes places in front of the work and it consists of a musical confrontation between a vocal choir and ruined remains of an electrical transformer. We strongly recommend you watch it, as it is the last one from this year.
Free and open to public.
LIGHTS THAT SHINE AT NIGHT (ABOUT AGUSTÍN GARCÍA CALVO, ACRAT CONSTELLATION AND US) - LECTURE BY JORDI CARMONA HURTADO
Friday, December 2, 2022, 6:30 pm
Acrat constellation, a diffuse alliance of dissident intellectuals and countercultural forms of life gathered around Agustín García Calvo, shone with particular intensity in Spanish night of democracy. That is to say: in struggles forged in the interregnum between the death throes of Franco's regime and consolidation of transition regime, from May '68 riots in Spain to ‘81 coup d'état. In this talk on the occasion of “cómo matar a la muerte. Agustín García Calvo y la filosofía de la contracultura" (La oveja roja, 2022) publication, we will learn that, something characteristic of culture that was built from that moment on in Spain, is its notorious incapacity to assimilate the most original impulses of this acrat conspiracy. This does not imply, however, that this singular "light that meditates in the night" whose intention was never other than to make "the shadow thicker, and perhaps more durable" does not continue to shine in our days. Or rather in our nights, in the most luminous nights of our social life, from 15M events to searches of the most recent libertarian feminism.
Jordi Carmona Hurtado is Professor of Aesthetics and Arts Theory in the Department of Philosophy 1 at University of Granada.
Free and open to public.
Jordi Carmona Hurtado is Professor of Aesthetics and Arts Theory in the Department of Philosophy 1 at University of Granada.
Free and open to public.
ECOFEMINIST APPROACHES TO REVERSE WAR AGAINST LIFE - TALK BY YAYO HERRERO
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6 pm
We are going through a deep structural crisis whose origin lies in dissociation of economy and politics with respect to materiality of earth and bodies. We will have a lecture to understand how this war against life is produced, and we will explore ways and paths to reverse it taking as axes synergistic proposals of environmentalism and feminism.
Yayo Herrero is a consultant, researcher and professor in the fields of political ecology, ecofeminisms and education for sustainability. She is the author and co-author of more than thirty books, collaborates regularly with several media and for decades has combined her career with active participation in social movements, especially with environmental movement. She is a member of Ecologistas en Acción, organization of which she was Confederal Co-Coordinator between 2005 and 2014.
Free and open to public.
Yayo Herrero is a consultant, researcher and professor in the fields of political ecology, ecofeminisms and education for sustainability. She is the author and co-author of more than thirty books, collaborates regularly with several media and for decades has combined her career with active participation in social movements, especially with environmental movement. She is a member of Ecologistas en Acción, organization of which she was Confederal Co-Coordinator between 2005 and 2014.
Free and open to public.
DELANTE EN PRIMER TÉRMINO (IN FRONT IN THE FOREGROUND) - VISIT PERFORMED BY VÉRTEBRO
Thursday, November 17, 2022, 6:30 pm
Delante en primer término (In front in the foreground) is an experimental visit to Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition by Vértebro collective. This proposal reworks some of the materials and exercises of their new performance, titled Una imagen terrestre (A landing image), based on works from TBA21 Collection. The aim of this performative visit is to reflect on the relationship between language and vision. It is about thinking of how images and imaginaries are produced.
Vértebro is a living arts collective created in Córdoba in 2007.
Free and open to public.
Vértebro is a living arts collective created in Córdoba in 2007.
Free and open to public.
MAINS HUM - PERFORMANCE
Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:30 pm
mains hum (electric buzz) is a vocal composition conceived in 2017 by artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla which main thread is energetic crisis in Puerto Rico. The performance consists of a musical confrontation between a vocal choir and ruined remains of an electrical transformer. Performed by the Cordobese vocal ensemble Coro Brouwer and students from the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Córdoba.
Allora & Calzadilla is a duo of contemporary Puerto Rican artists.
Free and open to public.
Allora & Calzadilla is a duo of contemporary Puerto Rican artists.
Free and open to public.
BIFRONTE INDUSTRY. IMAGINARIES OF ABUNDANCE/SCARCITY AND ENERGETIC MODERNITY - LECTURE BY JAIME VINDEL GAMONAL
Saturday, November 19, 2022, 5:30 pm
The aim of this talk is to analyze how, through exploitation of new energy sources, whether fossil or electric, capitalist modernity has established a relationship between society and environment based on abundance ideas and lack. In his lecture, Jaime Vindel will show how modern cultural imaginaries of energy are at source of current ecosocial crisis. In particular, the author will address how the seemingly opposite paradigms of abundance and lack are part of a destructive dynamic history that continues to this day.
Jaime Vindel is an art historian and researcher at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Scientific Research Council.
Free and open to public.
Jaime Vindel is an art historian and researcher at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Scientific Research Council.
Free and open to public.
DELANTE EN PRIMER TÉRMINO (IN FRONT IN THE FOREGROUND) - VISIT PERFORMED BY VÉRTEBRO
Thursday, November 17, 2022, 6:30 pm
Delante en primer término (In front in the foreground) is an experimental visit to Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition by Vértebro collective. This proposal reworks some of the materials and exercises of their new performance, titled Una imagen terrestre (A landing image), based on works from TBA21 Collection. The aim of this performative visit is to reflect on the relationship between language and vision. It is about thinking of how images and imaginaries are produced.
Vértebro is a living arts collective created in Córdoba in 2007.
Free and open to public.
Vértebro is a living arts collective created in Córdoba in 2007.
Free and open to public.
ESPÉCIE BANDEIRA (FLAGSHIP SPECIES) - FLAGSHIP WORKSHOP BY RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER
November 16, 2022, 5 pm
Espécie Bandeira (Flagship Species) is an educational workshop conceived by brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (Belo Horizonte, 1967) in which participants will design a series of flags from iconic symbols representative of different countries’ nature.
Espécie Bandeira takes his name from priority or “flagship species”, a term used in ecology and conservationism field to refer to threatened species whose ecological value is fundamental and that, due to their iconic character, can become representatives or icons of the struggle for conservation of an area’s biodiversity.
After this workshop, the artist will select certain acrylic on fabric designs that will be part of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition.
Espécie Bandeira takes his name from priority or “flagship species”, a term used in ecology and conservationism field to refer to threatened species whose ecological value is fundamental and that, due to their iconic character, can become representatives or icons of the struggle for conservation of an area’s biodiversity.
After this workshop, the artist will select certain acrylic on fabric designs that will be part of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times exhibition.
THE BALLAD OF THE DRY MERMAIDS. A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICIA DOMÍNGUEZ AROUND WATER CONFLICTS IN LATIN AMERICA
Saturday, October 15, 2022, 12 pm
C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía
Participation: cordoba@tba21.org
Patricia Domínguez (Santiago de Chile, 1984) is an artist whose works will be part of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times, a new exhibition that TBA21 will present on October 19, 2022. During this event the artist will talk with Javier Sánchez Martínez, coordinator of TBA21's Public Program in Córdoba, about the main thread of these practices: the privatization of water resources in different Latin American countries.
The Ballad of the dry mermaids (2020) is the title of an installation specifically commissioned by TBA21 and made in collaboration with Las Viudas del Agua, a group of women fighting for water access in their different communities. The piece addresses some of these activist stories through a science fiction narrative that draws on the potentialities of crying, healing and spirituality in digital age.
Patricia Domínguez's work focuses on interspecies relations in current capitalism context and its colonial extractivist practices. Dominguez collaborates assiduously with activists for democracy, water rights and indigenous justice.
In addition, for more than ten years she has been developing an educational work through a platform called "Studio Vegetalista" that combines art, ethnobotany and Andean cosmologies.
More information about the artist here
Participation: cordoba@tba21.org
Patricia Domínguez (Santiago de Chile, 1984) is an artist whose works will be part of Abundant Futures in Troubled Times, a new exhibition that TBA21 will present on October 19, 2022. During this event the artist will talk with Javier Sánchez Martínez, coordinator of TBA21's Public Program in Córdoba, about the main thread of these practices: the privatization of water resources in different Latin American countries.
The Ballad of the dry mermaids (2020) is the title of an installation specifically commissioned by TBA21 and made in collaboration with Las Viudas del Agua, a group of women fighting for water access in their different communities. The piece addresses some of these activist stories through a science fiction narrative that draws on the potentialities of crying, healing and spirituality in digital age.
Patricia Domínguez's work focuses on interspecies relations in current capitalism context and its colonial extractivist practices. Dominguez collaborates assiduously with activists for democracy, water rights and indigenous justice.
In addition, for more than ten years she has been developing an educational work through a platform called "Studio Vegetalista" that combines art, ethnobotany and Andean cosmologies.
More information about the artist here
++ DREAM BONES ++ BOWERY NATION ++ - A CONVERSATION BY ARTIST BRAD KAHLHAMER
October 11, 2022, 6 pm
No inscription is required.
Brad Kahlhamer (Tucson, Arizona, 1956) is an American artist whose works will be part of a new exhibition presented by TBA21 at C3A in 2023. During the conversation we will carry out a detailed tour of his extensive career and pieces that can be seen in Córdoba next year.
Brad Kahlhamer's work addresses the inescapable tensions in any autobiographical construction through a language that draws from underground comics and punk aesthetics, as well as from the art of native people of the United States. This interest in topics such as authenticity failures or uniqueness stems, in part, from his early adoption by a Germanic family settled in the Midwest. His work consists of a radical exploration of this nomadic and impure condition through artistic practice. Hence also his tendency to mix images, materials and objects from more diverse realms, such as skulls, caricatures, logos or kachina dolls. In short, Brad Kahlhamer's work expresses that inevitable "tribal ambiguity" that characterizes not only his own biography, but any personal identity.
Brad Kahlhamer lives and works in New York. He has exhibited in many institutions around the world and his work is part of numerous collections.
More information about the artist here
Brad Kahlhamer (Tucson, Arizona, 1956) is an American artist whose works will be part of a new exhibition presented by TBA21 at C3A in 2023. During the conversation we will carry out a detailed tour of his extensive career and pieces that can be seen in Córdoba next year.
Brad Kahlhamer's work addresses the inescapable tensions in any autobiographical construction through a language that draws from underground comics and punk aesthetics, as well as from the art of native people of the United States. This interest in topics such as authenticity failures or uniqueness stems, in part, from his early adoption by a Germanic family settled in the Midwest. His work consists of a radical exploration of this nomadic and impure condition through artistic practice. Hence also his tendency to mix images, materials and objects from more diverse realms, such as skulls, caricatures, logos or kachina dolls. In short, Brad Kahlhamer's work expresses that inevitable "tribal ambiguity" that characterizes not only his own biography, but any personal identity.
Brad Kahlhamer lives and works in New York. He has exhibited in many institutions around the world and his work is part of numerous collections.
More information about the artist here
ESPÉCIE BANDEIRA (FLAGSHIP SPECIES) - FLAGSHIP WORKSHOP BY RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER
October 5, 2022, 11 am – 2 pm and 5 – 8 pm
TBA21 and C3A invite you to participate in Espécie Bandeira (Flagship Species), an artist-led public workshop by Rivane Neuenschwander (Belo Horizonte, 1967) in which participants will design a series of flags whose symbols represent and raise awareness of different countries’ nature.
Espécie Bandeira is also an opportunity to report through attendees designs environmental violence suffered by ecosystems that enrich our planet.
Flagships will be designed in acrylic on fabric and will be part of an installation in Abundant Futures in Troubled Times, an exhibition presented by TBA21 at C3A on October 19, 2022. This workshop is intended for anyone interested in environmental rights and artistic production, with or without previous knowledge. Free and open to public.
Espécie Bandeira is also an opportunity to report through attendees designs environmental violence suffered by ecosystems that enrich our planet.
Flagships will be designed in acrylic on fabric and will be part of an installation in Abundant Futures in Troubled Times, an exhibition presented by TBA21 at C3A on October 19, 2022. This workshop is intended for anyone interested in environmental rights and artistic production, with or without previous knowledge. Free and open to public.
PAINTING ABUNDANCE - COMMENTED VISIT BY SIMON ZABELL
September 29, 2022, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
When we talk about painting, we think of something wider than mere application of color on a surface. It is not only a question of reflecting on the transformations that have taken place in the field of painting techniques over the last few years. Rather, it is about thinking how painting involves a whole series of fundamental but forgotten experiences that have been recovered by artists who, apparently, have nothing to do with this artistic medium. During this commented visit of Abundant Futures exhibition, Simon Zabell will talk about works from the collection that, for example, can turn reality into painting, how, in other cases, works made from spider webs complicate the relationship between things and their representations, or how, finally, we can equate the manipulation and mixing of pigments with the sensations resulting from the ingestion of food.
In short, in this visit through C3A rooms, the artist will show the unsuspected abundance of painting in contemporary art, both in its persistence and in wide and diverse lifes that it allows us to glimpse.
In short, in this visit through C3A rooms, the artist will show the unsuspected abundance of painting in contemporary art, both in its persistence and in wide and diverse lifes that it allows us to glimpse.
WHEN FATE CATCHES UP WITH US. EXPERIMENTAL LANDSCAPES DRAWING WORKSHOP WITH CRISTINA RAMÍREZ
September 24, 2022, 11 am – 2 pm
When fate catches up with us is an experimental landscape drawing workshop taught by artist Cristina Ramírez based on the works that are part of Abundant Futures. Its objective is to explore through theory and practice how the works in the exhibition allow us to cast a non-anthropocentric gaze on nature and, in particular, on the landscape genre. The aim is to address how the traditional image of nature has been challenged by both the current environmental crisis as well as new scientific discoveries.
The title of the workshop, When fate catches up with us, points precisely to how the dystopian visions of nature proposed by fantasy literature, new weird fiction or cyber-punk give us back the image of a present, ours that has become terrifying. The workshop aims to be a forum in which think and discuss how to deal with these terrifying fictional futures that have unfortunately become current.
The workshop will consist of a talk and a commented visit through the works of Abundant Futures, as well as a practical drawing session in which these ideas will be worked on through simple exercises.
There are 30 places available and the museum will supply the necessary materials. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to cordoba@tba21.org with the subject "drawing workshop".
The title of the workshop, When fate catches up with us, points precisely to how the dystopian visions of nature proposed by fantasy literature, new weird fiction or cyber-punk give us back the image of a present, ours that has become terrifying. The workshop aims to be a forum in which think and discuss how to deal with these terrifying fictional futures that have unfortunately become current.
The workshop will consist of a talk and a commented visit through the works of Abundant Futures, as well as a practical drawing session in which these ideas will be worked on through simple exercises.
There are 30 places available and the museum will supply the necessary materials. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to cordoba@tba21.org with the subject "drawing workshop".
