Matadero’s Artist Residencies Center holds an open day to showcase the work of its creators

• The resident artists will share their working, creative and research processes through guided conversations, listening sessions, sound activations, performative lectures, small exhibition displays and a concert.
• Participating in this open day, which is free until capacity is reached, will be the beneficiaries of the quarterly art and environment residencies: Daniel de la Barra, Tania Blanco, Antonio Guerra, Miguel Guevara Parra, Manuela Inclán and Juan Herranz, Nucbeade, Emma Prats and Pablo Sanz Almoguera.
• The experimental electronic music resident, Kyria Libia, and the art and education resident, Costa Badía, will also present their work.
• The assisted studio Debajo del sombrero and the Madrid Association of Cultural Mediators (AMECUM) will join the activities as well.

The Artist Residencies Center at Matadero Madrid, a contemporary creation center of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport, will hold an open day on Saturday, 22 November, where the public will be able to discover the projects developed by the national and international resident artists, who share working, research and creative processes. Throughout the year, different activities offer glimpses of what happens behind closed doors, but it is during these open days—held three times each season—when all residents share their work and processes through activities and conversations with visitors.

On this occasion, the programme includes guided visits, listening sessions, video screenings, project activations, lectures and concerts. The doors of the Artist Residencies Center will remain open on Saturday the 22nd, from 11:00 to 20:00. Admission will be free until capacity is reached.

In addition, the advisory team of the art and environment residencies—artist Bárbara Fluxá and curators Gabriel Alonso and Virginia Torrente—will accompany the artists with two guided conversations.

Open day programme

The Artist Residencies Center will open its doors at 11:00. One hour later, at 12:00, a guided visit through the residents’ studios will begin, led by the center’s director, Luisa Espino; the collective Debajo del sombrero; visual artist Costa Badía; and AMECUM (Madrid Association of Cultural Mediators).

At 13:00, artists Manuela Inclán and Juan Herranz will host a listening session to share their project Plantar el verano. Afterwards, at 13:30, resident artists Antonio Guerra, Tania Blanco, Emma Prats and Daniel de la Barra will invite visitors to tour their studios, accompanied by curator Virginia Torrente.

In the afternoon, the doors will reopen at 16:00. One hour later, at 17:00, the guided visit with curators Bárbara Fluxá and Gabriel Alonso will begin, together with artists Manuela Inclán and Juan Herranz, Pablo Sanz Almoguera, Miguel Guevara Parra and the collective Nucbeade.

Later in the day, at 18:00, artist Tania Blanco will present the video screening MMT – El miserable milagro del trigo. At 18:30, Emma Prats will begin her performative action Corazón, anular: ambas manos. Thirty minutes later, artist Miguel Guevara Parra will take the floor with the I Conferencia Nacional de Criptozoología: El abominable ser de las alcantarillas.

The open day will conclude at 20:00 with visual artist Kyria Libia’s proposal of sacred electronic prayer towards ecstasy, Mater Mía (invocación mariana), a mystical prelude to the work El Arrobamiento.

• Full programme and download of graphic materials
• More information: comunicacion@mataderomadrid.org