ARCOMadrid 2012 - SPECIAL PROGRAMME
Sánchez Castillo, Santiago Sierra, Cova Macías, Martin Creed & Navid Nuur.
Date
15
19 February 2012
Venue
Matadero Madrid
Institution
Matadero Madrid
EN ESPAÑOL
Matadero Madrid is once again one of the main focus points of ARCO’s programme beyond the fairgrounds, with a complete programme covering virtually all its spaces — the Nave de Música, the Cineteca, Intermediae and Nave 16 — that includes concerts, audiovisual essays and visual arts with the participation of figures such as Martin Creed, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Cova Macías, Santiago Sierra and Navid Nuur.
The versatile Martín Creed will open the programme within the AfterARCO programme —which serves as a meeting point and prolongation of the fair in the city— on Wednesday 15 February at 9.30pm, with a concert in the Nave de Música. Creed, who won the Turner Prize in 2001 and is putting on the exhibition Things / Cosas in Sala Alcalá 31 until 26 February, lets us see his musical side with a fun show reminiscent of experimental pop. Ginferno, a classic and unclassifiable group from the Madrid scene will take the stage after him, with melodies that combine surf, punk and poppy noisiness. The musical programme ends on Friday, 17 February, again in the Nave de Música at 9.30pm, with a more electronic-oriented programme and performances by Guillamino —who mixes sardana, soul and electro pop— and Pional, the most promising fixture of Madrid’s electro pop scene in many years.
In Intermediae, Cova Macías will open Las Historias Paralelas (Parallel Stories) on 18 February, a visual essay that underscores the importance of family ties, the feeling of “twofold absence” in migratory movement and the activation of resilience. Also in Intermediae, composer Eduardo Costa will perform an improvisation on 19 February using the sound installation 6552100 M2 de sonido de Legazpi (6552100 M2 of Legazpi Sounds) and the traditional sound of an acoustic instrument with classical connotations such as the concert flute. Continuing with the AfterARCO programme, on the same Friday at 8pm the Cineteca will present and screen the audiovisual works of Nathaniel Mellors (Ourhouse Episode 3 - The Cure of Folly, 2011) and Gabriel Lester (The Big One, 2010). And at 9pm, Santiago Sierra will also present his NO Global Tour in the Cineteca, a synthesis between minimalist sculpture and road movies.
In the exhibition section, Fernando Sánchez Castillo presents an audiovisual documentary on the transformation of the ‘Azor’, the historic boat used to create the piece in Abierto x Obras as part of the installation Síndrome de Guernica (Guernica Syndrome). HOCUS FOCUS, the exhibition by Navid Nuur, a young Dutch man of Iranian origin, included as part of the Focus on the Netherlands programme, offers a guided tour of the same exhibition, open to its visitors, on Friday, 17 February. That same day, the Mexican artist collective Tercerunquinto presents Trozo de escombro colocado para mantener la puerta abierta (Piece of debris for holding the door of a building open), an action that appeals to art as a tool for reflection on the city as a political and social entity as part of El Ranchito, Matadero Madrid’s research and experimentation programme.
Matadero Madrid is once again one of the main focus points of ARCO’s programme beyond the fairgrounds, with a complete programme covering virtually all its spaces — the Nave de Música, the Cineteca, Intermediae and Nave 16 — that includes concerts, audiovisual essays and visual arts with the participation of figures such as Martin Creed, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Cova Macías, Santiago Sierra and Navid Nuur.
The versatile Martín Creed will open the programme within the AfterARCO programme —which serves as a meeting point and prolongation of the fair in the city— on Wednesday 15 February at 9.30pm, with a concert in the Nave de Música. Creed, who won the Turner Prize in 2001 and is putting on the exhibition Things / Cosas in Sala Alcalá 31 until 26 February, lets us see his musical side with a fun show reminiscent of experimental pop. Ginferno, a classic and unclassifiable group from the Madrid scene will take the stage after him, with melodies that combine surf, punk and poppy noisiness. The musical programme ends on Friday, 17 February, again in the Nave de Música at 9.30pm, with a more electronic-oriented programme and performances by Guillamino —who mixes sardana, soul and electro pop— and Pional, the most promising fixture of Madrid’s electro pop scene in many years.
In Intermediae, Cova Macías will open Las Historias Paralelas (Parallel Stories) on 18 February, a visual essay that underscores the importance of family ties, the feeling of “twofold absence” in migratory movement and the activation of resilience. Also in Intermediae, composer Eduardo Costa will perform an improvisation on 19 February using the sound installation 6552100 M2 de sonido de Legazpi (6552100 M2 of Legazpi Sounds) and the traditional sound of an acoustic instrument with classical connotations such as the concert flute. Continuing with the AfterARCO programme, on the same Friday at 8pm the Cineteca will present and screen the audiovisual works of Nathaniel Mellors (Ourhouse Episode 3 - The Cure of Folly, 2011) and Gabriel Lester (The Big One, 2010). And at 9pm, Santiago Sierra will also present his NO Global Tour in the Cineteca, a synthesis between minimalist sculpture and road movies.
In the exhibition section, Fernando Sánchez Castillo presents an audiovisual documentary on the transformation of the ‘Azor’, the historic boat used to create the piece in Abierto x Obras as part of the installation Síndrome de Guernica (Guernica Syndrome). HOCUS FOCUS, the exhibition by Navid Nuur, a young Dutch man of Iranian origin, included as part of the Focus on the Netherlands programme, offers a guided tour of the same exhibition, open to its visitors, on Friday, 17 February. That same day, the Mexican artist collective Tercerunquinto presents Trozo de escombro colocado para mantener la puerta abierta (Piece of debris for holding the door of a building open), an action that appeals to art as a tool for reflection on the city as a political and social entity as part of El Ranchito, Matadero Madrid’s research and experimentation programme.