Family Workshop 'Mínimos comunes'

How do we inhabit a space as vast as Matadero? What corners, details, and scales can we explore in order to experience it from a different perspective?

Mínimos comunes is a community-based creative process developed by the collective Chico Trópico for family audiences. It is designed to be carried out jointly by children and adults, and invites participants to explore Matadero Madrid through close attention to small, everyday elements.

The project unfolds over four workshops in which families take part in a process of collective research and creation through different approaches. Through listening and sound experimentation, participants work with minimal sounds, silences, and small compositions that invite heightened attention. Through movement and dance, including an introduction to butoh dance with Erika B0r, they explore subtle gestures and reduced movements, investigating how the body can inhabit space through almost imperceptible actions. Through the creation of installations and spatial actions, simple interventions are proposed in corners and micro-spaces, using everyday materials to play with scale, perception, and relationships with the surrounding environment.

Across the four sessions, the activities combine observation, play, imagination, and hands-on making, encouraging the active participation of both children and adults. The process pays special attention to spatial details, to what usually goes unnoticed, and to how the small can generate new ways of relating to a space as expansive as Matadero.

The sessions culminate in a final presentation of the projects developed by the participating families, where experiences and learning outcomes from the process are shared.

Participation in all four workshops allows families to experience the creative process from beginning to end, although each session can also be attended independently. The date for the public presentation of the project will be determined by the participants, depending on the availability of spaces at the Center.

Creators and collaborators

Chico Trópico is an artistic and musical collective founded in 2010 by Sara Brito García and Pedro Buschi, dedicated to sound experimentation, performance, and participatory creation. Their work explores the relationship between sound, body, and community through projects developed in museums, cultural centers, and public spaces. The collective designs workshops, concerts, and pedagogical devices with particular attention to projects for children and families, combining sound exploration, play, collective creation, and sensory imagination. Their projects have been presented at venues such as Matadero Madrid, La Casa Encendida, the Museo Nacional del Prado, CA2M, and MACBA.

Erika B0r is a dancer and facilitator. She began her relationship with movement in childhood through Basque dance and rhythmic gymnastics, and later moved into contemporary dance, improvisation, and body-based practices. Her work explores the body in relation to space, play, and imagination, using movement as a tool for expression and discovery. In recent years she has taken part in various artistic and educational projects. She currently teaches regular dance classes in the northern mountains of Madrid and in San Sebastián de los Reyes.

> All participants, both children and adults, must purchase a ticket.

> Recommended age: Intergenerational. From 7 to 99 years old. An activity designed for children and adults to take part together.

> This proposal invites you to participate in all four workshops to follow the complete process. Priority will be given to the sale of passes for the four workshops. On the Monday before each workshop, tickets for individual sessions will be released.