MESSAGES: PUBLIC OR PRIVATE?
A workshop with artist Gema Álava
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Date
16 February 2013
Venue
Casa del Lector
Institution
Casa del Lector
To celebrate the exhibition of the piece The Oracle: Tell Me a Secret, Casa del Lector presents a workshop for teenagers from 13 to 16 years of age. The piece's co-author -Gema Álava- will guide the participants and allow them to experiment with the piece, reinforcing the importance of the interaction of the public with art on show through activities leading them to question the differences that exist between public and private kinds of communication.
Based on the pieces The Oracle: Tell Me a Secret, by Gema Álava and Josué Moreno, and The File Room, by Antoni Muntadas, the artist will lead the participants in a reflection on the kinds of messages we wish to make public and the type of information we prefer to keep private, and on how to keep control of this information with new technology.
Multi-disciplinary artist Gema Álava (Madrid, 1973) lives and works in New York. She has had showings at the Guggenheim, Metropolitan, Queens Art Museum, Bronx Museum of Arts, the United Nations headquarters in New York, Jersey City Museum, Rana Museum of Norway, and MANIFESTA 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. She has been awarded the Premio Penagos in Drawing by Fundación Mapfre; she was the recipient of a grant from Fundación la Caixa, as well as one from the Peter Reed Foundation of New York. She was nominated by the Smithsonian Institute of Washington for her artistic work. She has also been invited by Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and New York University as a conference lecturer. She has worked for the last decade in the education departments of the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and theMorgan Library & Museum, in New York, where she designs and gives classes and workshops. Since 2012 she is a cultural consultant for the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations in New York. Her artistic work deals with the interrelationships that exist between the educational, interpretative, public and private aspects of art. Two of her installations -in a collaboration with composer Josué Moreno- are being shown in Madrid: The Oracle: Tell Me A Secret at Casa del Lector (through March 17) and Presence Net at the Twin Gallery (permanently).
To sign up, contact us: 912 061 736 / 912 061 745 actividades@casalector.es
Multi-disciplinary artist Gema Álava (Madrid, 1973) lives and works in New York. She has had showings at the Guggenheim, Metropolitan, Queens Art Museum, Bronx Museum of Arts, the United Nations headquarters in New York, Jersey City Museum, Rana Museum of Norway, and MANIFESTA 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. She has been awarded the Premio Penagos in Drawing by Fundación Mapfre; she was the recipient of a grant from Fundación la Caixa, as well as one from the Peter Reed Foundation of New York. She was nominated by the Smithsonian Institute of Washington for her artistic work. She has also been invited by Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and New York University as a conference lecturer. She has worked for the last decade in the education departments of the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and theMorgan Library & Museum, in New York, where she designs and gives classes and workshops. Since 2012 she is a cultural consultant for the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations in New York. Her artistic work deals with the interrelationships that exist between the educational, interpretative, public and private aspects of art. Two of her installations -in a collaboration with composer Josué Moreno- are being shown in Madrid: The Oracle: Tell Me A Secret at Casa del Lector (through March 17) and Presence Net at the Twin Gallery (permanently).
To sign up, contact us: 912 061 736 / 912 061 745 actividades@casalector.es
Artistic team and specifications
- Recommended For Children
- ages 13-16