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Thursday, 27 June 2024 Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200, and online platform
Session 1
Online platform5pm Welcome
5:15pm Audiovisual Archives in Ca la Dona
The screening of a selection of pieces by Ana Sancho from the audiovisual archives of the Ca la Dona Documentation Centre (Barcelona) and a conversation between Isa Luengo (La Calumnia), Rebecca Tolosa (Ca la Dona Documentation Centre) and Gracia Trujillo (Complutense University of Madrid).
—Presented by Isa Luengo and Sofía Esteve6:15pm Archives of Pride in Madrid
Screening and conversation between Alberto Berzosa (researcher) and Peter Toro (film-maker).
— Presented by Peter Toro7:10pm Perverse Desires in Film Collections
Screening of the short films
Manolo Reyes (1944), by Claudio de la Torre
Luna de sangre (1944), by José López Rubio
Misa, pasacalles, rancho… (1981), by Carles Comas
Sevilla tuvo que ser(1978), by Juan Sebastián Bollaín -
Friday, 28 June 2024 Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200, and online platform
Session 2
Online platform9am Welcome
9:30am Activist Archives
Round-table Discussion
—Participants: Magdalena Costa Vallés (Armand de Fluvià Documentation Centre, Barcelona), Daniela Ferrández Pérez (University of Santiago de Compostela), Maurizio Gelatti (Fondazione Angelo Pezzana-Fuori!, Turin) and François Théophile Boureau (Mémoire des Sexualités, Marseille)11am Break
11:30am Dispersed, Migrant, Virtual
Round-table Discussion
—Participants: Pedro Felipe Hinestrosa (Archivo Arkhé, Madrid), Diego Marchante “Genderhacker” (Archivo T) and Inmaculada Mujika and Amparo Villar (Miradas atrevidas, Bilbao)1pm Break
2:30pm Queer Traces in Other Archives
Round-table Discussion
—Participants: Daniela Ferrández Pérez (University of Santiago de Compostela), Geoffroy Huard (Cergy Paris Université, Paris), Alejandro Melero (Carlos III University, Madrid), María José Sola Sarabia (Emakumeen Dokumentazio Zentroa “Maite Albiz”, Bilbao) and César Vallejo (Radio Televisión Española)4pm Break
4:30 h Collective Memory and Archive Technology
Round-table Discussion
—Participants: Francisco Brives (Archivo Transfeminista/Kuir, La Neomudéjar, Madrid), Pablo Hernández Miñano (l’Armari de la Memòria, Valencia) and Lucas Platero and Fefa Vila (¿Archivo Queer?, Madrid) -
Friday, 28 June 2024 Meeting Point: Nouvel Building, Library and Documentation Centre
Session 3
6:15pm and 7:10pm Visit to ¿Archivo queer?
—Conducted by Fefa Vila
Queer Memory and Archive Policies
Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives

Held on 27 Jun 2024
Queer Memory and Archive Policies is the first seminar in Spain from Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives, a Europe-wide project the Museo Reina Sofía is a member of alongside other cultural institutions. The encounter assembles activists, archivists and historians to debate the emergence, history and policies of queer and trans archives in the Spanish State and southern Europe.
Setting out from the idea that archives occupy a central place in the political imagination of LGBTQIA+ communities as stores of collective memory, resistance and anti-establishment resources, as well as sources of inspiration for the future, this seminar explores the connections between activism and archive practices; the specifics of sexual dissidence archives and the relations they bear to institutional frameworks; the possibilities offered by dispersed, migrant and digital archives; and the traces of LGBTQIA+ history in other repositories.
The Perverse Collections project, funded by the European organisation ERA-LEARN JPI-CHSE (Joint Programming Initiative-Cultural Heritage, Society and Ethics) and Spain’s State Research Agency, advocates a critical understanding of the development of LGBTQ+ archives in Europe, enabling strategies to be constructed to preserve LGBTQ+ history and fostering its transformative potential in cultural heritage policies through researchers, queer communities and workers from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector. Its lines of action include mapping these archives, from the 1970s to the present day, and with an awareness of their similarities and differences, their institutional relations and an understanding of the local, national and international queer history they put forward.
Both this activity and the project it is framed within set forth innovate strategies to preserve and maintain the queer cultural legacy. Consequently, they are situated in a living political context: while LGBTQ+ violence and discrimination/phobias continue to increase in Europe, exacerbated by the far-right rhetoric of certain political groups, initiatives such as these substantiate the social, cultural, ethical and political value of LGBTQ+ legacies.
Curator
Alberto Berzosa and Juan Antonio Suárez
Organised by
Museo Reina Sofía and grupo de investigación Perverse Collections (PERCOL)
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Collaboration

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Agencia Estatal de InvestigaciónMás actividades

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Monday and Sunday - Check times
This guided tour activates the microsite Rethinking Guernica, a research project developed by the Museo Reina Sofía’s Collections Area, Conservation and Restoration Department and the Digital Projects Area of the Editorial Activities Department, assembling around 2,000 documents, interviews and counter-archives related to Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica (1937).
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Files of Tropical Revolutions
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equipoMotor
Jueves alternos, 23 de octubre, 2025 - 11 de junio, 2026 - 17:30 h
El programa equipoMotor regresa en su edición 25-26 con un aire espectral y mutante para lanzar la pregunta: ¿y si el Museo fuera «un poco más Frankenstein»? Inspirándose en dicho monstruo y en todas aquellas criaturas que desafían la norma desde los márgenes, el proyecto de mediación cultural Galaxxia diseña y acompaña una edición incisiva, intergeneracional y descentralizadora, donde saberes invisibilizados, cuerpos raros y deseos molestos se entrelazan para generar nuevas formas de imaginación crítica y radical. En los sótanos y corredores del Museo —un particular laboratorio— las dudas no se esconden: son materia prima.
Así, para este curso el equipoMotor convoca a personas de todas las edades que hayan participado en ediciones anteriores de los distintos equipos del Área de Educación a recorrer el Museo como quien manipula un cuerpo abierto: descoyuntando algunas de sus categorías teóricas y artísticas —la necropolítica, lo crip-cuir, la lucha de clases, las políticas del malestar, la decolonialidad, la temporalidad cuir, la descentralización institucional o el feísmo— para articular un relato díscolo, remendado y palpitante.
El programa se estructura en bloques temáticos sobre lo freak como metodología, el trabajo cultural, la intergeneracionalidad y la diversidad territorial. Cada bloque a su vez se despliega en sesiones que combinan disparadores teóricos y estéticos, visitas a exposiciones y espacios liminales del Museo, talleres artísticos con artistas, ejercicios de curaduría audiovisual colectiva y de relatoría radiofónica, así como instancias de activación pública, mediante proyecciones de cine experimental y coloquios compartidos con el público, en complicidad con el archivo Hamaca y el Área de Cine y Nuevos Medios del Museo.
De este modo, la presente edición incorpora una particularidad: el grupo de participantes irá transformándose en un «colectivo curatorial audiovisual temporalmente autónomo», con capacidad de incidir en la programación del Museo y de abrir la conversación de equipoMotor al público general, cuestionando y expandiendo así los límites entre las cabezas que deciden, las manos que producen y los cuerpos y presencias que habitan la institución. Las personas seleccionadas en la modalidad oyente serán invitadas a las proyecciones públicas, así como a otras activaciones y momentos de apertura del equipoMotor.
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