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Friday, 5 May 2023 Ateneo La Maliciosa (calle de las Peñuelas 12, Madrid)
Common Readings: Crisis, Social Reproduction, Self-management
Encounter
— With the participation of the collectives Red Artea - Artea Sarea, Rojava Azadi and Seminario de Entramados Comunitarios y Formas de lo Político (BUAP)
This conversation is centred around three main objectives: the relationship between the eco-social crisis, the crisis of the reproduction of life and territory struggles. It links these issues with the need to build independent frameworks which uphold social reproduction collectively, and delves deeper into the transversality of different forms of violence and the need to think about our projects from an anti-punitive feminist perspective.
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Saturday, 6 May 2023 Museo Reina Sofía, Nouvel Building, Auditoriums, Lobby
Common Strategies: Sharing, Imagining, Conspiring
Encounter and Workshop
The first part of this day set up for collectives and organisations gets under way with groups formed to reflect upon four points: social reproduction, spaces of self-management and communities, conflicts and self-management and income, employment and popular institutions. In the afternoon, a plenary discussion will be held, revolving around the ideas developed throughout the day during the work-table sessions, with the goal of generating a space of continuity in the process carried out and with the networks that have arisen.
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Sunday, 7 May 2023 Ateneo La Maliciosa (calle de las Peñuelas 12, Madrid)
Common Routes: Proposals and Times on the Road to Re-captivating the World
Day of Conclusions
This final encounter, in the form of a plenary assembly between participants, gathers the conclusions and specific work proposals to think jointly about the next steps to keep on making these structured strategic spaces for struggles and sustaining life possible.
Held on 05, 06, 07 may 2023
Utopias and Revolts. Composing Strategies from the Collective is a series of encounters which, from a public round table and different work sessions, reflects upon strategies to deal with present-day challenges related to eco-social crises and sustaining life. Therefore, collectives and associations involved in social movements that include transfeminism, rights (domestic workers, housing, care, sexual rights), the struggles of migrant people, and other movements, are brought together here.
In November 2022, a space of exchange was opened between different state collectives and organisations from the research process developed by the territorial nodes of the Foundation of the Commons, resulting in the course The Future Is Unwritten. Organisation in the Capitalocene Crisis, followed by the encounter Capitalocene Utopias. Eco-Social Crisis: Definition, Challenges and Strategic Proposals, organised jointly with the Museo Reina Sofía. Their conclusions give rise to the following reflection: the current eco-social crisis cannot be reduced to environmental factors and must encompass financial, geopolitical, social and energy causes which run in parallel.
Some of the questions raised during this new encounter are: Which new commons can be generated (or are already being created) to oppose new forms of enclosure? How can food, housing, health, training and social security needs be resolved outside the wage system? What does it mean to defend the social reproduction of life amid renewed dynamics of dispossession, devastation and reorganisation of life?
To respond collectively, through a transversal prism, to these and other questions, the encounter has been designed as a working space shared between different nodes of the Foundation of the Commons — La Hidra Cooperativa, Katakrak, Synusia and Traficantes de Sueños — alongside fellow workers from collectives and organised spaces in different spheres of struggle and in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía.
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Red Artea - Artea Sarea is a self-managed project that was set up in 2016 in the municipality of Artea (Bizkaia-Vizcaya) as a space of asylum and solidarity, and as a place to welcome migrant families and people in order to defend food sovereignty and rights for working migrant people.
Rojava Azadi is a Madrid-based collective of people with an interest in making visible and supporting emancipatory struggles being carried out in Kurdistan, particularly the process in the Rojava social revolution and the model of democratic self-governance they put forward. Their aim is to foster debate and collective reflection, as well as strengthening communication and international solidarity, weaving support networks to facilitate fellowship between peoples and social mobilisation.
Seminario de Entramados Comunitarios y Formas de lo Político (The Seminar of Community Frameworks and Forms of the Political) is a permanent research space based in the “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in Mexico. The seminar serves to put forward reflections around the notion of the commons, the deployment of social antagonisms from the anti-patriarchal vein of the anti-capitalist struggle and the reading of new flows of struggles that women are driving forward from Latin America and Europe.
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![Miguel Brieva, ilustración de la novela infantil Manuela y los Cakirukos (Reservoir Books, 2022) [izquierda] y Cibeles no conduzcas, 2023 [derecha]. Cortesía del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/ecologias_del_deseo_utopico.jpg.webp)
![Ángel Alonso, Charbon [Carbón], 1964. Museo Reina Sofía](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/perspectivas_ecoambientales.jpg.webp)
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Christian Nyampeta and the École du soir
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Christian Nyampeta is a Rwandan artist, musician and film-maker whose work encompasses pedagogies and community forms of knowledge production and transmission. His Ècole du soir (Evening School) is an art project conceived as a mobile space of collective learning and is named in homage to Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007), a pioneer of African cinema who defined his films as “evening classes” for the people, a medium of education and emancipation through culture.
This block is made up of three double sessions: the video work of Christian Nyampeta, the films of École du soir and one of Ousmane Sèmbene’s feature-length films. Nyampeta will introduce all three first sessions.
UP/ROOTING
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 NOV 2025
Museo Reina Sofía and MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) invite applications for the 2025 iteration of the School of Common Knowledge, which will take place from November 11th to 16th in Madrid and Barcelona.
The School of Common Knowledge (SCK) draws on the network, knowledge and experience of L’Internationale, a confederation of museums, art organizations and universities that strives to reimagine and practice internationalism, solidarity and communality within the cultural field. This year, the SCK program focuses on the contested and dynamic notions of rooting and uprooting in the framework of present —colonial, migrant, situated, and ecological— complexities.
Building on the legacy of the Glossary of Common Knowledge and the current European program Museum of the Commons, the SCK invites participants to reflect on the power of language to shape our understanding of art and society through a co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.
In the current context fraught with war and genocide, the criminalization of migration and hyper-identitarianism, concepts such as un/belonging become unstable and in need of collective rethinking:
How can we reframe the sense and practice of belonging away from reductive nationalist paradigms or the violence of displacement? How to critically hold the entanglement of the colonial routes and the cultural roots we are part of? What do we do with the toxic legacies we inherit? And with the emancipatory genealogies and practices that we choose to align with? Can a renewed practice of belonging and coalition-making through affinity be part of a process of dis/identification? What geographies —cultural, artistic, political— do these practices of de/centering, up/rooting, un/belonging and dis/alignment designate?
Departing from these questions, the program consists of a series of visits to situated initiatives (including Museo Situado, Paisanaje and MACBA's Kitchen, to name a few), engagements with the exhibitions and projects on view (Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture from Panafrica), a keynote lecture by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, as well as daily reading and discussion gatherings, editorial harvest sessions, and conviviality moments.
The Joaquim Jordà Residencies 2025
Friday, 7 November 2025 - 7pm
In this activity, the recipients of the 2024–2025 Joaquim Jordà Residencies call, María Aparicio (Argentina, 1992) and Andrés Jurado (Colombia, 1980), present respective projects related to their body of work in an open session in which to discover the creative interests of two of the most up-and-coming independent film-makers in Latin America today.
María Aparicio presents the working process behind her film De sol a sol (From Sun to Sun), along with a brief journey through the films prior to this project and her filmic searches in recent years. Aparicio synthesises the storyline of De sol a sol from the silhouettes of a group of men who appear between the stalks of a reedbed. Their knives glisten as the sun hits them, flashing and disappearing with their hand movements. Apprentices split the canes using no method; seasoned workers cut with skill. They are workers from a sugar mill in northern Argentina and are watched by Juan Bialet Massé, accompanied by Rosich, assistant and photographer. It is Argentina in 1904 and he is carrying out a mission assigned to him by his country’s government: to travel the Argentinian provinces, reporting on the state of the working classes.
Andrés Jurado, for his part, will look over his own work and the work of the La Vulcanizadora lab in this session. He will also open the archive stemming from the research process in the project Tonada, a journey through the succession of peace agreement betrayals in the history of Colombia. From the colonial era, understood in tumultuous terms, as a hurricane that keeps swirling, to the present day he traces the stories of people like Tacurrumbí, Benkos Biohó, Bateman and the many women and men who were betrayed by governments and oppressors. Tonada seeks to build a sound and film dialogue between the guerrilla disarmament of 1953 and the period following the peace agreement of 2016, invoking these and other events and confronting traumas of betrayal through a film composition devised to be sung. But what is sung? Some of these songs are heard and voices are shared in this presentation.
The Joaquim Jordà Residences programme for film-makers and artists was set in motion by the Museo Reina Sofía in 2022. The initiative comprises a grant for writing a film project rooted in experimentation and essay, as well as two subsequent residencies in FIDMarseille and Doclisboa, international film festivals devoted to exploring non-fictional film and new forms of audiovisual expression.
Ylia and Marta Pang
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The encounter between Spanish DJ and producer Ylia and visual artist Marta Pang is presented in the form of a premiere in the Museo Reina Sofía. Both artists converge from divergent trajectories to give form to a new project conceived specifically for this series, which aims to create new stage projects by setting out from the friction between artists and dialogue between disciplines.
![Carol Mansour y Muna Khalidi, A State of Passion [Estado de pasión], 2024, película](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/palestine%20cinema%20day%202.jpg.webp)
Palestine Cinema Days
Sábado 1 de noviembre, 2025 – 19:00 h
The Museo Reina Sofia joins the global action in support of Palestine with the screening of A State of Passion (2024), a documentary by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. The film features in Palestine Cinema Days Around the World, an annual festival, held globally every November, which aims to show films made in Palestine to an international audience. The initiative was conceived as a form of cultural resistance which seeks to give a voice to artists from Palestine, question dominant narratives and create networks of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Palestine Cinema Days Around the World originates from Palestine Cinema Days, a festival organised in Palestine since 2014 with the aim of granting visibility to Palestinian cinema and to support the local film community. In 2023 the festival was postponed because of the war in Gaza, and has since become borderless in scope, holding close to 400 international screenings in almost sixty countries in 2024. This global effort is a show of solidarity with Palestine and broadens the voices and support networks of the Palestinian people around the world.
A State of Passion exposes the atrocities committed against the Gaza population via the testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a Palestinian-British plastic surgeon living in London who decides to return to Gaza and save lives in the city’s hospitals amid the Israeli army’s indiscriminate bombing of the population. A necessary film exposé of the experience of unrelentingly working twenty-four hours a day for forty-three days in the Al Shifa and Al Ahli Hospitals in the city of Gaza.