http://macba.cat MACBA's Workshops RSS en Sun, 19 May 2013 18:26:01 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://macba.cat/css/img/logo_macba.png http://macba.cat OMA Technologies webmaster@macba.es (Webmaster Macba) info@omatech.cat Arts Society & Culture http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Este RSS está pensado para ser usado con un programa que gestione podcasts. Más información en Podcastellano.com y en Podcast-es.org /activity-what-is-macba Every weekend, the MACBA offers an ongoing program targeted at families, which combines tours of the exhibition galleries with workshops and film screenings. The Museum opens up to families with the intention of offering a space in which to learn tog… Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-paint-with-the-imagination The aim of this new workshop is to bring you closer to drawing and painting through the creative travelling spirit of the artist Lawrence Weiner. We will explore our creativity without any rules or limits, letting our imagination fly and following a… Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-personal-diaries-tantagora People often go through life constructing a story (fictitious or real, who knows?) that will help give sense to their existence and register the passage of time. Sometimes this is manifested in the form of a diary. A diarist is someone who strives to… Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-close-your-eyes When artists use sound as creative material, museum rooms are filled with music and become a space where the experience of art is transformed. Works by Pere Portabella, Hélio Oiticica and Miralda will be the starting point in an itinerary accompanied… Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-new-artistic-ingredients "I take elements from the world around me, remove them from their ordinary contexts, and put them back together according to some other order. Through the new and unusual relationships that arise, through contrast, similarity or inference, I re-exami… Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-gesture-drawing-language The protagonist of this new activity is the artist Lawrence Weiner for whom language is sculpture’s main tool. Surrounded by drawings, words, plans and letters, in the manner of a collage, we will discover a series of gestures that are like paths con… Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-let-us-invent-too Let us invent too is the title of a work by Eulàlia Grau, an artist who qualifies her work as 'portraits' of reality. Using photographs taken from the media, this workshop proposes to experiment with some of the techniques and formats used by the art… Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-an-adventure-to-discover- How can we make cities and buildings more interesting and healthier to live in? How would you like your city to be? We offer you an adventure in which to discover and research a thousand different ways of looking and understanding our city and our… Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-tales-become-maps Some artists translate their ideas and experiences of the world around us into very special maps, the so-called maps of knowledge. Guided by creators such as Matt Mullican and Erick Beltrán, included in the MACBA Collection, we will discover tales ab… Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-artistic-ingredients What are works of art made of? Are there any materials that can, a priori, be considered artistic while others can't? With materials such as iron, marble, ceramics or oil painting, we would probably reach a consensus very quickly. But would that cons… Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT /down-to-earth-imaginary-inflatables Is it possible to build an inhabitable blow-up city? In this workshop, we will try to find out through the exhibition Utopia is Possible – ICSID. Eivissa, 1971. We will invent, build, marvel, question and discover the potential for action of materi… Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /the-invasion-of-abstract-and-geometric-shapes In this new MACBA for Families activity, we will identify and examine abstract and geometric shapes that are hidden in artworks. For example, a dot that becomes a circle and then evolves into a conical light sculpture… Shapes that are visible or hidd… Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-construyendo-el-recorrido-de-los-amigos-del-macba Los "Recorridos" son una herramienta de gran utilidad para profesores, investigadores y usuarios del Museo, disponible en wwww.macba.cat, que permite realizar colecciones de todo tipo de contenidos que se encuentren en la web: audio, vídeos, fichas d… Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-merce-2012 MACBA for Families The Museum kicks off the new season with a family workshop in which to discover the protagonists of the paintings by Luis Claramunt. We will look at a series of characters that emerged from the artist’s personal geography in Ba… Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-disrupted-objects The times and format of this programme will change over the summer months, until we resume our regular activities from the feast of La Mercè onwards. This means that there will be no family workshops on weekends during the summer quarter, although th… Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-controlled-disorder Guided by the work of Joan Brossa, this new MACBA for Families activity will lead us deep into a world where the most insignificant and commonplace objects are transformed into artworks full of magic and mystery. Visual poems, object-poems, music and… Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-easter-week-artistic-ingredients What are artworks made out of? Are some materials more artistic than others? We will probably agree on iron, marble, ceramics and oils, but don't you think it will be harder to decide about foam and plastic? On our visit to the Museum we will analyse… Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-habits-inhabiting Some of the works on show in Volume! are sculptures that almost seem inhabitable. Or maybe it really is possible to live in them, and as such they should be considered architectural pieces? During this workshop, we will present fragments of imaginabl… Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-unusual-paintings Is it possible to hold a painting workshop without paper, or paintbrushes, or paint, or any of the tools with which we usually paint? This workshop-tour through the exhibition Volume! looks at contemporary artworks that attempt to burst the bounds of… Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-christmas-volumetrics-at-stake- The starting point for the tour-workshop is the exhibition Volume!, which takes up all three floors of the Museum and invites participants to reflect on the surpassing of the physical limits of art. We will look at works that go beyond two dimensions… Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-light-sculptures MACBA for Families The exhibition Volume! From art for looking at to art for listening to adds new nuances to the sculptural conception of the artwork. From architectural space to aural space, sculpture reinvents itself by assimilating not only th… Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /workshops-listening-to-the-urban-landscape MACBA for Families Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s work De Paso, which she produced specifically for Capella MACBA, will become our point of departure for exploring sound as a work tool and an art form. The artist explores highly topical and complex is… Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-minimal-interventions Creating interferences in nature, moving through urban spaces and constructing geometric shapes with her own body are some of the actions that Àngels Ribé has carried out in the course of her artistic career. Minimal Interventions offers a playful, p… Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-merce-2011 MACBA for Families Drawing with the body, following a trickle of water, building with light, discovering invisible geometries… The museum launches the new season with a big family workshop that will give you, the participants, an insight into Ànge… Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT /wikpolis Workshop by the Iconoclasistas group As part of this year's QUAM 2011, entitled Wikpolis. Cartographies and Collective Creation of the Social Space, the MACBA's Independent Studies Program (PEI) is co-organising a workshop led by the Argentinian c… Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT /easter-workshop-the-transformation-of-matter Dirt mixed with water becomes mud, or clay. Clay can be used to make everyday ceramic objects, but in the hands of an artist it becomes an experimental material that has very special tactile, visual and expressive qualities. In this workshop, we will… Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /ibon-aranberri-organogramme Workshop by Ibon Aranberri MACBA collaborates with Fundació Antoni Tàpies on the next workshop by the artist Ibon Aranberri, within the framework of the exhibition "Ibon Aranberri. Organogramme", in which a number of issues and concepts relevant t… Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-museo-en-museo (Only available in Spanish) La actividad que os propone el MACBA es una visita guiada por la Colección del Museo. Un paseo por las salas donde podremos hablar de todo aquello que nos sugieran las obras, cual es la intención del artista, que nos qu… Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /fictitious-museum Christmas Workshop In 1968, Marcel Broodthaers invented a fictitious museum consisting of wooden boxes, index cards and postcards of miniature works. It was a fiction, a trick, through which the artist posed a question: "when the status of an artw… Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT /weve-taken-over-the-tv Family tours What is television? In this activity, several artists will show us a different way of making television. We will discover new strategies that will allow us to question the medium and penetrate inside of it, decipher its language and p… Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT /-and-for-la-merce-invented-calligraphy-benet-rossell-and-asian-calligraphies MACBA for Families The Museum kicks off its new season with a big family workshop, where kids and grownups can come together to look at some of the works in the Parallel Benet Rossell exhibition, try their hand at new calligraphies with different… Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT /media-art-documentation-and-conservation-strategies-the-docam-project Workshop led by Alain Depocas The DOCAM (Documentation and conservation of media arts heritage) project was entrusted with a mandate to examine the factors that threaten the technological arts heritage and to put forward solutions and tools to all… Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /social-dangerousness-sexual-minorities-language-and-practice-in-70s-and-80s-spain Independent Study Program (2008-2009) Research workshop The projects brought together in this room are not presented as an exhibition in the usual way; rather, they should be seen as a cross-section in an ongoing research process launched under t… Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-with-mariana-castillo-deball-and-irene-kopelman This workshop teaches participants how to apply literary strategies to the process of visual creation. Its methodology is based on group and individual exercises and the subsequent discussion of results. The exercises are inspired by some of the stra… Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /what-is-the-macba- MACBA for Families "What is the MACBA?" is an unusual tour through the Museum’s exhibition spaces, offering an entertaining, interactive approach to contemporary art in which both parents and kids can give their honest opinion on the works display… Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT /family-workshops-during-the-merce-celebrations Family activity for children Once again, the MACBA inaugurates its season of educational activities with an outdoor workshop for the whole family during the Mercè Celebrations. The activity starts inside the Museum, where an educator gives a talk… Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /time-as-matter Summer Workshop The new presentation of the MACBA collection includes a set of works which explore the ideology of play and the selfless acquisition of pleasure. Having contemplated and discussed the work of Palle Nielsen, Peter Friedl and Öyvind… Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /working-on-the-project-atlas-with-alice-creischer-and-andreas-siekmann Workshop directed by Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann In 1929 the economist and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882 Vienna, Austria – 1945 Oxford, United Kingdom) and the artist and graphic designer Gerd Arntz (1900 Remscheid – 1988) began their co… Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-led-by-thomas-bayrle … Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /workshops-with-angels-margarit The Mercat de les Flors, in collaboration with the MACBA, ofers a series of family workshops exploring the plastic arts, the body and movement based on the stage production FlexeIF, with choreographer Àngels Margarit and the dancers from the company… Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /art-workshops-during-the-merce-festivities Family workshops Every year the Museum takes part in the Mercè festivities program with an open-air art workshop to which all the family are welcome. First, a monitor from the Museum guides the group on a tour around the MACBA Collection, pointing… Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT /drawing-and-collage-workshop-organised-in-relation-to-the-nancy-spero-exhibition-dissidances Workshop for children A drawing and collage workshop organised in relation to the Nancy Spero exhibition "Dissidances" that experiments with key elements of the artist's work, such as movement, colour and collage, using the fragile nature of paper… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /molecular-museum-can-cultural-heritage-be-organized-through-non-territorial-networks-towards-a-new-kind-of-institutionality Laboratory The purpose of this laboratory is to open up a debate on the potential that discourses and practices such as open code, Copyleft and Creative Commons offer for a new institutional practice within cultural management and policy models. I… Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /silk-stockings-or-the-20th-century-didnt-happen Workshop with Francesc Torres Directed toward artists, advanced students of fine arts, humanities, art criticism, etc. The workshop will begin with a projection of La bella de Moscú, 1957, presented by Francesc Torres and open to the public. T… Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /easter-workshop-tours-of-the-macba-collection-for-families-and-children Workshop for children ages 5 and up With the help of a guide, families will visit the Museum galleries to see some of the works on display and participate in different activities of identification, recognition, expression, experimentation and crea… Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-with-asier-mendizabal Workshop intended for artists, art critics and students in their final year of Fine Arts, Humanities, Film or Art Criticism studies. Workshop's design: Debate sessions based on readings of selected texts, viewing of film material and the practica… Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /its-the-bomb-the-cold-war-in-animated-film-2 Workshop for children Running at the same time of the Little Histories of Cinema film series, there is an animation workshop for children aged 6 to 12. Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT /art-workshops-during-the-merce-festival-1 Workshop for children As with every year, the Museum will participate in the Mercè Festival with an outdoors workshop for the entire family. First, a Museum guide will take the group on a tour of the MACBA Collection, focusing on special works… Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT /invisible-miracles Workshop by Joan Jonas Invisible miracles was inspired by the films of Panleve. So in a very general way the workshop will be part a preparation for the performance which will alternate between solo and group. Basically I will develop a solo and i… Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-a-theater-without-teather Workshop for children In conjunction with the exhibit A Theater without Theater (May 25-September 11, 2007), we have organized a workshop featuring teachers from the Forn de Teatre Pa'tothom. Our objective is to bring theater into the lives of chi… Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /learning-from-norman-mclaren Animated film workshop This workshop, which will take place before the screening, encourages children to improvise a story in which they are the characters. It will then be filmed using the materials and techniques of professional animated film. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /gego-defying-structures-1 Family workshop The family workshop related to the Gego exhibition "Defying Structures" consists of a guided tour followed by a workshop where participants, using a variety of materials, are encouraged to construct their own creations. At the end… Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT /art-workshops-during-the-merce-festival Workshop for children As we have every year, the Museum will participate in the Mercè Festival activities with an open-air art workshop for the whole family. A Museum guide will accompany groups through the MACBA Collection, calling attention t… Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT /vinyl-records-by-artists Family workshop Working from the exhibition Vinyl. Records and Covers by Artists, the Museum has organized a workshop geared towards families. It will take place on every Wednesday in June and July. The activity starts with a guided tour of the ex… Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT /animated-film-workshop This day-long workshop will allow the participants, all children, to create a story with its own decorations and characters that they will then film using a variety of materials and professional techniques borrowed from animated film. Recommende… Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT /to-make-the-image Directed by Javier Codesal The notion of the anomalous nature of the artist's psyche has remained strong throughout the modern era, making an imbalance in artistic expression seem possible. Within society at large, it is reflected in the existenc… Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT /macba-workshops-contemporary-art-for-children As it does every year, the Museum is taking part in the Mercè festival celebrations with an activity for children. This year there are two types of workshop, depending on the age group. The youngest children can visit the exhibition rooms, and will t… Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT /urban-tours Workshop This summer MACBA presents the exhibitions of two artists: stanley brouwn and Francis Alÿs who, despite coming from different generations and contexts, share a particular interest in moving through the architectural surroundings taking th… Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /technologies-of-gender-post-identity-micropolitics Workshop and seminar directed by Beatriz Preciado This workshop occupies a place at the junction between the production of critical discourses about gender, sex and sexuality, attempting to build up activist strategies, and the creation of devices… Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /criticism-and-everyday-life-theory-of-discourse-and-art-criticism Workshop Directed by Manuel Asensi and Xavier Antich This Workshop is divided into three sections and will work at three distinct rhythms: one essentially theoretical, another practical – which will take the form of a workshop – and a third whic… Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT /harun-farocki-close-reading This workshop will combine the screening of three films with their subsequent critical analysis. Proceeding scene-by-scene and by selecting particular stills, the workshop will experiment with new approaches and discourses—in between the critical ess… Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-politics-of-images This workshop continues and expands the discussion on the production of images that are politically significant and that Colectivo Situaciones has maintained, together with Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, within the context of the Ex-Argentina… Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /body-writing This workshop sets out to establish parallelisms between two types of artistic language, dance and painting, in such a way that in the creative process of the workshop it becomes possible to develop communication based both on body movements (an elem… Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /technologies-of-gender Minority sexualities and their critical representations The nineties represented a boom for critical discourses on the construction of gender, sexuality and race. Teresa de Lauretis and Donna Haraway, employing the Foucauldian notion of biopower,… Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-criticism-in-the-post-political-era Directed by Manuel Asensi and Xavier Antich. Without taking any great risk, one might propose the following equation: to proclaim the death of grand metanarratives, pace Lyotard's well known diagnosis, is to prohibit the possibility of critiquing… Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT /tactile-surfaces This workshop sets out to observe up close the epidermis of the works, their surface, that which remains in direct contact with the outside world, that which the eye can trace following the frame or looking at the unevennesses of its skin. Beyond thi… Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /image-look-and-apperance Consequences on Lacanian Theory Lecture workshop Directed by Enric Berenguer… Mon, 03 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT /clairhearness Clairhearness is a music workshop which is not designed only for musicians, but is also aimed at anyone wanting to develop their activity in the world of dance, audiovisuals, performance art, installation and all the arts of the time. And, of course,… Mon, 06 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT /refounding-criticism Co-ordinated by Martí Peran In terms of criticism, in that this is the first season of these Workshops, the guiding intention is to articulate a panoramic perspective of the various fronts which have a bearing on the exercise of art criticism. In… Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT /the-writings-of-art Among the major thematic strands running through this second cycle of workshops will be: writing as process and product, the notion of discourse, the notion of theory, the order and the disorder of discourse, deconstruction, hermeneutics, etc.... The… Tue, 08 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT /from-politics-to-the-political Readings of texts by Jacques Rancière Directed by Xavier Antich The MACBA presents a new format of theory workshop geared towards advanced students and professionals in the different areas of cultural production, centred on the reading and grou… Mon, 07 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT /of-direct-action-considered-as-one-of-the-fine-arts Co-ordinated by Jordi Claramonte (Fiambrera Obrera) The workshop will serve to open up a site of exchange and discussion, of a sharing of works. But fundamentally it will be made up of working groups that will develop projects and campaigns in the… Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT /dance-days-2000 John & Van Gorp run a contemporary dance company. In their work they fuse elements of physical comedy with idiosyncratic and energetic dance. In this workshop they set out to work with young artists, dancers and actores interesed in the idea of the i… Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-public-space Directed by Sergi Aguilar and Ramon Parramon This workshop sets out to articulate a debate on the changes of thinking in relation to the concept of public art, from the commemorative monument to the latest forms of intervention in the public space… Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:00:00 GMT /drawing-workshop Directed by Ramon Guillén-Balmes As a complement to the Susana Solano and William Kentridge exhibitions, in which drawing has a central role, this workshop sets out to investigate the different ways of approaching and understanding the act of draw… Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT