Night and Day of the Museums Open Houses
Come and celebrate with us the best Flamenco Night of the year with Subir y bajar escaleras. Sobre el trabajo de Teresa Lanceta como escritura (Up and down the stairs. On Teresa Lanceta’s work as writing), a proposal by Pedro G. Romero and Teresa Lanceta with the dancers Javiera de la Fuente, Fuensanta ‘La Moneta’ and Ana Morales, on the occasion of the Night of the Museums, on Saturday 14 May at 9 pm. There will be presentations of the current exhibitions, from 7:00 to 8:45 pm and from 10:00 pm to 00:15 am. The MACBA Bar will stay open until 1 am.
On Wednesday 18 May, International Museum Day, at 7 pm, Teresa Lanceta and Leire Vergara will conduct a discussion on Trabajo de estudio (Study Work), a co-authored project on the mechanisms for constructing personal and collective histories of sociology, anthropology and art. The event will coincide with our Open Day, offering an ideal opportunity for visiting our exhibitions Teresa Lanceta. Weaving as Open Source; In Real Time. Rafael Tous Collection of Contemporary Art; the MACBA Collection; and Repair Manuals and Cosmic Sounds.
Also on offer will be the traditional sale of MACBA BOOKS, with aselection of MACBA catalogues at 6 € each, at MACBA Store Laie, from 14 to 18 May during normal opening hours.
Programme
Up and down the stairs
Teresa Lanceta and Pedro G. Romero join forces to present Up and down the stairs, a live performance that will take place during the Night of the Museums and will feature the participation of dancers Javiera de la Fuente, Fuensanta ‘La Moneta’ and Ana Morales. Pedro G. Romero will read his own texts and the three dancers will perform around Lanceta’s weavings and fabrics.
‘Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.’
Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street, 1928
There is an element of writing in Lanceta's work. Not just in her wonderful texts, but in the tension between event and text that lies in her gesture, in the way she does things, in the material itself. This reading by Pedro G. Romero, with the dancers, underscores and makes visible what is written in the weavings, fabrics and textiles of Lanceta.
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