Programme

The Mediterranean has always been navigable and continues to be so for migration and trade purposes. We'll talk about the history of our sea and the stories of the various people who attempt to cross it to reach Europe from Africa. Meanwhile, we'll try to build a raft and set it afloat with the help of master carpenter Alfonso Sánchez-Guitard from the Nereo shipyard. We'll see if it floats on Sunday November 10 at 10:30 am.

"Hijos del Relax" is a workshop analyzing how tourism has transformed the Costa del Sol, affecting its territory, economy and identity. Based on "Relax Style", inspired by a trip along the N-340 in 1986, the project examines the colonization of the coastline by global capitalism during the last phase of Franco's dictatorship.

Visual artist Diego Delas has designed and conceptualized a series of banners that are a poetic tribute to the relationship between man and the Mediterranean Sea. Each banner, handmade from natural fabrics, incorporates shapes and symbols inspired by nature and the waves, evoking the light and colors of the coastline.

El Susurro de las aguas is an immersive work that takes Breaths of the Moon (2022), an exploration of the Venetian lagoon, as its starting point, and expands to examine the Mediterranean's underwater ecosystem.

This conversation between art curator Bernardo de Souza and scientist Juan Pascual Anaya explores the links between art and science, with hagfish genome research at its core. The conversation focuses on how the two fields, despite having different perspectives, share an impulse to imagine, study and speculate on the mysteries of life and nature.

For years, artist Juan del Junco has been working with the world of ornithology as a frame of reference. He has described, classified and used images of birds to create metaphors. The film essay El mensaje is, in the artist's words, "the beautiful, sonorous song of a bird, but it is a sad song, a rebuke, a desperate song of one who inhabited this world thousands of years before us".

Zambulla A invites us to reflect on the tension between the desire for freedom and emotional rootedness, suggesting that our deepest bonds often define the most important decisions in our lives.

Screening and musical performance with orchestra. In collaboration with the Camerata symphonique de Malaga. For decades, doctors have advised against swimming in the Mar Menor under certain conditions. Over the years, a layer of black stone has spread over the bay of Portmán (Murcia) which, in a kind of dictatorship of consensus, we have decided to call "volcanic black stone", in an attempt to bury the memory of mining under a semblance of transitory environmental alignment.

Ciervoss is a band formed in 2017 by Jayme Rotten (vocals), Sid Bifu (vocals), Sonia Youth (vocals), Carmen Cólera (vocals), and Andrelo Biafra (producer and DJ), with a sound influenced by punk and electronic music, unafraid to experiment with any genre seemingly foreign to them. Futuristic punk in a time when there is no future.

The Mediterranean has always been navigable and continues to be so for migration and trade purposes. We'll talk about the history of our sea and the stories of the various people who attempt to cross it to reach Europe from Africa. Meanwhile, we'll try to build a raft and set it afloat with the help of master carpenter Alfonso Sánchez-Guitard from the Nereo shipyard. We'll see if it floats on Sunday November 10 at 10:30 am.

"Hijos del Relax" is a workshop analyzing how tourism has transformed the Costa del Sol, affecting its territory, economy and identity. Based on "Relax Style", inspired by a trip along the N-340 in 1986, the project examines the colonization of the coastline by global capitalism during the last phase of Franco's dictatorship.

Visual artist Diego Delas has designed and conceptualized a series of banners that are a poetic tribute to the relationship between man and the Mediterranean Sea. Each banner, handmade from natural fabrics, incorporates shapes and symbols inspired by nature and the waves, evoking the light and colors of the coastline.

Pastora Filigrana is a lawyer, trade unionist, Sevillian and mixed-race Roma. In 2020, she published the book El pueblo gitano contra el sistema mundo. Unas reflexiones desde un activismo feminista y anticapitalista, in which she argues that the persecution of the Roma people is linked to their forms of community resistance through forms of cooperation and mutual support, and their opposition to adapting to what she calls "wage blackmail".

Antonio R. Montesinos has been working for years on a project that unfolds metaphorically like a journey. “Relax N-340” could be understood as the culminating journey in which he seeks to understand himself within the sphere of what is called the “relax style”, a set of imaginary constructions and creative productions (architecture, recreational spaces, graphic design and infrastructure) associated with leisure and tourism on the Costa del Sol since the mid-twentieth century.

Screening of the documentary “Posibilidad de un bosque” (Possibility of a Forest) (2023) by Daniel Natoli, 53 min. On a vast 177,000 m² plot in the heart of Malaga, the desires of the various stakeholders in the city are projected. On one side, the municipality and real estate developers want to build four skyscrapers of around forty stories each. On the other, a neighborhood platform is fighting for a large urban forest. Who has the right to decide on public space? What are the limits of representative democracy? Participants: Kike España (architect), Elo Vega (artist), and curator Álex Martín Rod.