In his hospitality, Jacques Derrida sees the host as a gift without any consideration or principle of reciprocity, while the status of host in the double sense of who is home and who is hostremember the French philosopher, it puts everyone in the condition of experiencing otherness.
Although the responsibility towards the other remains one of the ethical issues that primarily influence current thinking, its principles are reduced to a series of rules and obligations politico-estrategicos, by immigration laws on safeguarding of security, to the alarm systems for the surveillance cameras.
On the basis of these considerations, the project art all in Real Spain school program in 2011, he is articulated in three events - Conference, exhibition and performance cycle-, three forms of expression that become great occasions to make a sort of group work, all - relational-, this is: share visions of reality, establish meeting points, highlighting similarities and distances and live together normally inaccessible to the external public - library spaces of the Academythe kitchen, the Bramante tempietto, the Hall of portraits or garden.
Schedule:
January 2011 (the gift)
made on 19 January in the library of the Academy.
Berta Sichel (Director of audiovisual of the Reina Sofía Museum), Luciana Rebecca Russo Fiorini (psychotherapist, contemporary art collector and founder of the Videoinsight space) and Maria Rosa Sossai, independent curator of Italian and an expert in video art, correspondent for Flash Art, they converse with the public about the work of art and its both ethical and aesthetic sense and the idea of the gift. The meeting was focused on the presentation of three videos, one for each component of the talk.
March 2011(symbol)
25 March
cycle of performance in different places of the Academy, not conventional.
Anna Scalfi
Teresa Margolles
Avelino Sala
Avelino Sala is a Spanish artist of the new generation. His work focuses on social criticism and politics with a look late romantic. Anna Scalfi is one of the referential artists on the Italian scene, focused on group work and process, as well as vindictive, part of large collections in Italy and abroad and Teresa Margolles. One of the great Mexican artists, but based in Madrid, with work in institutions around the world, this year was the representative of his country at the Venice Biennale in the Pavilion.
May 2011
gardens of the Academy lecture-performance (Fernando Castro Flórez and Domingo Sánchez Blanco).
Fernando Castro Flòrez
is one of the critics most prominent on the national scene in Spanish. He is Professor of aesthetics and theory of the arts of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, as well as the Master of theory and practice of contemporary art at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has taught doctoral courses, classes and lectures at numerous universities and museums, national and international. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Commission permanent of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
Has been co-curator of the Spanish Pavilion in the Expo-Hannover 2000, Commissioner of the Biennale of the fire at the National Museum of fine arts of Caracas and co-curator of the Aragon Pavilion at the Expo Zaragoza 2008. He was awarded the prize spaces of art criticism to the best curatorial project.
Domingo Blanco Sánchez is a daring, provocative and shocking artist. It has to happen to travel to Paris and ask the ashes to a living, although elderly, Klossowski. There's more: bringing a Bengal tiger's visit to the Museum of fine arts of Oviedo, sticking with Boxer Charles Juhashz at the Museum of art of Puerto Rico...
June 2011
two project of Antoni Muntadas, the first in the Academy titled "And almost half of the story" and a second at the American Academy, involved as co-producers of the project "About Academy" a video projection in three
channels.
Antoni Muntadas is one of the referential artists of Spanish art, national prize of plastic arts in 2005, Velasquez Prize, with work at the MOMA, has represented Spain in biennials such as Sao Paulo or the Documenta in Kassel.
