On Mondays, at the #Online Circle
For the fifth consecutive year, the cycle Mondays at the Circle It offers a space for regular, collaborative debate based on the CBA's programming. This initiative, which has included the participation of Slavoj Žižek, Georges Didi-Huberman, Vandana Shiva, Juan Manuel Bonet, Joan Fontcuberta, and Fernando Castro, among others, has become a weekly fixture on Madrid's cultural calendar. This new edition will feature discussions related to the exhibitions of August sander y Antonio Saurato the cycle Guy Debord. Cinema is dead: If you're ready, let's move on to the debate., as well as charity concert performed by the Quiroga Quartet.
[df-subtitle]29.06.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Facing the catastrophe[/df-subtitle]
The talk can be followed from this page.With this presentation on June 29, the current edition of On Mondays, at the Circle. This is the second online book presentation we've held since the state of emergency was declared. And we'll be joined by... Eduardo Zazo y Nuria Sánchez Madridrespectively co-editor and author of the book Facing catastrophe: 20th-century Jewish thinkers (Herder Editorial, 2020). They will talk with Valerio Rocco Lozano (Director del Círculo de Bellas Artes).
[df-subtitle]Past Activities:[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]24.02.20[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Just Music? A look at social transformation programs through music that are changing the world[/df-subtitle] Conference led by Nathaly Ossa
We will travel through social-musical projects These are inspiring initiatives demonstrating an unparalleled capacity for the education and integration of citizens. Thanks to their extraordinary results, these projects have received a significant boost in the last decade. Although each context and community presents its own unique challenges requiring tailored solutions, a common characteristic can be identified: the power of music as a counterpoint—creation versus destruction, beauty versus misery; ultimately, art versus war.
[df-subtitle]02.03.20[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Guilty of being innocent? Abstraction, dictatorship and democracy Conference led by Manuel Fontán
We will deal with the logic of the relationship between art and politics in general, and in the case of Spain during the dictatorship and the transition to democracy, in the context of the exhibition Franco's lie and dreamFeaturing works by Antonio Saura, this exhibition “presents for the first time 41 drawings focused on the figure of General Franco and the Spanish Civil War. Conceived between 1958 and 1962, they have never been presented as a single group. For obvious reasons, the artist was never able to see these works exhibited.” The lecture will delve into the obviousness of these reasons and the relationship between political and artistic power, and will critically analyze how some of the most recent art theory and historiography have understood—or misunderstood—the intimate relationship between art and power.
[df-subtitle]09.03.20[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]If you want, let's move on to the debate[/df-subtitle] Conference by Fernando Castro
Debord warned that contemporary societies are characterized by an impressive accumulation of spectacles, that is, by the "commodity fetishism" that Marx revealed. The critique of everyday life (a transcendence of art that implied the realization of philosophy) unfolded both in the psychogeographical drift and in the critique of urbanism, in the polemical virulence against institutional discourses as well as in filmic distortion. The films of Guy Debord They revolve around the fire, unafraid of fear itself, occasionally veering into a melancholic-confessional tone, bearing witness to rebellion, revealing the traces of a "bad life" that still haunts us. Revisiting these "filmic meditations," in which there is "nothing entertaining," requires a willingness to move on to the debate as soon as possible.
[df-subtitle]16.03.20[/df-subtitle] [alert color=»red»]Event postponed.[/alert]
[df-subtitle]Reading(s) of «People of the 20th Century»[/df-subtitle] Lecture by Valentín Roma and Guillermo Zuaznabar
On the occasion of the exhibition August Sander: Photographs of "People of the 20th Century", which it has hosted since February 6 el Círculo de Bellas ArtesThe curators, Valentín Roma and Guillermo Zuaznabar, will give this lecture in which they will discuss their experience curating this exhibition. Although deeply rooted in a very specific era and geopolitical context, August Sander's portraits invite a broader perspective. In a way, and for many interpreters and observers who have approached them over the last century, they constitute something akin to a panopticon of the human condition, a record of the vicissitudes, mentalities, and modes of social organization in rural life and in the modern metropolis.
[df-subtitle]23.03.20[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Chance. A philosophical atlas of the pandemic[/df-subtitle] Intervention by Iván de los Ríos, in dialogue with Valerio Rocco
Iván de los Ríos, Professor of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid and one of the world's leading experts on the concept of scolding, stars the first virtual conference de On Mondays, at the CircleIn this talk, he presents a sociology photographed From the present moment: a philosophical atlas of the pandemic. If random events are those that cannot be reduced to a purpose, to a rational meaning, the emergence of the coronavirus could be defined as the randomness of our times. What portrait does philosophy paint of our societies in the face of this enormous challenge? Why are we so ill-prepared to confront this eruption of uncertainty, pain, and death?
[df-subtitle]30.03.20[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]The difficult memory of a war[/df-subtitle] Conference of Almudena Grandes
The second virtual conference of On Mondays, at the Circle It is written by Almudena Grandes, one of the most established and internationally renowned writers in contemporary Spanish literature:
Unlike what happened in the rest of Europe after World War II—a conflict that in almost every case led to civil strife and score-settling between collaborators and anti-fascists—forty years of democracy have not been enough for a coherent and unified democratic narrative about the Civil War to take hold in Spain. Why? Does it make sense to normalize the existence of two opposing versions? How does the continued relevance of the two narratives generated in 1936 affect our present? This exhibition Franco's lie and dream.
[df-subtitle]06.04.20
People of the 20th CenturyPublic sphere and the construction of a photographic document culture in Germany[/df-subtitle]
Online dialogue between Valentín Roma and Gillermo Zuaznabar. Presented by Valerio Rocco
Valentín Roma and Gillermo Zuaznabar, commissioners of the sample on August sander which welcomes el Círculo de Bellas Artes, participate in this dialogue, in the format online, in which they delve into some substantial aspects of the exhibition, about the notoriety of the selected photographs, about an author whose influence has been felt in much of the documentary photographic production of the 20th century, and whose aesthetic and political positions should be analyzed critically from the present day.
[df-subtitle]20.04.20[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Applause[/df-subtitle]
Online talk by ernesto castro, PProfessor of Philosophy at the University of Zaragoza, author of books such as Ethics, aesthetics and politics and Postcontinental realism.
[df-subtitle]27.04.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]The Medieval Mirror: Face and Plague[/df-subtitle]
Online dialogue between Valerio Rocco (director of the CBA), Solène de Pablos (curator of the Medieval section of the National Archaeological Museum) and Esther Pascua (Professor and researcher at UDIMA). The video can be viewed on this page.
[df-subtitle]04.05.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Juan Eduardo Zúñiga: Rebel Symbolism[/df-subtitle]
Online dialogue between Manuel Asín and Luis Beltrán Almería
On February 24th, she passed away at the age of 101. Juan Eduardo ZunigaZúñiga, one of the most important figures in contemporary Spanish literature, was the recipient of prestigious awards such as the National Translation Prize (1987) and the National Literature Prize (2016). In 2003, he also received the Medalla de Oro from the CBA. To pay him renewed tribute, Manuel Asín, coordinator of the Film Area of the CBA, talks about his work and his figure with Luis Beltrán AlmeríaProfessor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Zaragoza and author, among numerous publications, of The symbolism of Juan Eduardo Zúñiga (Vitel.la, 2008).
[df-subtitle]11.05.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]The challenges of education in the “new normal”[/df-subtitle]
A session dedicated to a topic as sensitive as it is crucial: educationWe will address the question of what will change at different educational levels in this “new normal” announced by the authorities. To do so, we will have three teachers, one from each educational stage in this country: primary, secondary, and university. In addition to their work as educators and professors, all three have reflected (due to the nature of their positions, their outreach work, or other reasons) on various aspects (social, innovative, technological) that will be relevant in this new normal. online chat. Participate Isabel Vizcaíno, Cristina Luz García y Arturo Misael López Zapico.
[df-subtitle]18.05.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Peace and the Word in Times of COVID-19[/df-subtitle]
Talk by Federico Mayor ZaragozaA key figure in the Spanish intellectual landscape: for his profoundly multifaceted career as a scientist, professor, poet, and politician; for the positions he has held, such as Rector, Minister of Education, and Director-General of UNESCO; and above all for his ever-renewed commitment to boldly reflecting on his own time, with the aim of transforming it. This dedication to knowledge as an instrument of social change has led to the creation, under his auspices, of the Culture of Peace Foundation, and later, the University Institute of Human Rights, Democracy, and Culture of Peace at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he currently serves as co-president.
[df-subtitle]25.05.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Children's imagination in times of fear (six grotesque proposals)[/df-subtitle]
The modern world has placed the child—their imagination and its nurturing—at the center of our social and symbolic organization. The current situation accentuates this concern for the child, their development, and our attention to their needs and fears. In this online conversation with José Antonio Escrig Aparicio The University of Zaragoza offers a series of literary and cinematic proposals (picture books, films, stories) to enrich our interactions with children. These will be used to reflect on the common origin of our responses to the threats we face as a society and as individuals, and on how these responses are channeled through art.
[df-subtitle]01.06.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Resonances at the Confines of the Virus[/df-subtitle]
Miguel Álvarez Fernández He is a sound artist, musicologist, essayist, and composer. Since 2008, he has directed and presented the program Ars Sonoraon Radio Clásica of Radio Nacional de España. Since the beginning of the lockdown, this radio program has hosted the series Listening for the virusThis proposal, in the words of its author, encourages "listening to certain sound works within the challenging framework of these circumstances, and offers a renewed interpretation of these works that can help us understand the different processes we are all called to go through in these strange times." Furthermore, Listening for the virus It traverses different disciplines—musical, sonic, literary, cinematic, and philosophical—that bring to mind the famous statement by writer William Burroughs, "Language is a virus." In this conversation, we will surrender ourselves to listening to the virus, starting from the literary deconstruction technique popularized by the author of Naked lunch —the cut-up—, to approach, from various angles, the deconstruction of reality generated by the pandemic.
[df-subtitle]08.06.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Online presentation of the book: Outside of Themselves. Reasons for Dislocation, Ana Carrasco and Luciana Cadahia [Eds.][/df-subtitle]
The presentation can be followed from this pagePresents Valerio Rocco LozanoThe authors Luciana Cadahia, Ana Carrasco-Conde, Macarena Marey and Rosaura Martínez are participating.
The book brings together the collaborative work of several thinkers who seek to do philosophy differently within the realm of political and aesthetic thought. In this direction, the authors propose to disrupt the norm in three ways: first, by "disrupting" the established order through the role assigned to "us" in the history of Western male thought; second, by stepping outside of "ourselves" and embracing "us" as the central object of inquiry; and third, by demonstrating that "usual" themes are more a matter of habit than thought, and can therefore be explored in alternative ways. This book, therefore, is a feminist endeavor, aiming to disrupt the habitual in order to reveal unexpected connections between sensibility and thought, between praxis and concept, and between a past and a present from which it becomes urgent to dismantle the deep-seated patriarchal logic that governs contemporary society.
[df-subtitle]15.06.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]The Death of Hegel: Mystery Solved[/df-subtitle]
The talk can be followed from this pageThis year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great Swabian philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (who shares this anniversary with other greats such as Beethoven and Hölderlin). For this reason, numerous commemorative initiatives have been launched: el Círculo de Bellas Artes has joined the international initiative “Hegel Now!”, created for this purpose by various universities and institutions worldwide. This talk, as well as a conference on Hölderlin and Hegel that we will hold in December, and the publication of books and other materials, are intended to be the contribution ofel Círculo to this initiative. On the other hand, as we know, the undisputed focus of our conversations and our lives has been, for some time now, the coronavirus pandemic. Talking about Hegel's death allows us to return to a historical moment, Central Europe in 1831, ravaged by a severe cholera epidemic. This is the disease from which, according to all biographies, Hegel died, as certified by as many as three doctors at the time. But was it really so? Was cholera the cause of Hegel's death? Or perhaps he died for another reason, and it was other motives that prompted his contemporaries and scholars of his life and work to offer the cholera explanation?
Participate Felix Duke (Emeritus Professor of History of Modern Philosophy/UAM) and Juan Antonio Vargas (Professor of Internal Medicine (UAM/Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda University Hospital). In conversation with Valerio Rocco Lozano, Director del Círculo de Bellas Artes.
[df-subtitle]22.06.20 · 19:00h[/df-subtitle]
[df-subtitle]Absence and Memory: Theatre in Times of Pandemic. A Conversation with Alberto Conejero[/df-subtitle]
Follow the conversation from hereAlberto Conejero He is a cultural manager, poet, and playwright, as well as an academic scholar, with a large output of articles and a doctoral thesis on the Poetics of identity in Greco-Oriental song between 1821 and 1936The director of the Autumn Festival is also one of the people in the Spanish cultural scene who has best responded to the coronavirus crisis, with initiatives such as #BorderTen emergency micro-plays created during lockdown. In 2019 he was awarded the National Dramatic Literature Prize for his work The geometry of wheat.
Alberto Conejero will talk with Valerio Rocco.
- Date:
- 24.02.2020 - 29.06.2020
- Price:
- [Free entry until capacity is reached]
- Organized by:
CBA
Media library
- Fernando Velázquez. Mondays at the Circle: "The incredible music and textures of our cinema." Echoes ofel Círculo
- Presentation of the book "Facing Catastrophe: Jewish Thinkers of the 20th Century"
- Alberto Conejero: "Calling healthcare workers 'heroes' is a defeat."
- Online presentation: "Facing catastrophe: Jewish thinkers of the 20th century"
- Absence and memory: theatre in times of pandemic