Programme
Saturday, 28 September
10.00 Welcome
Guillermo Solana, artistic director of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Andrea Pacheco González, co-curator of Colonial Memory in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections, and curator of the Chile Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
10.30-12.00 Block1. Colonial memory in museums and cultural institutions
Presented and led by: Yeison García López, co-curator of Colonial Memory in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection and director of the Espacio Afro cultural centre.
Lectures:
- Elvira Dyangani, director of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).
- Reimagining a home for the cultures of the worlds we live in, by Marie Helene Pereira, senior curator of Performative Practices at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin.
- Structural coloniality in the institutional system of the Spanish state. The case of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the creation of a Latin American art collection, by Suset Sánchez, curator of the Latin American Art Collection at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid.
12.00-12.15 Pause
12.15-13.15 Debate based on questions from the audience
13.20-14.00 The Opacity of Inverse Time. Performance by In the Wake. Experimental laboratory of black thought
14.00-16.00 Lunch
16.00 - 17.30 Block 2. Colonial Memory and processes of internal decolonisation
Presented and led by: Alba Campo Rosillo, co-curator of Colonial Memory in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections.
Panel discussion with the participation of:
- Clémentine Deliss, curator at Large at KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels.
- Charl Landvreugd, Head of Research & Curatorial Practice, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
- Atabey aka Carlos Maria Romero, curator of Performative Practices at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.
- Juan Ángel López-Manzanares, curator and chief content officer at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and co-curator of Colonial Memory in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections.
17.30-18.00 In the Perpetual Solitude of our Green Fields. Performance by José Ramón Hernández - Osikán - Vivero de creación
18.00 - 19.15 Tour Madrid Negro (Black Madrid)
Sunday, 29 September
10.00-11.35 Block 3. Colonial Memory and the 60th Venice Biennale
Presented and led by: Andrea Pacheco González.
Lectures:
- Memoria migrante, by Sandra Gamarra, artist at the Spanish Pavilion.
- Curating the Living Archives, by Mónica de Miranda, artist and co-curator of the Portugal Pavilion.
- Cindy Sissocko, curator at the Wellcome Collection, London, and co-curator of the France Pavilion.
11.35-12.00 Debate based on questions from the audience
12.00-12.15 Pause
12.15-13.30 Block 4. Colonial Memory and anti-racist cultural fabric
Presented and led by: Yeison García López.
Panel discussion with the participation of:
- José Luis Villacañas, philosopher and writer, Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
- Leticia Rojas, PhD in Sociology and Anthropology, part of the Ayllu collective and the Migrantes Transgresorxs collective.
- Erik Guerrero, PhD student in Political Science and member of Frente Migrante.
- Esther Mayoko, history graduate, PhD in philosophy of science, ‘Afrofeminist and sexual dissidence activist’ and a member of Espacio Afro.
13.30-13.45 Farewell by the Simposium directors
13.45-16.00 Lunch