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AL MATADERO SIN MIEDO / TV TABLE,  FRANKLIN DE LA PEÑA
Debajo del sombrero
From 11 June to 31 July

Franklin likes constructions that refer to something real and this year, he has worked on a TV table, making the first prototype. His table is anything but simple: it has large speakers with pipes for sound, wheels, extremely long wires and various structures precariously balanced on each other.

OPEN DJ NIGHT | DOCUMENTARY SPACE
Carolina Caycedo
10 June starting at 10 p.m. | Until 25 July

Trae tu canción favorita (Bring Your Favourite Song) is an event artist Carolina Caycedo invites you to participate in on 10 June starting at 10 p.m. at an Open DJ Night. To take part, you just have to come with your mp3 player, iPod or mobile and share your music.

As a related activity, during June and July, Intermediae will present a documentary space and a programme of Carolina Caycedo’s prior work. These experiences recreate soundscapes of cities through their streets and people, through the close and special relationship the creator achieves based on her urban interventions in such diverse places as Bogotá, Kassel, Fortaleza and Madrid.

LABTOLAB
As part of the 2nd International Medialabs Meeting, coordinated by Medialab-Prado
9 June, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Coinciding with the seminar-workshop Interactivos?'10: Ciencia de barrio (Neighbourhood Science), Medialab-Prado will host LABtoLAB, the 2nd International Medialabs Meeting. This European platform comprised of  Kitchen (Budapest), Constant (Brussels), Crealab (Nantes), A10lab (London) y Medialab-Prado (Madrid) joins other initiatives that aim to share experiences, study specific cases and explore the role of “medialabs” in production, knowledge exchange and collaborative learning.

This second LABtoLAB meeting will focus on studying three institutions, including Intermediae given its work in relation to its social and cultural context. This activity will be held at El Terrario at Intermediae.

FREEK CULTURE / PRESENTATION OF “CREADORES LIBRES” (FREE CREATORS)
Jay Barros
Thursday 13 May, 6:30 p.m.

This proposal is part of the Free(k) Culture project (www.freekculture.net), coordinated by Jay Barros, that aims to foster a community of users and creators who use free tools and licences for creation, and to promote those productions through workshops, meetings, presentations, developing software, etc.

Since January, Freek Culture has called for musicians, artists, and creators who work with Copyleft licences and free tools to send their work to make a joint collection, publish it and distribute it. The result is a collection in DVD format with a clear message: “Here is an alternative to the SGAE, the private copying levy, and the consumer industry. This alternative DOES EXIST. You too can be a creator and here is the material to make it possible.”

AVANT GARDEN MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
Intermediae / Avant Garden
28 March (2010), 12 pm - 2 pm

Avant Garden maintenance activities. Avant Garden has the qualities of a wild rose garden. It is a garden shared by visitors, creators, passers-by... and a place for co-existence and exchange, as well as for learning, enjoyment and rest. The workshops will be focused on investigating into the concept and philosophy of atelier le balto.

They are open to the general public. To take part, please be at Intermediae in Matadero Madrid ten minutes before 12. p.m. in order to sign up and receive the tools needed for the workshop. Limited number of participants.

The workshops will be carried out by Juan Manuel Rubiales, botanist and landscaping and gardening enthusiast.

URBAN FRUIT ACTION [ARCOmadrid_ 2010]
Fallen Fruit
From 16 to 21, February 2010. Base camp until 14 March

People think of our cities as vital, living places, but what does it mean to live in a concrete canyon with nothing green and no food anywhere but in restaurants and stores?

Urban Fruit Action asks what would happen if instead of driving to the market for a peach you just walked out the door? Why can our streets not be vital green spaces that provide organic fruit for people to share communally?

Fallen Fruit invites you to take part in Acción Fruta Urbana. Visit their Base Camp set up in Intermediæ from February 16th onwards, designed as a place for reunion, collaboration, work and exchange with the collective. A meeting point where to undertake the actions and where the progress of their initiative in Madrid will be displayed. Once the actions are over, and up until March 14th, a selection of their works will be become the protagonist in this space in order to account for their career and experience in Madrid.

//AL MATADERO SIN MIEDO (TO THE MATADERO WITHOUT FEAR)// PIECES BY BELÉN SÁNCHEZ
Debajo del sombrero (Under the Hat)
From 3 February to 31 March

The //Al Matadero sin miedo// (To the Slaughterhouse without Fear) project aims to generate new relational models for artistic practices for persons with cognitive and developmental difficulties. The group holds weekly workshops at the Terrario that aim to generate a space that is flexible and receptive enough to accept, accompany and enhance any kind of communication. 

FREE(K) CULTURE / CALLS FOR FLUX SKOOL WORKSHOPS AND FLUX STUDIO
Jay Barros

Free(k) Culture aims to foster a community of users and creators who use free tools and licences for creation, and to promote these productions through workshops, meetings, presentations, software development, etc.

— CALL FOR FLUX SKOOL WORKSHOPS

Starting in January, artists and users are invited to participate in Flux Skool, a series of workshops offering training and the dissemination of free tools for audiovisual creation, sound composition, and the fields of performances and shows.

Free tools for audiovisual creation: From 22 to 25 February, 5 pm - 9 pm
Free tools for sound composition: From 22 to 25 March, 5 pm - 9 pm
Free tools for performances and shows: From 26 to 29 Abril, 5 pm - 9 pm

For applications contact: jay@freekculture.net / info@intermediae.es

— CALL FOR FLUX STUDIO

Starting in January, musicians, artists, and creators who work with copyleft licences are invited to send their works to be collected on a DVD anthology to be distributed thereafter. The DVD anthology will be produced in work sessions with participants in March and April.

For applications contact: http://freekculture.net/creadoreslibres / info@intermediae.es


> freekculture.net
> 2009 Contemporary Creation Grants Programme

//AL MATADERO SIN MIEDO (TO THE MATADERO WITHOUT FEAR)// PIECES BY CARLOS MARISCAL
Debajo del sombrero (Under the Hat)
From 2 December to 31 January

The //Al Matadero sin miedo// (To the Slaughterhouse without Fear) project aims to generate new relational models for artistic practices for persons with cognitive and developmental difficulties.
The group holds weekly workshops at the Terrario that aim to generate a space that is flexible and receptive enough to accept, accompany and enhance any kind of communication. As of December, they are presenting a space to exhibit the works of the artists participating in the project. As of 2 December, three video pieces by Carlos Mariscal can be seen. Formas de envolver y de filmar; 4 preguntas; and Memoria, three pieces in which Carlos explores a new form of communication that enables him to broaden his relational world, explore his wishes and share his memories.

> www.debajodelsombrero.org
> 2009 Contemporary Creation Grants Programme

April - December 2009

Archivalprocess /Procesos de archivo is a reflection on, and a set of artistic projects that explore the construction of an archive of Intermediae. How can we assemble, present and make available to the public, an archive of an institution conceived as process, and committed to participation?

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