This program was born in response to the Museums Day - an established countrywide event which provokes massive audience to visit museums and exhibitions spaces. This phenomenon raises certain questions. For example, does it make culture more accessible or more spectacular? Does it create participants or audience? What needs these events underline? How are the resources managed? Where is the current contemporary art production generated? Prácticas contemporáneas is a symposium created by AADK Spain to question and analyse these variables.

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For this round-table, the speakers will present spaces working in the periphery and promot-ing the research and production of contem-porary art. They will share with the audience their programs, their management and organization models, as well ways of linking with their environments.

speakers:David Quiles GuillóOQUBO. (Elche, Alicante)

Miguel LópezPAD (Association of Professionals and Companies for the Devel-opment of Dance in Andalucia).(Sevilla, Andalucía)

oqubo (Elche, alicante)www.oqubo.orgOQUBO is the new project from David Quiles Guilló. It is a privately financed, non-profit project. The aim of the project is to create a new powerhouse of education and creativity in the southeast of Spain. The opening is expected for October 2015. It will develop a role as an artistic gallery, creativity school, art studies and artistic residency.

David Quiles GuilLoDavid is a founder and CEO of ROJO (since 2001), NOVA Contemporary Culture Festival (since 2010), and THE WRONG New Digital Art Biennale (since 2013). He is also a partner of LINDO KILLER (since 2012), a mix of art project and lifestyle brand. UNDERVOLT (since 2014), a label for experimen-tal video art, and REVAMP (since 2014), a re-design studio focusing on brand logos and producing recycled furniture.David also spends his “working time” writing film scripts and producing them with his brand new film production company FULL ELECTRIC and has co-directed and produced “NOVA the film”. He also writes abstract texts and provokes others to do so, all to be compiled as a limited book entitled Abstract|Ext.

All these projects happening simultaneously while constructing OQUBO, a building in the middle of “nowhere” which will host all ROJO projects and partnerships.

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speakers:David Quiles GuillóOQUBO. (Elche, Alicante)

Miguel LópezPAD (Association of Professionals and Companies for the Devel-opment of Dance in Andalucia).(Sevilla, Andalucía)

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PADThe Association of Professionals and Companies for the Development of Dance in Andalucia, was created with the aim of contributing to the profes-sionalization of dance sector in all its expressions. It establishes links of cooperation and dialogue between institutions, compa-nies and cultural agents at the regional, national and international level.PAD is a non-profit organization grouping Andalusian dance professionals and representing them to public and private institutions with the object of promoting and supporting the sector, improving its working and training conditions and contributing to its professional development.

PAD attempts to create a working environment where members can meet the public sector to work jointly on projects, policies, and strategies and where the association is recognized as advisory body and expert in the dance sector. PAD intends to achieve recognition and appreciation of the authors and creators dedicated to the Andalusian Dance.

Until now, the projects of the association have been developed in public spaces through agreements with the local and regional administration. For example, Teatro de la Maestranza, where the project Vertebración was devel-oped for 5 editions. In the Conservatorio de Danza superior; in Calatrava space; Teatro Central; where diverse courses were given with international choreographers; Centro de Iniciativas Culturales -CICUS- (Center for cultural initiatives) from the Sevillian University, a space for exhibition and artist residency; In Casa de las Artes (House of Arts) in Alanis de la Sierra which hosts Proyecto PENCCA, and is a space for artist residencies throughout a whole year.

Miguel LOpez.Production and cultural manager. He has worked in production teams for different events and disciplines (dance, music, theater, visuals, flamenco, photography and fashion) for La Suite or El Mandaito. Linked to the dance sector, he is currently President of the Andalusian Association of Dance.

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14.30hPaella at the Terrace of Centro Negra

16.00h Centro Negra s Artists in Residency

The AADK Spain, has created devotees to the famous paellas, made in various encounters along the last two years in Centro Negra. For Prácticas Contemporáneas, we cannot miss this successful culinary meeting which distinguishes Centro Negra. Hurry up to reserve your plates, because they fly fast into the mountain.

Bridget Currie (Australia)Bridget Currie experiments with the interac-tion between the body, sculptural objects and the landscape for several years. Responding to the theme of ʻbody space territoryʼ, she takes up AADK residency program in Centro Negra as an opportunity to work in direct contact with the landscape and to experiment with forms and ways of presenting her sculptural objects in an outdoor environment – not in a fixed monu-mental relationship but as a fluid, playful visitation comparable to the difference between a picnic and a holiday house.

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Miha StrukeljMiha is interested in how the city dynamics develops through variety of impacts.Miha researches local history and architecture. In particular, how subsequent structure of the city has changed throughout history, and how it was affected by various external influences, where was it just preserved, where it was expanded or where it became a ruin. All the way back from the Arab conquest to the modern West Europe. Is the Moorish Castle, which became a landmark just a kind of monument-ru-in, or if there is something more to it.When preparing a referential image the artist is interested in the dialectic of real-imaginary. This also relates to the understanding of modern digital technology, which completely saturates imagery and transforms our perception of reality.

For this encounter, two independent projects, which work collabora-tively with public and private institutions, are invite., Being situated in the capital, they will discuss what does it mean to work in the center, their ways of working, their relation-ship with the peripheral project, problems and possible horizons of the contemporary creation in a moment where the frames of the cultural creation are redefined.

17.30H panel discussion

Hablarenartewww.hablarenarte.comHablarenarte is an independent projects platform based in Madrid, which works in supporting and promoting the creation of contemporary culture..Their main lines of action are the promotion of curated exhibitions and visual and performative arts nationally, as well as internationally. The conception and development of educational programs, mediation and actions of cultural and social cooperation. They also promote the national contemporary art creation through publications, audiovisual resources and international professional network collaborations.

Hablarenarte also plays a role as a cultural consultant, developing viability plans for public and private institutions and develop courses for cultural man-agement. Hablarenarte does not have their own exhibition space and develop their projects in collaboration with those who are interested in hosting them.

speakers:Sören Meschede. HablarenarteJosé y Roberto Salas. Machines Desirantes Buró

moderator:Elena Azzedin

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SOren MeschedeSören Meschede is responsible for the international projects such as Cura-tors’ Network (www.curators-network.eu) or COLLAB Arts Partnership, as well as for the transversal and performative programs (A Ciegas, La Máquina de Tiempo). Together with Javier Martín Jiménez he recently curated the shows “¿Finlandia?” (Madrid, 2014) and “Blue Seven Phenomenon” (Barce-lona, 2013). He received his degree in Philosophy and Law from the Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Germany). Before joining the associa-tion in 2008, he worked as a journalist for German and Spanish newspapers and journals, and as a freelance coordinator for cultural projects (among others Berlinale, PHotoEspaña and CA2M Arts Center). He writes for the Austrian art-magazine springerin.

machines desirantes burowww.machines-desirantes.netMachines Desirante Buró is composed by brothers José and Roberto Jurado. This formation develops projects of research, education, independ-ent curatorial work and cultural programing.

The spirit of MDBuró is characterized by searching for resources and crea-tive solutions based on the nature, target group, functionality or concept of each project.

They create professional teams from their networks with a multidisciplinary constellation in constant restructuration. As a consequence, their radius of action is presented as a dynamic and elastic environment in which each work appears as an efficient and original communicative proposal, on a formal, aesthetic and conceptual level.

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Roberto Salas Roberto Salas is philologist, editor and creative editor specialized in art, music and literature.He collaborates with different independent media and submerged publica-tions, programs and develops different cultural events as well as manages a diverse variety of projects.

José Salas is an art director, graphic designer, VJ… On an individual level, for the project he develops video-art pieces, installations, videoclips, design and parties as Vuélvete Underground (Become underground).

17.30H panel discussionspeakers:Sören Meschede. HablarenarteRoberto Salas. Machines Desirantes Buró

moderator:Elena Azzedin

19.00H 21.00Hperformance/intervenciones

Master program in Performative Practice and Visual Culture.With a wide and expanded consideration of the contemporary performative practice, the Master program encourages collaboration and self-organiza-tion of the participants, and proposes tools to develop methodologies and critical theoretical discourses. Questions, reveals and amplifies the ways in which we create meanings at the present time, through various formats such as laboratories, workshops, seminars or continuous reading groups.

During ten days, the students from Master program in Performative Practice and Visual Culture will explore and research the surroundings of Blanca to develop their own artistic proposal.Commissioned by AADK team, they will have the chance to put into practice their knowledge and intuitions. The conceptual frame is body, space and territory. The methodology is based on experimentation, trial and error as a base for investigation, where process is privileged over results.

Distintas ubicacionesen la localidad de Blanca

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10.00hback door/proyectionCentro Negra, Blanca

back doorBack Door is a program which introduces contem-porary art creation into the clubbing culture.It is evident that the mass culture based on elec-tronic music production, design and fashion affects the imagery of artistic creation. The intention of this program is that the art reaches and affects other audiences in the same way. Thus, we break the barriers between production bound to specialized audiences in institutional spaces and the sound and visual production in popular culture, which is more open to a wider audience.

Plastic People PartyFor Back Door we have invited Plastic People - a music platform which develops events with dance music and live music. Plastic People stand in this occasion for the party by:

DJ Pablo Jordán + Isa Costa (Live Voice)Visualizations created by Sierra Bonita Media

dreamsFilm: Anders BigumMusic: Sophie Tusnelda & Jonny GuntonDuration: 06:40 min loopIt is a cinematic landscape, which moves in an abstract world of dreams and senses.