[Oberlist] Fwd: MUSAC presents two exhibitions at the Laboratorio 987 and The Showcase Project

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 *Laboratorio 987:
Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum.
Amikejo exhibition series*
Curated by Latitudes [Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa]

*Showcase project:
Hipatia Project. Pedagogies of Gender in Spaces of Imprisonment*

9 April–12 June 2011

 *MUSAC*

www.musac.es

 MUSAC, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León, Spain)
presents this upcoming 9 April two new shows at the spaces Laboratorio 987
and the Showcase Project. The Laboratorio 987 will host until 12 June a
specific project by artists Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum around the
changing values of labour and property, examining alternative personal and
political readings of common cultural heritage. The show is part of *Amikejo
*, a series of four exhibitions curated by the independent curatorial office
Latitudes [Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa], structured around relational and
spatial twinning. MUSAC's showcases present on 9 April *Hipatia Project.
Pedagogies of Gender in Spaces of Imprisonment*, an exhibition that explores
the educational project undertaken by MUSAC's Department of Education and
Cultural Action (DEAC) between 2007 and 2011 with women inmates from housing
block 10 of the Mansilla de las Mulas Correctional Facility (León). This is
the first exhibition at MUSAC to spring from a DEAC MUSAC educational
project.

*Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum. Amikejo exhibition series at the
Laboratorio 987*
Curated by Latitudes [Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa]

Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum present a project around the changing
values of labour and property, examining alternative personal and political
readings of common cultural heritage. As the artists have explained,
"Klaas's grandfather belonged to a generation for whom 'free time' should be
spent doing something productive. When he retired from work, he had his
former colleagues at the factory weld together a lathe for him, so that he
could take up woodturning. In old age, he was able to augment his modest
pension by selling the products of his hobby to the community that formed
his social network at that time. When he died, he left his son a cigar box
filled with magazine clippings, sketches and blueprints of different objects
made by turning wood, with the idea that it might come in handy some day."
Jaio and van Gorkum have taken the contents of this box as the point of
departure for a conceptual and reflexive exploration of the notion of
artistic production.

*Amikejo* is a series of four exhibitions at the Laboratorio 987 of MUSAC
that is structured around relational and spatial twinning. This is most
evident in the fact that the artists of each installment are formed by two
collaborating individuals, as is Latitudes, the curatorial office formed by
Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna invited to conceive the season. These
artistic pairings involve various modes of binomial friendships—couples in
life, dedicated duos, intermittent work partners, as well as new allies. The
artist partnerships involve an overall 50-50 split of male and female
practitioners, as well as Spanish-speaking and foreign origins. The series
encompasses a further register of doubling prompted by a critical reflection
on the conditions and expectations of a 'project space' such as Laboratorio
987 within today's contemporary art museum. Such a site is typically annexed
from a hosting institution, independent yet attached, with the understanding
that different, more ad-hoc and agile laws apply. Nonconformist and at the
same time authorized, and following spatial theories such as Michel
Foucault's 'heterotopia', a project space is a typology that is neither here
nor there. Shadowing Robert Smithson's concept of the 'non-site' (an indoor
artwork physically and mentally paired with an outdoor site), the
Laboratorio 987 space has been assigned a relation with a specific remote
location for the 2011 season: Amikejo. More information on *Iratxe Jaio &
Klaas van Gorkum, Amikejo* <http://www.musac.es/index_en.php?ref=31900>

*Hipatia Project. Pedagogies of Gender in Spaces of Imprisonment at the
Showcase Project*
Curator: Belén Sola

>From 9 April, MUSAC's showcases shall feature a comprehensive view of an
extensive educational and cultural project carried out by DEAC MUSAC between
2007 and 2011. The exhibition title *Proyecto Hipatia: Pedagogies of Gender
in Spaces of Imprisonment*, makes reference to the name of the magazine
published in collaboration with women inmates from housing block 10 of the
Mansilla de las Mulas correctional facility in León. It also speaks of the
processes of action and reflection undergone across these four years of
work, focusing on the particular context of imprisoned women. On the
occasion of the exhibition, *Hipatia* shall release issue number five, its
very last, which shall include texts written by the women participants
across 2010 and others who have contributed over the course of the project;
María Galindo, Eva Garrido/Yera Moreno, Sara Rosenberg, Virginia Villaplana,
Silvia Zayas, and the guest colaboration of the professor Chela Sandoval.

*Hipatia Project* presents a chronological survey of the actions carried out
at the prison between 2007 and 2011 via workshops, audio-visual screenings
and discussions. The documentation and materials used in the project, as
well as the four issues of the magazine published to date, shall all be on
display for the public. *Read more about the
project*<http://www.musac.es/index_en.php?ref=31900>

MUSAC
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Avda. Reyes Leoneses, 24
24008 León (Spain)
www.musac.es
musac at musac.es
t. +34 987 09 00 00

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