As a research platform Artea continually generates a diverse range of curatorial, artistic, research and documentation projects that are linked to the MPECV. In this way, participants have the opportunity to get involved in different ongoing projects and to make use of:
 
 
Virtual Archive for Performing Arts
 
The objective of the Virtual Archive for Performing Arts (AVAE) is to provide students, teachers and professionals with critical and documentary material on contemporary artists and their contexts of production and exhibition. This is not an exhaustive archive, but a
proposal of documentation related to a defined historiographic purpose. The concept of “performing arts” to be handled is large, covering everything that happens in real time and in the presence of spectators (including, therefore, hybrid works, installations, video-performances, etc). Initiated by a group of researchers from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cuenca (UCLM), it currently feeds networking done by a large number of European and Latin American partners.
 
 
Artea Archive
 
Since February 2011 the ARTEA ARCHIVE has formed a part of Matadero Madrid’s network of archives. It exists as a physical archive containing a selection of videos of work by Spanish and Latinamerican artist from the 1980s until today, such as La Ribot, Olga Mesa, Carles Santos, Marcel.lí Antúnez, Legaleón, Arena Teatro, Cuqui Jerez and Juan Domínguez. The archive also includes a collection of specialized
performing arts publications: magazines, books, documents, performance programs, catalogues and material specific to the artists making up the archive.
 
(link to the catalogue of documents)
 
 
Current research projects of Artea
 
Social imaginariums
 
This project is the continuation of a line of work driven by the research group ARTEA (arte-a.org) and supported by numerous regional, national and European projects. At the centre of its interests in the Virtual Archive for Performing Arts (http://artesescenicas.uclm.es), a space dedicated to the documentation and study of the performing arts with a wide cultural focus and from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Archive today registers more than five thousand visitors per month and has become a central reference in Spain and Latin America.
 
A concrete objective for this phase of work it is a focus on performance art and related performance practices, a space traditionally not paid sufficient attention to even within specialized fields. Because of their commitment to the ephemeral the arts which rely on the idea of performance constitute a sector of cultural heritage with a high risk of invisibility. At a historical level the project has therefore as primary objective the documentation of performance art and related artistic practices from the 1980s to today.

For more info, visit the link.
 
Dissident Theatricalities
 
This project applies practice-based methodologies to the relationship between forms of social theatricality and the production of industrial
and artistic theatricality. The objective of this project is to observe the transformation of traditional modes of social theatricality (based in family and labor structures defining stable fields of representation) as a consequence of the multiplication of modes of performance and relation. A second objective consists in the location of dissident theatricalities and their relationship with the production of specific artistic forms. The investigation of social theatricality implies the consideration of antagonistic realities and options: forms and practices of invisibility that, like those of theatricality, can function as procedures for control or dissidence.
 
The project addresses the following thematic fields:
 
1. The family as space of theatricality and modeling / rupture of the family – social network
 
2. The city as space of spectacle and invisibility / expansion of the city in the social network

3. The school as space for the negotiation of identities and roles

For more info about Dissident Theatricalities, follow these links:

- Site of the project.

- Activities at the Reina Sofia Museum: There is no other poetry than action, Inhabiting dispersion