La obra es el resultado de las conversaciones entre el artista Fermín Díez de Ulzurrun y el comisario y escritor César Novella Alba sobre los fantasmas de una siderurgia desaparecida. Artista y comisario, comisario y artista… Esta paradoja a menudo clásica en la actualidad resulta una especie de contra cultura, un fuego amigo.

After convoca los restos de una siderurgia hecha desaparecer, convertidos sus rastros en parque de atracciones para los turistas, y sirve de escenario para que artista y comisario se enzarcen en una serie de reflexiones sobre las resonancias que deja la ausencia de lo que anteriormente era una presencia ineludible que lo marcaba todo (como la negror de los restos de la producción industrial siderúrgica de una época que ya no existe sino en nuestras propias fantasías y apariciones, de la que habla la propia madre del comisario), pero que para el comisario y el artista resuena en la escultura contemporánea, en el sonido del techno, en la selección de fotos de un Fermín más personal que nunca y en libros y voces más que familiares.

Autors:

Fermín Díez de Ulzurrun
César Novella Alba

EL SECULÒRUM I LA SECULERA. Contes i acudits llicenciosos valencians de tradició oral.

A work dedicated to the Valencian narrative folklore that is linked to the expression of sex. Its main objective is to highlight the value of a subgenre that, although it still has a certain validity in the oral tradition, in the Valencian context, unlike in other territories, has not been compiled and studied in a monographic way until now.

It supposes a contribution to the Valencian rondallística, offering, on the one hand, an anthology of a hundred stories and songs compiled from the oral tradition. It is the result of a field work carried out in different towns both in the Valencian and Castilian linguistic area. There is a sensitization to reproduce the oral materials through reliable transcriptions so that they have validity both as ethnographic documents and as testimonies of a linguistic patrimony.

On the other hand, the work offers an introductory study to understand aspects related to the stories as literary texts, such as the humoristic resources on which they are based, or referring to their context, for example, the sources and the fields in which they are disseminated. Likewise, the study proposes a classification of the materials according to the index of rondallistic types The Types of International Folktales.

The author will be accompanied by:

• Joan Seguí, director of L'ETNO
• Núria Sendra, from Edicions del Bullent.
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Discovering walls, is the result of the artistic-therapeutic project Re-Creating identity, conceived and carried out by Albert Fernández and Mónica Cases in collaboration with L'ETNO and the Mental Health Hospital of the Diputación de Valencia. Aimed at people diagnosed with mental health, the works on display come from several sessions with a similar structure: a visit to the permanent exhibition, where generic concepts that define and identify us as a group are extracted and analyzed, and the creation of debates and experiences that promote reflection and knowledge of individual identity.

The work of approaching the concept of identity -the fundamental subject of study of anthropology- and the discovery of the factors and walls that have intervened in the processes of individual and collective construction, has favored the knowledge of the “I” and of one's own real identity by each of the participants.

As a paradigm of the rapprochement between culture and mental health, L'ETNO, in dialogue with the space that made its conception possible, presents Discovering Walls with the ultimate purpose of demonstrating: the ability to express and represent, through art, the museum's commitment to inclusivity and collaboration between two fields (heritage and health) for the benefit of the well-being of the whole collective and society as a whole.

Where does Discovering Walls come from?

From an institutional perspective, L'ETNO aims, and has been aiming for years, to bring the fields of heritage and health closer together through the construction of collaborative spaces and projects that promote social welfare.

The interest in the implementation of social actions and projects is justifiable from a double perspective: that of its typology, since the complex process of creation and change of cultural identity is a subject of fundamental study of anthropology, and that of a public social museum that transgresses its physical barriers or walls and is concerned with, and does its best to solve, the needs of its environment.

In this context, and through the Re-Creating Identity project, the present intervention arises. Discovering walls is just a physical sample of the multiple workshops carried out during the activity; a look at the creative process with which Albert Fernández and Mónica Cases, during their visit to the exhibition It's not easy to be Valencian, have worked on the construction of the identity of people diagnosed with mental health.

The project, based on a reflective, dialogic, artistic and creative methodology, has addressed: the nature of emotions and their management, the process of socialization within the group, the construction of the “I” and, above all, the identity or personal milestones that determine who and why we are or why we act in a certain way.
 

Over 20 years Etnomusic has become a project branded L'ETNO that has enjoyed a certain autonomy that has allowed it to configure its offer with musical, territorial and, of course, artistic criteria, always full of curiosity and new perspectives. The creation within the festival of Perifèric, concerts for families and Etnomusic als Pobles, make this clear. After these years and its acceptance by the public, we can affirm that the formula has been well received. 

During these years, one of the challenges of L'ETNO has been to maintain a close relationship between what is exhibited at the festival and the exhibitions that the museum programs each year. A challenge not always achieved because often the musical offer of the moment does not always coincide with the deadlines and themes addressed in its exhibition line. This year our goal is to relate, as much as possible, the thematic offer of the exhibitions and the musical proposal of the festival. In this way, the 2024 proposal can be better understood.

“With a woman's gaze”, Etnomusic is presented to the Valencian public with a basically feminine program to coincide the festival with the exhibition “Fadrines”, one of the most important exhibitions that L'ETNO will hold in 2024. The exhibition tells us about women who did not marry when it was appropriate: single women who, by choice, subverted the norm of getting married and having children. Taking this common thread, Etnomusic presents a program composed basically by women, who from various perspectives show us their way of relating, intimacy, esteem, work and, of course, create.

PROGRAMMING

La María

A Valencian artist who is part of a new batch of artists who are breaking clichés and are taking the cant valencià to new areas to keep them as what they are, popular music that people listen and sing. 

Mayalde 

One of the most recognized groups of the Spanish traditional music scene will offer us a family concert that will make us relive the sounds of our yayas and yayos: those first songs made in many occasions with things of everyday life. With Amores, a Valencian group also with a great trajectory and international recognition, we will dance with Senegalese percussion embracing values of coexistence and brotherhood among peoples. 

El Nido

A concert full of contemporary values based on traditional rhythms and structures. A compilation of “jotas” and “ruedas burgalesas” that, far from looking at the past, will present us with current themes. 

Maria Mazzota 

With the Italian singer from Apulia we will review, to the rhythm of tarantellas mixed with new elements, the moods that like the waves of the sea can lead to tragedy or to the kindest calm. 

Carola Ortiz 

With the album Cantareras she takes us to the intimate universe of the women who, while filling the water jugs in the river -a basically feminine work of a not so distant time-, told each other their thoughts and moods. 

Alba Carmona and Jesús Guerrero

After her time with the formation Las Migas, in 2018 she decided to take a leap as a solo performer and at the end of that same year she released her first solo album that includes songs composed by the singer herself. In this intimate format, Alba forms a duo with guitarist Jesús Guerrero, one of the most important figures of the current flamenco guitar and regular squire of artists such as Miguel Poveda, Niña Pastori or Carmen Linares. 

Eixa 

Project of the Valencian artist Isabel Latorre. In a show that bets on the word, the Catalan Alba Carmona proposes an eclectic journey from flamenco that will take us to territories such as the songwriter's song, the copla or bolero. For her part, the singer and composer Isabel Latorre will offer us an exquisite marriage between the varieties of the Valencian grape and the traditional masica of the Mediterranean or even jazz. 

Karlos Nao

Young flautist who plays music in the key of flamenco. Within the program there will be concerts in municipalities (Etnomusic als Pobles) and a concert for families in collaboration with the SARC of the Diputació de València.

We wait for you!!!!!

The first selected experience is to be found in the CITY: LOCAL AND GLOBAL room, where the final part is dedicated to the walls of the city, a space for reflection on the urbanism that surrounds us in cities. The physical walls and the invisible walls towards other social strata, as well as a space for political, commercial and artistic communication.

We present LOVE ON THE OUTSKIRTS, where the urban artist and photographer Pedro Mecinas and Lucia Gimeno document photographically during their urban explorations a collection of spontaneous graffiti with messages of love scattered around the city, suburbs and villages of Valencia. Like all archives, it is still in process, open and expanding to other territories in the embers of Pedro and Lucia's travels. Together, they continue to document this collection of emotions that you can follow on their instagram account @amordeextraradi.

In the words of the authors "how intense what you are feeling must be to have to leave it written on any surface without knowing if anyone will ever read you, understand you and feel anything. Without knowing what story is behind it".

City walls are also used as a form of romantic and sentimental communication. Documentary remnants of affection, break-ups, desires, dreams, disappointments and sufferings that instantly connect with all the anonymous people who look at them. An explosion of the private personal world in the public space that reminds us that shared emotions are also part of what binds us together as a society.

This activity is part of the project «The Graves of Francoism: Archaeology, Anthropology and Memory».

We invite you to listen to real stories about real lives:
In a Human Library there are no books but people who speak in the first person. In a Human Library there is no fiction but a strong dose of reality that will hit you very hard. In a Human Library readers listen with their hearts to everything that human books need to tell.

On this occasion, the Human Library features people who are well aware that "the more a grave is emptied, the more the memory fills up". Relatives and professionals linked to the processes of reparation of democratic memory will become human books to share their experiences in this process with readers who want to listen to them. "Todo aquello que cuenta el silencio" wants to give voice to the people who were silenced in the past in order to connect them with the present through the generosity of a Human Library.

• If you want to be a reader of this Human Library, that is, if you want to attend to listen to these life stories, you must register at: biblioteca.etnologia@dival.es.
• There are 40 places available for each session.
• The human libraries are suitable for people over 12 years of age because the books are not fantasy, but real and we know that reality often surpasses fiction. However, it is a highly recommended activity for young audiences.
   

On 14 September 1940, 532 days after the end of the Spanish Civil War, José Celda was shot by Franco's regime along with 11 other men on the back wall of the Paterna cemetery in Valencia and buried with them in a mass grave. More than seven decades later, and after a long journey through the dark side of a country with a complex about its past, José's daughter Pepica, an octogenarian who was eight years old when her father was killed, finally managed to locate and recover his remains to restore his dignity.

In Pepica Celda's personal battle against oblivion, the role of Leoncio Badía, a young republican who had been condemned some time before to work as a gravedigger in the cemetery of his village, was decisive. Leoncio, a man obsessed with the meaning of life and the order of the universe, had been secretly collaborating for years with the widows of the victims of the war to identify their corpses, bury them in the most dignified way possible, locate their graves and hide messages among their remains, convinced that one day someone would be able to get them out of there.

Paco Roca travels back in time with El abismo del olvido to recover, together with Rodrigo Terrasa (who plays an important role in the documentation and contribution of ideas), the true story of Leoncio and José, an example of the tens of thousands of Spaniards who were savagely repressed after the end of the conflict in Spain. But it also accompanies Pepica Celda in her heartbreaking labyrinth that tries to unravel the miseries of a country obsessed with despising its memory.

Paco Roca (Valencia, 1969) studied at the Escuela de Arte Superior de Diseño in Valencia. Although his work focuses on comics, he combines his time with illustration and talks and workshops. In the field of comics, his work has been translated in a dozen countries. His bibliography published by Astiberri includes: El juego lúgubre; El Faro; Arrugas; Las calles de arena; El invierno del dibujante; Memorias de un dibujante en pijama. El integral; Los surcos del azar; La casa; La encrucijada; El tesoro del Cisne Negro; El dibujado, initially created for the walls of the IVAM; Regreso al Edén and El abismo del olvido, his latest graphic novel. His comics have won awards in Spain and abroad, including the 2008 National Comic Prize, the Goya for best adapted screenplay for Arrugas in 2011, the Excellence Award in Japan, the Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 and the Eisner 2020 for best foreign work. Paco Roca has received the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2021 from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and in May 2023 he was awarded the Ciutat de València Cultural Merit Award.

Rodrigo Terrasa (Valencia, 1978) has been a journalist for the newspaper El Mundo for 22 years. His love for basketball made his first job as a journalist in the sports newspaper Superdeporte, from which he made the leap in 2001 to the València branch of El Mundo. He has written sports reports, interviews, political information and reports. In 2007 he started working in the digital edition of the newspaper and in 2015 he moved to the central newsroom in Madrid. He is currently a reporter for Papel, the daily magazine of El Mundo. In 2021 he published his first book, La ciudad de la euforia (Libros del KO), a journalistic chronicle about the years of corruption in the Valencian Community.

Un dels reptes als quals el personal d’un museu s’enfronta diàriament és, sens dubte, la protecció dels fons que custòdia. En la conservació preventiva de les col·leccions han de complir-se uns criteris bàsics que les resguarden de factors externs, com la brutícia, els canvis de temperatura, la humitat o d’organismes, com són insectes i fongs. També és  necessari tindre en compte els processos de manipulació, transport i exhibició de les peces, així com la idoneïtat dels materials emprats en caixes i embolcalls. Finalment, cal parar atenció als materials que componen l’objecte i l’estat en el qual estos materials es troben.

La naturalesa fràgil d’algunes peces, com la indumentària o qualsevol altre tipus d’objecte tèxtil, requerix, a més, l’aplicació d’una sèrie de procediments que ajuden a reduir considerablement els possibles danys. Esta tasca, ja de per si mateix minuciosa i complexa, es torna més complicada quan hem d’afrontar problemes com la falta de pressupost, d’espai o de personal.

En esta jornada de formació prestarem especial atenció a les necessitats dels museus locals, gran part dels quals manquen de personal especialitzat i dels pressupostos necessaris. Comptarem amb la participació de tres reconegudes i experimentades especialistes que ens proporcionaran solucions pràctiques i assequibles, sempre dins dels estàndards de conservació  adequats.

Més informació en el programa que pot descarregar en la columna de la dreta. 

Treasures with history is a programme that the Valencian Public Television À Punt has been broadcasting successfully for the last three seasons. It deals with the objects that people keep as precious material, as an emotional treasure full of experiences and memories. It is a well-known fact that objects have the capacity to establish emotional connections with people, and the complexity of this relationship is the subject of Treasures with history. L'ETNO now brings you closer to this universe of objects that from history, ethnology or art have built part of our memory as a people over the last 200 years. 

Produced in collaboration with the Valencian Institute of Culture, Treasures with History 2 is an exhibition organised by L'ETNO to show the public the more than one hundred treasures selected for the programme.

On 14 September 1940, 532 days after the end of the Spanish Civil War, José Celda was shot by Franco's regime along with 11 other men on the back wall of the Paterna cemetery in Valencia and buried with them in a mass grave. More than seven decades later, and after a long journey through the dark side of a country with a complex about its past, José's daughter Pepica, an octogenarian who was eight years old when her father was killed, finally managed to locate and recover his remains to restore his dignity.

In Pepica Celda's personal battle against oblivion, the role of Leoncio Badía, a young republican who had been condemned some time before to work as a gravedigger in the cemetery of his village, was decisive. Leoncio, a man obsessed with the meaning of life and the order of the universe, had been secretly collaborating for years with the widows of the victims of the war to identify their corpses, bury them in the most dignified way possible, locate their graves and hide messages among their remains, convinced that one day someone would be able to get them out of there.

Paco Roca travels back in time with El abismo del olvido to recover, together with Rodrigo Terrasa (who plays an important role in the documentation and contribution of ideas), the true story of Leoncio and José, an example of the tens of thousands of Spaniards who were savagely repressed after the end of the conflict in Spain. But it also accompanies Pepica Celda in her heartbreaking labyrinth that tries to unravel the miseries of a country obsessed with despising its memory.

Paco Roca (Valencia, 1969) studied at the Escuela de Arte Superior de Diseño in Valencia. Although his work focuses on comics, he combines his time with illustration and talks and workshops. In the field of comics, his work has been translated in a dozen countries. His bibliography published by Astiberri includes: El juego lúgubre; El Faro; Arrugas; Las calles de arena; El invierno del dibujante; Memorias de un dibujante en pijama. El integral; Los surcos del azar; La casa; La encrucijada; El tesoro del Cisne Negro; El dibujado, initially created for the walls of the IVAM; Regreso al Edén and El abismo del olvido, his latest graphic novel. His comics have won awards in Spain and abroad, including the 2008 National Comic Prize, the Goya for best adapted screenplay for Arrugas in 2011, the Excellence Award in Japan, the Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 and the Eisner 2020 for best foreign work. Paco Roca has received the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2021 from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and in May 2023 he was awarded the Ciutat de València Cultural Merit Award.

Rodrigo Terrasa (Valencia, 1978) has been a journalist for the newspaper El Mundo for 22 years. His love for basketball made his first job as a journalist in the sports newspaper Superdeporte, from which he made the leap in 2001 to the València branch of El Mundo. He has written sports reports, interviews, political information and reports. In 2007 he started working in the digital edition of the newspaper and in 2015 he moved to the central newsroom in Madrid. He is currently a reporter for Papel, the daily magazine of El Mundo. In 2021 he published his first book, La ciudad de la euforia (Libros del KO), a journalistic chronicle about the years of corruption in the Valencian Community.