Framework of the interview:
actors / agencies:
- Amalia Fernández, independent artist, choreographer
- El Club

concepts / themes > lenses to her work:
-       critical practices in ways of work and production:
- your position is specific – since you live in a village outside Madrid. Why did you decide to move? And how does it influence your way of work? How do you produce your works? How and with whom do you collaborate? Where do you perform? Do you belong to the Madrid scene? Do you understand it an individualist position? What is your understanding of collectivity?
-       critical practices related to the reflection:
- Do you have an opportunity to research on your and the others’ artistic practices – if so, what are the structures for it? Can you explain your understanding of El Club in regard to this?
- Are you satisfied with reflections and theoretical feedback on your work?
-       other possible themes:
- Do you consider your artistic work critical? If so, please explain in which terms, how (by its subjects/themes, or the ways of work…).
- And, what do you think, is it important for an artist to be critical?

 
Framework of the interview:

actors / agencies:
-       Carlos Marquerie, theatre maker
-       teatro Pradillo (in the 90s and today)

concepts / themes > lenses:
-       critical practices related to the reflection – Your informal meetings with colleagues and friends, as sharing and communicating artistic process; Your ‘ethical approach’ to artwork – could you please explain it, and think why it is considered critical (by our previous interlocutors)? Are you satisfied with reflections and theoretical feedback on your work?
-       critical cultural policies – Experimental and risky programming: Teatro Pradillo in the 90s – why was it critical (in which terms: content, aesthetics, ways or work…), and how does it look like today?
-       other themes: Do you consider your artistic / theatrical work critical? If so, please explain, and try to think critical to what, and for what sake? Do you thing the use of the standard political terms, like leftist, rightist, neoliberal, democratic, totalitarian, etc., is or could be critical at the actual Madrid scene? Are they used frequently, or do they lack – from your point of view?

Framework of the interview:

actors / agencies:
-       Paz Rojo, choreographer, cultural worker
-       Research group on performance practice (the laboratory and the project to be developed in Matadero), and collaborative initiatives abroad (e.g. LISA)

concepts / themes > lenses to the actors/agencies:
-       critical ways of work and production: collaboration – why do you practice collaboration and collectivity? is it a critical practice here (if so, why?); how do you produce your works? how and with whom do you collaborate? where do you perform? what is the organizational principle of the “research group on performance practice”?
-       critical practices related to the reflection: artistic research and reflection are among your commitments; is the creating the conditions for reflections on practice a critical practice in madrid? (if so, why?), what are the relations between reflection and research and request for production?
-       other possible themes: internationalism – your education (CNDO), referential system etc., how are they perceived here?; is internationalism critical at the scene in Madrid? do you consider your artistic work critical? if so, pls explain a bit, and try to think critical to what, and for what sake