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ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT CCCB Montalegre,5 / 08001 T. 933064 100 / www.cccb.org 5 Exhibitions 6 In the chinese city 7 Illuminations. Visionary Catalonia INDEX 8 Bamako 07. African Photography Meetings 9 Gangs of the 80s 10 The jazz century 11 Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future 12 In collaboration with... 12 World Press Photo 13 Cultural activities 14 Cicles and festivals 25 Festivals in collaboration with Other proposals 36 Urban Itineraries 39 Debate and refl ection 40 New Humanism 45 City and Public Space 51 In collaboration with... 57 Friends of the cccb 59 Educational service 61 Open CCCB 62 Online Projects 64 Beyond the CCCB 64 Exhibitions 66 Screenings 67 Debates 68 Networks 69 CCCB Holdings 70 Archive 73 Publications 75 Audiovisuals Publications 77 General data 78 CCCB staff 79 Collaborating Institutions and companies 80 Visitor fi gures 82 Budget 83 List of speakers of debates and lectures 85 Venue hire 87 Selection Of Press Clipping Dates Fins al 22 de febrer Amb la col·laboració de Bancaja i el patrocini del Consorci EXHIBITIONS 2009 Edition CCCB Graphic design Postdata disseny i comunicació Printer Unitat d’Impressió i Reprografi a de la Diputació de Barcelona 5 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS IN THE CHINESE CITY ILLUMINATIONS PERSPECTIVES ON THE TRANSMUTATIONS OF AN EMPIRE VISIONARY CATALONIA Dates November 4, 2008 – February 22, 2009 Part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue Dates February 17 – May 24 Architectural design Lluís Pau / Estudi IDP Venue Sala 3 Architectural design Emba_Estudi Massi-Bosch Venue Sala 2 Interior graphic design La Japonesa Curator Frédéric Edelmann with the Arquitectes Curator ilar Parcerisas Image and promotional Lali Almonacid collaboration of Françoise Ged Interior graphic design Estudi mm! Mònica Production CCCB and the Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de graphic design Production CCCB and Cité de l’Architecture et du Mestanza, Rosa Rodríguez Comunicació, Generalitat de Catalunya Patrimoine Image and promotional graphic design David Lorente With the collaboration of Fundación Bancaja, the sponsorship of Consorci de la Zona Franca and the support of Conseil Général des Hauts- de-Seine, Musée Albert-Kahn For over a decade, China has been immersed in major RELATED ACTIVITIES processes of transformation, which are leading Chinese Does Beijing still exist? Film program cities to change at an unstoppable pace in a cycle of construc- Dates: January 14, 17, 21, 24, 28 and 31 tion and destruction that is transforming them profoundly See page 15 and with remarkable speed. Debate Origins. Qingtian: Chinese immigration in This exhibition situated these changes within the conti- nuum of the country’s history and culture. It aimed to Barcelona Date: January 23 present the reality of the city past and present by exploring See page 48 four of its aspects: town planning, architecture, landscape This exhibition was designed as an overview of the Nogueras i Oller, Pablo, Perejaume, Perucho, Picabia, and infrastructure. It also offered an opportunity to compare Premiere of the documentary Zone of Initial Dilution philosophy and creation that came out of Catalonia from Picasso, Pla Janini, Ponç, Portabella, Prunés, Pujols, the time of Ramon Llul up until the present, featuring a Recha, Riba, Ribé, Riera, Romero, Rossell, Rubió i Tudurí, these realities with the Chinese and Western imaginaries, (2006), by Antoine Boutet majority of visionary creators and artists. Sabatés, Salvat-Papasseit, Santos, Santos Torroella, Sarró, and with mechanisms of information and propaganda. Date: February 14 Sayrach, Serra, Sibiuda, Sisa, Sucre, Tàpies, Torres-García, The exhibition concluded with this excellent documentary The intuition and vision of unique individuals who were The exhibition took as its basis the presentation of archeolo- Valldosera, Varo, Verdaguer, Vilanova, Vilatobà, Villèlia, made by Antoine Boutet, after working in China over a permeable to the currents of European thought and to gical documents, art works, models, archival images and Viura, Xifra, Xiró, Zanné, Zush/Evru. contemporary creation. A series of characters and key six-month period, which was screened a week before the new revolutionary ideologies have made Catalonia a land concepts from Chinese civilization (garden, writing and exhibition closed. ahead of its time. This exhibition took us into the work of The exhibition included 800 works of art and science. culture, earth and man, water, fengshui, construction and The fi lm analyses the profound urban transformations these fi gures from the worlds of art and literature, science Some areas of the exhibition were enhanced by installa- destruction, and family) formed a base for a dynamic taking place in China’s Three Gorges region as a result of and thought, who opened up new horizons and broke tions created by a contemporary artist whose work shares reading of Chinese territory and everything that affects the the construction of the largest hydroelectric dam in the molds. similar themes and philosophy. world. The “zone of initial dilution” concept, which current population of more than three billion people. Woven An exhibition on the visionaries and those touched with The exhibition was structured around thirteen thematic engineers use to defi ne the perimeter of a watercourse that through these concepts, the exhibition presented six cities as madness, whose legacy opened the gateways of modernity areas headed by the letters that make up the word has been contaminated by waste which then gradually examples of these urban transformations: Suzhou, Xi’an, in Catalonia over the course of eight centuries: “illuminations” in Catalan (IL·LUMINACIONS), with dissolves into the general fl ow, illustrates the current Chongqing, Canton Shanghai and Beijing. each letter also invoking a Latin expression, and as such it situation of this region, in which many customs and Abad, Alomar, Barba, Barradas, Bataille, Ben, Bey, offered a thematic rather than a chronological overview. In this context, fi lms took on a particular importance. Five traditional activities are being sacrifi ced in the name of Berenguer, Beuys, Bofi ll, Bonastruc ça Porta, Brossa, Chinese fi lm directors contributed a fi lmmaker’s perspective progress. The fi lm shows the state of different places and Buigas, Casas Abarca, Casellas, Català i Pic, Cerdà, RELATED ACTIVITIES on fi ve of the cities included in the exhibition. The presti- cities on the banks of the Yangtze river, some of which are Chomón, Clapés, Clavé, Cirlot, Colom, Colomer, Comas i gious director Jia Zhangke orchestrated the work of four of in ruins or no longer there, while others are booming, Solà, Cravan, Cresques, Cristòfol, Cuixart, Dalí, Deulofeu, Flashes of Genius. his colleagues: Chen Tao, Peng Tao, Li Hong Qi and Han Jie. trying to restrict the consequences that the planned fi nal Duchamp, Einstein, Eulàlia, Fageda, Ferrant, Ferrer i Alongside the exhibition Jia Zhangke himself, who directed the portrait of the city of rise in water levels will have on the landscape and towns. Guàrdia, Foix, Fontcuberta, Fortuny y Madrazo, Francés, Dates: March 18, 19 and 20 Suzhou in a short fi lm called Cry me a River, which was GATCPAC, Gaudí, González, Gual, Guimerà, Jujol, See page 49 Talks for School Groups screened in the offi cial out-of-competition program at the Junyent, Lamolla, Le Corbusier, Letamendi, Llull, Man See page 60 65th Venice Film Festival. Ray, Marçal, Marinel·lo, Masó, Massanet, Masson, Mestre Talks for School Groups de Cabestany, Mestres, Mestres Quadreny, Mir, Miralda, See page 60 Miralles, Miralles, Miró, Montoliu, Monturiol, Noguera, 6 7 EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS BAMAKO 07. GANGS OF THE 80S AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY MEETINGS CINEMA, PRESS AND THE STREETS IN THE CITY AND BEYOND Dates May 25 – September 6 Architectural design Estudi Bonjoch, S.L. Venue Sala 3 Interior graphic design Anna Catasús and Oihana Herrera Dates February 24 – June 1 Architectural design Alejandro Quintillá-Bracha Berkovitch Curators Amanda Cuesta and Mery Cuesta Image and promotional Jordi Duro Venue Sala -1 Graphic design Avanti-avanti Production CCCB graphic design Curator Pep Subirós Production CCCB and CULTURESFRANCE / Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako and the Mali Ministry of Culture This exhibition looked at a Spanish fi lm genre that peaked The last section of the exhibition looked at the survival between 1978 and 1985 and featured “quinqui” or juvenile of the quinqui phenomenon after its peak, and the tragic delinquent culture, focusing on the feedback relationship end of many of its stars, in fi ction and in reality. With the between fi lms and the press of the time. The exhibition generation that followed, the concept of the 80s quin- was also a faithful refl ection of the urban, social, political qui underwent an aesthetic makeover and rose up as an and economic changes that were sweeping through the authentic icon of cool. The myth is still going strong today, country at that time. particularly on the Internet. The codes of representation of juvenile delinquency in RELATED ACTIVITIES quinqui cinema have survived up until now, and after The theme of the seventh Bamako Rencontres Africaines The selection was structures as follows: undergoing an aesthetic makeover, the quinqui stereotype de la Photographie, entitled The City and Beyond, was Inaugural Concert of the Exhibition • almost 150 photographs from the international exhibi- is still a source of endless fascination. urban life. Organized by Macarras Old School tion; Date: May 25 The point of departure for the exhibition was the fi gure The 7th Bamako emphasized the fragility of the city and • the monographic showcase, dedicated to Samuel Fosso Street Rumba is the music linked to juvenile delinquency to the “quinqui” coined by the phenomenon of juvenile urban life, the networks of relationships between (Cameroon, 1962); in the eighties, and its translation into fi lm. Groups like delinquent fi lm. The social emergency plans that were individuals and social groups, the unfi nished construc- • the special tribute to the recently deceased Serge Jongue Los Chichos, los Chungitos, Bordón 4 and Las Grecas are implemented in the sixties resulted in an extremely low tions and the disconcert of those who dwell in them.