CCCB11 ANNUAL REPORT CCCB11 ANNUAL REPORT CCCB Montalegre, 5 / 08001 Barcelona T. 933 064 100 / www.cccb.org 5 INAUGURATION OF THE CCCB THEATRE 7 EXHIBITIONS CONTENTS 8 Disappeared 9 The Trieste of Magris 10 Brangulí. Barcelona 1909-1945 12 Memory Remains. 9/11 NY Artifacts at Hangar 17 13 The Complete Letters. Filmed Correspondence 14 World Press Photo 15 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES 16 Festivals and open formats 23 Festivals in collaboration 32 Children’s programme 33 Other proposals 35 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION 36 New humanism 44 In parallel 45 In collaboration 49 CCCB LAB 51 Activities 53 In collaboration 57 FRIENDS OF THE CCCB 59 EDUCATION SERVICE 60 Exhibitions 62 In collaboration 62 CCCB Education website 63 Urban itineraries 64 AlzheimArt 65 BEYOND THE CCCB 66 Exhibitions 71 Screenings and audiovisual products 73 Debates 75 CCCB HOLDINGS 76 Archives 77 In collaboration 78 Publications 81 GENERAL INFORMATION 82 Collaborating institutions and companies 84 Visitor figures 86 Public 88 List of speakers at debates and conferences 89 Venue use and hire 90 Budget 91 CCCB staff PRESS ARTICLES INAUGURATION OF THE CCCB THEATRE 5 INAUGURATION OF THE CCCB THEATRE INAUGURATION OF THE CCCB THEATRE © Miquel Taverna, 2011 © Miquel Taverna, The official inauguration of the CCCB Theatre was held with capacity for up to 170 people, and also suitable for on 16 March. This new space is located at Plaça Joan different activity formats: screenings, conferences, work Coromines and is connected with the main building by an classroom, etc. underground walkway. The remodelling project, promoted Possessing a facility with the capacity and technical by Barcelona Provincial Council and Barcelona City services offered by the CCCB Theatre had been an Council, was the work of the team at Martínez Lapeña- ambition for some time. The extension is a response to an Torres Arquitectos. objective need that became evident with the consolidation The CCCB Theatre, the result of the remodelling of the of the dynamic generated by the Centre’s opening in the former Casa de Caritat theatre, completes the extension cultural life of Barcelona and of Catalonia, from the heart of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, of the Raval neighbourhood. seventeen years following the opening of the main On the day of the inauguration, all guests received a gift of complex around the Pati de les Dones. a special edition from the Breus CCCB collection featuring With this space, the CCCB has gained 3,164 m2 to Antonio Tabucchi’s paper El futur de l’atzar (The Future of continue offering the Centre’s programmes under the best Chance) and open days were held the following weekend. of conditions. The new building houses two multi-purpose rooms: the Sala Teatre, with a stage that is adjustable in size and location, and technically equipped to allow diverse activities such as film screenings, concerts, conferences, performing arts productions, etc., and capacity for up to 500 people. And on the ground floor, the Sala Raval, Graphic design: HEY Studio, 2011 design: HEY Studio, Graphic 6 EXHIBITIONS 2011 7 EXHIBITIONS DISAPPEARED Dates: 1 February – 1 May Curator: Sandra Balsells Venue: Sala -1 Production: CCCB Photographs: Gervasio Sánchez Graphic design: Luz de la Mora © Gervasio Sánchez The exhibition Disappeared was presented simultaneously prolonged unnecessarily for many years and even decades. at the CCCB, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de For them, every mass grave opened means another wound Castilla y León (MUSAC) and La Casa Encendida in closed; every set of remains given proper burial, a much- Madrid. yearned solace. “The Disappeared project represents the most important In this fight to safeguard the memory of those missing, work in the extensive photojournalistic career of Gervasio the portraits of family members of the disappeared Sánchez. His images based on forced disappearances obtained by Gervasio Sánchez acquire a special constitute a valuable legacy to help ensure that in the protagonism. The courage, the dignity and the tireless future we cannot doubt the past. This is an uneasy, fight of these men and women are indisputable proof of disturbing, even hurtful account, which reveals to us the the fact that the whole of society is in their debt.” (Sandra cruel void of absence and the struggle to rescue from Balsells) oblivion the buried memory of people who disappeared in ten countries of Latin America, Asia and Europe. This long RELATED ACTIVITY project, which was carried out between 1998 and 2010, Disappeared, a series of three debates from 8 February to emerges forcefully to defend memory, truth and justice in 30 March. a geography racked by intolerable abuses. See the section Spaces for debate and reflection. In parallel To evoke the presence of those missing, the author EDUCATIONAL OFFERING AND FOR FRIENDS embarks upon a torturous journey to the epicentre of OF THE CCCB this tragedy. A journey that begins at sinister detention See the sections Education service and Friends of the CCCB. centres where the victims of repression were held captive, the traces of whom cannot help but make us shudder at CATALOGUE commemorative monuments featuring never-ending lists See the section CCCB Holdings. Publications of men, women and children, dispossessed of a future; or in everyday belongings that survive the passing of time, zealously safeguarded by their family members. The locating of remains and their subsequent exhumation means for their loved ones the end of an extenuated grief, 8 EXHIBITIONS THE TRIESTE OF MAGRIS Dates: 8 March-17 July With the collaboration of: Allianz Venue: Sala 2 Space design: Paola Navone with Studio Otto, Milan Curator: Giorgio Pressburger Graphic design of With the collaboration of: Claudio Magris the exhibition interior: CromaZoo, Milan Production: CCCB Image and graphic design of communication and catalogue: Mariona Garcia Sponsored by: Gas Natural Fenosa Media sponsorship: El País © Padieri, 2011 © Padieri, This exhibition introduced us to the city of Trieste, guided #Magris Day on Twitter by the words of writer Claudio Magris. Trieste, a frontier On 3 May, a day of tribute to Italian writer Claudio Magris Italian city, full of contrasts and a mixture of languages was held to coincide with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa and cultures (Italian, Germanic and Slav), has become being conferred upon him by the University of Barcelona. a legend because some of the most important writers of recent centuries were either born there or lived there: Italo http://www.cccb.org/veus/exposicions/historia-dun-dia-el- Svevo, Umberto Saba, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, etc. diamagris/ Intellectual and writer Claudio Magris offers the guiding Postcards to Claudio Magris thread, his view of the city (the capital of nowhere) and of the literature that has developed there. This activity was organised on 18 May, International Museums Day. It offered visitors to the exhibition the The exhibition staging invites the visitor to discover this chance to send a message to the writer, who received a universe with all five senses. The tour includes encounters total of 139 postcards from Barcelona, which he responded with the bora, the wind of Trieste, with the stones of the to collectively. Karst Plateau and with the Adriatic Sea. Visitors can also hear the clamour of war and the music of Triestine songs, http://www.cccb.org/veus/exposicions/la-meva-ciutat-de- sit in the famous Caffè San Marco and enter the renowned postals/ Antiquaria bookstore. As a tribute to the famous book See the Cultural activities section by Magris, they can also make a stop along the Danube, through an evocation of its course through Central Europe Friends of the CCCb trip to Trieste and based on the reading of some the book’s passages. From 29 September to 2 October, the Centre organised a The show includes a wide range of exhibits such as trip with a group of twenty-one Friends of the CCCB to get audiovisual installations, original objects and paintings, to know in greater depth the city of writer Claudio Magris. readings from literary passages and even the film Dietro il http://www.cccb.org/veus/exposicions/cronica-del-viatge-dels- buio (Behind the Darkness), produced based on the Magris amics-del-cccb-a-trieste/ book Lei dunque capirà. The CCCB and Sine Sole Cinema (Gorizia) co-produced this film under the direction of EDUCATIONAL OFFERING AND FOR FRIENDS Giorgio Pressburger, who co-authored the script jointly OF THE CCCB with Paolo Magris. See the Education Service and Friends of the CCCB sections. RELATED ACTIVITIES CATALOGUE How books are born. Inside a writer’s study. See the CCCB Holdings. Publications section. On 25 March, within the framework of Kosmopolis, a conversation took place between Claudio Magris and Josep Ramoneda about the process of literary creation. 9 EXHIBITIONS BRANGULÍ. BARCELONA 1909-1945 PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Dates: 7 June - 6 November Venue: Sala 3 Curators: Valentín Vallhonrat and Rafael Levenfeld Production: Fundación Telefónica and CCCB With the collaboration of: Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya Space design: Àlex Papalini and Josep Querol Graphic design: avanti avanti Exposició al CCCB / Fins 23.10.2011 10 This exhibition, presented previously at the Fundación RELATED ACTIVITIES Telefónica in Madrid from 11 November 2010 to 27 March brangulí was here 2011, was dedicated to the work of Barcelona-born Josep Brangulí, a pioneer of photojournalism and author of Within the framework of this action conceived by the some of the finest images to reflect the major social, CCCB in collaboration with the avanti avanti studio, many urban and industrial transformations that Barcelona of the emblematic spaces photographed by Brangulí, underwent during the long change-filled and conflict- housed reproductions of photographs from the era. The ridden period between 1909 and 1945. The show, the first objective was to make them known, outside the exhibition ever anthological exhibition of Brangulí’s work, presented space, while establishing a visual and emotional link three hundred photographs grouped into thematic blocks between Barcelona eighty years ago and Barcelona today.