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. and original printed material from the time. Furthermore, Brangulí was here. What about you? for the presentation in Barcelona, eight photographs of the Casa de Caritat (the building today housing the CCCB) An online participatory project in collaboration with taken by Brangulí, were also added. Barcelona Photobloggers to discover the vision of contemporary photographers on the city photographed The exhibition maintained the thematic structure of by Brangulí over eighty years ago. Over a three month the photographer’s archive and reflected the diversity period (from June to September), 4,696 images were and serialised treatment that he gave to these themes, received from 598 authors. The exhibition Barcelona: which prominently included: Tragic Week, Workshops, 2000-2011 ran from 22 September to 6 November, showing Toys, Society before the Republic, Society 1931-1936, the ten winning photographs and a screening of the 324 Shipbuilding, Fire-fighters, Boxing, Royal Family, Schools, runners-up. Domestic Industry, Exchange of Prisoners, Metaphysical, Museums, Nocturnal, Urban Landscape, Beach, Port, http://www.brangulivaseraqui.com/ Republic, Somorrostro, Workers in Germany, Trams, War and Post-war. EDUCATIONAL OFFERING AND FOR FRIENDS OF THE CCCB According to the exhibition’s curators, “Brangulí, who survived all the political vicissitudes of his times, See the Education Service and Friends of the CCCB sections. accompanied the city in which he lived with an eye to the changes taking place, its transformations, its people and CATALOGUE their activities. He used his profession to keep up with See the section CCCB Holdings. Publications the pace of urban metamorphosis, turning his work as a photographer—almost like a conjurer—into an agency, an archive or whatever it took to carry on working his magic.”

11 EXHIBITIONS MEMORY REMAINS 9/11 NY ARTIFACTS AT HANGAR 17

Dates: 8 September – 3 November With the collaboration of: The Catalan Government’s Department Venue: Hall of Culture, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and The Port Authority of New Photographs and installation: Francesc Torres York & New Jersey Production: CCCB and 9/11 Memorial Space design: Lluís Pera Graphic design: Mont Marsà

“On 11 September 2001, at 08:46 in the morning, I was in New York (from 9 September 2011 to 8 January 2012) standing in front of the window of an apartment on the and at CentroCentro. Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid (from twelfth floor of number 11, Courtland Street, in New 16 September 2011 to 31 January 2012). York, just two blocks from the World Trade Center, when, In the CCCB Lobby, projected on six screens, were 176 suddenly, the 20th century ended. Memory Remains is a photographs from Hangar 17, the space used to keep the project that deals with the historical memory, the national remains from Ground Zero following the attacks. Also memory, social and individual grieving and ways of exhibited was a fragment of the sculpture WTC Stabile dealing with deep traumas in order to achieve healing; all (1971), also known as Bent Propeller, by American artist these aspects catalyse in a kind of suspended animation in Alexander Calder, the work that had presided over the the extraordinary Hangar 17 at JFK in the city of New York square where the World Trade Center once stood. where the physical remnants of the disaster that took place on 11 September 2001 are stored. There will be a National RELATED ACTIVITY Memorial and a 9/11 Museum, but the exceptional nature and temporary aspect of Hangar 17 confer upon 9/11/ The World Ten Years On it a singularity, and a visual and emotional power that Series of conferences (19 and 27 September, 26 October it is very difficult to supersede. Paradoxically, this is a and 2 November) place closed to visitors. Few people are even aware of its existence. After much red tape, I managed to gain access See the section Spaces for debate and reflection. In parallel and permission to photograph its contents.” (Francesc Torres) OFFER FOR FRIENDS OF THE CCCB Coinciding with the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, the See the section Friends of the CCCB. CCCB and the 11 September Memorial prepared this installation that was presented in parallel at the Imperial War Museum in London (from 26 August 2011 to 26 February 2012), at the International Center of Photography

12 EXHIBITIONS THE COMPLETE LETTERS FILMED CORRESPONDENCE

Dates: 11 October 2011 – 19 February 2012 With the collaboration of: The Catalan Government’s Department Venue: Sala 2 of Culture Curator: Jordi Balló Space design: Guri-Casajoana arquitectes SCP Organisation: CCCB Graphic design of the exhibition interior: Marc Valls Production: CCCB, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco de Mèxic, Gecesa (La Casa Encendida de Madrid) Image and communication and Acción Cultural Española (ACE) graphic design: Marnich Associates Catalogue design: La Japonesa / Intermedio

This exhibition was inaugurated in Mexico, at the Centro These encounters generated a kind of films that are only Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, on 3 May, and ran until fully understandable if presented in an exhibition space 30 July. At the CCCB it was inaugurated on 11 October that must be juxtaposed and simultaneous, a return and, in parallel, it was presented as a cinema season at journey, where a sphere of new reflexive intimacy is the Casa Encendida in Madrid from 19 September to 30 created. October. PARALLEL ACTIVITY The creative relationship between Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami that developed for the exhibition Erice- José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas, in conversation Kiarostami. Correspondences created a new cinematographic Over the course of more than two years, José Luis Guerin format: the exchange of filmed letters between two and Jonas Mekas sent each other filmed letters and filmmakers, considering affinities and differences, mutual forged a friendship in cinema. Finally, on 20 October respect and the simultaneity of their interests. 2011, the moment arrived for their meeting in real life, Based on this experience, the CCCB invited other in a conversation moderated by Jordi Balló, between two filmmakers to investigate this format and establish fundamental filmmakers who mutually admire each other. diverse variables of visual correspondence, understood as a reflection in the present on everything that motivates EDUCATIONAL OFFERING AND FOR FRIENDS them in their surroundings, based on spaces for creative OF THE CCCB freedom. See the Education Service and Friends of the CCCB sections. The exhibition The Complete Letters brought together these works involving exchanges between seven pairs of CATALOGUE directors who have worked on this experimental exercise. See the CCCB Holdings. Publications section. Duos of creators located in places distant from each other but united by the desire to share concerns and viewpoints. TOURS This was the case for Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, for Albert Serra and Lisandro Alonso, for Isaki Lacuesta See the Beyond the CCCB. Exhibitions section. and Naomi Kawase, for Jaime Rosales and Wang Bing, for José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas, and for Fernando Eimbcke and So Yong Kim.

13 EXHIBITIONS WORLD PRESS PHOTO 11 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM

Dates: 23 November – 23 December With the collaboration of: CCCB Venue: Sala -1 With worldwide sponsorship by: TNT and Canon Organised by: Fundació Photographic Social Vision © Daniele Tamagni

For the seventh year running the Fundació Photographic from around the world see this exhibition is evidence of Social Vision with the collaboration of the CCCB organised photography’s power in overcoming linguistic and cultural the World Press Photo 11 exhibition. frontiers. The World Press Photo exhibition – a collection of the World Press Photo offers images for the collective memory, winning photographs of the competition of the same striking images that on numerous occasions have changed name – is known worldwide as the main touring the course of history and public opinion. photojournalism exhibition. This means that World Press Photo becomes as much a historical document PARALLEL ACTIVITY of the year’s main events as an exhibition of the finest 7.7 Workshops. World Press Photo Winners photography. From 21 to 23 November a series of workshops were held Every year an independent international jury formed with Jodi Bieber, winner of the World Press Photo of by thirteen members chooses the winning photographs the Year Award 2011, and Walter Astrada, winner in the among all those sent in by photojournalists, agencies, category Spot News Stories at World Press Photo 2010. newspapers and photographers from all around the world. The photographs participate in ten categories: Spot news, The workshops were aimed at professional photographers General news, People in the news, Sports news, Sports or those still training, who sought not only to improve the features, Contemporary issues, Daily life, Portraits, Nature quality of their photography but also to reflect on their and Art and Entertainment. own ways of working. The annual exhibition of the winning photographs can be EDUCATIONAL OFFERING AND FOR FRIENDS seen each year in eighty cities across forty countries, on OF THE CCCB the condition that all the works can be exhibited without any kind of censorship. The fact that thousands of visitors See the Education service and Friends of the CCCB sections.

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ACTIVITIES 15 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS AND OPEN FORMATS XCÈNTRIC. THE CCCB’S CINEMA 10 YEARS OF VISIONARY FILM

Dates: December 2010 – June 2011 Programming: Celeste Araújo, Loïc Díaz-Ronda, Gonzalo de Lucas and Organised by: CCCB Oriol Sánchez Directed by: Carolina López

The tenth Xcèntric season began on Friday 3 December or plastic sense, in dialogue with the literary, pictorial or 2010 with an inaugural session featuring filmmaker David sculptural and at the same time political tradition, linked Domingo. to a state of repression and secrecy under a dictatorship. Four days of meetings on cinema, literature and visual The spirit of Xcèntric remained unchanged: the intention and political composition, based on films by Jean-Claude was to give visibility to what Gonzalo de Lucas calls “long- Rousseau, Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet, Paulino distance cinema”, i.e. a cinema created on the margins of Viota and Peter Nestler, which included a workshop on established fashions and formats. Rousseau, a talk with Paulino Viota and the presentation Xcèntric constituted more than ever a meeting place for of the Internacional Straub web project, by the magazine the public, filmmakers and academics keen to enjoy Lumière. visionary cinema, with a not-to-be-missed date every Thursday and Sunday, from December 2010 to June 2011, AULA XCÈNTRIC. THE DANCING DEATH at the CCCB’s Auditorium. Carnivalesque subversion and non-fiction film Filmmakers featuring in the programme this season Dates: 22 May – 4 June were: Ben Rivers, David Domingo, Jim Jennings, Peter Directed by: Loïc Díaz Ronda and Andrés Duque Tscherkassky, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Dominic Angerame, Organised by: Institut d’Humanitats and CCCB Paolo Gioli, Albert Triviño, Nick Hamlyn, Jean Rouch, The Aula Xcèntric 2011 aimed to trace the tracks of a Anne McIntosh, Filipa César, Jonathan Lewald, Cécile very old idea, the carnivalesque, through the history and Fontaine, the Lumière brothers, Guy Sherwin, Hannes present-day currents of a young art, film, and to do Schüpbach, Stan Brakhage, Gunvor Nelson, John Price, so in the crowded territory of non-fiction, which fuels Anri Sala, Naoyuki Tsuji, Telemach Wiesinger, Leighton both documentary and experimental film, video art and Pierce, Robert Todd and Alain Cavalier. audiovisual culture.

XCÈNTRIC SPECIAL SESSIONS The Aula proposed – through screenings, round tables Films under discussion: no aesthetics without animated by specialists and meetings with prominent ethics. How to create a new image? film artists – the discovery of little-known films, as well Dates: 4-7 April 2011 as reflection and debate on the different aspects of the carnival aesthetic and its use in contemporary audiovisual Organised by: CCCB and French Institute in Barcelona creation and non-fictional film. Participants included Ben This programme, in the form of screenings and meetings, Russell, Josetxo Cerdán, Mara Mattuschka, Elena Oroz, considered how a new image is created in an aesthetic Juan Antonio Suárez and Miguel Fernández Labayen.

16 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS AND OPEN FORMATS XCÈNTRIC. THE CCCB’S CINEMA EMERGÈNCIA! 2011 10 YEARS OF VISIONARY FILM Date: 19 February Organised by: CCCB and Analogic Té © Albert Uriach, 2011

For the third year running, Emergència! became a session devoted to showcasing the latest upcoming sounds in national and international independent music. Hedging bets for the future on a series of specific names, the 2011 event revealed eight signature voices that were just starting to transcend the “word of mouth” circuit. Fiera!, Ornamento y Delito, Caballo, Dotore, YoYMiPaYa, Me and the Bees, Patrick Bower & The World Without Magic and Stranded Horse discovered their first best moment when Emergència! took hold of their proposals and offered them to the audience on two stages: the Hall and the Auditorium of the CCCB.

17 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS AND OPEN FORMATS URGENT! #01 MONEY AND #02 PUBLIC SQUARE

Dates: 5 February and 15 July Organised by: CCCB and Isaac Monclús With the collaboration of: Producciones Doradas © Albert Uriach, 2011

As a result of the need to break with the tempos of The second Urgent! session, Public Square, tackled the institutional programming for culture when faced with dynamics of the taking over of the public space set in surprising and ephemeral situations, Urgent! was proposed motion by the 15-M Movement. While reflecting on the as a de-programming rather than a programming element, political, legal and networking dimensions, the session undisciplined rather than disciplinary, to take on, with debated different transformations of these dynamics: total freedom of format and opinion, the challenge of from the taking to the creating of the square, from the situations that require an immediate response with all the non-place to the place of collective decision-making, from consequences of their undeferrable nature. the restoring of semantics to the articulating of policies. Guillermo Zapata (El Patio Maravillas, Madrid), Nicolás The first Urgent! session, Money. A global problem in Sguiglia (La Casa Invisible, Malaga) and researcher Yaiza your pocket, dealt with the subject of money from an Hernández took part in the talk Taking over the square, elementary background (the pocket) to systemic focuses creating what is public; while culture critic Raúl Minchinela on the financial crisis. With proposals in different formats, (Reflexiones de Repronto) offered an express talk on the Urgent! #01 Money reflected on the free culture movement effects of the 15-M Movement in terms of transforming with the project Dyndy-Engineering the Future of Money language; and finally, lawyer Javier de la Cueva, essayist by Jaromil Rojo and Marco Sachy; it listened to the words and philosopher Miguel Morey, activist Beatriz García, of Boris Groys in a talk on the economy of the artistic artist Daniel G. Andújar and journalist Magda Bandera display, and it formulated a lecture-show with María offered their reflections in a talk about the new scenario of Eloy-García, Sayak Valencia, Antonio Baños and Isidro the communal, the public and the political. López based around the criticism of political economics and the imaginary and satirical humour of El Mundo The two Urgent! sessions were also accompanied by the Today. To close the first meeting of this “unprogrammed” 11th edition of Doropædia, the project by Producciones event, Los Punsetes, Hidrogenesse, Els Surfing Sirles and Doradas, which presented a publication of collectible mini- Boncompain offered a concert with covers of emblematic CDs with different impressions of multimedia and plastic songs about money. arts contents around different concepts.

18 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS AND OPEN FORMATS KOSMOPOLIS 2011 AMPLIFIED LITERATURE FEST

Dates: from 24 to 26 March With the collaboration of: CatalunyaCaixa and El Periódico Organisation: CCCB © Carlos Cazurro, 2011 © Carlos Cazurro,

Kosmopolis. Amplified Literature Fest is a biannual literary Theatre was present with Wadji Mouawad, Pau Miró, Josep meeting that has become consolidated as the major event Maria Miró and Alfredo Sanzol, and there was a repetition in letters in Barcelona, a literary festival to emancipate of two of the most successful activities at Kosmopolis: Cafè readers, stimulate the canon’s mutation, agitate genres, Europa, with Chris Keulemans, Xavier Theros and Ajo, navigate a sea of languages and review myths, traditions among others; and the BookCamp, which, at the seventeen and identities. debating tables that were organised, brought together around 850 participants on top of the 5,600 that attended The 2011 Kosmopolis. Amplified Literature Fest event the festival. took place over the course of three das and enjoyed the presence of such authors as Ian McEwan, Alessandro Kosmopolis had a significant presence on the social Baricco, Enrique Vila-Matas, Eduardo Lago, Henry Jenkins, networks Facebook and Twitter, through which some Janne Teller and Manuel Vincent. Hand in hand with the of the activities were announced and a twitterature British Council, it organised a session dedicated to the competition was organised with the support of the Anilla best slam poetry from the United Kingdom, featuring Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa. the presence of Chris “Ventriloquist” Redmond, Laura In addition, on 11 May there was a special Kosmopolis event Dockrill and Francesca Beard, and those attending could in which writer Jonathan Safran Foer presented his book also come into closer contact with African recited poetry Eating Animals. hand in hand with Malika Ndlovu and D’bi.young. A “writing jam” was also held in which young authors such www.cccb.org/kosmopolis as Andrés Neuman, Jordi Puntí, Eloy Fernández-Porta, www.facebook.com/kosmopolis Flàvia Company, Mathias Enard, Víctor García Tur, twitter.com/kosmopolis_cccb Gonzalo Escarpa, Andrés Ibáñez, Laura Fernández and Jordi Carrión wrote, live, a futurist novel set in Barcelona.

19 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS AND OPEN FORMATS BCN MP7 MUSIC IN PROCESS

Dates: 22 July, 22 and 23 September Organised by: CCCB and Barcelona City Council-ICUB With the collaboration of: Lucia Lijtmaer and Màrius Fort, Casa Amèrica Catalunya © Martí Pons (Factory pix), 2011 Pons © Martí

Aiming to underline the musical specificity experienced by La Gran Orquesta del Barrio Chino, the big band put by Barcelona, but without overlooking the communicating together for the occasion with members of Tarántula, vessels between cities, regions and global tendencies, Tu madre and Manos de Topo, and a session with DJ BCN mp7 functions as a cycle of creation, agitation and Miguelito Superestar completed this tribute-event. debate on types of contemporary popular music. The sixth Taking advantage of the La Mercè festival, BCN mp7 event in the cycle continued exploring alternative visions joined up with the Barcelona Acció Musical (BAM) of today’s musical scene, programming new concerts Festival to present, for the first time in Europe, the oriented towards illustrating the fusions and frictions that versatile, cosmopolitan and maverick Rita Indiana. The affect the different musical genres and revisions of the proposal from Rita Indiana y Los Misterios, emerging past through the filter of the present. from the Dominican Republic and one of the star At the first session of 2011, BCN mp7. The Perfidy of Your contemporary Caribbean music bands, is defined as Love, the dance-band tradition of Barcelona was recovered “electro-merengue-beat”, fresh and innovative with a and championed, raising the visibility of a history of frenetic rhythm. Accompanying the concert in the Plaça music, dance halls and the people who attended those de Joan Coromines, Puerto Rican video artist Noelia first dances. To celebrate the return of the classics of slow Quintero, Cuban writer Abilio Estévez and Rita Indiana dances, The Perfidy of Your Love featured a talk with Roger herself took part in a discussion on the present and future Roca, Luis Hidalgo, Jaume Sisa, Javi Álvarez (DJ de la of the Antilles, from the viewpoint of music, images and Muerte) and Cristina Fallarás in which they produced a literature. historical map of love based on the songs. A performance

20 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS AND OPEN FORMATS GANDULES 2011 ACTION!

Dates: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays of the month of August Organised by: CCCB Sponsored by: RENFE © Martí Pons (Factory pix), 2011 Pons © Martí

The ninth Gandules event, the CCCB’s al fresco cinema season, which has become a well consolidated proposal for the summer in Barcelona, revolved around stories on social inequalities, difficult times and the pressure of money, which lead people to think about new approaches and possibilities in their lives. The popular and chaotic cinematographic view of the way in which money stifles people’s freedom, appeared in this programming infected with poetic intensity, and with the expressions of greed, desire and other attractions that money can arouse in people’s faces. With films by Claire Denis, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Véréna Paravel/J.P. Sniadecki, Jean- Pierre Melville, Lech Kowalski, and premieres of works by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kent Mackenzie as well as in-house productions by Félix Pérez-Hita and Artur Tort.

21 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS AND OPEN FORMATS XPERIMENTA 11 CONTEMPORARY GLANCES AT EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

Dates: from 4 to 6 November Organised by: CCCB Directed by: Miguel Fernández Labayen and Antoni Pinent

Inici de la nova temporada d’Xcèntric, el cinema del CCCB · cccb.org/xcentric The year 2011 saw the return of the practices of expanded cinema to Xperimenta, the biennial meeting on the deconstructions of social, cultural current issues in experimental film and sexual actions. Participants and video, with debates, screenings included Matthias Müller, Vaginal and workshops. This third event Davis, Carles Congost, Marc Siegel, brought together artists and experts Sandra Gibson and Luís Recoder. in Barcelona to debate on current The three days of conferences, issues in experimental film. The screenings, performances and 2011 conferences were devoted to workshops were attended by 566 reflecting on the performance aspect people. of experimental film and video, from

Matthias Müller Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder Carles Congost Vaginal Davis www.cccb.org Marc Siegel Disseny gràfic: Estampa

MÍNIMA COMÚN INSTITUCIÓN (MCI) MANAGEMENT AND SELF-MANAGEMENT OF COLLECTIVE CREATION

Date: 24 and 25 November Organised by: CCCB and YProductions

Mínima Común Institución (MCI) Participants in the project included consisted of two days during which, Open-Roulotte (Meritxell Bonàs and under the roof of the CCCB, a Sara Talla), Hansel Sato (Consell “minimum space” was offered for Consultiu Documenta12), Xavi Pérez negotiation with cultural institutions, (Ateneu Santboià), Nicolás Sguiglia with the desire to activate processes (La Casa Invisible, Malaga), Manuel of critical research developed by Aisa (Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular), independent cultural collectives Jesús Carrillo (Public Programmes and platforms. Coordinated by of the Museo Nacional Centro de YProductions, together with Site Arte Reina Sofía) and Iris Dressler Size, La Fundició and Espai en Blanc, and Hans D. Christ (Kunstverein MCI came about as a commitment Stuttgart). by the CCCB to rethink processes of collaboration between cultural institutions and self-managed collectives. © Albert Uriach, 2011

22 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS AND OPEN FORMATS OFF-PROGRAMME UNPLANNED REGULAR AUDIOVISUAL PROGRAMME

Organised by: CCCB

Audiovisual creation is increasingly The first session was WIKILEAKS/ alert to current affairs and reacts WIKIREBELS. The Glasnost of Our quickly to events with strong social Time? April saw the screening of Pig and human transcendence. The idea Business on the failure of industrial is to detect, over the course of the agriculture. As every year, in May year, those works produced owing Off-programme organised a special to the commitment and solidarity of session with the International their authors, aiming to enhance the Women’s Film Festival, with the screening with the presence of the screening of Mamnou (Forbidden) by authors or people directly involved in Amal Ramsis and a debate on Egypt the issue. Before and After the Revolution. During the month of December a session was Following the thread of global Disseny gràfic: LaCorporación held on the effects of the economic tensions and the human factor, recession, Do We Live in a Debtocracy? in 2011 sessions were devoted to which featured the screening of the the economic recession, its effects documentary Debtocracy by Greek and the serious human and social journalists Katerina Kitidi and Ari situations that it is triggering. Hatzistefanou.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION ANIMAC AT THE CCCB

Dates: February Organised by: Animac (Lleida) and CCCB

Animac, International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia, returned to the CCCB for another year to present the new features from its 15th event held in 2011, with outstanding guests and a selection of the finest animated films of all time and from around the world. This session was dedicated to the work process of Syd Garon, animation director of NASA, The Spirit of Apollo, who presented his most recent works.

23 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION OVNI 2011 DIS_REALITY

Dates: from 22 to 27 February Organised by: Observatori de Vídeo no Identificat (OVNI, Unknown Frame Observatory) With the collaboration of: CCCB, Catalan Government-CoNCA, Barcelona City Council-ICUB, Videolab and Cintex

The thirteenth event for this festival contemporary culture and society reflected, through video and debates, through different audiovisual on the different approaches to the manifestations. Highlights among the critique of reality, their impact and screenings included those of Marie the horizons that they illuminate or Voignier (Hinterland), Erik Gandini recall. Dis_reality presented some of (Videocracy) and Falconetti Peña the more radical questionings about (Oscuros portales), and that by Sabina reality that originate from the image Guzzanti (Draquila. L’Italia che trema) and simulation culture, and others in at the festival preview. which the expansion of a dominant reality is destroying other more discrete realities. The Observatory Archives brought together an entire constellation of diverse works with the common denominator of free expression and reflection, facilitating a critique of

LP’11 EX DANCE FESTIVAL

Dates: from 4 to 13 March (at other venues until 27 March) With the collaboration of: CCCB, the Catalan Government’s Organised by: La Porta Barcelona Department of Culture. Barcelona City Council-ICUB, Mercat de les Flors and La Poderosa

For twenty-three days and with over Participants included: Bea Fernández, thirty proposals for contemporary Sonia Gómez, Sergi Fäustino, Tony creation based around the body, Orrico, Societat Doctor Alonso, movement and action, La Porta Mauricio González and Beatriz Barcelona presented the third Festival Preciado, Paz Rojo, ORMA, Cristina LP event. The aim of this biennial Blanco and Antoni Karwowski. event is to seek the best way of publishing the thought, process and action of the guest artists, offering a view of dance evolution as a vehicle for perception and knowledge. LP’11 was inaugurated at the CCCB’s Hall with Lego Nights, a set of actions conceived to transform the space by opening up a game between the proposals and the audience.

24 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION ZOOMVI FESTIVAL OF VIDEO-CLIP ARTISTS

Dates: April Directed by: Josep Quintana

Zoomvi is a festival devoted The event was shared with Olot and exclusively and monographically Reus, and broadcast via the Anella to video clips, which places the Cultural network. It was attended by emphasis on audiovisual creativity 500 people in Barcelona, 150 in Olot applied to this popular genre. and 240 in Reus. At this year’s event there were viewings of the best works produced in recent times. There was also a video clips competition, a battle of the video clips between artists and VJs, presentations by authors on their creation process, debates between experts and live performances.

THE INFLUENCERS 2011 FESTIVAL OF NON-CONVENTIONAL ART, GUERRILLA COMMUNICATION, RADICAL ENTERTAINMENT

Dates: from 14 to 16 April With the collaboration of: CCCB, Barcelona City Council-ICUB Organisation: The Influencers and d-i-n-a.net and the Catalan Government-CoNCA Directed by: Bani Brusadin and 0100101110101101.org

The Influencers is a festival whose also playful and educational, at its challenge lies in bringing us closer seventh event the festival featured to certain unconventional artistic seven proposals originating from actions that are situated outside the United States (Jeff Stark, Cat the entertainment industry, in the Mazza), Great Britain (Chris Atkins), agitated waters of the new global the Netherlands (Suicide Machine), underground. The Influencers stands Mexico (Superbarrio), Slovenia as a meeting devoted to creative (Janez Janša) and Iraq (Wafaa Bilal). experiments that cross through art, Presentations, debates, screenings © Albert Uriach, 2011 communication and activism with and actions gave form to the festival a common aim: discovering new programme. ways of transmitting collective ideas, stories and dreams. Visually, sensorially and intellectually ground-breaking in nature, but

25 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION MUSEUM NIGHT

Date: 14 May Organised by: CCCB With the collaboration of: Barcelona City Council-ICUB

Museum Night is a city event morning. As a complement to the involving museums and exhibition visit to the exhibition The Trieste of centres in Barcelona and all around Magris and within the framework Europe. A nocturnal, cultural and of Poetry Week, the show Poemusa-1 recreational event that offers a host was presented. A group of actors and of proposals and activities to enable actresses recited poems in spaces people to enjoy museums during around the CCCB and the exhibition. unusual opening hours. A poem whispered close up, as a kind of personal recital, or a reading On the Saturday prior to of poems for everyone. International Museums Day, the doors of the CCCB were opened from seven in the evening until one in the Graphic design: Dani Navarro Graphic

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS DAY

Date: 18 May Organised by: CCCB

The CCCB joined in the celebrations It is worth highlighting the richness of International Museums Day of the messages that visitors sent to with a participatory activity titled Magris. Postcards were written in Barcelona-Trieste: Postcards to Claudio Catalan, Spanish, Italian, French, Magris, within the framework of the English, Portuguese, German and exhibition The Trieste of Magris. Russian. Many of the messages thanked him for the exhibition, but The CCCB offered visitors the also for his books. Other messages possibility of writing a postcard thanked him for helping them to Claudio Magris, whether from discover Trieste, with its corners, its the exhibition hall itself or via the cafés and its bookstores. There were CCCB’s blog. The result was a total postcards written by adults, with of 139 postcards, which were then profound reflections on Europe or sent to the author and to which he on memory, and by children, with responded with a collective letter. A a cheerful tone, and others with selection of fifty of the postcards he drawings dedicated to the writer. received can be found in the CCCB’s The postcards also included many Flickr album on International recommendations for Claudio Museums Day. Magris, both literary (referring him © Paderni, 2011 © Paderni, to writers such as Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Elias Canetti) and touristic (revealing many spots in Barcelona to him).

26 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION CIUTAT VELLA FLAMENCO FESTIVAL OMEGA

Dates: from 18 to 21 May Organised by: Taller de Músics and CCCB With the collaboration of: Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals With the support of: Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música

With this, its 18th event, the Ciutat Within the Empirical Flamenco cycle, Vella Flamenco Festival came of Flamenco Ciutat Vella 2011 gave age and reached consolidation even greater protagonism to the among lovers of this genre. With improvisation techniques inspired a programme titled Omega, the around this genre. Flamenco dancer name of one of the most famous Belén Maya, singer Ginesa Ortega and records by the cantaor (Flamenco the young but firm voice of Argentina singer) Enrique Morente, the festival were some of the heavyweights at organised by Taller de Músics this a festival that also continued with year was designed to pay tribute to the P’alucine season, an exhibition this Granada-born artist who died in of audiovisual documentaries about December 2010. The memory of this Flamenco.

CONSERVAS WHAT ARE ARTISTS FOR? 2

Dates: 27 and 28 May Organisation: Conservas Associació Cultural With the co-production of: CCCB and Barcelona City Council-ICUB With the collaboration of: La-Ex

In 2011, the biennial festival Inn The English experimental theatre Motion of Performing and Visual company Forced Entertainment, Arts changed format, and this project Julio Wallovits with a short film by Simona Levi (Conservas) was featuring actors Eduard Fernández transformed at this new event into a and Francesc Garrido, and the music visionary marathon of pleasure and band of Agnès Mateus and Juan intensity around a central question. Navarro, V de Amor, took part in this In view of the consequences of an meeting to continue trying to answer economic crisis with deep-rooted the question that has a cyclically and distant roots, what is the role of unfinished answer. artists as agents for change in these uncertain times?

27 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION OFFF LET’S FEED THE FUTURE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF DIGITAL CREATION AND CULTURE

Dates: from 9 to 11 June Organised by: ilovezumi and Zero4|Cultura en directe Directed by: Hèctor Ayuso With the collaboration of: CCCB and DHUB Barcelona

Over 10 years, the festival of post- For this tenth event, which sold digital culture OFFF has become out, OFFF again designed a careful consolidated as an event of programme of conferences, reference on an international level. workshops and activities that featured It has been a nest and a school for a outstanding participants: Alex generation of artists which, with the Trochut, Dentsu London, Eboy, Erik aim of sharing knowledge around Spiekermann, Han Hoogerbrugge, contemporary creation, has gradually Hey Studio, House Industries, Joshua built up an extensive international Davis, Marc Gómez del Moral, Marian network. A strong tendency towards Bantjes, Johnny Kelly, Multitouch the interactive portrait featured Barcelona, MWM, Rick Poynor, in the collaboration between Rob Chiu, Soon In Tokyo, Stefan OFFF, the CCCB and Sónar: the Sagmeister, Villar-Rosàs and Vincent OFFFmàtica exhibition, which gave Morisset. the opportunity of self-observation http://www.offf.ws through the eyes of technology.

SÓNAR 2011 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ADVANCED MUSIC AND MULTIMEDIA ART

Dates: 16, 17 and 18 June Organised by: Advanced Music, CCCB and Barcelona City Council-ICUB

With this event Sónar reached its Little Dragon, Shuttle, Dels, Offshore, coming of age, despite being a Eskmo, Neuron, Joan S. Luna, Facto festival that has enjoyed important y los Amigos del Norte, Agoria, international consolidation for Atmosphere, DJ Raff, Four Tet, Nacho some years now. Around 120 live Marco, Dominique Young Unique, performances and DJ sessions, Nacho Bay, Judah, No Surrender, SónarPro, the broad range of activities Gilles Peterson, Yelawolf, El Timbe, offered to the creative industries Shangaan Electro, DJ Sith & David M, sector, and OFFFmàtica, the Filewile, Beat’A’Boom, Nicolas Jaar, exhibition area of the festival which Tyondai Braxton, Raime, Stendhal in 2011 was programmed together Syndrome, Astrud + Col·lectiu with the OFFF festival, filled up three Brossa, Hauschka, Ghostpoet, intense days of programming. Edredón, Global Communication, Apparat Band and Actress. Sónar 2011 boasted the participation of Ragul, Half Nelson and Vidal Romero, Toro y Moi, Floating Points,

28 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION DAYS OF DANCE 2011 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF DANCE IN URBAN LANDSCAPES

Dates: 1, 2 and 3 July With the support of: CCCB, Barcelona City Council-ICUB, Organised by: Associació Marató de l’Espectacle Catalan Government-CoNCA, Spanish Ministry of Culture-INAEM/DGPIC Directed by: Juan Eduardo López and Barcelona Provincial Council-ODA With the collaboration of: GREC 2011 Festival de Barcelona

Within the framework of the GREC EA&AE ElíasAguirre & ÁlvaroEsteban Festival de Barcelona, for another (Spain), Vendetta Mathea & Co year, the twentieth Days of Dance (France), Anton Lachky & Peter Jasko (DDD) event proposed six days - Les SlovaKs (Slovakia), La Intrusa of contemporary dance in urban / Virginia García-Damián Muñoz landscapes. Buildings, streets, parks (Spain), Clash 66-Sébastien Ramírez and squares acquired an unusual & Hyun-jung Wang (Germany / life in motion with this international France / South Korea), Lotte Sigh encounter between dance, the Company (Denmark), Yiphun community and the public space. Chiem-Tribal Sarong (Cambodia / The programme for 2011 included Belgium), Eléonore Valere Lachky some of the best pieces from previous (France), EMBER-Laura Arís & Jorge events to celebrate this festival’s two Jáuregui (Spain), Mal Pelo (Catalonia), decades of existence, in addition to SonusDos Janet Rühl / Arnd the virtual programme Ciudades que Müller (Germany), Laurence Yadi, Danzan (Cities that Dance, CQD). Nicolas Cantillon-Compagnie 7273 (Switzerland), Company Chameleon Every night, the Pati de les Dones (United Kingdom), Rootlessroot at the CCCB became The Space in (Greece), Ziya Azazi (Austria / Motion, an exhibition of short pieces Turkey) and screenings of video with free entry, which this time dance from the CQD network, Olga around showed the works of Circle Clavel & Miryam Mariablanca, Park of Trust (Spain), LAKKA (Brazil), Soon-ho and Sasha Waltz.

HIPNOTIK FESTIVAL 2011

Date: 9 July Directed by: Marta and Salvador Torras Organised by: Hipnotik Festival With the collaboration of: CCCB

For another year Barcelona became order to go beyond the traditional the world capital of hip-hop for a topics and what is understood as a whole day, and the CCCB was its conventional festival. headquarters. Hipnotik Festival 2011 There were performances by presented over thirteen hours filled Agorazein, Cartel de Santa, Cookin with music, competitions, battles, Bananas, Costa, Duddi Wallace, Duo graffiti, break dance, workshops, Kie, Looptroop, Los Chikos del Maíz, conferences, exhibitions and La Puta Opepé, Noult, Puto Largo,

29 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION 48H OPEN HOUSE BARCELONA

Date: 22 and 23 October Organised by: Arquitectura Reversible and CCCB

This initiative, whose aim is to bring knowledge of architecture closer to the general public, forms part of the Open House Worldwide international network, although it was born with a city-focused identity and a vocation of territorial implementation. During the second edition of this cultural event, the doors of over 130 buildings were opened free of charge for the residents of Barcelona. The CCCB took part by opening the doors of its recently inaugurated CCCB Theatre to visitors. © Martí Pons, 2011 Pons, © Martí

L’ALTERNATIVA 2011 BARCELONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Dates: from 11 to 19 November With the support of: Catalan Government-ICIC, Barcelona City Council, Organised by: La Fàbrica del Cinema Alternatiu Media Europa, Spanish Ministry of Culture-ICAA, Department of Linguistic Policies and Barcelona With the collaboration of: CCCB Provincial Council

In 2011, the Barcelona Independent The juries awarded the Festival’s Film Festival, L’Alternativa, reached Grand Prize for Fictional Feature its coming of age with a new not- Films to Gravity Was Everywhere Back to-be-missed event for lovers of Then, by Brent Green (USA, 2010); honest, committed, art-house film the Festival’s Grand Prize for Non- that opts for innovative, creative Fictional Feature Film to La dernière language. Some two hundred films année, by Peter Hoffmann (France/ were screened between Official Germany, 2010); and the Festival’s Sections, Parallel Sections (Patricio Grand Prize for Short Films jointly to Guzmán, Alain Cavalier, Turkish Il capo, by Yuri Ancarani (Italy, 2010), cinema, Argentinean documentary, and Wild Life, by Amanda Forbis and Panorama, etc.) and the Hall Screen. Wendy Tilby (Canada, 2011). The In addition, activities organised Audience Prize went to Oblidant included round tables, conferences Nonot, by Pablo García Pérez de Lara for professionals, free training (Spain, 2011). activities at film schools and family sessions.

30 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION ZEPPELIN 2011 SOUNDS IN CAUSE: NETWORKED CITIES

Dates: 9 and 10 December With the support of: Catalan Government-CoNCA and Organised by: Orquestra del Caos Barcelona Cultura With the collaboration of: CCCB and Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa

The 2011 edition of Zeppelin brought Bages Rubí, Olivier Rappoport, Marc together in broadband network Garcia Vitoria, Lluís Nacenta and the soundscapes of five cities Edu Comelles Allué, who made up connected by the Anilla Cultural the proposal of artists and theorists Latinoamérica-Europa: Santiago offered by Orquestra del Caos for this de Chile, São Paulo, Cordoba session. Furthermore, in the Hall an (Argentina), Medellín (Colombia) and exhibition, Soundscapes, exhibited Barcelona. Microphones connected the Sounds in Cause Archive, the City to the Internet form the embryo of Works of Roberto Paci Dalò and the the Network of Laboratories and RedEsLab, with soundscapes in real Soundscape Listening Stations, time from Latin America. supplying sound material that participants of Zeppelin 2011 processed in real time from each of the connected cities. Participants included Roberto Paci Dalò, Apeiron Laptop Ensemble, Medín Peiron, Ariadna Alsina, Joan

DRAP-ART’11 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF RECYCLING ART OF CATALONIA

Dates: 16, 17 and 18 December Organised by: Associació Drap-Art With the collaboration of: CCCB

The eighth edition of Drap-Art was, for another year running, a showcase for tendencies in art using objets trouvés and reject materials as a resource. At this 2011 edition, Drap- Art distributed its activities between two singular venues in the city, the CCCB and Foment de les Arts i del Disseny (FAD), and programmed two concerts at the newly opened CCCB Theatre. As in the previous edition, Drap-Art’11 was comprised of eight sections developed to bring us into closer contact with creative recycling: collective exhibitions of works of art and design items made using recyclable materials, interventions in the public space, space for reflection, the traditional art and design market, participatory workshops, shows, audiovisuals and environmental films. 31 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME MÓN LLIBRE 2011

Dates: 9 and 10 April With the collaboration of: CCCB, MACBA, Llibreria Laie and Organised by: Barcelona City Council-ICUB Llibreria La Central Sponsored by: Obra Social Caja Madrid

The literature festival for boys This children’s run-up to Sant Jordi and girls aged up to twelve years also brought together Japanese celebrated its sixth annual event in illustrator Taro Gomi, singer Joan 2011. Now consolidated as a much Garriga of the Troba Kung-Fú, dancer looked-forward-to festival that brings and performance artist Sònia Gómez together over twelve thousand and the physical theatre group Los participants in a single weekend, the Corderos, who showed their way of annual commitment of Món Llibre approaching books. is to innovate in activities linked to books and literature aimed at children. With this aim, the 2011 event saw the programming of over one hundred projects, shows, talks and activities which filled the CCCB, the MACBA and the Plaça de Joan Coromines, offering little ones a new way of “reading” the world.

SÓNARKIDS

Date: 19 June Organised by: Advanced Music

For the third year running, on the day following the festival for adults, the Sónar for younger members of the household returned. SónarKids is a family leisure proposal in which children and parents can enjoy together music, art and technology in an original and innovative way. On this occasion, performances by DJ Amarelo, Barbara i els Morenos, Pioneer DJ Kids, Papa Topo, Brodas, Buraka Som Sistema and Gilles Peterson animated the Sónar Village throughout the day. The CCCB hall screened short animated films hand in hand with Jeugdfilmfestival, a film programme for children and young people originating from Flanders in which animation, music and a signature artistic selection are the protagonists.

32 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OTHER PROPOSALS ANTI SAINT VALENTINE’S

Date: 14 February Organised by: Álex Brahim With the collaboration of: CCCB

To celebrate Valentine’s Day in a fun, counter-cultural, Ramis, Jaime Rodríguez Z. & Gabriela Wiener, in a cabaret kind of way, the CCCB hosted an “Anti- Saint collective and spontaneous reading of bad love poems Valentine’s Day”. It featured participation by such names and two performances about Cupid’s other face at an act as Mistress Basia, Robert Juan-Cantavella, Eloy Fernández presented by Diana Pornoterrorista. Porta (with the performance €®O$ SESSION), Llucia

#REDADA IN BARCELONA

Date: 2 March Organised by: ZZZINC With the collaboration of: CCCB

First held at the Medialab-Prado in Madrid in December Participants included Ignasi Labastida (Creative Commons 2010, the #redada meetings began as a way of debating, Spain), Jaume Ripoll (Filmin), Simona Levi (Free Culture knowing and learning about aspects related with current Forum), Daniel Granados (Producciones Doradas) and Internet developments and digital rights. At the #redada film director Cesc Gay. in Barcelona, which was hosted by the CCCB in its Classroom 1, those attending took an in-depth look at different business models used on the web as a natural platform and the uses of free licences in our context.

INFERNO ITALIAN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FOR FILM

Date: 27 April With the collaboration of: CCCB, Catalan Government-CoNCA Organised by: Orquestra del Caos and Barcelona City Council-ICUB Sponsored by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona

The CCCB hosted the screening of Inferno, the first Italian on the production of electroacoustic musical works, made silent feature film which was the work of Francesco an accompanying production that Mauro Cardi, Luigi Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan, and Ceccarelli, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi and Alessandro Cipriani is a film-based description of the Hell in Dante Alighieri’s performed at the CCCB. Divine Comedy. The Edison Studio in Roma, which works

33 CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OTHER PROPOSALS SILVER WEDDING TO THE ROCKS ECO-WEDDING, PERFORMANCE, MEETING OF ARTISTS

Date: 29 June Co-produced by: LABoral Centro de Arte and Antic Teatre Organised by: Hangar With the collaboration of: CCCB Production: Hangar and CCCB

Sine 2005, artists and sex performers Annie Sprinkle and silver and rocks, elements that related them directly with Elisabeth Stephens have worked on the Love Art Lab, a the Earth. An authentic post-porn event that took place in project which they want to use to explore and celebrate the Pati de les Dones with the collaboration of artists Eco- love through experimental performance-weddings. In monja Zorra Suprema + Marikarmen Free Obispa, Diego their sexecological eco-performances, staged in many & Juanvi, Las Criadas, Helio Gábalo, Diana Pornoterrorista cities around the world, they collaborate with different + Spina Transnoise, Graham Bell Tornado + Glamereuse, communities of national and international artists Vulcano + Sofía, Peter Pfeiffer, Miss Perkances, jjjemp interested in sexuality, ecology and feminism. (Jonathan Kemp) and Quimera Rosa. Sprinkle and Stephens landed in Barcelona to celebrate their 13th Eco-wedding, for which they chose the colour

DIASPORA WITHOUT BORDERS 2011 AWARENESS CONFERENCE

Dates: 15, 16, 22 and 23 October Organised by: Associació IMAGO Barcelona

Diaspora without Borders is a project developed by the culture. In this 8th Diaspora without Borders, with Brazil as Colombian-Catalan association IMAGO Barcelona, which the guest country, IMAGO continued its awareness-raising works from Colombia and the Catalan capital to produce work using the visual arts and new technologies to address projects based around coexistence, development and solidarity, social movements and peace.

OPENWALLS CONFERENCE (OWC)

Date: 21 and 22 October Organised by: Difusor.org With the collaboration of: CCCB

With platforms for participation at different venues in Within a three-day programme devoted to presentations, the city, the OpenWalls Conference (OWC) became an dialogues and mural interventions, the CCCB hosted over international meeting to address the management of two days the four main conferences at the meeting. The independent urban interventions in the public space. The talks “Barcelona Projects”, “Different cities and contexts”, aim of this activity, organised by the Difusor group, was “Public space and mural interventions” and “Outstanding to raise awareness regarding successful experiences in the projects and conclusions”, with the participation of management of projects of this nature, in order to produce national and international speakers, served as open a framework document that could offer future guidelines ground for explaining different work experiences. to interested organisations and administrations.

34 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND

REFLECTION 35 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM Being Immigrant in Catalonia

Date: 13 January Organised by: Edicions 62 and CCCB Directed by: Pep Subirós (writer and philosopher)

Presentation of the book Ser nature of their legal situation and immigrant a Catalunya (Being non-recognition of their skills, as immigrant in Catalonia) (Edicions well as the scant possibilities they 62, 2010), the result of research and have for making their voices heard documentation work commissioned in issues affecting society as a whole. by the CCCB on the social and This means that not only is a first-rate cultural capital of immigration human, social and cultural capital originating from impoverished squandered, but we run the risk of countries, as well as the mechanisms creating a permanent divide between and main forms of integration and us and them. exclusion. The result of this research, The event was attended by six of directed by Pep Subirós, with the the protagonists: Amadou Bokar collaboration of Pau Carratalà, Miquel Sam, Ernesto Carrión, Lamin Cham, Fernández and Papa Sow, the book Huma Jamshed, Mostafà S’haimi includes the accounts of twenty- and Brahim Yabeed, as well as by Pau two protagonists and highlights the Carratalà, Miquel Fernández and Pep prejudices with which immigrants are Subirós. received and perceived, the precarious Crisis Barcelona Debate

Dates: 17 January – 21 March Sponsored by: Endesa Organised by: Fundació Collserola and CCCB

The shock of the economic crisis This debate is set within the line of has rudely awakened us from the ongoing reflection on the human dream of well-being in which we condition in today’s world which slumbered. With almost no period began in the year 2005 with the of transition we have gone from cycle Passions (2005) and continued a life free of concerns about what with the debates Life (2006), Sense lay ahead of us to flock in despair (2007), The Human Condition (2008), towards an uncertain future about Impurity (2009) and Thinking the which pronouncements are taking Future (2010). the form of a constant flow of dark The cycle was inaugurated with forebodings. Although the economy is a conference by writer Soledad the spearhead of the crisis, the feeling Puértolas (Crisis and Fables) and that everything is running down, that continued with papers by Saskia this is the end of an era, is similarly Sassen (Territory, Authority and affecting other aspects of the present: Rights), Gosta Esping-Andersen the political power game, aesthetic (Gender Equality), François judgement, the basic ethics of shared Jullien (Beauty), Avishai Margalit existence, our corners of privacy, our (Compromise), Eva Illouz (Love, relationship with the planet and our Reason, Irony), Jorge Wagensberg ability to imagine possible worlds. (If It Wasn’t for Crises, We’d Still Be Yet are not crises also times of great Bacteria), Antón Costas (The Economy) agitation and creativity? Do they and Étienne Balibar (Europe, Final not always open up an interlude of Crisis?). freedom before the crystallising of a new order? The big questions have Related publication been raised once again. With what No. 51 of the Breus collection (See the tools shall we face the challenge of CCCB Holdings. Publications section) providing answers?

36 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM Morocco: in transit Origins cycle

Dates: 11 and 12 April Organised by: CCCB Directed by: Pep Subirós (writer and philosopher) With the collaboration of: Casa Árabe

Contrary to the stereotypes that of the countries of origin of the portray a society languishing in immigrant population living in the past, the sessions on Morocco Catalonia today. in the cycle Origins aimed to Within the framework of the debate highlight the overlapping of a wide the following films were screened range of realities and dynamics: Mout Tania, by Ivan Boccara (1999), from the democratic opposition and Casanegra, by Nour-Eddine movements under Hassan II to the Lakhmari (2008). transformation processes currently occurring in all social spheres, and Participants included M’hammed including the existence of clearly Abdelouahed Allaoui, Abdel Aziz El differentiated cultures and traditions. Mountassir, Driss Bouissef Rekab, This cycle aims to raise awareness of Salwa El Gharbi and Pep Subirós. the most salient cultural references

Justice, Democracy and the Constitutional State Dialogues on the globalisation scene

Dates: 26 April, 3, 10, 17 and 24 May Organised by: General Council of the Judicial Branch, Directed by: José Manuel Bandrés (Supreme Court judge) and Pere Centre for Legal Studies and Specialised Fabra (professor of philosophy of law and Vice Training of the Catalan Chancellor of the Open University of Catalonia) Government’s Department of Justice and CCCB With the collaboration of: Philosophy of Law Group (UPF and UdG) and Logos (UB and UdG)

of private conflict regulation for Legal Studies and Specialised techniques, the emergence of Training of the Catalan Department new kinds of rights: all these are of Justice, have aimed to contribute phenomena that raise questions on towards a better understanding the validity of the concepts of justice, of the scope and significance of democracy and constitutional state as these changes for democratic and we have understood them since the legal culture, hand in hand with Enlightenment. The contemporary acknowledged specialists on an conscience regarding the universal international level. nature of human rights leads towards Participants included Félix Azón, an increasingly demanding concept of Roser Bach, José Manuel Bandrés, global justice that explodes the limits Ramón Camp i Batalla, Pere Fabra, of national local justices. Moreover, Pilar Fernández i Bozal, Víctor Economic and cultural globalisation, the need to find swift solutions to Ferreres, Antoine Garapon, Ernesto the information technologies conflicts is generating the rapid Garzón Valdés, Thomas Pogge, Alan revolution, the redistribution of spread of private conflict resolution Rau and Peer Zumbansen. the sovereignty of states towards formulas. supranational bodies, the emergence of crises – economic, healthcare, With this cycle, the CCCB, together environmental, humanitarian – on with the General Council of the a worldwide scale, the appearance Judicial Branch and the Centre

37 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM The Itinerant Languages of Photography

Dates: 23 and 24 May Organised by: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Directed by: Antonio Monegal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Eduardo Princeton University and CCCB Cadava and Gabriela Nouzeilles (Princeton University).

What is the role of photography in Images, Media and Archives in an the construction of collective memory International Context”, promoted and the archive? Photography is by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra presently at the centre of the debate (Research Group in Comparative on the role of representation, Literature of the University Institute authorship and reception in of Culture) and Princeton University contemporary art and culture. At (Global Collaborative Research Fund). a time when the impact of new Participants included Rafael Argullol, technologies is bringing about great Ariella Azoulay, Miquel Berga, changes, photography is increasingly Eduardo Cadava, Natasha Christia, circulating among the most diverse Manel Esclusa, Joan Fontcuberta, disciplines of the humanities, Hal Foster, María de los Santos arts and social sciences. Eminent García, Carles Guerra, Alfredo Jaar, specialists in the field discussed this Thomas Keenan, Jo Labanyi, Angel G. multiple itinerancy of photography Loureiro, Ricard Martínez, Jorge Luis (international, technological and Marzo, Antonio Monegal, Gabriela inter-disciplinary) at a meeting that Nouzeilles, Jorge Ribalta, Joel Smith is art of the research project “The and Francesc Torres. Itinerant Languages of Photography:

Democratic Imaginary and Globalisation 23rd Meeting of the Academy of Latinity

Dates: 26, 27 and 28 May Organised by: Academy of Latinity and CCCB With the collaboration of: Eurostars Hotels

Taking as a starting point the that brings together some of the democratic uprisings sweeping most prominent intellectuals on the through the Arab countries, the international scene. On this occasion, Academy of Latinity proposed this the CCCB collaborated with the reflection on the great challenges Academy of Latinity to organise this facing democracy and pluralism in meeting in the city of Barcelona. an increasingly globalised world. The Participants included Abdulrahman temptation of populism, the new Al Salmi, Hélé Béji, Jean Michel expressions of cultural identities, the Blanquer, Dominic Boyer, Cristovam re-emergence of fundamentalisms, or Buarque, Susan Buck-Morss, Gerardo the crisis of political representation Caetano, Juan Cole, Nilüfer Göle, are some of the issues discussed by Daniel Innerarity, Renato Janine intellectuals from around the world Ribeiro, Renato Lessa, Luis Martínez, meeting at the CCCB. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Cândido The Academy of Latinity is an Mendes, Josep Ramoneda, Enrique international organisation that Rodríguez Larreta, Xavier Rubert aims to reinforce solidarity and de Ventós, Jorge Sampaio, Javier promote cultural and scientific Sanjinés, Mario Soares, Mario Lúcio exchange between countries and Sousa, Dirk J. Vandewalle, Gianni peoples of Latin culture. As a part Vattimo, Michel Wieviorka and of this programme, twice a year the François L’Yvonnet. Academy organises a major debate

38 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM Mexico Today: Violence and Civil Society Presentation of the website Nuestra Aparente Rendición (Our Apparent Surrender)

Date: 31 May Organised by: Nuestra Aparente Rendición website and CCCB

In August 2010 the bodies of 72 war. Moreover, now with resonance migrants who had been kidnapped in the international sphere, Nuestra and murdered by the narco (drug Aparente Rendición has also traffickers) appeared in Tamaulipas been invited to discuss the issues (Mexico). One of the numerous with Hillary Clinton, Amnesty reactions to the tragedy was the International and UNESCO, to give creation of the blog Nuestra Aparente just three examples. Rendición (Our Apparent Surrender), At the colloquium, accounts were which was conceived as a space in read out and discussion took place which to discuss the burgeoning focusing on the current situation in violence in the country and as a call Mexico, so distorted by the media, as to citizens to show their pain and well as on the experience of Nuestra indignation: speaking up for peace. Aparente Rendición in creating a space Just a few months later, the blog in which Mexican society can reunite. has become a reference point for Mexican civil society, embracing the Participants included Lolita Bosch, opinions, experiences and reflections Edson Lechuga, Jordi Soler and of thousands of people affected by the Alejandro Vélez Salas.

The Cultural Counter-Reform

Dates: 1 and 2 June Organised by: CCCB Directed by: Bashkim Shehu (writer and advisor to the CCCB for With the collaboration of: Krytika Polityczna and Centre for Eastern Europe) and Ivan Krastev (director of the Centre Liberal Strategies for Liberal Strategies in Sofia)

Sexual liberation, defiance of Participants included Javier de Lucas, authority, the emergence of feminism Marina Garcés, Michael Kazin, Ivan and, in general, the lifestyle changes Krastev, Mark Lilla, Josep Maria of the 1960s are some of the cultural Martí Font, José María Ridao, Donald phenomena that had far-reaching Sassoon and Slawomir Sierakowski. effects on Western societies. Today, the neoconservative boom being experienced by Europe and the United States in the political and economic spheres, which is expressed as a racist and xenophobic discourse, raises the question of whether we are now confronted with a process of cultural counter-reform. Is the crisis facing the left only political?

39 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM Niccolò Ammaniti Que comenci la festa (Let the Party Begin)

Date: 8 June Organised by: Anagrama, Angle Editorial and CCCB

Presentation of the book Que comenci Viarregio awards. With Que comenci la la festa (Angle Editorial, 2011)/Que festa, Ammaniti humorously captures empiece la fiesta (Anagrama, 2011), the many vices and scant virtues of with an appearance by its author, present-day society through the story Niccolò Ammaniti, along with Pau of a rich builder from Rome who Vidal, writer and translator of Italian decides to organise the biggest party authors such as Andrea Camilleri, of recent times. Nothing is left at Antonio Tabucchi and Erri de Luca. the end but the remains of an inane, spent culture that is incapable of Niccolò Ammaniti (Rome, 1966) is seeing its own decline and fall. the outstanding Italian literary figure of his generation. Translated into 44 languages, he has been widely praised by critics and has received such prestigious prizes as the Strega and

Georges Corm The Arab Revolutions: Changes in Mediterranean Geopolitics

Date: 21 June Organised by: CCCB With the collaboration of: Ediciones Península

The revolutionary and counter- Georges Corm is an economist revolutionary situations in the Arab specialising in the Middle East and world are opening up a period of key the Mediterranean. With a Ph.D. changes in the geopolitical balance in from the University of Paris, he the Mediterranean and Middle East. has taught in several European Is it too soon to foresee the direction universities besides working as and extension of these changes or, an economic adviser to the World in contrast, is it possible to outline Bank, the European Union and scenarios for the future? Will the several United Nations agencies. He changes be confined to Tunisia and was Lebanon’s Minister of Finance Egypt or will they extend to other from 1998 to 2000. At present, countries as well? In this lecture along with his consulting work, he Georges Corm reflected on the scope is teaching at the Saint Joseph and of the political and socioeconomic Balamand universities in Lebanon. changes in the Arab countries over Among his recent books are Le the coming years and also their nouveau gouvernement du monde: influence in the geopolitical situation idéologies, structures, contre-pouvoirs of the region, in particular in the (La Découverte, 2010) and L’Europe et relations between the two shores of le Mythe de l’Occident: La Construction the Mediterranean and the roles of d’une Histoire (published in Spanish Israel, the United States and Iran. as Europa y el mito de Occidente, Península, 2010).

40 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM The Transformation of Intimacy

Dates: 27 and 30 June, and 13 July Directed by: Gisela Llobet and Enric Puig (doctors of philosophy) Organised by: CCCB

Nowadays we enjoy more individual freedom than ever before and yet our intimacy is much more susceptible to the influence of power and the market. What were once experiences in the strict solitude of the private sphere have become material for public debate or are exhibited through social networks, reality shows, biographical books or political pornography. To what extent have our most intimate needs been turned into a new form of commodity? Participants included Victor Gómez Pin, Jose Luis Pardo and Paula Sibila.

Rüdiger Safranski About Time

Date: 15 September Organised by: CCCB With the collaboration of: Tusquets Editores and Goethe Institut

Reflecting on time is a recurrent Rüdiger Safranski is a philosopher, concern in literature, philosophy essayist and the author of numerous and religion. The old enigma, biographies of major figures in however, has become a new problem German culture such as Heidegger, because the experience of time in the Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Goethe modern world changes in essential and Schiller. He is a member of ways every day. We believe we can the German Language and Poetry dominate time – the past is stored, Academy and his books have won the present is fixed and the future is numerous awards. Some of his administered – while communication essays published in Spanish include technologies hold out the promise El mal (Tusquets, 2000), ¿Cuánta of a global simultaneity that seems globalización podemos soportar? to make the ancient dreams of (Tusquets, 2004) and ¿Cuánta verdad humanity come true. But, at what necesita el hombre? (Lengua de Trapo, price? Accelerated evolution scorns 2004). life experience, gives rise to new He was introduced by Rosa Sala Rose, social problems and engenders fear essayist and literary translator. in people that they might become disconnected. How much acceleration can the human being bear? How is it possible to achieve a more reasonable relationship with time?

41 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM Culture and Life Dialogues on the impact of biotechnology

Dates: 17 and 24 October and 7 November Initiative promoted by: Obra social ”La Caixa” Directed and organised by: International Centre for Scientific Debate (BIOCAT) and CCCB

For some time now, progress in the With the aim of contributing towards life sciences has been giving rise a wide-ranging debate on the new to very far-reaching social changes biological paradigm, the International and there is some consensus Centre for Scientific Debate and the over the supposition that the next CCCB offered this cycle of lectures. technological revolution will come Participants included Miguel Beato from the domain of biology. With del Rosal, Jaume Bertranpetit, María scientific advances, human life Blasco, Inez de Beaufort, Jordi Camí, expectancy continues to increase as Daniel Gamper, John Gray, Pere new promises and problems also Puigdomènech and Àngel Puyol. emerge. Biotechnology has delivered into human hands responsibilities that were once in the hands of the gods and is now confronting us with critical moral, political and economic questions.

Peter Stamm Siete años (Seven Years)

Date: 3 November Organised by: Acantilado and CCCB

Presentation of the book Siete años have been translated into thirty- (Seven Years, Acantilado, 2011), with six languages and warmly received a talk by the author, Peter Stamm, by critics around the world. Seven and introduction by Jordi Soler, a Years is a portrait of the life together writer from Veracruz, Mexico, who of Alex and Sonja – a young couple of lives in Barcelona. architects working together in their own studio after university – who Peter Stamm (Weinfelden, are unable to bear the differences Switzerland, 1963) has emerged as between them, and so move between one of the most singular voices of desire and rejection, cordiality and European letters in recent years and estrangement, anxiety and liberation. his prose has been compared with Chekhov, Camus and Hemingway. His novels Agnes (1998), Unformed Landscape (2003), On a Day Like This (2007), and the short-story collections Blitzeis (Ice Storm, 1999), In Strange Gardens (2006) and Wir Fliegen (The Flyers, 2010)

42 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM Religion and the Public Sphere

Date: 23 November Organised by: Political Theory Research Group (UPF) and CCCB

Recent years have seen a proliferation the borderline between freedom of of debates in several European religious conscience and worship countries over the presence of and the guarantee of a state based religious symbols in the public on lay principles? How might the space. According to the principles of presence of religion in public space secularism, which have contributed be reappraised? so greatly to the construction of This debate was organised by the European public space, religion CCCB and the Political Theory should belong in the sphere of private Research Group at the Pompeu life. However, with the presence of Fabra University with the aim of Christian emblems in many spheres encouraging plural reflection on of European public life and with one of the most relevant issues of the arrival of new populations of European society today. immigrants who practise increasingly visible other religions, it is clear Participants included Cecile Laborde, that reality does not conform to Cristina Lafont, Ferran Requejo and these principles. Where, then, lies András Sajó.

Lluís Duch Banalization of the Word

Date: 19 December With the collaboration of: Fragmenta Editorial and Institució Organised by: CCCB de les Lletres Catalanes (Catalan Government)

Much has been said about the global Lluís Duch (Barcelona, 1936) is crisis affecting Western societies. an anthropologist, theologian and The prevailing discourse, however, monk of the Abbey of Montserrat. tends to focus exclusively on the In 2011 he was awarded the St. economic consequences whereas George’s Cross. His most recent in fact, the crisis has had an impact books prominently include Religió on all aspects of the present. The i comunicació (Religion and anthropologist Lluís Duch, who has Communication, Fragmenta, 2010) devoted a considerable part of his and L’ambigüitat de la puresa (The career to reflecting upon the word, Ambiguity of Purity, CCCB, 2009). sustains that our ability to bespeak reality has also been weakened. He believes that these critical times have their correlate in a banalization of the word that endangers every aspect of our public, private and intimate lives. This conference was organised by the CCCB with the collaboration of Fragmenta Editorial for the presentation of the book Emparaular el món. El pensament antropològic de Lluís Duch (Bespeaking the World. The Anthropological Thinking of Lluís Duch, Fragmenta, 2011).

43 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION IN PARALLEL Disappeared

Dates: 8 February, 9 and 30 March Organised by: CCCB Directed by: CCCB, with Gervasio Sánchez and Sandra Balsells With the collaboration of: La Casa Encendida (photojournalists, curators of the exhibition Disappeared)

The crime of forced disappearance crime”. This opens up wounds that consists of the illegal detention, can never heal in populations that are torture and frequently murder unable to discover the truth or mourn of people by the State, or agents their dead. acting in its name, with the aim of Within the framework of the terrorising a certain social group and exhibition Disappeared, this debate giving out a message of impunity aimed to propose a reflection to the civilian population. Classed on a phenomenon that, despite as a crime against humanity by the its persecution by international International Criminal Court and institutions, continues to be an the United Nations, its escalation in appalling ongoing reality. recent decades calls for reflection on the ways in which present-day states Participants included Sandra Balsells, deal with their internal conflicts. Viviana Díaz, Paco Etxeberría, Luis Silence and denial of aggression, Fondebrider, Andreas Huyssen, typical of this crime, become Antonio Monegal, Susana Navarro, strategies of undercover wars that Gervasio Sánchez and Emilio Silva. set up the premise of “no victim, no

9/11 The World Ten Years On

Dates: 19 and 27 September, 26 October With the collaboration of: Consulate General of the United States and 2 November of America (Barcelona), L’Avenç and Organised by: CCCB Anella Cultural

The 9/11 attacks tragically marked do these ten years give us for the beginning of the 21st century. understanding how 9/11 has changed Nonetheless, ten years on from this the world? historic moment, it is still difficult This cycle of lectures took place to weigh up the consequences, not within the framework of the least because the recent mass-based exhibition Fragmented Memory. 9/11- revolts in the Arab countries have NY Artefacts in Hangar 17 in which shown a clear distance from the the artist Francesc Torres showed his fundamentalist vision of the Middle photographic work from the hangar East that had been so widespread storing the remains of the Twin after the attacks, and are opening up Towers. The debates also formed part a new political and social era in the of the Anella Cultural, the project region. Meanwhile, the United States that interconnects different cultural is in the grip of an unprecedented centres of Catalonia via broadband. economic crisis that has made patent the precarious conditions in which Participants included Rafael Argullol, millions of people are living and has Montse Armengou, Clifford Chanin, overshadowed post-9/11 military Barbara Ehrenreich, Fèlix Fanés, strategies. What, then, is the legacy Pankaj Mishra, Mary Ann Newman of the attacks? What perspective and Francesc Torres.

44 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION IN COLLABORATION Medellín-Barcelona Two urban planning models in dialogue

Date: 30 May With the collaboration of: CCCB Organised by: Fundació Kreanta and Càtedra With the support of: Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Medellín-Barcelona and Cooperation-AECID, Barcelona City Council and Barcelona Provincial Council.

In recent years, Medellín has This debate was organised on the developed from being a symbol occasion of the visit to Barcelona of drug-trafficking and violence of the Medellín delegation under to becoming a city of reference the auspices of the Urban Planning in discussions about social and programme of the Medellín-Barcelona urban transformation. Architecture Chair, sponsored by the Kreanta and urban planning have played a Foundation. prominent role in bringing about Participants included Roser Bertran, these great changes. What lies behind Jordi Borja, Judit Carrera, Alejandro what is known as the “Medellín Echeverri, Beth Galí, Fèlix Manito, model”? What can Barcelona and Jorge Melguizo, Josep Parcerisa and Medellín learn from each other’s Manel Vila. urban planning models?

Whose City? Strategies of Participation and Appropriation Workshop and Seminar on the European Prize for Urban Public Space

Dates: 8, 9, 10 and 14 June With the collaboration of: David Bravo Directed by: Kathrin Golda Pongratz (Metròpolis Master’s Program) Organised by: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and CCCB

Held to coincide with the appropriate it. Based on relevant Metròpolis Master’s Program and the theoretical discourses, case studies Architecture and Urban Culture selected from the European Prize for Program 2011, the Public Space Urban Public Space were analysed Workshop “Whose city? Participation in order to debate concepts such as and appropriation strategies” was participation, human rights, forms directed by Kathrin Golda Pongratz of micro-politics and strategies of with the participation of David Bravo, appropriation of public spaces. secretary of the European Prize for Participants included Ivan Blasi, Urban Public Space 2010. David Bravo, Kathrin Golda Pongratz, The aim of the workshop was to José Luis Oyón, Gala Pin and Daniele study the global context of ad-hoc Porreta. revolutionary processes that take place in the public space and

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Daniel Bermúdez 4º Lat. N. 2.600 msnm

Date: 29 June With the collaboration of: CCCB Organised by: Lunwerg Editores

Presentation of the book 4º Lat N. 2.600 msnm. Daniel has carried out most of his work in Bogotà, located at Bermúdez. Arquitectura, which covers the work of the latitude 4º north and 2,600 metres above sea level, the Colombian architect, with forewords by architects Josep geographical position that gives the book its title. This Maria Montaner and Ignacio Paricio. publication summarises the practice and architecture of Bermúdez, imbued with light, space, water and gravity. Daniel Bermúdez is one of the most noteworthy and original architects on the American continent. A lecturer Participants included Daniel Bermúdez, Juan Herreros and researcher at the Universidad de los Andes, Bermúdez and Josep Maria Montaner.

Julie Wark Manifiesto de derechos humanos

Date: 19 October With the collaboration of: CCCB Organised by: Ediciones Barataria

Presentation of the book Manifiesto de los derechos humanos their own life plans, but financial agents, who, through (Human Rights Manifesto) with the presence of the corporations, multinational company alliances, invisible author, Julie Wark, and the participation of Judit Carrera, organisations, traders without scruples and financial Carmen Claudín, Carola Moreno and Daniel Raventós. consortia, formulate economic policies that affect, generally in a harmful way, each single person on this Human rights today are not universal, but the market planet. system is. This is a global web of economic independences beyond human control; a phantasmagorical, supposedly Julie Wark is a translator, a human rights activist, and impartial entity that governs all things. Nowadays, the the author of Indonesia: Law, Propaganda and Terror (Zed “actors” are not autonomous human beings who make Press, London 1983).

Building Digital Commons Global Forum on Building Digital Commons and Collaborative Communities

Dates: 29 and 30 October With the collaboration of: Fundació puntCAT, Escola Organised by: Amical Viquipèdia and Institute of Government d’Administració Pública de Catalunya, and Public Policies (IGOP-UAB) Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya and CCCB Sponsored by: Fundació Wikimedia

The CCCB hosted the Forum for Building Digital Commons information and knowledge resources, even though and Collaborative Communities, a meeting aimed at artists, these emerging forms of commons have their limits researchers, activists and pressure groups related to and ambivalences. In this sense, the Forum proposed to digital rights, which was held following on from the Free encourage learning and mutual support between digital Culture Forum. The aim was to facilitate contact between commons, guided by a critical vision, with similar values collaborative communities for the creation of digital and principles, with the aim of helping to build bridges commons and other groups defending free culture and between action and research. knowledge. New technologies offer a great opportunity http://www.digital-commons.net to create, innovate and collaborate to share and construct

46 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION IN COLLABORATION Master’s Degree: Design and Creation of Spaces

Dates: October 2010 – July 2011 Directed by: Arnaldo Basadonna, Mario Corea and Paco Pérez Organised by: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and CCCB

The Master’s degree in Design and Creation of Spaces existed in educational offerings in this area until now. brings different professional issues together and is built The other is the postgraduate course Exhibition Space upon the basis of two different postgraduate courses. which seeks to approach space as a meeting point between One is the Interior Design postgraduate course that deals people and culture within the framework of creative with the professional aspects of interior design, a field museography. By taking both of these postgraduate with an illustrious tradition here in Barcelona that needs courses – which will be taught at the CCCB’s facilities – references of its own. This course seeks to fill the gap that students can earn this Master’s qualification.

Metròpolis Master’s Degree

Dates: May – July 2011 Organised by: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and CCCB

Metròpolis is a master’s programme organised by the UPC social sciences or architecture and taught by philosophers, and the CCCB, based on multi-disciplinary research into anthropologists, art critics, artists, urban planers and the contemporary urban phenomenon. International in architects. It aims to reflect on the new realities emerging character, it is aimed at graduates in art, humanities, around the great metropolises.

Fila Zero

Dates: 18 January, 15 February and 8 March With the collaboration of: CCCB Organised by: Fundació ESCAC Directed by: Núria Vidal

The main aim of Fila Zero is to bring students, media In 2011, three sessions were held consisting of a screening professionals and general public into closer contact with and subsequent debate: Elisa K (Judith Colell and Jordi the most interesting and diverse film work being carried Cadena, 2010), Nocturna (Víctor Maldonado and Adrià out in our country. It offers the opportunity to get to know Garcia, 2007) and Cruzando el límite (Xavi Giménez, the creators close up and establish a dialogue with them 2010). regarding their work.

47 SPACES FOR DEBATE AND REFLECTION IN COLLABORATION Institute of Humanities Courses

Dates: All year round

From philosophy to literature, from history to art, and taught by a single lecturer, the aim is to favour exchange including film and theatre, the Institute has the objective between the different cultural spheres, collaborate in of in-depth study of the world of humanities in order their dissemination and contribute to the reception of the to discover different disciplines through the opinion of most important examples of European culture. Some of significant intellectuals and thinkers. Through a series of the courses programmed in 2011 were: The City and the conferences with a weekly guest or specialised seminars Imaginary of Destruction, Architecture and Nature in Film,

CUIMPB Programme

Dates: All year round

The Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo can be validated as free university credits in different (CUIMPB) offers a series of courses and seminars that disciplines.

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The CCCB LAB is a department of the CCCB dedicated that affect us all, with shared intuitions and some to research, transformation and innovation in the field provisional answers as a guiding compass to an open, of culture, with particular attention to the evolution of active and distributed horizon. genres and formats, and across-the-board collaboration Blog and social networks with the rest of the Centre’s departments. The CCCB LAB is a commitment to the future by the Centre in a The emergence of a community focusing on ideas, complex, changing, hybrid cultural scene, where culture, projects and innovative experiences requires ongoing art, science, information and knowledge are becoming the learning and attention. The CCCB Lab blog is the tool organizational focuses of a new world, a new economy and through which this community is being built. Over the a new society. course of 2011, a total of 35 posts were published and 23,524 visits received, from a total of 11,459 unique users. The objectives of the CCCB Lab are research and This year, monthly visits to the blog have almost tripled, dissemination of praxis in cultural innovation, network from 1,159 visits in January to 3,392 in November. creation and consolidation, research and innovation in virtual scenarios, the development and consolidation Social networks have also played an important role in both of in-house projects and the transformation of work the dissemination of CCCB Lab activities and in its own methodologies. development, and have allowed members of the public to interact from all around the world. The Twitter @cccblab The emergence of collaborative digital technologies account has 7,116 followers while its Facebook page has is causing an evident shake-up in ways of conceiving, 1,176 fans. Proof of the weight of tools 2.0 in CCCB Lab producing and disseminating culture, in work activities is the fact that 18% of the blog’s users enter via methodology, in the mutation of genres and formats, and one of the social networks. in programming styles. Even so, it would be a mistake to think that everything depends on our degree of adaptation http://www.cccb.org/lab/ to the digital revolution. New technologies constitute a sound instrument for evolutionary change, but they can not be conceived as the determining path for taking on this challenge. The reason is simple: the change is one of a nature and direction that are not exclusively technological. The review of subjects dealt with in I+C+i sessions over recent years, and the start of the CCCB Lab’s journey, have allowed this scenario to be approached through questions

50 CCCB LAB ACTIVITIES I+C+i RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN THE CULTURAL SPHERE

Dates: 16 February, 13 April, 12 May, 22 June, 20 September, 27 October In collaboration with: Trànsit Projectes, CAMON Madrid, ZEMOS98, and 29 November Institut de Recherche et Innovation du Centre Pompidou (IRI) and ESADE Organised by: CCCB Law Faculty

I+C+i, the visible window of Expanded Education #2 Digital Humanities CCCB Lab, is a cycle that tackles This new session examined from a A new area of study that has emerged the integration of the processes of critical perspective the changes and from the intersection between digital research, development and innovation possibilities that technology offers in tools and humanities is promoting in the world of culture. Based on four educational institutions and cultural the integration of advances in thematic blocks (Crisis and format centres. technoculture with philosophy, art, transformation, Programming concept, linguistics and cultural studies. Dissemination and communication Participants: Pere Arcas (TV3), Juanjo of cultural projects and Innovation Arranz (Libraries of Barcelona), Participants: Bernard Stiegler, Vincent dynamics), these sessions deal with Ramon Espelt (CCCB Education), Puig (IRI), Samuel Huron (IRI/Inria), dilemmas emerging from cultural Teresa Fèrriz (UOC), Sera Sánchez Pierre-Louis Xech (Microsoft France), praxis and from the process of (CEESC), Pepe Serra (Museo Picasso), Enric Senabre, Alina Mierlus and change which cultural institutions Roberto Aparici and Xavier Kirchner Toni Hermoso (Mozilla Catalunya) and traditional agents of knowledge Global Screen. Incubating an Intellectual Property in the 21st transmission are facing. Exhibition Century During 2011, I+C+i had a total of 950 From January to May 2012, the The birth and development of face-to-face participants attending CCCB is presenting Global Screen, an intellectual property law have gone the cycle and it has continued exhibition that explores the power hand in hand with technological experimenting with new formats to of the screen in society today. In evolution. The 20th century marked offer more practical sessions that September 2011, the exhibition’s the start of the digital era, to which allow better interaction with the virtual space was launched, an open it has not yet adapted: what are the public and to study in greater depth window to participation by the challenges and objectives facing the issues that have formed the basis public that increases the visibility intellectual property in the 21st of the cycle since its creation in the of the phases of incubation work century? year 2007: that usually remain behind the Participants: Enric R. Bartlett Serendipity scenes. Along these lines, this I+C+i (ESADE), Abel Garriga (Creative conference was offered for people to Given the connectivity, the Commons collaborator), Julián Altuna find out more about the exhibition’s atmosphere and the tools accessible (Fundació Quepo), Mercè Vallverdú contents and talk with its curators. today, serendipity can be a good (SGAE) and Agnès Lucas-Schloetter source of innovation. The first I+C+i Participants: Telenoika, Gilles (Universität Karlsruhe) session of the year was dedicated to Lipovetsky and Jean Serroy The I+C+i blog seeing where good ideas come from From Interaction to Co-Creation and whether it is possible to cultivate The I+C+i blog has been a repository them. This session centred on the design, for the cycle since its creation practical learning and case studies and a space for continuing the Participants: Trànsit Projectes and of processes with varying degrees of debates proposed at the face-to- Ricard Solé participation: from interaction with face sessions. I+C+i recognises a The Remix as Cultural Ecosystem the “formerly so-called public” to potential in tools 2.0 that goes beyond co-creation. communication, an attitude that can The remix is much more than an transform internal processes and the artistic precedent developed by the Participants: Irene Lapuente, Ramon relationship with the public. Over avant-garde with its collages. The Sangüesa y Robert Ketner the course of 2011, the I+C+i blog remix is an integral part of our received 25,794 visits from 16,982 culture and crosses through all unique users. Especially worthy notions of education, communication, of highlight is the importance of knowledge, politics, etc. the public originating from Latin Participants: Zemos98, Trànsit America, which accounts for 34% of Projectes and Jonathan McIntosh all visits to the website, thus showing the impact of the Anella Cultural Llatinoamèrica-Europa. http://www.cccb.org/icionline/

51 CCCB LAB ACTIVITIES Global Screen. Virtual Project

Dates: from September onwards Organised by: CCCB

In 2012 the CCCB is presenting the exhibition Global Representation phase: from February 2012 – and Screen. Curated by Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean Serroy and coinciding with the physical exhibition at the halls of Andrés Hispano, this exhibition explores the power of the CCCB – another road is opened: different virtual the screen in hypermodern society and how this power routes add paths for exploring the conceptual and formal is renewed, grows, and is diffracted with each new possibilities of the physical exhibition. technological innovation. Post-exhibition: finally, in the second half of 2012 – Following the thread of the exhibition’s theme – and once the physical exhibition phase is over – the blog in coherence with one of its lines of work – the CCCB will be converted into an open platform for reflection conceived and generated Virtual Global Screen, a and evaluation, as well as a public repository for the digital (internet, mobile, etc.) platform with the aim information generated, as a continuation of the exhibition. of encouraging participation of the public and raising From 1 September to 31 December the platform received a visibility of the phases of work involved in exhibitions that total of 14,793 visits from 7,872 users. As for participation, generally remain behind the scenes: during the first three months of the exhibition’s Incubation phase: in September 2011 a blog opened the incubation period, 154 videos were received. By screen, phase of gestation of the physical exhibition – comments worthy of highlight is the participation in the Political from the curators and organisers of the exhibition, screen (35 videos) and in the Excess screen (33 videos). presentation of the lines of work and previews of the During these three months there were also 24 posts contents, interviews with experts, etc. A call for people published on the website’s Work in progress section. At the to send in videos to be incorporated into the physical end of the year, the Twitter account @pantallaglobal had exhibition and other participatory activities made the 281 followers, while its page on Facebook had 231 fans. public into a contributor to the exhibition’s discourse and http://pantallaglobal.cccb.org/ contents.

52 CCCB LAB ACTIVITIES Global Screen. Virtual Project MCLUHAN GALAXY BARCELONA 2011 UNDERSTANDING MEDIA TODAY

Dates: 24 and 25 May Organised by: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Faculty of Communication of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) and CCCB

McLuhan Galaxy Barcelona P. Levinson (Fordham University). 2011 “Understanding Media Today” is Understanding McLuhan, round table an international conference forming with D. de Kerckhove (IN3/UOC), part of the events held in 2011 to P. Levinson (Fordham University), coincide with the centenary of the R. K. Logan (Univ. Toronto) and birth of Marshall McLuhan (1911- A. Piscitelli (Univ. Buenos Aires), 1980), one of the most prominent moderated by M. Ciastellardi (IN3/ figures in communication studies in UOC). the last century. McLuhan, art and media, round The CCCB hosted different round table with J. Marchessault (York tables to bring to an attending University), E. Ardèvol (IN3/UOC), audience (up to 200 people) and a G. Larkin (National Gallery of remote audience (the tables were Canada) and C. Miranda de Almeida broadcast live via the Internet) the (IN3/UOC), moderated by S. Kovats most important contributions of this (Transmediale Berlín). Canadian academic visionary. The event at the CCCB was composed of: http://www.mcluhangalaxy.net/ Understanding Social Media: How McLuhan’s Probes Help Us Make Sense of Today’s Media, conference by

CCCB LAB IN COLLABORATION INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ET D’INNOVATION (IRI)

A project by: Centre Georges Pompidou, Microsoft and CCCB

In the year 2008, the CCCB, together relationship with its users, and with Microsoft, adhered to the also the renovation of formats and Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation procedures. (IRI), created in 2006 by the Centre During the year 2011, the IRI Georges Pompidou and directed by and the CCCB participated in philosopher Bernard Stiegler. This the development of a European is a space for research related with project coordinated by Goldsmiths the application of new technologies (University of London) with the in the creation, production and Bocconi University (Milan), the RAI formalisation of cultural activities. (Italy) and the BBC (UK) also forming The main objectives of the CCCB’s part. The objective of the programme involvement is the development is to work on digitalised archives of the CCCB’s presence on the so that, based on the development Internet until the creation of a of new algorithms and work with true “virtual CCCB”, interactive metadata, analysis and search tools dissemination and making the most are generated to make information of the contents accumulated during that is extractable from archives more the Centre’s fifteen years of history, accessible, more flexible and more the intensification of the CCCB’s accurate.

53 CCCB LAB IN COLLABORATION ANILLA CULTURAL LATINOAMÉRICA-EUROPA HTTP://WWW.ANILLACULTURAL.NET

Dates: various throughout the year Organised by: CCCB, Centro Cultural São Paulo (Brazil), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Chile (Chile), Centro Cultural España-Córdoba (Argentina), Museo de Antioquia (Colombia), Spanish Cooperation and Development Agency and Fundació i2Cat

The Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica- The centres that form part of it are: el Europa is a network of cultural Centro Cultural São Paulo, the Museo facilities located in different de Antioquia, the Museo de Arte countries which, based on the Contemporáneo de la Universidad de intensive use of second generation Chile, the Centro Cultural España- Internet, has as its objectives the Córdoba and the CCCB. activation of the co-production of After the public presentation of online events, promoting lines the project and with the network of research on new uses of the functioning, during the year 2011 Internet in cultural production continuity was given to the exchange and promoting the exchange of of cultural contents between the contents. The Anilla Cultural is a participating institutions based on the tool capable of offering creators a programming of each centre. platform to experiment with new digital applications and, at the same time, to improve dissemination and intercommunication.

ANELLA CULTURAL http://WWW.ANELLACULTURAL.CAT

Dates: various during the year Organised by: Transversal Xarxa d’Activitats Culturals, Fundació i2Cat and CCCB With the collaboration of: The Catalan Government’s Department of Culture and Media, Department of Telecommunications and Information Society, Barcelona Culture Institute, Spanish Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Economy and Finance

The Anella Cultural project is based on the development of a network of cultural facilities that, based on intensive use of the new possibilities being offered by second-generation Internet, activate the exchange of contents, the co-production of online and the promotion of lines of research on new uses of the Internet in cultural production.

54 CCCB LAB IN COLLABORATION ANILLA CULTURAL LATINOAMÉRICA-EUROPA PLATONIQ. OPEN SERVER HTTP://WWW.ANILLACULTURAL.NET HTTP://OPENSERVER.CCCB.ORG

Platoniq promotes this project involving a public server dedicated to audio streaming via the Internet. In addition to covering the archives from the Open Radio festival, with which the project began, Open Server offers via the Internet a platform for independent radio support, production and broadcasting throughout the year. Its main objective is the dissemination of the right to free culture, a culture that is positioned in favour of the democratisation of the media and civil participation and that gives support to the alternative options to copyright that are currently being developed on the Internet. Royalty- free music, net culture and audio activism.

GOTEO PROJECT HTTP://YOUCOOP.ORG

Goteo is a research project that is best ideas. Goteo is a project that is being carried out to develop an being developed by Platoniq with the incubator of cultural innovation support of the CCCB, the National projects. The departure point is the Council for Culture and the Arts in study of current models of so-called Catalonia and the Institute of Culture Giving 2.0, applied mainly to social of Barcelona. entrepreneurship in order to observe the viability of these experiences and tools in the creative sector. Through a social network where projects can be presented, Platoniq aims to put to the test a new fundraising system, as well as trial participatory formulas to evaluate and select the

55 CCCB LAB en col·laboració ZZZINC HTTP://ZZZINC.NET/MASACRITICA/

#masacritica is a collective research being to an interconnected collective study developed by Zzzinc, with the brain with self-organizing capabilities, support of the CCCB, which studies and this fact has allowed for the the evolution of the critical mass from visibility of collective processes and a historic, social, anthropological practices which can be analyzed in an and scientific point of view. We have interdisciplinary way. evolved from the idea of a gregarious

INDEPENDENT FILM NETWORK (IFN) HTTP://IFN.CCCB.ORG

The Fàbrica de Cinema Alternatiu collectives and platforms from launched this circuit of production, around the world with the intention promotion, distribution, exhibition, of providing a directory of selected festivals, schools, consultation and contacts within the groups and research based on the creation of professionals involved in independent a video library and of the Xarxa film. Barcelona network. IFN brings together representatives from independent film companies,

56 FRIENDS OF THE CCCB FRIENDS OF THE CCCB FRIENDS OF THE CCCB

Beyond the CCCB As for the programmes of other cultural institutions, the following activities were carried out: visit to the exhibition Luis Gordillo (Fundació Suñol, 18 and 19 January), visit to the exhibition Realism(s). The Mark of Courbet (MNAC, 12 and 13 April), visit to the picture collection of the Fundació Vila Casas (Museu Can Framis, 4 and 18 May), itinerary La Fundació, a Mediterranean Building (Fundació Joan Miró, 14 July), visit to the exhibition Smell Colour. Chemistry, Art and Education and presentation of the project of the Arts Santa Mònica centre led by Manuel Guerrero, director of the Arts field (13 and 14 September), guided tour of the historical building of the University of Barcelona (10 and 11 October), visit to the exhibition Murals sota la lupa. Les pintures de la capella de Sant Miquel (Murals under the magnifying glass. The paintings of the Sant Miquel chapel – MUHBA, Pedralbes Monastery, 12 November) and visit to the exhibition Jacques Léonard. Barcelona gitana (Jaques During 2011, the Friends of the CCCB were able to take Léonard. Gipsy Barcelona Barcelona Photographic Archive, part in a series of activities organised exclusively for the 30 November and 13 December). group’s members: visits to exhibitions and activities related with the CCCB’s programme, visits outside the Reading Club (Klub de lectura) CCCB and the Reading Club (Klub de Lectura). The Reading Club (Klub de lectura) led by Antonio Visits to exhibitions and activities Lozano, was attended by 25-30 people per session in 2011 and the following books were discussed: L’òpera quotidiana As regards exhibitions at the CCCB, exclusive guided visits by Montserrat Roig (12 January), Los informantes by Juan were arranged with their curators: Disappeared (led by Gabriel Vásquez (meeting with the author, 9 February), Sandra Balcells, 17 and 24 February), The Trieste of Magris El hereje by Miguel Delibes (9 March), Verbàlia 2.0 by (led by Giorgio Pressburger, 10 March), Brangulí. Barcelona Màrius Serra (meeting with the author and with Oriol 1909-1945 (led by Valentín Vallhonrat and Rafael Levenfeld, Comas, co-author of the Verbàlia box of games by Devir, 8 and 21 June), 9/11 Memory Remains. 9/11 NY Artifacts at joint session with the Espai Brossa, 5 April), Microcosmos Hangar 17 (led by Francesc Torres, 20 September) and The by Claudio Magris (11 May), L’emprova del vestit de núvia Complete Letters. Filmed Correspondence (led by Jordi Balló, by Dora Giannakopoulou (15 June), Anna Karenina 10 and 17 November). by Leo Tolstoy (7 September), Asterios Polyp by David In addition, as an activity linked to the exhibition The Mazzucchelli (5 October), El acre del dolor by Isak Dinesen Trieste of Magris, a trip was made to discover this city full and La cosecha by Amy Hempel (comparative analysis of of contrasts from 29 September to 2 October. two tales written by women of different nationalities from different eras, 2 November) and L’ofici de viure by Cesare Finally, and in relation to the audiovisual activities at the Pavese (14 December). centre, on 25 January there was a special screening, before its broadcasting on TV2, of Fragmentos, para una historia del otro cine español.

58 education service EDUCATION SERVICE EDUCATION SERVICE

Over the course of the year 2011 a process of reflection was carried out with the aim of determining the ongoing lines of work that will allow certain objectives to be achieved by the CCCB’s Education Service. • Improve transversality, in other words involve more clearly the whole set of in-house programming services, extending the educational offering beyond the exhibitions programme. • Stabilise the educational offering, also making it more sustainable, so that the best use can be made of the intellectual efforts and human and financial resources that are applied to it. • Introduce a factor of greater diversity into the different educational activities that are proposed, both from the viewpoint of formats and duration, as well as the number of participants and the age ranges to which they are addressed. © Martí Pons, 2011 Pons, © Martí

EDUCATION SERVICE EXHIBITIONS Disappeared

At this exhibition, the guided visit for groups focused In this sense it is also important to highlight the on the reflection on the historical memory and also on motivation and involvement of the groups that visited the personal memory. Gervasio Sánchez, the author of the exhibition. In general lines they showed a willingness to photographs, offered school groups an entire week of visits talk about the photographs and express their opinions on guided by him which gave the exhibition its emotive high the different issues that were raised. Even the secondary spot. The total number of pupils visiting the exhibition, school pupils, who carried out a specific activity on in group visits, was 1,788, of which 1,389 were students photojournalism, manipulation of images and reality, of secondary, sixth form, special education and colleges. showed themselves to be especially receptive and willing The rest of visitors participating in groups, 399, were to reflect and talk very animatedly about the questions university students or came from social organisations and covered. The presence of some groups of pupils with schools for adults. personal or family links with the countries present at the exhibition meant that there was a very lively exchange Although the participation was higher, as usual, among of comments and opinions which made the visits a very secondary education and sixth form groups, it is worth intense and enriching experience for the entire group. highlighting, on this occasion, the notable presence of groups from very different levels and ages. This, among Finally, special mention should be made of the visits by other things, makes it clear that the exhibition struck a Gervasio Sánchez which represented a truly exceptional chord with a broad range of groups. Moreover, the fact opportunity to listen and talk with the author of this that a visit model was defined that was easy to adapt to project. Gervasio Sánchez, in addition to providing the interests of teachers and group leaders facilitated good first-hand information about the photographs, was able communication with the participants. to transmit his passion for his work and he offered an extraordinary example of coherence and personal values.

60 EDUCATION SERVICE EXHIBITIONS The Trieste of Magris

In group visits, a total of 1,019 visitors took part, of their participation; reading of quotes, observation and which 721 were primary, secondary, sixth form, special interpretation of images, listening to music and texts. In education and college students. The rest of the visitors any event, it should be said that the starting point was that participated in groups, 358, were university students not easy as the majority of groups were not very familiar or came from social organisations and schools for adults. with the figure of Claudio Magris and even less so with the city of Trieste. Precisely for this reason what has The secondary and sixth form groups had the most been commented on already in relation to the visits and prominent presence but it is also important to point out presentations for the public in general can be affirmed: the good participation figures for groups of adults. the exhibition, due to its attractive characteristics, allowed In general, guided visits functioned well thanks to easy introduction of the groups to contents which were the variety of registers and the attractive design of not very familiar to them. It should be underlined that The the exhibition. Each section offered a small surprise Trieste of Magris represented a pleasant discovery and a that facilitated explanation by the monitor and the good stimulus for arousing the desire to read Magris and use of different resources available to generate a more get to know Trieste. fluid relationship between the students and stimulate

Brangulí. Barcelona 1909-1945

With regard to the calendar, this exhibition missed out on September. The other groups were sixth form (11 centres a large part of school group visits, as it was inaugurated at up to a total of 314 pupils) and students specialising in art the end of one academic year and closed just at the start at college (8 centres, with 147 students in total). of the next. Group visits numbered 1,088 participants, of The 637 adults that visited in different groups were from which the vast majority were groups of adults. various origins: from groups linked to Civic Centres, to Of those attending in groups, only 75 were secondary elderly people’s homes and also some university groups. pupils, from two schools, who visited at the end of

The Complete Letters. Filmed Correspondence

This exhibition received a total of 352 people in 17 group In this case, an attempt was made to try to incentivise visits. The vast majority of the groups who took the guided the guided visit via the CCCB Education website and the tours were adults, of which 82 were from universities. Of proposal of filmed correspondence between schools. Some the school groups, 53 pupils were from secondary school, schools took up this idea and put up their proposal on the 50 were sixth form students and 60 from college training website. cycles.

World Press Photo

For another year the CCCB presented the World Press presented, as well as of the work of the photojournalist, Photo selection which was also accompanied by a guided with its implication, its role within journalism and also tour, led by the heads of Photographic Social Vision. The artistic considerations. visit gave a very accurate view of the different projects

61 EDUCATION SERVICE IN COLLABORATION Barcelona Aula de Ciutadania

In the year 2011, the collaboration make available to the city’s teachers, Department of ESADE (URL) and commenced between the CCCB at both state and approved private director of the Fundació Lluís Carulla and the workgroup Barcelona Aula schools, tools for developing their Values Observatory. During these de Ciutadania (Barcelona Citizens’ work towards education for citizens three academic years of work that Classroom), made up of school and transversal values. the book covers, different activities teachers, the ICE of the University were organised (cycle of conferences, As a culmination of three academic of Barcelona and the Institute of permanent seminar or School Days, years of work, on 26 October the Education of Barcelona. During the Citizenship Workshop) all destined to publication Educar per una ciutadania year, the internal meetings of the both promoting reflection and debate activa a l’escola (Educating for active group were hosted by the CCCB, in on socially controversial issues, and citizenship at schools) was presented addition to public presentations of the the creation of a space for analysis of at the CCCB, accompanied by a talk issues that emerged. different practices in education for titled Joves i valors (Young people and citizens. The main objective of the Barcelona values) given by Àngel Castiñeira, Aula de Ciutadania project was to director of the Social Sicences

EDUCATION SERVICE CCCB EDUCATION WEBSITE CCCB EDUCATION WEBSITe http://www.cccb.org/en/cccbeducacio

During the year 2011 work was usability and thus facilitate With all this in-depth work, 143 new carried out to improve the education participation. Ramon Espelt and participations were achieved during website, which above all encourages Lali Bosch did in-depth work with the year 2011, from secondary schools participation by schools and aims to the aim of going out to find schools, to organisations linked with the be a platform that gives visibility to the teachers and also other organisations CCCB that defined an offering for task and works that are carried out. from the educational environment to school groups. encourage them to be an active part In this improvement, much work of this website. was done to increase the website’s

62 EDUCATION SERVICE URBAN ITINERARIES Barcelona. City, cities

Duration: all year Organised by: CCCB

Following the Cerdà Year, the CCCB The Raval: the cos- Llobregat: new redefined and resumed its urban itineraries programme, incorporating mopolitan city metropolitan axis the issues of contemporary debate In recent decades the Raval has The Llobregat continues to be an proposed regarding the city today. undergone a surprising urban and essential river for the entire territory human transformation. Changes that it crosses: for the urban layout in the resident population have that surrounds it, for the delta that it Besòs, from fron- created a new reality with new generates, for the economy that moves tier to public space challenges and new perspectives. in its surroundings. An example is the Currently the neighbourhood is a fact that a large part of the water used The river Besòs has historically heterogeneous mosaic where we by Barcelona and its metropolitan maintained intense relations with the can find remains of the past and surroundings for consumption and towns around it. Cerdà, at the height avant-garde architectures, shops and personal hygiene still comes from of the 19th century, took his Eixample museums, public spaces of quality the Llobregat. However, our visit to project right up to its borders. Today and tourists from the five continents, the river – from Sant Joan Despí to the Besòs acts as a first-class agent of neighbourhood facilities and its arrival at El Prat – has a broader metropolitan urbanity and configures university centres, etc. And visible in vision: it aims to analyse its role as a public space that allows shared this urban space undergoing constant a fundamental axis of territorial and identification of a set of communities transformation is the heartbeat of economic organisation of this sector of and makes possible, in its a neighbourhood that lives with the metropolitan city. surroundings, the urban continuum intensity all the uncertainties and in a place where there was previously possibilities that define our present. a marginal frontier. Visitor numbers The eixample, the During the year 2011, the urban Poblenou: history itineraries had a total of 4,836 reinvented form of the city participants, of which 402 took up If Barcelona has one clear form, it the weekend offering, in individual The redevelopment of Poblenou is, undoubtedly, the Eixample. This visits, and 3,434 were part of group which began twenty years ago now itinerary compares the project for a visits. Of the group visits, there starts to show its transformed profile. new city formulated by Cerdà with were 151 pupils from upper primary Offices and facilities linked with today’s reality and shows which education, divided into four groups, new technologies coexist with new elements have lasted, which represent of which three did the Besòs itinerary parks, housing, schools and shops. Is something new, which are the most and one did the Eixample. Secondary the 22@ district a good example of prominent changes and how the education was responsible for most urban reinvention? Could it become original urban layout has adapted to pupils, with a total of 2,201, of a model? What is the price that the new social, economic and touristic which 640 did the Raval itinerary, traditional Poblenou – its inhabitants, needs. The itinerary considers the 604 that of the Besòs, 399 that of local commerce, associational life passing from Cerdà’s idea for the the Eixample, 340 that of Poblenou and production sector – has to pay Eixample to its present configuration. and 218 that of the Llobregat. And, to facilitate this transformation? as for sixth-form pupils, the total These questions and others bring us number participating was 728, of into close contact with the history of which half did the Raval itinerary. Poblenou, its present and the new There were also university and adult proposals for its future. groups, which completed the total of participants.

63 EDUCATION SERVICE ALZHEIMART ALZHEIMART © Irene Ruiz

AlzheimArt is the cultural programme for Alzheimer These experiences are also interesting for carers, as they patients, their families and carers, which the Centre de have an occasion to explore their own cultural interests Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona has been running side by side with the person they are caring for and in since October 2010. a secure environment. In our rooms they can interact socially with other carers, share stories, and learn in a This programme includes guided visits to the CCCB supportive atmosphere where they can be relaxed, both exhibitions, audiovisual screenings and visits to the physically and mentally. building that houses the centre, a former hospice of the city of Barcelona. In the same way, their personal relationship with the individual under their care can improve, because the Undoubtedly, cultural experiences provide significant cultural programmes provide singular opportunities for benefits for people affected by dementia and their carers. communication and connection. The opportune adaptations are made to each activity. AlzheimArt focuses its proposals on observation and During the year 2011, AlzheimArt organised eight visits: detailed conversation. With this we ensure that the person La Casa de Caritat. History Notebook (28 February and 28 suffering from Alzheimer’s disease has the opportunity to: March), The Trieste of Magris exhibition (2 and 23 of May) and the Brangulí. Barcelona 1909-1945 exhibition (4 July, 19 • Experience an intellectual stimulus September and 17 and 24 October). • Establish connections between personal experiences and the world overall • Evoke distant memories • Participate in a significant activity that promotes personal development • Stimulate their emotional memory • Share ideas and interests with other participants

64 beyond

the cccb 65 BEYOND THE CCCB EXHIBITIONS THROUGH LABYRINTHS IN VALENCIA

Curator: Ramon Espelt and Oscar Tusquets Production: Bancaja and CCCB

The labyrinth as a construction and a symbol is present formats, authors and periods, such as archaeological in many of humanity’s cultural traditions. As explained pieces, engravings, photographs, maps, screenings and by Umberto Eco, thousands of years of history of this models, plus specially created audiovisual, animated and figure reveal the fascination it has always held for interactive pieces. humankind, representing as it does an aspect of the Following the success in audience numbers of the human condition: there are countless situations that are exhibition that ran at the CCCB from 28 July 2010 very easy to get into, but more difficult to extract oneself to 9 January 2011, it was presented from 4 February 2011 to 29 from. This exhibition, scripted by Ramon Espelt, curated May 2011 at one of the organisations with which the CCCB and designed by Oscar Tusquets, with Jorge Wagensberg has worked most closely over recent years: the Centro as advisor, reviews the concept and representation of the Cultural Bancaja in Valencia. labyrinth throughout history. The exhibition comprised a series of very varied spaces illustrated by works with a variety of different sources,

66 BEYOND THE CCCB EXHIBITIONS POST-IT CITY. OCCASIONAL URBANITIES IN CADIZ AND MADRID

Curator: Martí Peran, Filippo Poli, Giovanni La Varra and Federico Zanfi Production: CCCB With the collaboration of: Centre d’Art Santa Mònica

Post-it City. Occasional Urbanities is an ambitious project incorporation of a specific experience was carried out that investigates the different uses of the urban territory that through two complementary and inter-related collective overlap in terms of time. Giovanni La Varra proposed thepost-it workshops-interventions. The first, focusing on city concept to trace this proliferation of fleeting situations, construction techniques and collaborative practices, and beyond the forecasts of conventional planning and pre- the second, carried out at different education centres. established political “corrections”. In his theory, post-it Both workshops worked on the basis of five case studies: cities are a kind of ephemeral city that infects the ordinary informal sport, commerce and street trading, popular city, based on uses that are non-coded, temporary, events and festivals, plots of land and 15M neighbourhood anonymous and with an implicit critical bent. The meetings. proposal is to extend this base to the concept of occasional After touring for over three years hand in hand with city to explore the phenomenon, placing priority on the Acción Cultural Española (ACE) around various Latin perspectives offered by architecture, urban planning and American venues: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC, the visual arts in all their possible variants to document Santiago de Chile), Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC, it and think about it. The exhibition’s objective is to Montevideo), Espacio Casa de Cultura-La Prensa (Buenos encourage reflection on the pertinence of architecture, Aires) and the Centro Cultural São Paulo (Brazil), Post-it urban planning and art in the use of the city space and, City. Occasional Urbanities was presented at the Museo de especially, the conflict in the art of documenting or Cádiz from 19 May to 3 July 2011 and it concluded its tour stimulating this use. at a new venue inaugurated in September 2011 in Madrid, At each of the presentations, the collaborating venue the Centro Centro Palacio de Cibeles, which presented has expanded the exhibition and involved artists that it to the Madrid audience from 22 September 2011 to 20 have studied the post-it city theme in the city where February 2012. the exhibition was being presented. In Madrid, the

67 BEYOND THE CCCB EXHIBITIONS THE COMPLETE LETTERS. FILMED CORRESPONDENCE IN MEXICO CITY, MADRID AND ALICANTE

Curator: Jordi Balló Co-production: Gecesa (La Casa Encendida), Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Acción Cultural Española (ACE) and CCCB

Contemporary Catalan film has significant echoes of the The very singularity of the project gives it great formal images that are being created by authors in diverse places versatility. At each of the venues where the project was around the world. The vitality of the films produced in presented, it was given a different format to adapt to Catalonia is made clear in works by emerging filmmakers the varying programmes and to almost opposing space who, with their aesthetic and thematic proposals, hold morphologies and dimensions. cinematographic dialogue with other contemporary This exhibition was inaugurated in Mexico, at the Centro filmmakers. Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, on 3 May 2011 and it These are dialogues that are not established through ran until 30 July of the same year. At the CCCB it was similarity, but that confront the creative concerns of these presented from 12 October 2011 to 19 February 2012, authors. A point/counterpoint, in the style of a question/ and, in parallel, as a season of cinema, it ran at the Casa answer, where the images can both connect and question Encendida in Madrid from 19 September to 30 October to become possible parts of a single discourse. The aim 2011. Later it began the touring circuit at Las Cigarreras is to show how these cinematographic connections Cultura Contemporánea in Alicante which presented the are organised, how films talk to each other beyond the exhibition from 24 November 2011 to 12 February 2012. moment and the place where they were created. This was the case with Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, with Albert Serra and Lisandro Alonso, with Isaki Lacuesta and Naomi Kawase, with Jaime Rosales and Wang Bing, with José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas, and with Fernando Eimbcke and So Yong Kim.

68 BEYOND THE CCCB EXHIBITIONS COSMOPOLIS. BORGES AND BUENOS AIRES IN BUENOS AIRES

Curator: Juan Insua Production: CCCB and Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires

Few writers get to know their city as been maintained. The result is a well as Borges. Buenos Aires was his multimedia installation, with sections birthplace, inspirational muse and of documentation that complement cosmic obsession. Cosmopolis. Borges the textual, sound and audiovisual and Buenos Aires aims to follow this discourse. This new version offers web of invisible threads that the an updated view of the deep bond work of Borges suggests through between Jorge Luis Borges and the successive readings. The shared city of Buenos Aires and, at the idea that structures this aesthetic same time, allows an open vision experience faced persistent doubts, of the numerous readings that his resisted the ideological hydra, toured works continue to elicit, on the 25th its own labyrinths and perhaps has anniversary of his death. managed to overcome its apparent The Ministry of Culture of the City disproportion. of Buenos Aires presented the show Cosmopolis. Borges and Buenos Aires is at the exhibition space of the Casa de an adaptation of the exhibition with Cultura from 4 July 2011 to 30 June the same title that was presented 2012. at the CCCB in 2002. The original idea, script and structure have

GANGS OF THE ’80S. CINEMA, PRESS AND THE STREET IN BILBAO

Curator: Mery Cuesta and Amanda Cuesta Production: CCCB and Gecesa (La Casa Encendida)

The exhibition Gangs of the ’80s. Following its presentation at the Cinema, Press and the Street offered a CCCB in the year 2009 and at La look back at cinema quinqui (juvenile Casa Encendida in Madrid, the delinquency cinema) which reached touring cycle began at the halls of the its peak during the years 1978 and Centro Histórico de Zaragoza in late 1985, and focused on its relationship 2010 and ended at the La Alhóndiga of retro-feeding with the press Centro de Arte y Cultura de Bilbao of the time. The exhibition acts, running from 27 October 2011 to 8 furthermore, as a faithful reflection January 2012. of the urban, social, political and economic transformations that characterised the country in that period.

69 BEYOND THE CCCB EXHIBITIONS THE BAROQUE (D)EF(F)ECT. POLITICS OF THE HISPANIC IMAGE IN QUITO

Curator: Jorge Luis Marzo and Tere Badia Production: CCCB

This exhibition was the result Within the framework of the of the analysis of the narrative exhibition tour, the Centro de Arte of Hispanicity, a common and Contemporáneo in Quito presented homogeneous framework shared proposals from Ecuadorian artists by Spain and Latin America. Of all on this subject which extended and the images used in the Hispanic enriched the exhibition presented in countries to construct and legitimate Barcelona in 2010. In parallel, while their identity and memory, the the show was running, a seminar was baroque has been the most long- held to explore the constitution of lasting, widespread and influential, the myth of the baroque image as a often at the cost of ignoring other principal reference point in the visual equally important lines of argument. representation of the identifying The Baroque (D)ef(f)ect is proposed narrative of what “Hispanic” means. as a dissection of this narrative and The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo of the cultural policies that continue in Quito presented The Baroque (D) writing it today. ef(f)ect from 22 November 2011 to 4 March 2012.

IN FAVOUR OF PUBLIC SPACE. EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR URBAN PUBLIC SPACE 2010 IN FRANKFURT

Dates: 16 April – 3 July Organised by: Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt With the collaboration of: CCCB

The Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, in collaboration with the CCCB, presented the exhibition European Prize for Urban Public Space 2010 from 16 April to 3 July 2011. The exhibition highlighted the prize-winning projects, offered the possibility of consulting the original material by all the competitors in the 2010 event and exhibited the winning works from previous events (2000- 2008). It also showed a selection of the most interesting examples of public spaces in the city of Frankfurt.

70 BEYOND THE CCCB EXHIBITIONS IN FAVOUR OF PUBLIC SPACE. EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR URBAN PUBLIC SPACE 2010 IN ROME

Dates: 12 May – 11 June Organised by: Biennial of the Public Space of Rome With the collaboration of: CCCB

The first Biennial of the Public Space conferences of the biennial. At the of Rome hosted the exhibition of the same venue, the exhibition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space winners of the biennial prize itself 2010. The exhibition ran from 12 was also presented. During the main May to 11 June in the building of the days of 12, 13 and 14 May, numerous old Roman Aquarium, headquarters conferences and workshops were of the House of Architecture, held. within the framework of the central

BEYOND THE CCCB SCREENINGS AND AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS FROM ECSTASY TO RAPTURE. 50 YEARS OF ALTERNATIVE SPANISH FILM IN TORONTO, VANCOUVER, PARIS, LONDON, WROCLAW, CANARY ISLANDS, NAVARRA, GALICIA, SHANGHAI, BUENOS AIRES, LJUBLJANA AND VILNIUS

Production: Acción Cultural Española (ACE), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and CCCB Collaboration: Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals and Filmoteca de Catalunya

Xcèntric, the CCCB’s cinema, after The touring programme is two years of research, brought accompanied by a catalogue in DVD together the most significant plus booklet format, produced by experimental Spanish films from the CAMEO. 1950s to the present in order to raise During this season, the travelling film awareness of internationally more cycle From Ecstasy to Rapture returned invisible cinema. Such an in-depth to North America and continued its review of Spanish experimental tour around Europe. The institutions cinema had not been carried out that presented the programme are: since the 1970s. This is, therefore, Cinematheque in Toronto, Pacific an unprecedented initiative in many Cinematheque in Vancouver, Jeu aspects. Six sessions with forty-three de Paume in Paris, Tate in London, films made by filmmakers such as Wro Art Center in Wroclaw, Canary Iván Zulueta, José Antonio Sistiaga, Islands Mediafest, Centro Huarte José Luís Guerin, Javier Aguirre, Jose in Navarra, Consulate of Spain in Val del Omar, Gabriel Blanco, Benet Shanghai, Sala FIAP in Buenos Aires, Rossell, Virginia Garcia del Pino, CGAI in Galicia, Cankarjev Dom in Eugènia Balcells, Toni Serra, Jesús Ljubljana and the Lithuanian National Pérez-Miranda, David Domingo, Gallery in Vílnius. Marcel Pey, Luís Cerveró, Juan Bufill, Lope Serrano, Eugeni Bonet, Manuel Huerga, Oriol Sánchez and Frederic Amat, among other creators.

71 BEYOND THE CCCB SCREENINGS AND AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS CINEMA AGAINST THE TIDE. LATIN AMERICA AND SPAIN

Production: Acción Cultural Española (ACE) and CCCB Collaboration: Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals and Filmoteca de Catalunya

The CCCB and ACE present a Elena Pardo, Claudio Caldini, Silvia programme created following a Gruner, Gabriel Borba, José Ángel two-year process of painstaking Toirac, Frederic Amat, Paulo Bruscky, documentation and classification Carles Santos, Sandra DeBerduccy, directed by Antoni Pinent, the José Castillo, Ton Sirera, José project’s curator, and with the advice Antonio Sistiaga, Glauber Rocha, of Latin American specialists in Alfredo Gurrola, Ferruccio Musitelli, experimental film and video of the Alexander Apóstol, Narcisa Hirsch, stature of Rubén Guzmán, Marta Paz Encina, Juan Carlos Alom, Lucía Vélez and Angélica Cuevas Antoni Padrós, Antoni Miralda i Portilla. This led to the creation of a Benet Rossell, Gabriel Enrique Vargas series of screenings, organised into Vázquez, Guillermo Zabaleta, Ricardo six sessions, which contains forty-four Nicolayevsky, Marcellvs L., Alberto films from twelve countries in Latin Borea, Laura Abel and Jorge Honik, America and will be exhibited in Latin Ximena Cuevas, Laida Lertxundi, America and Spain alike. Daniela Cugliandolo, Raymond Beluga, Diego Lama, Lluis Rivera, Authors involved: Jorge Sanjinés, Iván Zulueta, Lourdes Villagómez, Enrique Pineda Barnet, Carles Elías León Siminiani, David Durán, Santiago Álvarez, Luís Ospina Domingo, Enrique Colina, Jesús i Carlos Mayolo, Rubén Gámez, Pérez-Miranda, Claudia Aravena, Toni José Val del Omar, Sergio García, Serra and Arthur Omar. Eugeni Bonet, Miguel Alvear, Sarah Minter, Carlos Vergara, Pola Weiss, Jorge Furtado, Horacio Vallereggio,

FRAGMENTOS PARA UNA HISTORIA DEL OTRO CINE ESPAÑOL

Directed by: Andrés Hispano Production: La Chula Productions, TVE and CCCB Collaboration: The Catalan Government’s Institut de les Indústries Culturals

A 58-minute documentary that documents. For the first time in Spain presents a journey through the a documentary brings together the history of alternative Spanish most significant aspects of a cinema film, and which explores without that is gradually losing its invisibility. concessions its artistic potential, Premiered in October 2010 at on plastic as well as poetic and the International Film Festival of conceptual levels. Experimental film Catalonia in Sitges, it was broadcast in Spain has left an intermittent trail by TVE2 in January 2011. of isolated landmarks that Fragmentos recomposes based on eye-witness accounts, sequences and various

72 BEYOND THE CCCB SCREENINGS AND AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS SOY CÁMARA. EL PROGRAMA DEL CCCB

Production: TVE and CCCB

TVE 2 continued to broadcast Soy CCCB’s archive and also from the Cámara. El programa del CCCB, a RTVE archive. monthly programme lasting thirty In 2011 subjects covered included the minutes that can also be seen on the recession, public-private space, music TVE website. at the CCCB, ethics and technology, Each programme is devoted to and the art of appropriation. New reflecting on issues that emerge programmes were produced with from the exhibitions and activities the following titles: El barrio del carried out at the Centre, with the Raval, Ética, La música del CCCB, aim of showing a different way of Apropiación, Televisión y medios, La seeing and understanding the CCCB. ciudad desde el balcón, Mal de archivo, The programme is interested in El mundo de Gao and La crisis. experimentation with regard to both www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/soy- its formal language and narrative camara/ treatment. The contents are supplied above all from images from the

BEYOND THE CCCB DEBATES THE TALES OF BARCELONA AND MEDELLIN: URBAN AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN MEDELLÍN

Dates: 1 and 2 December With the collaboration of: CCCB Organised by: Universidad EAFIT-Centro de Estudios Urbanos With the support of: Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs y Ambientales (Urbam), Fundación Kreanta and Càtedra and Cooperation-AECID and Barcelona Medellín-Barcelona Provincial Council.

As a reply to the debate Medellín- Participants included Guillén Augé, Barcelona. Two urban planning Jorge Blandón, Josep Bohigas, David models in dialogue which took place Bravo, Ximena Covaleda, Alejandro at the CCCB in May, an urban Echeverri, Alex Giménez, César planning delegation from Barcelona Hernández, Félix Manito, Juan Luis travelled to Medellín with the aim Mejía Arango, Jorge Melguizo, Ana of learning about the social urban Ochoa and Carlos Uribe. planning projects in the city and its metropolitan area, and to exchange reflections and practices related to territorial planning. Within the framework of this Seminar, the European Prize for Urban Public Space was presented, and a collaboration began that will probably lead to the presentation in Medellín of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012.

CCCB HOLDINGS CCCB HOLDINGS ARCHIVES CCCB Archive

Organised by: CCCB

The CCCB Archive is the multimedia of the CCCB, and all the materials digital archive that offers the public generated from its programmes are the holdings created by the CCCB incorporated. throughout its years of activity. From The Archive contains the CCCB’s the first exhibitions to the latest bibliographic collection, which debates and festivals, at the Archive is directly linked to the activities visitors can consult a wide range organised. It is comprised of nearly of materials on key themes of 3,000 monographs on authors contemporary culture and society. and key themes of culture and The Archive opened in January contemporary thought, as well as 2008 and has progressively made by the CCCB’s own publications – its documentary holdings available exhibition catalogues, the Urbanitats under three main thematic headings Collection, the Breus Collection that draw together the main threads and the Dixit Collection. The of reflection at the Centre: Times bibliographic collection is directly of Paradox, World. A Cosmopolitan accessible to users on the Archive’s Vision and City and Public Space. shelves, and documents can be Currently, at the CCCB Archive, users found in the CCCB catalogue, which can visit and consult around 10,000 is part of the Catàleg Col·lectiu multimedia references (conference de les Universitats de Catalunya recordings, recitals and concerts; (CCUC). In addition to its mission in-house audiovisual creations; of dissemination, the Archive also photographs; information on the aims to be a space for synthesis of activities of participating authors, the CCCB’s history and an area for curators and conference speakers) reception, reading and relaxation for which represent one hundred all its visitors. percent of the historical holdings

European Archive of Urban Public SpacE http://www.publicspace.org

Organised by: CCCB With the collaboration of: The Architecture Foundation, Architekturzentrum Wien, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Museum of Finnish Architecture and Deutsches Architekturmuseum Sponsored by: Copcisa, Abertis and Escofet

The European Archive of Urban complemented by the Urban Library, Public Space is the CCCB’s website on a selection of reference texts on city the city and public space. Structured and public space, and offers all the around the European Prize for Urban news on debates, exhibitions and Public Space, it contains a selection festivals with an urban theme linked of the best works presented for the to the CCCB. Prize since its origins. Through 181 texts and over 4,500 images, the Archive offers a perspective of 451 interventions in the public space of 295 European cities. The Archive is

76 CCCB HOLDINGS IN COLLABORATION OVNI. Archives of the Observatory http://www.desorg.org

The archives of the Observatori de individual and collective pleasures Vídeo No Identificat (Unknown and fears, together constructing a Frame Observatory) are intentional multi-faceted vision, thousands of and thematic in nature: their small eyes that take an in-depth look intention is to offer a critique of and explore our world or announce contemporary culture using different other possible worlds. A discourse strategies: video art, independent whose main values are heterogeneity, documentary and archaeology of the contradiction and the subjectivity mass media. The archives cover an from which it is made. In itself, a entire constellation of varying works, shot in the arm for the cloning and their common denominator being repetition of corporate mass media. free expression and reflection on

Sonoscop. Sound Art Archive http://www.sonoscop.net

Sonoscop is the ongoing collaboration also includes catalogues, hand project between Orquestra del programmes, paper publications, Caos and the CCCB. Its aim is the audiovisual materials and CD-ROMs. creation of a multimedia archive of experimental music and sound art accessible to the public, whether they physically visit the archive or use electronic ways to connect, for example, online. The totality of sound works in the archive exceeds a thousand, but, in addition, it

77 CCCB HOLDINGS PUBLICATIONS publications

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Disappeared / Forgotten Victims

www.blume.net z Gervasio Sánchez www.desaparecidos.com A catalogue in two volumes. Volume 1, Desaparecidos / Disappeared, includes a selection of photographs by Gervasio Sánchez, winner of the National GERVASIO SÁnch E Photography Prize 2009, which document the disappearance of the victims of contemporary wars and conflicts with the aim of making visible and contributing to their memory. Volume 2, Víctimas del olvido / Forgotten Victims, Disappeared presents portraits of family members of the disappeared in different countries around the world.

Languages: Spanish and English

desaparecidos 240 pages (Vol.1), 144 pages (Vol.2) des 220 images b/w (Vol.1), 350 images colour (Vol. 2) 24 x 33 cm

ISBN 978-84-9801-541-6 aparecidos disappeared Publisher: Blume ISBN: 978-84-9801-536-2 Texts by: Jon Lee Anderson, Sandra Balsells and Gervasio Sánchez Photographs by: Gervasio Sánchez

La Trieste de Magris The current view of writer Claudio Magris on his city Trieste, a frontier city and thoroughfare that straddles the Germanic, Balkan and Latin worlds. A meeting between the imaginary of the writer and the imaginary of his city with protagonists that include some of the 20th century’s great writers: Italo Svevo, James Joyce, etc.

Languages: Catalan with translation into Spanish 176 pages, 150 images in b/w and colour 17 x 24 cm Publisher: CCCB and Direcció de Comuniació de la Diputació de Barcelona ISBN: 978-84-9803-444-8 Texts by: Claudio Magris, Giorgio Pressburger and Xavier Pla

Brangulí. Barcelona 1909-1945 Catalogue of the monographic exhibition focusing on the work of Barcelona- born photographer Josep Brangulí Soler since 1909 up to his death in 1945. The book tours the major transformations that took place in the city and the society of the era. It includes three hundred photographs grouped into thematic blocks (Tragic Week, Industry, Republic, Civil War, Society, etc.) and a further hundred and fifty images from the period.

Languages: Catalan and Spanish edition with translation into English 452 pages, 450 images in b/w and colour 24 x 32 cm Publisher: Fundación Telefónica ISBN: 978-84-89884-97-7 Texts by: Rafael Levenfeld, Valentín Vallhonrat, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal and Merche Fernández Sagrera

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AUDIOVISUAL PUBLICATIONS

The Complete Letters. Filmed Correspondence The five DVDs in the pack contain all the filmed correspondence between five duos of filmmakers: José Luis Guerin-Jonas Mekas, Albert Serra-Lisandro Alonso, Isaki Lacuesta-Naomi Kawase, Jaime Rosales-Wang Bing and Fernando Eimbcke-So Yong Kim. It is accompanied by a publication that reviews the entire creative process of the filmed letters and the relationship between the filmmakers, and also includes the correspondence between Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami.

DVD 5 DVDs Languages: Spanish and English, with subtitles in Spanish, English and French Production: CCCB and Intermedio Filmed letters by: José Luis Guerin-Jonas Mekas, Albert Serra-Lisandro Alonso, Isaki Lacuesta-Naomi Kawase, Jaime Rosales-Wang Bing and Fernando Eimbcke-So Yong Kim

Catalogue Languages: edition in Spanish with translations into English and French. Includes supplement in Catalan 402 pages, 200 images in colour Publisher: CCCB and Intermedio Texts by: Jordi Balló, Alain Bergala, Iván Pintor Iranzo, Nicole Brenez, Olivier Père, Anna Petrus, Joana Hurtado Matheu and Sergio Raúl Arroyo

DIXIT COLLECTION The result of a collaboration between the CCCB and Argentine publisher Katz Editores, the Dixit collection publishes, in Spanish, a selection of conferences previously published in the Breus collection, accompanied by a complementary text. With Dixit, the CCCB makes available to the public in the rest of Spain and in Latin America the best papers presented at the CCCB. The collection, launched in the year 2008, offers texts by Roger Bartra, Jürgen Habermas, Michael Walzer, Daryush Shayegan, John Gray, Zygmunt Bauman, K. A. Appiah, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Jean and John Comaroff, Teresa Caldeira, Jordi Llovet, Harvie Ferguson, Ismail Kadaré, etc.

Language: Spanish from 40 to 90 pages approx. 11 x 12 cm Publisher: CCCB and Katz Editores

In 2011 the following volumes have been published: 16. Judith Butler, Violencia de Estado, guerra, resistencia. Por una nueva política de la izquierda + Interview with the author by Daniel Gamper Sachse 17. Tzvetan Todorov, Muros caídos, muros erigidos + Juan Goytisolo, Berlín a salto de mata 18. Martha C. Nussbaum, Libertad de conciencia: el ataque a la igualdad de respeto + Interview with the author by Daniel Gamper Sachse

79 CCCB HOLDINGS PUBLICATIONS publications

BREUS COLLECTION The Breus collection features, in abbreviated format and in the original version accompanied by a translation into Catalan or Spanish, some of the most significant papers given at the CCCB within the framework of its debates, seminars, conferences and symposia. To date texts have been published by, among other authors: Jürgen Habermas, Michael Walzer, Pascal Bruckner, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jorge Semprún, Ash Amin, Judith Butler, Jordi Llovet, Eric Hobsbawm, Peter Hall, Tzvetan Todorov, Axel Honneth, Claudio Magris, Orhan Pamuk, Richard Sennett, etc.

Original language with translation into Catalan from 40 to 90 pages approx. 12,5 x 17 cm Publisher: CCCB

In 2011 the following volumes were published: 43. Antonio Tabucchi, El futur de l’atzar / Il futuro del caso 44. Giorgio Agamben, Estado de excepción y genealogía del poder / The State of Exception and the Genealogy of Power 45. Terry Eagleton, El sentit de la vida / The Meaning of Life 46. Paolo Flores d’Arcais, Com si déu no existís / Come se dio non ci fosse 47. Martha C. Nussbaum, Llibertat de consciència/ Liberty of Conscience 48. Zygmunt Bauman, El destí de la desigualtat social en la fase líquida de la modernitat / The Fate of Social Inequality in Liquid-Modern Times 49. Juan Villoro, De Cartago a Chiapas: crónica intempestiva / From Carthage to Chiapas: an Untimely Chronicle 50. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Todas las manchas La Mancha: España y América Latina en sus relatos / The Stains of La Mancha: Spain and Latin America in Their Stories 51. Eva Illouz, L’amor, la ráo, la ironia / Love, Reason, Irony

80 GENERAL DETAILS GENERAL DETAILS COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS AND COMPANIES

The CCCB is a consortium of:

Co-producers:

Collaborating media:

82 Collaborators: Acadèmia de la Llatinitat (Academy of Latinity), Acantilado, Advanced Music, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development - AECID), Alianza 4 Universidades (UPF, UAB, UAM, UC3M), Allianz, Amical Viquipèdia, Anagrama, Analogic Té, Angle Editorial, Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa, Architeckturzentrum Wien, Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya, Associació Drap-Art, Associació Imago Barcelona, Associació Marató de l’Espectacle, Biennial of Public Space of Rome, CAMON Madrid, Casa Amèrica de Catalunya, Casa Árabe, Catalunya Caixa, Càtedra Medellín-Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Jurídics i Formació Especialitzada, Department of Culture of the Catalan Government, Department of Justice of the Catalan Government, Difusor.org, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Centre Internacional per al Debat Científic (International Centre for Scientific Debate - BIOCAT), Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Centro Cultural España-Córdoba (Argentina), Centro Cultural São Paulo (Brasil), Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Citilab, Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya, Consejo General del Poder Judicial, Conservas, Consolat General dels Estats Units de Barcelona, CREA-UB, Deutsches Architekturmuseum de Frankfurt, Digidoc, Districte de Ciutat Vella, Ediciones Barataria, Ediciones Península, Edicions 62, Ediciones Paidós, Editorial Empúries, Editorial Gredos, Eme 3, ESADE Facultat de Dret, ESCAC, Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya, Eurostars Hotels, Festival Animac de Lleida, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Fragmenta Editorial, Fundació Kreanta, Fundació I2Cat, Fundació Pi i Sunyer, Fundació Photographic Social Vision, Fundació puntCAT, Fundació Wikimedia, Goethe Institut, Group of Concerned Citizens, Hipnotik Factory, GREC 2011 Festival de Barcelona, Grup de Filosofia del Dret (UPF i UdG), Grup de Recerca en Teoria Política (UPF), Grup Logos (UB i UdG), Hangar, Hipnotik Festival, Institut Borja de Bioètica, Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques (IGOP-UAB), Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou (IRI), Institut d’Humanitats de Barcelona, Institut Internacional per la Pau, Intermedio, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Krytika Polityczna, L’Avenç, La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, La Chula Productions, La Fàbrica de Cinema Alternatiu, La Porta Barcelona, Libros del Asteroide, Llovezumy, Lunwerg Editores, Marbot Ediciones, Mercat de les Flors, 100.000 retines, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Ministry of Culture, Museo de Antioquía (Colòmbia), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Chile, Museum of Finish Architecture, Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Obra social “La Caixa”, Observatori de Vídeo no Identificat (Unknown Frame Observatory - OVNI), Orquestra del Caos, Platoniq, Princeton University, Nuestra Aparente Rendición website, Producciones Doradas, Santa & Cole, Seminari de Filosofia i Gènere de la Universitat de Barcelona, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (Seacex), Taller de Músics, The Architecture Foundation, The Influencers, The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, Trànsit Projectes, Transversal Xarxa d’Activitats Culturals, Tusquets Editors, Universidad EAFIT-Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Ambientales (Urbam), Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (CUIMPB), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona (UPF), Xarxa de Televisions Locals, YProductions, ZEMOS98 and Zero4|Cultura en directe.

83 GENERAL DETAILS visitor numbers

EXHIBITIONS 146.355 COURSES, DEBATES AND PRESENTATIONS 17.576 Through Labyrinths 4.027 Debate: Crisis 2.600 The Baroque (D)ef(f)ect 8.640 Book Presentation: Ser immigrant a Catalunya 150 Disappeared 20.383 Debate: The Disappeared 425 The Trieste of Magris 36.587 Origins Cycle (Morocco: In Transit) 160 Brangulí. Barcelona 1909-1945 49.557 Debate: Justice, democracy and constitutional state 282 Memory Remains 14.767 Book presentation: La ciudad en llamas 104 The Complete Letters 12.394 McLuhan Galaxy 200 The Itinerant Languages of Photography 350 SMALL-FORMAT EXHIBITIONS 40.858 Democratic Imaginary and Globalisation 288 Drap’art 7.629 Medellín-Barcelona. Two urban planning models in dialogue 200 Offfmàtica 421 Mexico Today: Violence and Civil Society 70 Word Press Photo 32.808 The Cultural Counter-Reform 130 Book Presentation: Niccolò Ammaniti 150 ACTIVITIES 122.205 Georges Corm, The Arab Revolutions 98 Xcèntric 2.181 The Transformation of Intimacy 236 Xcèntric Christmas Screenings 52 Book presentation: Daniel Bermúdez 80 Off Programme 1.100 Rüdiger Safranski, About Time 228 Urgent! 790 9/11. The World Ten Years On 271 I+C+i 950 Culture and Life 280 Emergència! 673 Conversation with José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas 285 Animac 220 Book presentation: Manifiesto de derechos humanos 40 Fila Zero 356 Àngel Castiñeira, Joves i valors 70 OVNI 3.400 Building Digital Commons 260 Anti-Saint Valentine’s 400 Peter Stamm 148 Redada 65 Debate: Religion and Public Sphere 83 LP’11 1.430 Book presentation: Lisa Randall 235 Inauguration of the CCCB Theatre 2.337 World Press Photo 7.7 Workshop 45 Kosmopolis 11 6.478 Book presentation: Lluís Duch 175 Zoomvi 500 Miniput 1.200 Món Llibre 9.000 Metròpolis Master’s Degree 720 The Influencers 1.000 Design and Creation of Spaces Master’s Degree 127 Inferno 100 Institut d’Humanitats 5.703 Ciutat Vella Flamenco Festival 2.434 CUIMPB 2.183 What Are Artists For? 2 277 OFFF Festival 7.040 CCCB ARCHIVES 10.791 Sónar Festival 32.353 CCCB Archive 9.851 Sónarkids Festival 5.192 Xcèntric Archive 940 Silver Wedding 350 FADFest 1.050 VENUE HIRE-LOANS 14.302 Days of Dance 1.800 Company events 3.022 Festival Hipnòtik 2.700 Presentations various 3.190 BCNmp7 5.340 Conferences various 4.719 Gandules 5.510 Loan of spaces 3.371 Asia Festival 2.600 8th Diaspora Without Borders 759 TOTALS 352.087 Open House - CCCB Theatre 371 Circuito Futura 2.145 Xperimenta 566 Festival L’Alternativa 9.978 Mínima Común Institució 140 Zeppelin 350 Drap’art 5.489 Film of the Raval 115 Doropaedia 52 Presentation of Virtual Global Screen 384 Friends of the CCCB activities 50 Friends of the CCCB Reading Club 246 Friends of the CCCB outside visits 46 Weekend itineraries 402 Group itineraries 3.434

84 GENERAL DETAILS cccb VISITORS 2011

archive CCCB 3% hire-loans 4% courses and debates 5%

exhibitions 41% activities 35%

small-format exhibitions 12%

exhibitions 2011 cccb 2011 visitors/day open

600 500.000

575 500 400.000

360.272 400 300.000 352.087

370 300 200.000 315 301 201.524 181.213 200 258 100.000 158.748 122.205 173 175

100 0 rangulí. B arcelona Total ‘10 Total Through Labyrinths The B aroque (D)ef(f)ect Disappeared The Trieste of Magris B 1909-1945 Remains Memory The Complete Letters Activities ‘10 Activities ‘11 Activities Total ‘11 Total 0 Exhibitions ‘10 Exhibitions ‘11

85 GENERAL DETAILS public

Visitors to the CCCB As for the exhibitions programme Profile of the public itself, Brangulí. Barcelona 1909-1945 attending the exhibitions The total number of visitors over was the exhibition most visited with the course of the year was 352,087. In order to get to know the profile of 49,557 visitors, followed by The Trieste The Centre received in excess of the CCCB’s visiting public, regular of Magris with 36,587 and World 350,000 visitors in 1996 and, since surveys are carried out among visitors Press Photo with 32,808 visits and an then, the number of visitors, with is to the exhibitions. In relation to the average of 1,172 people per day. directly related with the programme seven shows held in 2011, nearly all each year, has remained between As for the activities programme, it attracted an audience with similar this figure and its high of 426,000 is important to highlight, as every traits, except for World Press Photo, visitors in 2001. The average number other year, the Festival Sónar, which which was differentiated from the of visitors to the Centre per day received 32,353 people at the Sónar rest by its much more local audience. open was 1,003, slightly down on the de Dia and 5,192 at Sonarkids. Of the Furthermore, over 50% of the visitors previous year, when it was 1,059. other festivals, those attracting the were attending the Centre for the first largest audience were L’Alternativa time, except in the case of World Press In general figures, if we compare with 9,978 visitors and Món Llibre Photo, where the majority of visitors 2011 with the previous year, visits with 9,000, followed by the Festival (65%) had already been to the Centre to exhibitions increased (from OFFF with 7,040 and by Kosmopolis previously. 139,000 to 146,000), but visits to of 11 with 6,478. In this case, it is worth small-format exhibitions decreased As regards the origin of the visitors, taking into account that entry to the (from 62,000 to 41,000) due to World Press Photo was the exhibition Món Llibre event was free of charge the reduction in programming. with most visitors from Barcelona and that L’Alternativa had a free part, The number of people attending city and the rest of Catalonia. It while entry to the other festivals was activities increased (from 101,000 was followed by Brangulí. Barcelona paid. to 122,000) while, in contrast, the 1909-1945 with just over 50% of its number of people attending courses As for more specific activities, it is total visitors from Catalonia, while decreased (from 22,000 to 17,000), worth highlighting the inauguration The Complete Letters had the smallest which was also due to the reduction event for the CCCB Theatre, which audience from Catalonia (just 40%) in programming. Attendance at the attracted 2,337 people, and the offer and more from abroad (some 50%). Xcèntric Archives fell (from 17,000 of urban itineraries with 3,800 As for language, the majority of to 10,000 visitors) owing to the participants. In addition, of the visitors to the centre spoke Catalan closure of the Archive, as well as the two concerts in the BCNmp7 cycle, or Spanish, even though, in the case reduction in the number of people it should be highlighted that the of World Press Photo, this majority attending hired events (16,000 to concert held for La Mercè had 5,073 exceeded 80% of the visitors, whereas 14,000). Taking into account the spectators. As for the audiovisual The Complete Letters constituted an programming for 2011, the number offering, the Xcèntric programme exception, with just 50%. of visits exceeded the previous year in attracted 2,181 people, while the four the months of January, March, June, sessions of Off Programme attracted July, September and October and 1,100 and Gandules 5,510. declined considerably in the months With regard to debates and courses, of May and November. the debate Crisis was attended by a total of 2,600 people over the cycle’s nine sessions, each of which exceeded 200 people attending and among which prominent conferences were those by Jorge Wagensberg and by Saskia Sassen. Following this debate were the six sessions of I+C+i with 950 participants. Finally, with regard to the CCCB Holdings, over the course of the year the Archive was visited by 9,851 people, fewer than the previous year, and, from January to May, the Xcèntric Archive was visited by 940.

86 In terms of age, the exhibitions The Virtual audience Baroque (D)ef(f)efct and Disappeared During 2011, the CCCB’s website presented similar percentages, with received 544,967 visits from visitors aged between 25 and 54 386,600 unique users who consulted years in the majority. In contrast, the 1,581,694 pages. There were 44 exhibition The Trieste of Magris, above streaming broadcasts, the majority all, and also Brangulí. Barcelona 1909- related with CCCB Debates, which 1945 and Memory Remains. 9/11 NY were followed by a total of 8,233 Artifacts at Hangar 17 had a higher people, with a total of 234,088 volume of visitors aged between 45 minutes viewed. and 74 years, which meant visitors aged 25 to 34 years decreased and During the year 2011, a major effort so, slightly, did those aged 35 to 44 was made with the social networks, years. In contrast, both World Press which was noted in an increase in Photo and The Complete Letters had followers on Facebook and also on a larger percentage of visitors aged Twitter. At the end of 2010, the CCCB 25 to 34 years. And, in all cases, in had 5,265 followers on Facebook and the majority, people visited alone or by the end of 2011 it had 14,806, accompanied by one other person who looked at 7,063,070 articles and only. Only the World Press Photo carried out 8,544 interactions. In exhibition had a higher percentage of 2010 the CCCB had 2,221 followers groups of friends (some 25%). on Twitter, and it ended 2011 with 14,395 followers, who made 4,120 As for how people receive information tweets, 2,427 retweets and 3,134 on the Centre’s activities: many come mentions. on the recommendation of a friend or family member, through tourist As for the Highlights CCCB information or with articketBCN, newsletters which are sent out some 15% receive information directly weekly, at the end of 2011 a total of from the Centre or are Friends of 20,925 different addresses were held. the CCCB, another 15-20% receive During the year, newsletters were information through the press and a sent to a total of 315,159 addresses. further 20% via the Internet, whether As for the three blogs linked to the the CCCB’s website or other virtual CCCB Website, on the Veus blog media. 104 posts were put up, which had 97 comments and a total of 39,654 visits, with a percentage of 54% of new visits. On the CCCBLab blog, 24 posts were put up, which attracted 62 comments and a total of 23,524 visits, with a percentage of 46.78% of new visits.

87 GENERAL DETAILS LIST OF SPEAKERS AT THE DEBATES AND CONFERENCES

Being Immigrant in Catalonia Jean Michel Blanquer, Dominic Boyer, The Transformation of Intimacy (13/01/11) Cristovam Buarque, Susan Buck-Morss, (27 and 30/06/11, 13/07/11) Gerardo Caetano, Juan Cole, Nilüfer Göle, Amadou Bokar Sam, Pau Carratalà, Daniel Innerarity, Renato Janine Ribeiro, Víctor Gómez Pin, José Luis Pardo and Ernesto Carrión, Lamin Cham, Miquel Renato Lessa, Luis Martínez, Federico Paula Sibilia Fernández, Huma Jamshed, Mostafà Mayor Zaragoza, Cândido Mendes, Josep S’haimi, Pep Subirós and Brahim Yabeed Ramoneda, Enrique Rodríguez Larreta, Daniel Bermúdez Xavier Rubert de Ventós, Jorge Sampaio, Presentation of the book 4ºLat. N. 2.600 Crisis Javier Sanjinés, Mario Soares, Mario Lúcio msnm Barcelona Debate Sousa, Dirk J. Vandewalle, Giani Vattimo, (29/06/11) (17/01/11 – 21/03/11) Michel Wieviorka and François L’Yvonnet Daniel Bermúdez, Juan Herreros and Josep Étienne Balibar, Antón Costas, Gosta Maria Montaner Esping-Andersen, Eva Illouz, François Medellín-Barcelona Jullien, Avishai Margalit, Soledad Two Urban Planning Models in Dialogue Puértolas, Saskia Sassen and Jorge (30/05/11) Rüdiger Safranski Wagensberg About Time Roser Bertran, Jordi Borja, Judit Carrera, (15/09/11) Alejandro Echeverri, Beth Galí, Fèlix Disappeared Manito, Jorge Melguizo, Josep Parcerisa Rüdiger Safranski and Rosa Sala Rose (08/02/11, 9 and 30/03/11) and Manel Vila Sandra Balsells, Viviana Díaz, Paco 9/11 Etxeberría, Luis Fondebrider, Andreas Mexico Today: Violence and Civil The World Ten Years On Huyssen, Antonio Monegal, Susana Society (19 and 27/09/11, 26/10/11 and Navarro, Gervasio Sánchez and Emilio Silva Presentation of the website Nuestra 02/11/11) Aparente Rendición (Our Apparent Rafael Argullol, Montse Armengou, Rendition) Clifford Chanin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Fèlix Morocco: In Transit (31/05/11) Cycle Origins Fanés, Pankaj Mishra, Mary Ann Newman (11 and 12/04/11) Lolita Bosch, Edson Lechuga, Jordi Soler and Francesc Torres and Alejandro Vélez-Salas M’hammed Abdelouahed Allaoui, Abdel Aziz El Mountassir, Dris Bouissef Rekab, Culture and Life Salwa El Gharbi and Pep Subirós The Cultural Counter-Reform Dialogues on the Impact of Biotechnology (01 and 02/06/11) (17 and 24/10/11, 07/11/11) Justice, Democracy and Javier de Lucas, Marina Garcés, Michael Miguel Beato del Rosal, Jaume Constitutional State Kazin, Ivan Krastev, Mark Lilla, Josep Bertranpetit, María Blasco, Inez Beaufort, Dialogues on the globalisation scene Maria Martí Font, José María Ridao, Jordi Camí, Daniel Gamper, John Gray, (26/04/11, 3, 10, 17 and 24/05/11) Donald Sassoon and Slawomir Sierakowski Pere Puigdomènech and Àngel Puyol Félix Azón, Roser Bach, José Manuel Bandrés, Ramón Camp i Batalla, Pere Niccolò Ammaniti Julie Wark Fabra, Pilar Fernández i Bozal, Víctor Let the Party Begin Human Rights Manifesto Ferreres, Antoine Garapon, Ernesto (08/06/11) (19/10/11) Garzón Valdés, Thomas Pogge, Alan Rau Niccolò Ammaniti and Pau Vidal Judit Carrera, Carmen Claudín, Carola and Peer Zumbansen Moreno, Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark

Whose City? Participation and The Itinerant Languages of Appropriation Strategies Peter Stamm Photography Workshop and seminar on the European Presentation of the book Siete años (23 and 24/05/11) Prize for Urban Public Space (03/11/11) Rafael Argullol, Ariella Azoulay, Miquel (8, 9, 10 and 14/06/11) Jordi Soler and Peter Stamm Berga, Eduardo Cadava, Natasha Christia, Ivan Blasi, David Bravo, Kathrin Golda Manel Esclusa, Joan Fontcuberta, Hal Pongratz, Jose Luis Oyon, Gala Pin and Religion and Public Sphere Foster, María de los Santos García, Carles Daniele Porreta Guerra, Alfredo Jaar, Thomas Keenan, (23/11/11) Jo Labanyi, Angel G. Loureiro, Ricard Cecile Laborde, Cristina Lafont, Ferran Martínez, Jorge Luis Marzo, Antonio Georges Corm Requejo and András Sajó Monegal, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Jorge The Arab Revolutions: Changes in the Ribalta, Joel Smith and Francesc Torres Geopolitics of the Mediterranean (21/06/11) Lluís Duch The Banalization of the Word Georges Corm Democratic Imaginary and (19/12/11) Globalisation Lluís Duch 23 rd Meeting of the Academy of Latinity (26, 27 and 28/05/11) Abdulrahman Al Salmi, Hélé Béji,

88 GENERAL DETAILS VENUE LOAN AND HIRE

Agrupació Catalana del Tèxtil i la Moda Centre Cultural Euskal Etxea (Basque Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (People’s (Catalan Textile and Fashion Group) Cultural Centre) Party Group of Barcelona City Council) Álvaro Vargas Matamoros Centre Espirita Amalia Domingo Soler Heineken España S.A. (Spiritist Centre) Asociación Defensa Derechos Animal Institut Català Internacional per la Pau (Defence of Animal Rights Association) Col·lectiu Gai de Barcelona (Gay (Catalan International Institute for Collective of Barcelona) Peace - ICIP) Asociación Poros (Poros Association for the Expansion of Psychoanalysis) Col·legi Oficial de Disseny Gràfic de Institut d’Estudis de la Sexualitat i Catalunya (Official Graphic Design la Parella (Institute for Studies on Asociación Profesional de Diseñadores College of Catalonia) Relationships and Sexuality) de Iluminación (Professional Association of Lighting Designers) Col·legi Oficial de Treball Social de La Mirada Associació Cultural (La Catalunya (Official Social Work College Mirada Cultural Association) Associació de Publicacions Periòdiques of Catalonia) en Català (APPEC – Association for Madaripur Asociación Cultural de Magazines in Catalan) Consejo Islámico de Cataluña (Islamic Bangladesh en Barcelona (Bangladeshi Council of Catalonia) Cultural Association of Barcelona) Associació El Viejo Topo (El Viejo Topo Association) Consell d’Associacions de Barcelona European Parliament – Group of (Associations Council of Barcelona) Socialists and Democrats in the Associació Kusi Warma Catalunya (Kusi European Parliament Warma Catalonia Association) Consell Islàmic Cultural de Catalunya (Cultural Islamic Council of Catalonia) Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya Associació Ningún Lugar (Cultural (Socialist Party of Catalonia) Association) Consell Nacional de la Cultura i de les Arts (Catalan Council for Culture and Prevenció Accidents de Trànsit (Road Associació Professional de Traductors the Arts) Safety Board) i Interprets de Catalunya (APTIC – Professional Association for Translators Consum Català Associació Catalana Progrés Municipal (Municipal Progress and Interpreters of Catalonia) De Consumidors (Catalan Consumers’ political platform) Association) Associació Professional d’Il·lustradors RBA Libros, S.A. de Catalunya (Professional Association Dalil Associació Social i Cultural Drets Solidaritat per la Independència of Illustrators of Catalonia) Humans (Dalil Social and Cultural (Solidarity for Independence) Association for Human Rights) Associació Ruido Photo (Photographers’ Subgrup Parlamentari de Ciutadans- Association) Dia de la Terra (Earth Day) Partido de la ciudadanía (Citizens Party Ateneu Sobiranista Català (Pro-Catalan Distribuidora de Televisión Digital, S.A. Parliamentary Subgroup) Independence) (DTS) Tot Història Associació Cultural (Tot Bamboo Bcn Studio S.L. Educación Sin Fronteras (Education Història Cultural Association) without Borders) Barcelona City Council – Department Universidad de Salamanca-Faculty of of Social Action and Citizenship. Social Fundació Alfons Comín Fine Arts – Master’s Degree in Interior Participation. Design Fundació BCD Barcelona City Council – Directorate of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Fundació Carme Serrallonga External Relations and Quality Services (Autonomous University of Barcelona Fundació Jaume Bofill – UAB) Barcelona City Council – Guárdia Urbana. Financial Management Fundació per la Pau (Foundation for Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Pompeu Department Peace) Fabra University – UPF) Barcelona Provincial Council Fundació privada centre de regulació Xarxa de Custòdia del Territori (Land genòmica (Centre for Genomic Stewardship Network – XCT) Barcelona Provincial Council – Regulation Private Foundation) Directorate of International Relations Fundació Universitat Oberta de Barcelona Provincial Council – Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia Productive Fabric Service Foundation) Barril Barral editores Fundación Kreanta Bengali Internacional Barcelona Grup Promotor S.L. Ceiba Grupo Municipal Popular del

89 GENERAL DETAILS budget

INCOME Initial forecast Execution of income at 31-12-2011 Fees and other income 1.785.000,00 825.435,99 Current transfers 9.086.118,00 8.231.194,14 Capitalisations 151.000,00 144.864,89 Capital transfers 180.000,00 2.649.420,07 TOTAL 11.202.118,00 11.850.915,09

Variances in funding and credits funded by balances carried over 1.178.923,54 ADJUSTED BUDGET RESULT 42.801.57

Fees and other income 7,0%

Capital transfers 22,4%

Capitalisations 1,2%

Current transfers 69,5%

EXPENDITURE Initial forecast Execution of expenditure at 31-12-2011 Staff 4.400.000,00 4.146.916,64 Activity and structure 6.562.318,00 5.393.407,59 Financial expenses 9.000,00 2.319,64 Current transfers 50.800,00 38.740,60 Real investments 180.000,00 3.405.652,59 TOTAL 11.202.118,00 12.987.037,06

Real investments 26,2% Staff 31,9%

Current transfers 0,3%

Finalcial expenses 0,0% Activity and estructure 41,5%

90 GENERAL DETAILS STAFF OF THE CCCB

General Director Elena Martínez Bermúdez Josep Ramoneda Head of Registration and Montse Martínez Izquierdo Conservation Unit Montse Mitats Flotats Deputy Managing Director Neus Moyano Miranda José Luis Molinos López Rafael Vilasanjuan Sanpere Òscar Monfort Pastor Elisenda Poch i Granero Head of Publications Unit Rosa Puig Carreras Eulàlia Muñoz-Castanyer Gausset Deputy Director of Contents Marina Palà Selva Antonio Navas Escribano Jaume Badia i Pujol Miquel Nogués Colomé Head of Publics Unit Montserrat Novellón Giménez Head of Exhibitions Service Maria Ribas Bruguera Àlex Papalini Lamprecht Jordi Balló Fantova José Antonio Pérez Barrera Head of Press Unit Teresa Pérez Testor Head of Centre for Documentation Mònica Muñoz-Castanyer Gausset Gabriel Porras Zambrano and Debate Judit Carrera Escudé Olga Pratdesaba Druguet Eva Alonso Ortega Josep Querol Pugnaire Head of Projects-CCCBLab Mònica Andrés Beltran Eva Rexach Pous Juan Insua Sigeroff Teresa Anglés Pérez Juan Carlos Rodríguez González Liliana Antoniucci Bàrbara Roig Isern Head of Cultural Services Activities Teresa Roig Sitjar Iván de la Nuez M. Dolors Aran Perramon Sònia Aran Ramspott Maria Romero Yuste Head of Dissemination Service and Guillem Bellmunt Duran Judith Rovira Cañada External Resources Matilde Betoret González Irene Ruiz Auret Imma Mora Boguñá Carme Blanco Pérez Núria Salinas Calle Xavier Boix Lara Lluís Sangermán Vidal Head of Audiovisuals and Multimedia Carlota Broggi Rull Belén Simón Bazán Service Lucía Calvo Bermejo José Antonio Soria Soria Àngela Martínez García Neus Carreras Font Rosó Tarragona Ramírez Cristina Vila Fernández Head of Technical and General Eduard Coll Deopazo Services Toni Curcó Botargues Jadina Vilalta Aguilar Manel Navas Escribano Marc Desmonts Ígor Viza Serra Anna Escoda Alegret Maribel Zamora Gómez Head of Systems Section Maria Farràs Drago Masha Zrncic Gerard Bel Torres Susana Fernández Alonso Head of Financial Section Gloria Fernández Vilches Sara González Puértolas Núria Ferrer López Francisco García Rodríguez Head of Recruiting and Human Susana García San Vicente Resources Section Carolina Garsaball Collado Cori Llaveria Díaz Mònica Giménez Moreno Eva Gimeno Cases Head of Economic-Budget Section Marta Giralt Romeu Anna Sama Vaz Jordi Gómez Farran Head of Production Unit Elisabet Goula Sardà Mario Corea Dellepiane Anna Ibàñez Tudoras Remei Jara Cuenca Head of External Resources Jordi Jornet Espax Management Unit Magda Llaberia Cots Amàlia Llabrés Bernat Francesc López Artero Manel López Jiménez Head of Exhibitions Coordination Unit Emili Maicas Guillén Mònica Ibáñez Dalmau Lara Martín Tarrasón

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