SCAN International Photography Festival

The city of Tarragona is the setting for a new edition of the SCAN Tarragona photographic festival, an international event established in 2008 by the Catalan Autonomous Regional Government and the Tarragona City Council.

The new project is being coordinated by the Fundació Forvm per la Fotografia.

The new SCAN Tarragona will be held biennially. Exceptionally, this coming edition will be held during the months of November and December 2010 and the opening week will be on 4, 5 and 6 of November. Future editions will be held in the month of June.

Although the SCAN Tarragona festival will be biennial, under the new project it is planned to have a continuous programming of photographic activities in the widest interdisciplinary sense. The aim is for SCAN Tarragona to be a continuous project in time; for its trademark to be identified with photography and for it to be enjoyed by the city in all its aspects: exhibitions, talks and workshops, also in the periods between one festival and another.

SCAN Tarragona is a festival with an open nature and an international vocation. It brings together initiatives from a wide range of public and private origins and is aimed at promoting photography. It aims to be a meeting point for the creative photography sector and, above all, to allow the general public to enjoy an interesting offer of exhibitions and activities. To make this possible, SCAN Tarragona can count on the loyal and enthusiastic participation of the city’s cultural agents: institutions, organisations, museums and foundations that manage cultural and art educational

1 institutions. They will all help to nourish the festival programme with high-quality content of artistic interest.

In the SCAN Tarragona programme as a whole there are two activities that stand out and give form to the philosophy of the festival. The first is Talent Latent, an expositive project to promote new international artists who are selected with the collaboration of numerous Spanish and foreign professionals. The second is the international seminar, an activity of reflection devoted to subjects related to the theory of the image, education and thought revolving around photography, which is organised with the collaboration of the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona.

Talent Latent

The Talent Latent exhibition, to be held this coming autumn, will present a magnificent international showcase for emerging European artists previously selected by the exhibition organiser, Jesús Micó, who has reviewed the work of hundreds of European photographers thanks to the invaluable collaboration of the international specialists who helped set up the major database that is the backbone of the Talent Latent experience. The final selection offers an ample representation of the most important stylistic lines and thematic areas of European contemporary creative photography. These range from personal identity and the body to social condemnation and political reflection; from the autobiographical diary –internal and intimist– to classic reportage – exterior and exogenous; from captured photography –which freezes the occurrence and real flow of life– to constructed photography –staged, set up, fictionalised–; from photography that aims to be objective and neutral notarial to the unashamedly subjective –more evocative and narrative, paraliterary ; from photography vérité to that which has been retouched; from the increasingly infrequent analogical photography to the already completely ubiquitous digital photography, etc. Our idea has been to select works in which the viewer would find a certain flow of affinities between the diverse projects presented. The aim has been to produce a collective exhibition, although not a simple exhibition of thirteen completely extraneous and independent works. It is evident that the wealth of Talent Latent is in its polyhedric view of contemporary photographic creation, but it is also clear that the mission of an exhibition organiser is to gestate a symphony of projects that, despite their independence of proposals and forms, are not completely exclusive of each other. The idea that the viewer would be able to begin an itinerary and transition fairly smoothly between the different genres and subjects presented is what has led to the final selection of these thirteen excellent artists.

Artists: Toni Amengual (), Rosa Basurto (Spain), Marc Beckmann (Germany), Tomás Correa (Spain), Cécile Decorniquet (France), Lucía Herrero (Spain), Anastasia Khoroshilova (Russia), Sabine Koe (Austria), Rafael Lafuente (Spain), Juan Carlos Martínez (Spain), Danaé Panchaud (Switzerland), Oliver Roma (Spain) and Levi van Veluw (Holland). Curator: Jesús Micó Coordination: Josep Rigol Coordination for the Tarragona City Council: Jordi Abelló and Joan Pons With the support of: ESPIMSA and Hewlett-Packard

5 November 2010 - 9 January 2011 Inauguration Friday 5 November at 19.30

2 Tuesday - Friday 16.00 - 21.00. Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays 11.00 - 14.00 16.00 - 21.00. Closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

Mercat Central Plaça Corsini, s/n Organised by: SCAN Tarragona Tel. 977 223 118 [email protected] www.scan.tarragona.cat

Seminar

Why Photography Matters as a Document as Never Before?

With Jean-François Chevrier, Steve Edwards, Jessica May, John Roberts, Rudolf Stumberger and Ian Wallace.

A seminar led by Jorge Ribalta

Introduction This seminar on the statute of the documentary idea in today’s photography offers a response to Michael Fried’s Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before (2008), presented as the definitive book for understanding why and how, in the last three decades, photography has progressively become the hegemonic and paradigmatic practice in contemporary art. With this book, Fried, the leading formalist Anglo-Saxon critic of the second half of the twentieth century (together with Clement Greenberg, of whom he is considered to be the heir), seems to reach a culmination of his career, which has developed around concepts such as absorption and theatricality.

Fried became influential with his critique of minimalism “Art and Objecthood”, published in 1967. Since then he has built his own conceptual language-world through his writings, in which he has defended a notion of artistic autonomy based on categories of pure visuality and the spectatorship conditions implicit in modernist painting. Fried has published important monographs on the work of mid-19th-century canonic modern artists such as Manet, Courbet and Menzel and has become a major advocate for post- war American abstract painting. He has defended this modernist tradition, as opposed to post-1960s conceptual and minimal practices, by establishing a structural antagonism between visuality and theatricality. This antagonism is not free of the consequences of ethical and political judgment and its inherent notion of artistic autonomy does not identify with that of Theodor Adorno, for whom the very idea of the autonomy of art is in itself a political idea.

What does it mean when the intellectual trajectory of the most paradigmatic post-war modernist critic culminates in a discussion on photography? It is paradoxical that an art of description and documentary such as photography may be argued as the culmination of a long tradition of modernist visuality. And it is arguable that photography constitutes the contemporary paradigm of artistic autonomy, precisely when photography has been (and still is) theorised as a questioning, a transcending or a materialist negation of the ideal of aesthetic autonomy itself. The inherent referential condition of photography and its role in the constitution of a documentary culture in the

3 20th century mean that its artistic autonomy is at least ambiguous and problematic, as Walter Benjamin canonically argued in the 1930s.

This conference takes Fried’s book as a polemical reference in order to discuss the artistic, epistemic and public status of photography and the documentary idea today. Rather than celebrate the book, it is a contribution to a definition of its possible meaning in the present context, also determined by a new actuality of debates on the document. What is this book symptomatic of?

The conference opens the debate by proposing a dichotomy between art and document, between a formalist understanding of artistic autonomy, on the one hand, and, on the other, a Frankfurt School-derived discourse (with its multiple ramifications) that understands photography as part of the larger problem of technological arts and its cultural and social inscription and as part of the modern debate on realism. This permanently open dichotomy can be situated in the long-enduring aesthetical-political debates that since the nineteenth century have generated opposing artistic cultures throughout this period. In this respect, Fried’s approach completely overlooks the documentary culture produced around photography, which is both an artistic and a political culture that cannot simply be abandoned or forgotten by the supposed triumph of photography as art. Or, if it is, the consequences of that abandonment and oblivion should also be addressed.

Programme

The programme is divided into three parts, with two talks each. The talks will follow each other without a break and there will be a panel discussion with the two speakers at the end of each part.

11.00 Introduction by Jorge Ribalta.

11.30 – 14.00 “Modernity and document: how did the birth of the documentary idea circa 1930 reinforce or problematise the idea of modern aesthetic autonomy?” Speakers: Jessica May, Rudolf Stumberger

16.30 – 18.30 “Before the documentary: what do we learn from the pre-industrial age of photography?” Speakers: Steve Edwards, Jean-François Chevrier

19.00 – 22.00 “The institutionalisation of photography as art and the legacy of documentary culture: what problems concerning artistic autonomy are posed by the public and political function of the photographic document today? Speakers: John Roberts, Ian Wallace

Participants

Jean-François Chevrier is an art historian, professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris and an independent curator. A seven-volume anthology of his writings is in the process of being published by Editions L’Arachnéen (2010-2011).

Steve Edwards is lecturer in Art History at the Open University. He is the author of The Making of English Photography (2006) and Photography: A very short introduction (2006).

4 Jessica May is curator of photography at the Amon Carter Museum and organiser of the exhibition American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White (2011).

Jorge Ribalta is a photographer, critic and exhibition organiser. He organised the exhibition Arxiu universal. La condició del document i la utopia fotogràfica moderna (2008).

John Roberts is an author, critic and curator. His books on photography include The Impossible Document. Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966-1976 (1997), The Art of Interruption. Realism, Photography and the Everyday (1998) and Photography and its Violations (forthcoming, 2011). He teaches Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton School of Art and Design.

Rudolf Stumberger is a lecturer in visual sociology at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and an independent journalist. He is the author of the book Klassen-Bilder. Sozialdokumentarische Fotografie 1900-1945 (2007).

Ian Wallace is a Vancouver-based artist. He has taught at the University of British Columbia and the Emily Carr College of Art and Design.

The talks will be given in English or French with simultaneous translation.

Saturday 27 November 2010 11.00 - 14.00 16.30 - 22.00

Seminar director: Jorge Ribalta Technical coordination SCAN Tarragona: Josep Rigol Coordination Rovira i Virgili University: José Carlos Suarez Aula Magna of the Faculty of Legal Sciences at the Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona. Av. Catalunya, 35 Organised by: SCAN Tarragona in collaboration with the Rovira i Virgili University and the “Aula de Cinema” of the URV. Tel. 977 223 118 [email protected] www.scan.tarragona.cat

Exhibitions

Rafael Sanz Lobato Rafael Sanz Lobato (Seville, 1932) has been one of the great inspirations and most influential teachers of his generation. A pioneer in humanist reportage with anthropological roots, his pictures have been shown in many exhibitions. This is the first retrospective dedicated to him. In 1941 he moved with his parents to and in 1964 he became a member of the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid, an institution he left some years later due to ideological differences with its president, Gerardo Vielba. Since 1970 his work has won frequent prizes and has been published in, for example, the Photography Annual 1971 and the magazines Creative Camera , Meisterfotos , Arte Fotográfico , Imagen y Sonido and Nueva Lente . He held exhibitions in 1990 in Alcalá de Henares and in 1996 in Madrid, Retratos de Artistas. In 1998 he participated in the collective exhibitions Fotógrafos de la Escuela de Madrid and at the Cervantes Institute in Chicago, as well

5 as in 2005 at the Fernando Sales Gallery in Barcelona. He exhibited collectively with Grupo 5 at the Sala Aixelà in Barcelona; in 1986 in 50 Fotógrafos de la Historia de la Fotografia Española in Seville; in 1992 in The Spanish Vision at the Spanish Institute of New York; in 1993 in Temps de Silenci. Panorama de la fotografia espanyola deIs anys 50-60 at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, as well as in Imágenes escogidas de la Colección Cualladó at the IVAM in . In 2006 he took part in the exhibition Mirades paral·leles. La fotografia realista a Itàlia i Espanya at the MNAC. In recognition of his body of work, in 2004 he received the Medalla de Oro al Mérito de las Bellas Artes and in 2009 the Premi d'Honor Ciutat de Lleida de Fotografia .

4 November 2010 - 10 January 2011 Inauguration: Thursday 4 November at 20.00 Tuesday - Saturday 09.00 - 19.00 Sundays and public holidays 10.00 - 15.00 Fundació Forvm C/ d’en Granada, 11 Tel. 977 223 118 [email protected] www.scan.tarragona.cat Fundació Forvm With the support of the Diputació de Tarragona

Ibérica by Ricky Dávila A fictional territory or a scene of reality, Ibérica presents itself as a photographic project that aims to carry out an inventory of modern society on the Iberian Peninsula: the cartography of a living space in which the master lines are drawn through the portraits of its protagonists. Witness to a flourishing and continuously changing society, the author combines description and metaphor, documental intention and artistic dimension; all at the service of an extensive visual poem made up of portraits that avoid the stereotyping and go deep into the individual condition of each of us. The exhibition will include some of the photographs taken in the city of Tarragona during the first week in October.

Ricky Dávila (Bilbao, 1964) has a degree in biology from the UPV and is a graduate of the ICP, NYC. He has worked for the newspaper El Sol, has been a member of the COVER agency, picture editor for EGM and has contributed to El País Semanal. He publishes his work in national and international media. He participated in the I World Press Photo Masterclass. His awards include the Premi Ortega i Gasset 94, Fotopress 95, II World Press Photo and Best American Picture. Between 2000 and 2010 he was co-editor of the trend and cultural magazine Submersia . He has published the books Retratos y Manila (PhotoEspaña 2005 award for the best book), Alakrana, Ibérica, Nubes de un cielo and Ricky Dávila (ed. Lunwerg, 2010). He has had numerous individual and collective exhibitions.

6 November 2010 - 9 January 2011 Inauguration: Saturday 6 November at 19.30 Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 13.00 16.00 - 19.00 Sundays and public holidays 11.00 - 14.00 . Tinglado 2. Moll de Costa Organised by : Tarragona City Council [email protected] www.scan.tarragona.cat

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Impressions de Tarragona. L’arquitectura a la ciutat a través de la història (Impressions of Tarragona . The architecture of the city throughout history ) The production and exhibition of photographic impressions using large-format Hewlett- Packard (HP) technology, based on three digital images proposed by each of the Tarragona residents or visitors who wish to participate. The photographs in digital format (jpg) will be collected between 10.00 and 14.00 on 6/7 and 13/14 November 2010, The pictures to be used will be selected by Asun Vidal (Member for Culture and External Relations of the COAC) and the photographer Toni Prim, director of the Centre d´Estudis de la Imatge in Tarragona. Three copies of the chosen pictures will be printed, one for the person who took the photograph, the second to be exhibited to the public at the COAC galleries and the third to be offered to the Tarragona Historical Archive.

Production dates: 6/7 and 13/14 November 2010 Exhibition dates: 6 November - 5 December 2010. Opening times: Monday - Thursday 08.00 - 15.00 Saturdays 11.00 - 20.00 Sundays 11.00 - 14.00

Place: COAC, Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, c/ Sant Llorenç, 20-22. Tel. 977 249 367 Organised by: SCAN Tarragona, Centre d´Estudis de la Imatge de Tarragona and Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Tarragona (COAC) [email protected] http://www.coac.net/Tarragona/ Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard

La Mirada reposada. Una revisió del paisatge. Artistes dels anys 1980. Terres de l’Ebre (The Reposed View. A review of the landscape. Artists from the 1980s) Four nineteen-eighties photographic artists from the Terres de l’Ebre, Leonardo Escoda (, 1956), Manel (, 1963), Josep Salmeron (Tortosa, 1964) and Lluís Vives (Vinaròs, 1959), show us their landscape and their memories. In addition to documenting the Terres de l’Ebre, this multidisciplinary proposal reflects on the very concept of landscape from a diversity of visual languages. The four artists use a contemporary conceptual style and have all been members of the Faculty of Fine Arts. According to the journalist Roser Royo, the exhibition is in reality the sum of four exhibitions in which the four photographers express, using their own languages, their ideas of the territory, at they same time as they review their artistic careers. “In fact,” states Leonardo Escoda, who is also the exhibition organiser, “it is a metaphor for reviewing creativity itself”. Lluís Vives has chosen photography to portray the uninhabited spaces of Tortosa, a town he lived in for several years. Josep Salmerón opts for a truly pictorial language with fourteen drawings. Manel Margalef focuses artistically on the architecture of things. Finally, Leonardo Escoda uses photography, painting and a video-installation entitled “Obra morta” to express the passing of time in his vital and creative landscape. The project also includes the participation generational

7 contemporaries, such as the poets Albert Roig and Zoraida Burgos and the photographer Jep Colomé, among others.

12 November 2010 - 9 January 2011 Inauguration: Friday 12 November at 19.30 Monday - Friday 10.00 - 20.00 Saturdays 10.00 - 15.00 17.00 - 20.00 Sundays and public holidays 11.00 - 14.00

Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona C/ Santa Anna, 8 Tel. 977 235 032 [email protected] http://www.altanet.org/mamt Organised by: Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona Production: Escola d'Art i Disseny de la Diputació de Tarragona a Tortosa

“Cambodja, terra d'esperança” (“Cambodia, a land of hope) . Photographs by Gervasio Sánchez This exhibition aims to show the visitor the current situation in Cambodia, a country that after many years of war and suffering is now looking to the future. It shows anonymous people whose lives exemplify the spirit of struggle and survival in present-day Cambodia. The exhibition presents documentaries by Oriol Gispert and photographs by Gervasio Sánchez, who has been awarded the Periodisme Rei d’Espanya Prize in 2009 and the Premi Nacional de Fotografia 2009 for the social commitment of his work. Gervasio Sánchez’ photos, exhibited here for the first time, are a close-up look at the daily lives of the people of Cambodia.

Gervasio Sánchez (Cordoba 1959) covered most of the armed conflicts in Latin America and the Persian Gulf between 1984 and 1992. He then began to cover the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the other conflicts arising from the fragmentation of the former Yugoslavia. He has also worked in war zones in Africa and Asia. Since 1998 he has been a UNESCO special peace envoy. His awards include the Premi Ortega i Gasset in 2008, the Premi Periodisme Rei d’Espanya 2009 for the social commitment of his work and the Premi Nacional de Fotografia in 2009. More information in Los desastres de la guerra , a blog by Gervasio Sánchez: ( http://www.soitu.es/soitu/losdesastresdelaguerra.html )

Until 21 November 2010 Monday - Friday 09.00 - 21.00 Saturdays and public holidays 11.00 - 14.00 16.00 - 21.00 CaixaForum Tarragona Cristòfor Colom, 2 Tel. 977 249 871 http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumtarragona/caixaforumtarr agona_ca.html Organised by: Fundació “la Caixa”

Exhibition: “España oculta” (“Hidden Spain”). Photographs by Cristina García Rodero

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This exhibition consists of 75 photographs from the España Oculta (Hidden Spain) series by the photographer Cristina García Rodero, which belong to the Col·lecció d’Art Contemporani Fundació “La Caixa”. These pictures taken between 1975 and 1988 are of great documentary, anthropological and artistic value and are the result of combining an impressive quality with highly personal visual registers and a very original approach to the human being. García Rodero captures a profound Spain that is on the point of disappearing, the Spain of the people of the villages she visited, experiencing them and impregnating herself with them through hard work and consistency.

Cristina García Rodero graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University in Madrid and was the first Spanish photographer to work with the Magnum photojournalism agency.

Until 21 November 2010 Monday - Friday 09.00 - 21.00 Saturdays and public holidays 11.00 - 14.00 16.00 - 21.00 CaixaForum Tarragona Cristòfor Colom, 2 Tel. 977 249 871 http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumtarragona/caixaforumtarr agona_ca.html Organised by: Fundació “la Caixa”

“Per sempre” (“Forever”). An exhibition by Tanit Plana

Per sempre is a participative project organised by the Fundació “la Caixa” with the artist Tanit Plana and curated by Cèlia del Diego. It is designed to give voice to the female experience of marriage. Per sempre invites married women to pose for the camera in their respective wedding dresses and to share a series of reflections about the patterns of social behaviour and rites of passage that come into play with the decision to marry and the subsequent preparation and celebration of a wedding. CaixaForum Tarragona presents the video clips and photographs resulting from this collaboration with the women’s associations of Tarragona, Lleida and Palma de Mallorca. 1 December 2010 - 27 February 2011 Monday - Friday 09.00 - 21.00 Saturdays and public holidays 11.00 - 14.00 16.00 - 21.00 CaixaForum Tarragona Cristòfor Colom, 2 Tel. 977 249 871 http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumtarragona/caixaforumtarr agona_ca.html Organised by: Fundació “la Caixa”

“Espais espectaculars” (“Spectacular Places”) or how to listen and see heritage

9 The creators’ most personal, original and, at the same time, transgressive views offer us a new interpretation of an exhibition of some of the Camp de Tarragona’s most outstanding architectural heritage. It rediscovers for us the history of the spectacles organised for the masses in ancient Rome, mediaeval plays and street theatre and brings us up to date with the future architectural constructions that will provide a space for the facilities that are so necessary for the continuity of culture, the scenic arts and, in short, the spectacle.

“Espais espectaculars” is the result of a coming together of architecture and the sensitivity of six photographers and seven different musicians or musical groups, who undertook a postproduction of seven monuments in the Camp de Tarragona.

The Roman Circus of Tarragona, the church of Sant Francesc in Montblanc, the Plaça del Blat in , the Bartrina Theatre in , the Theatre of , the Pau Casals Auditorium in and the Theatre-Auditorium in are the “spectacular spaces” of the region that have been reinterpreted by artists who are also from here and have a clear implication in the province of Tarragona.

The Territorial Services of the Department of Culture and the Media in Tarragona has organised this exhibition in collaboration with the aMT (Tarragona Musicians Association), who have been responsible for adding the musical tone to the exhibition, as well as the production of the CD that comes with the catalogue.

Seven musicians or groups have composed pieces inspired by the walls of these places; they have given them a voice of their own and offer us a new way of listening to architecture.

List of monuments-artists: Roman Circus of Tarragona, photographs by Antoni Navarro and music by NLS! (Miguel A. Cruz Macc , Fernando Julián and Pasqual Martin); the church of Sant Francesc in Montblanc, photographs by Raül Cendon and music by Xavier Pié and Miquel Cruz; the Plaça del Blat in Valls, photographs by Pau Gavaldà and music by RamRom, Ramon Romeu González; the theatre of La Vilella Baixa, photographs by David Mocha and music by Alberto Grima; the Bartrina Theatre in Reus, photographs by Cristina Serra Juncosa and music by La Perra Gorda (Joan Calaf, David Rodríguez and Gerard Verdú); the Pau Casals Auditorium in El Vendrell, photographs by Montse Riera and music by Rocío Romero Grau; the Theatre-Auditorium in Cambrils , photographs by Cristina Serra Juncosa and music by Jesús Cano Canal (Chus).

Until 12 November Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 18.00 Friday 09.00 - 14.30. Exhibition room of the Serveis Territorials de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació de la Generalitat de Catalunya C/ Major, 14 Tel. 977 251 485 Organised by: Serveis Territorials de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació de la Generalitat de Catalunya [email protected] http://www.gencat.cat/cultura

De pas

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“Estació Creactiva” is a programme of artistic interventions that takes place in Tarragona bus station. Through contemporary art, it reflects on our closest social and cultural milieu and looks into the importance of the public space as a catalyser of urban life. It is a place for dialogue in which the members of the public are no longer simple spectators, but an active part of the performance.

“De Pas” is the second intervention to be produced. It chooses the photographic portrait as a means of beginning a dialogue with the people passing through the bus station, a place where paths and anonymous lives cross. We installed a portable photographic studio in different parts of the station and invited people to allow themselves to be photographed and make a recording saying where they were going and the reason for their journey. Using the studio portrait as a basis, we decided to add the resulting picture of the surroundings in which the photograph was taken, incorporating this image into the landscape of the bus station. The result is a photographic series of diverse characters captured in a precise and fleeting instant.

Until 30 December 2010

Tarragona Bus Station Plaça Imperial Organised by: Estació Creactiva / KÜNSTAINER [email protected] www.caldodecultivo.com/

Il·lusió i moviment: els orígens del cinematògraf (Illusion and movement: the origins of the cinematographer) The exhibition Illusion and movement: the origins of the cinematographer shows the visitor the fascinating but forgotten world of artefacts and artifices that came before the cinema, such as shadow theatres, optical toys and pandoriamas.

There are authentic treasures from the Josep Maria Queraltó Collection, a journey through some of the unique moments of those means of surprise and trickery, most of which have died out in the face of the success of the visual storytelling of the cinema. In our modern day of constant innovations in the digital media, this journey through the pre-cinema shows us a culture of the image to which we are heirs and helps us better understand ourselves in the present as spectators.

15 October 2010 - 16 January 2011 Monday - Sunday 10.00 - 14.00 17.00 - 21.00 Sala d’Exposicions de la Fundació Caixa Tarragona C/ Higini Anglès, 5 Complementary activities: Guided tours open to all members of the public every Saturday and also for school parties by advance arrangement (Tel. 977 220 516). All the guided tours are free of charge. http://www.fundaciocaixatarragona.com/portal Organised by: Fundació Caixa Tarragona

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Activities

SCANOFF. Free projections

SCANOFF is a new initiative that aims to open the doors of the SCAN Tarragona festival to new generations of photographers, offering them the chance to show their works in projection sessions open to the general public. The organiser of SCANOFF is the Tarragona photographer, Pep Escoda. He will be responsible for selecting the artists to be presented, who will thus be able to show their work directly to the general public. The presentations will be held on 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 November 2010 beginning at 23.00. On the other days until 20 November the photographs can be seen in non-stop projections.

The venue chosen for the SCANOFF projections will also be a Meeting Point for the SCAN Tarragona festival, where artists, professionals and visitors will find a place to converse, exchange experiences and show their own personal projects, at the same time as discovering the new values of the continuous projections.

Organiser: Pep Escoda 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 November 2010 from 23.00 Meeting point : Bar As Crechas Plaça del Fòrum, 10 [email protected] www.scan.tarragona.cat Organised by: SCAN Tarragona

“Heliographic portraits in the open air” Organising a live activity like the early heliograph awakens considerable interest and curiosity among the public. A portrait session will be held lasting for 4 hours over three mornings on two weekends in a public area of Tarragona. Each session will use 9x12 format ferrotypes from which between 15 and 20 portraits can be obtained. The plates will be fixed, cleaned and varnished in the square itself, meaning that the subjects will be able to collect their ferrotype in a box and take it home. The large-format camera, the portable laboratory, the collodin of the plate, the obligatory immobility of the subject while the portrait is being taken and, above all, the speed and quality of the results when the plate is placed in the fixing tray, can all be seen close at hand by the public at the same time as the procedure will be explained to them. The mobile studio will have a carpet, chairs and a painted backdrop for those subjects who wish to be portrayed in a scene. • The portraits will have a symbolic price of 5 euros each. • Each session will have a limited number of portraits and numbers will be given in the square itself.

AtelieRetaguardia, (Israel Ariño, Martí Llorens, Rebecca Mutell, Xavier Mulet and Arcangela Regis)

12 6 and 7 November 2010 10.00 - 14.00 in the Plaça de la Font. Saturday 13 November 2010: 10.00 - 14.00 in the gardens of the Casa Canals, Carrer d’en Granada, 11. Organised by: SCAN Tarragona Tel. 977 223 118 [email protected] www.scan.tarragona.cat

e.Plec2 Arts Visuals: pensament, imatge, procés i experimentació (Visual Arts: thought, image, process and experimentation) 5 - 12 November e.plec is a space for experimental creation in the visual arts. It is a journey through the current processes of research, production and dissemination of contemporary creation, located in the complexity. e.plec carries out the tasks needed to compile, disseminate and reflect on the most interesting things happening on the contemporary visual arts scene in Southern . At the same time, it aims to stimulate the production of emerging artists and disseminate the proposals and the region’s more consolidated artists. The programme consists of a series of interventions in public, a programme of presentations and discussions and a concert.

Imatges per pensar (Images to think about). I nterventions in public Initiation of the Euròmetre and Souvenir projects. Installation of the devices and opening of the virtual space. Friday, 5 November. Public areas and www.eurometre.com

De la capsa de sabates a l’arxiu (From the shoe box to the archive). Domestic Photography Project presentation and discussion We will discuss the photography and films originating in domestic environments and their artistic, documental and anthropological value. The session will focus on the management of this heritage in the digital era and the new Centre de la Imatge in Tarragona.

Maria Roig Alzina (historian and researcher). “Del calaix a la pantalla. Memòries, pràctica, conservació i reutilització del film del família”. Francesc Perramon (historian and teacher at the EADT) and Sílvia Itúrria (photographer and teacher at the EADT). “Les fotografies de les capses de sabates” Jordi Piqué (Doctor of History and Head of the Tarragona Municipal Archive and Documentation Service). “Projecte del Centre de la Imatge a Tarragona”

Tuesday 9 November 18.00 - 21.00 Casa Canals C/ d’en Granada, 11

Pràctiques filantròpiques (Philanthropic Practices). Research and experimentation in the visual arts. Project presentations.

13 We will open up a space to reflect on the links between the visuals arts, research and political and social action. Three very different projects will be presented with the aim of analysing the frontier between art, teaching, activism and social innovation. Alfred Porres Plà (visual artist and teacher). “Pocket Causes. La domesticació del reivindicatiu”. Alba Sotorra and Rabia Williams (audiovisual makers and producers). “ZIMDOC”. Cèsar Mauri, Lídia Porcar, Jordi Martorell, Joan Bages and Maribel Garcia , (group of artists, researchers and therapists). “SATI (Sistema Audiovisual Terapèutic Interactiu)” Wednesday 10 November 18.00 - 20.30 Casa Canals C/ d’en Granada, 11

Autarquia sensorial . Audiovisual Concert

The concert will include two performances in which the audiovisual makers and bands will work together on an experimental basis while creating intuitive moments. Gerard Gil and Les Aus present a show that has previously only been seen at La Pedrera (Barcelona). It is a forceful live performance in which Les Aus improvise on the videos made in recent years by Gerard Gil. For the second course we have an exclusive live performance prepared by Transistor Arkestra, recent winners of the DO Competition, in which their orchestra of transistors and synthesisers merges with the video made by Proletari Cratz, one of the most experienced VJ groups in Spain. Stratospheric sounds and visual syntax 2.0.

21.30 Gerard Gil and Les Aus 22.15 Fifteen minute interval during which a glass of wine will be served 22.30 Proletari Cratz and The Transistor Arkestra Wednesday 10 November at 21.30 Teatre Metropol Rambla Nova, 46 Entrance: 5 euros

Imatges per pensar (Images to think about). I nterventions in public Presentation of projects produced by e.Plec

Euròmetre ( www.eurometre.com ) by Ariadna Parreu According to the Royal Spanish Academy dictionary, “europeidad” is the “quality or condition of being European”, as well as “the generic character of the peoples that make up Europe”. Euròmetre unfurls an instrumental statistic that shows us to what extent Tarragona complies with this characteristic of a member city of the European state. Using image analysis, the methodology probes into the visual imagination of people to ascertain whether or not they consider themselves Europeans. To participate in Euròmetre and reply to the questionnaire, visit: www.eurometre.com

Souvenir , de Cristina Serra, Gemma Clofent, Lluís Vives and David Mocha

Souvenir invites four local photographers to propose a visual approach to urban spaces that are defragmented, in transformation or simply abandoned. Based on this idea of the non-bucolic, non-touristic or non-patrimonial landscape, this collective project aims to review, from a contemporary point of view, the particularities of the Camp de Tarragona region.

Using a non-conventional exhibition formula –a postcard dispenser placed in non- artistic contexts, such as a market, kiosk, hospital or souvenir shop– the project aims to

14 provoke an uninhibited, curious and innovative dialogue between the photographer and the receiving public. The intention is to generate a confrontation with the idealisation we have and suffer from of the concept of ‘landscape’ in the contexts of standardised representation. It also aims to invite both the captivating aesthetic of the post-industrial landscape and the poetic criticism of savage urbanism. Thursday 11 November 18.00 - 19.30 Casa Canals C/ d’en Granada, 11

Petits films musicats (Short films with music). Audiovisual Concert Maria Roig Alzina selects archive material accompanied by live musical improvisation to take us on a historical tour through familiar films. Pictures ceded by CIMIR (Centre de la Imatge Mas Iglesias de Reus) and Home Movies (Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Bologna). Thursday 11 November at 22.30 Pajaritu Lounge C/ Sant Llorenç, 21 Organised and produced by: Laboratori Visual Direction: Blai Mesa Coordination: Paloma Pontón Communication and press: Esther Canals, Joan Calvet and Maria Bringué Production: Blai Mesa, Paloma Pontón, Esther Canals, Joan Calvet and Maria Bringué www.visual-lab.info

With the support of the Con CA

Genius Loci. Tarragona Revealed

Presentation of the book produced to commemorate a decade of Tarragona as a World Heritage Site

In mythology, the Genius Loci is the spirit that gives life to people and places, that accompanies them from birth to death and determines their character or essence. Throughout history, artists have been inspired by this concept in their references to the natural or urban landscape and in creating works linking classical tradition to contemporary creation. Genius Loci. Tarragona revealed is a book commissioned by the Tarragona City Council Department of Cultural Heritage to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the city’s nomination as a World Heritage Site and is the fruit of an invitation to six photographers who have criss-crossed our city with complete artistic freedom and without any concern for exhaustiveness. Their pictures may resemble the pages of an intimate diary, but we can verify that they can also be anthropological tools taken out of context by the photographer, leaving the readers to create their own narrative.

15 Authors: Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Vari Caramés, Pep Escoda, Bernard Plossu, Mònica Roselló, Quim Vendrell. The book will be presented by the artist Joan Fontcuberta. Project coordinated by Chantal Grande. Thursday 11 November at 20.00 Casa Canals C/ d’en Granada, 11 Tel. 977 223 118 [email protected] Organised by: Department of Heritage, Tarragona City Council

Arqueologia de la photography / Photography de l’arqueologia (The Archaeology of Photography / the Photography of Archaeology)

On 19 August 1839, the French scientist and Member of Parliament, François Arago, officially presented the invention of photography to the members of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. In part of his speech he hinted at the possible benefits of the new invention for archaeology “…how archaeology would be enriched with this new technology. To copy the millions and millions of hieroglyphics that cover (…) the great monuments of Thebes, Memphis or Karnak would take dozens of years and legions of artists. With the daguerreotype, a single man could carry out this immense task …”. By the mid-nineteenth century the technological development of photography had reached a stage to make this possible and, at the same time, archaeology began to develop as a science.

The double session we propose for the public in the auditorium of the National Archaeological Museum (MNAT) is a short journey through this fascinating period.

In the first part, in the Museum’s auditorium, the work of some of the best-known photographers and archaeologists of the nineteenth century will be projected and discussed. We will talk about the world they depicted in their journeys through Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc. and what that signified for the general public, as well as about the photographic techniques they used.

In the second part, in the Plaça del Rei, we will be able to see how they worked with those early photographic techniques, such as the wet plate collodion process. With this technique, which was widely-used between 1851 and 1880, we will take photographs of the MNAT its surroundings. This session is also included in the Science Week activities. AtelieRetaguardia. Heliografía Contemporánea (Israel Ariño, Martí Llorens, Rebecca Mutell, Xavier Mulet and Arcangela Regis) Sunday 14 November at 11.30 Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona Plaça del Rei, 5 Tel. 977 236 209 [email protected] www.mnat.es/ Organised by: Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona (MNAT)

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Will you marry me? A participative action.

Would you like to dress up as a bride?

Get your wedding dress out of its box or ask your mother, sister or a friend if you can borrow theirs and come along! We invite all the women of Tarragona province to take part in a participative action to be held on 6 November at 10.00.

All the women who come will be videoed for the Per Sempre exhibition, an artistic project by Tanit Plana to be held at the CaixaForum from 1 December 2010.

Participation is completely free of charge and we will give you a photo souvenir of the experience.

For more information phone us on 977 249 871 or visit our website: www.laCaixa.es/ObraSocial

Saturday 6 November at 10.00

CaixaForum Tarragona Cristòfor Colom, 2 Tel. 977 249 871 www.laCaixa.es/ObraSocial Organised by: Fundació “la Caixa”

Workshop: La fotografia com a territori personal (Photography as a personal territory) given by Ricky Dávila The Tarragona Provincial Government School of Art and Design (EADT), through the programme of support for artistic and contemporary thought projects of a professional nature produced in the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion, and within the framework of the “La imatge i el lloc” project in collaboration with SCAN Tarragona, the Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, the Ecole de Beaux-arts de Toulouse and the Imatge Serena Association of Menorca, is organising a workshop or master class to be given by the photographer Ricky Dávila.

The backdrop of this theoretical-practical course will be the personal way of looking at the situation of the territory from a humanitarian perspective in which the figure and the place coexist. Ricky Dávila proposes a combination of the documental view and a poetic and intimist vision, in which the analogies are placed at the service of explaining the reality.

Ricky Dávila (Bilbao, 1964) has a degree in Biology from the UPV and is a graduate of the ICP, NYC. He has worked for the newspaper El Sol, has been a member of the

17 COVER agency, picture editor for EGM and has contributed to El País Semanal. He publishes his work in national and international media. He participated in the I World Press Photo Masterclass. His awards include the Premi Ortega i Gasset 94, Fotopress 95, II World Press Photo and Best American Picture. Between 2000 and 2010 he was co-editor of the trend and cultural magazine Submersia . He has published the books Retratos y Manila (the PhotoEspaña 2005 award for the best book), Alakrana, Ibérica, Nubes de un cielo and Ricky Dávila (ed. Lunwerg, 2010).

8, 9, 10 & 11 November Information and registration: Escola d’Art i Disseny de Tarragona Ctra. De Valls s/n Tel. 977 211 253 www.dipta.cat/eadt [email protected] Organised by: Escola d’Art i Disseny de Tarragona With the support of: SCAN Tarragona

Workshop: “Heliografia contemporània”, la pràctica actual de la fotografia primitive (“Contemporary Heliography”. The current practice of early photography)

The “Contemporary Heliography” workshop is an original theoretical and practical immersion in the history, technique and aesthetic of photography as it developed from its origins until the 1880s. The photographic medium was industrialised and simplified following the invention of the gelatine-bromide dry plate process. Thus began a new stage, departing from the artisanal and personal character that had defined it until then. The daguerreotype, the calotype and collodion became obsolete. Today, the use of these archaic techniques allows us to understand, appreciate and enjoy the photography of that period. It is also a means of comprehending and preserving it. Likewise, depicting the modern world with a technique from the past opens up infinite possibilities in the field of the creative processes.

Over three days, the workshop will offer a wide-ranging theoretical exhibition and a full and practical demonstration of the wet-plate collodion process.

AtelieRetaguardia, (Israel Ariño, Martí Llorens, Rebecca Mutell, Xavier Mulet and Arcangela Regis) 15, 16 & 17 November 10.00 - 14.00 15.00 - 18.00 Escola d’Art i Disseny de Tarragona Ctra. De Valls s/n Tel. 977 211 253 www.dipta.cat/eadt [email protected] Organised by: Escola d’Art i Disseny de Tarragona With the support of : SCAN Tarragona

18 Photographic Rally “ Modernism in Tarragona ”

On its 40 th anniversary the Tarragona Photographic Association has decided to collaborate with the Scan Tarragona festival by organising the “Modernism in Tarragona” rally, in collaboration with Heritage and the Tarragona Modernist Commission. The aim is to use photography to show the general public the wealth of examples of this architectural style in the city of Tarragona. It is designed to be participative and family-friendly: by taking pictures of certain places, the participants will have fun and, at the same time, discover the history and culture of the city. For more information on the different programmed activities, please contact the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Tarragona.

The places with Modernist (Art Nouveau) architecture in the city. Sunday 28 November in the morning Information and registration: Dolors Granero Tel. 977 21 10 05 [email protected] Governador González, 7, entl. 1a Organised by: Agrupació Fotogràfica de Tarragona www.aftgn.com

Information

SCAN TARRAGONA Casa Canals Carrer d’en Granada, 11

19 43003 Tarragona Tel. 977 223 118 http://scan.tarragona.cat [email protected]

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