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Exhibitions 3Bamako 05 6That’s not entertainment! 7Hammershøi and Dreyer 8Borders 9Apartheid 10In Transition 11Exhibitions in collaboration 7Somalia: Surviving oblivion 12World Press Photo 12 Cultural activities 13Cycles and festivals 14Festivals in collaboration 20Other activities 26Urban itineraries 28

Debate and refl ection 29New humanism 30The city and public space 36Ongoing refl ection 39Debate and refl exion in collaboration 40

Open CCCB 42Projects on the net 43Exhibitions. Beyond the CCCB 44Debates. Beyond the CCCB 49Networks 50

CCCB Holdings 51Archive 52Publications 55Audiovisual productions 57

GENERAL INFORMATION 58CCCB staff list 59Collaborating Institutions and Companies 60Visitor fi gures 61Budget 63List of Speakers in Debates and Lectures 64Venue hire 66

SELECTION OF PRESS CLIPPINGS 68

INDEX


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Graphic DesignPostdata disseny i comunicació

PrinterCentre d’Impressió i Reprografi a - Diputació de Barcelona


EXHIBITIONS2007


EXHIBITIONS

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For the second time, the CCCB offered a selection of works shown at the most recent Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, the African international photography exhibition held in Bamako between November 10 and December 10, 2005.

In keeping with the spirit and structure of the Rencontres, the CCCB selection was wideranging and included: work by the photographers who won the major awards, Rana El Nemr (Egypt), Uchechukwu James Iroha (Nigeria), Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa) and Zohra Bensemra (Algeria); the most interesting projects from the main section of the biennale, under the theme Another World; monographs on the work of John Mauluka (Zimbawe), Malick Sidibé (Mali) and Ranjith Kally (South Africa); work by nine photographers from Algeria in the national section; and, fi nally, in the Transversals section for plastic artists who also work with photography, the work of Jane Alexander (South Africa) and Pascal Marthine Tayou (Cameroon).

The CCCB exhibition was organised into the following sections:

International exhibition: Another WorldRaymond Barthes (Madagascar), Rana El Nemr (Egypt), Yoyo Gonthier (Reunion), Bruno Hadjih (Algeria), Uche-chukwu James Iroha (Nigeria) (Elan Award), John Kikaya (Tanzania), Helga Kohl (Namibia), Malik Nejmi (Moro-cco), Francis Nii Obodai (Ghana), Zaynab Toyosi Odunsi (Nigeria), Sarah Sadki (Algeria), Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa)

TributeJohn Mauluka (Zimbawe, 1932-2003)

Coup de chapeau Malick Sidibé (Mali)

Remembering Ranjith Kally (South Africa)

National exhibition: AlgeriaLouisa Ammi-Sid, Zohra Bensemra, Cherif Benyoucef, Nadia Ferroukhi, Farida Hamak, Nasser Kamr-Eddine Medjkane, Mohamed Messara, Hamid Seghilani, Samir Sid

TransversalsJane Alexander (South Africa), Pascal Marthine Tayou (Cameroon)

BAMAKO’05. ANOTHER WORLDAFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY MEETINGS

Dates October 5, 2006 – February 28, 2007

Venue gallery 3, CCCB

Curator Pep Subirós

Organised by CCCB and AFAA/Afrique en créations, Ministère de la Culture du Mali, les Rencontres de Bamako

With the support of the Generalitat de Catalunya’s Department of Culture and Media

With the sponsorship of Fundació Caixa Catalunya and Consorci Zona Franca

Exhibition design Bracha Berkovitch, Elisabet Cristià and Alejandro Quintillá

Graphic design Avantgardebcn (image and interior) and Joan Barjau (catalogue)

CCCB©Jordi Gómez,2007


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A whole series of fi lm-related activities were organised to celebrate fi ve years of the CCCB’s cinema - Xcèntric. They began with the release of a complilation of some ot the fi lms shown until December 2006 at the CCCB, then the major event - the exhibition THAT’S NOT ENTERTAIN-MENT! Cinema begets Cinema. Other activities included the launch of the Xcèntric Archive, the Xperimenta con-ference and the screening of a fi lm by Brakhage. Finally, a new season of Xcèntric, which has been extended to three Xcèntric Nights, on which the exhibition opened till midnight.

When cinema became a big entertainment factory, an industry that recruits creative minds and homogenises tastes, it produced small-big reactions ranging from the subversive to the ironic, abstract, alternative and mini-malist. Filmmaking would never be the same again for a generation that received its emotional and intellectual education in front of cinema and television screens. Cinema begets cinema.

This exhibition presented cinema of experimentation and social and artistic commitment: a form of cinema that is the product of rage or refl ection, that doesn’t seek to please the tastes or opinions of a majority, that is motiva-ted by the urgency of transmitting something important, something that will open our eyes, move us and expand our knowledge. The exhibition makes it possible to go beyond the screenings and set the works, movements and fi lmmakers in the context of the spirit that inspires them. Here, cinema takes the form of texts, images and referen-ces – technical, social or political - that illustrate its reason for being.

THAT’S NOT ENTERTAINMENT!! offered new audiences a chance to access this form of expression. It was cura-ted to offer a few keys that could open up a vast area of cinema full of small and big revolutions that shape the world that we live in, more than we imagine.

The exhibition included installations and fi lms that, despite their invisibility on the commercial circuit, are key pieces of contemporary art, by fi lmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Gustav Deutsch, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Matthias Muller, José Antonio Sistiaga etc.

The Xcèntric Archive was also presented at the exhibition. This permanent project is open to the public for indi-vidual consultation, and began with a selection of 200 works.

It also included a space for presenting the Xcèntric Archive, which starts of with a selection of 200 titles and is available to the public for individual consultation.

RELATED EVENTS

Conference Xperimenta. Contemporary Looks at Experi-mental Film, February, 19 to 21. (see page 14)

Xcentric Nights

THAT’S NOT ENTERNTAINMENT!CINEMA BEGETS CINEMA

Dates December 21, 2006 – March 18, 2007

Venue gallery 1, CCCB

Curators Andrés Hispano and Antoni Pinent

Production CCCB

With the sponsorship of ADN and the collaboration of Infi nia Art

Exhibition design Bracha Berkovitch, Elisabet Cristià and Alejandro Quintillá

Graphic design David Torrents (image and catalogue) and Anaïs Esmerado (interior)



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The exhibition presented the work of the two most univer-sal Danish artists of all time, the painter Vilhelm Ham-mershøi (1864-1916) and the fi lmmaker Carl Th. Dreyer (1889-1968), in a highly innovative and evocative visual dialogue.

The work of these two artists was brought together for the fi rst time in an exhibition that demonstrated the visual and creative relationship between them, their methods, their personal vision of art and their aesthetic similari-ties. With 36 essential works on display, this was the fi rst Hammershøi exhibition in Spain.

The exhibition began with a biographical overview of the two artists, which showed their points of contact in the key period between 1916 (the year of Hammershøi’s death and a major retrospective exhibition) and 1918 (Dreyer’s fi rst fi lm). This overview provided the key to the exhibi-tion, and was followed by 12 audio-visual presentations with fragments from Dreyer’s fi lms.

Next, visitors entered various spaces constructed around Hammershøi paintings in order to highlight the intimate relationship between the spectator and the work, and to convey the central ideas of his work: austerity, sobriety, silence and slowness. Dreyer remained present throug-hout this section through light, which illuminated the space and Hammershøi’s work in a subtle dialogue that allowed visitors to rediscover Hammershøi’s paintings through new eyes.

RELATED EVENTS

Cicle Dreyer after Hammershøi, from March 7 to April 25 (see page 31)

Hammershøi - Dreyer Variations. Children’s workshop. Children from 8 to 12 years old will create their own sto-ries by mounting their chosen Hammershøi’s paintings. From February 18 to April 15.

Dates January 25 - May 1

Venue Gallery 2, CCCB

Curators Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Annette Rosenvold Hvidt, Casper Tybjerg and Jordi Balló

Production CCCB and Ordrupgaard Museum (Denmark)


With the sponsorship of La Vanguardia and the collaboration of the Queen Isabel of Denmark Foundation

Exhibition design PCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes with the collaboration of Ventura Llimona Taller d’arquitectura

Graphic design Lali Almonacid (image and catalogue)

HAMMERSHØI AND DREYER



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Dates May 3 - September 30


Curators Michel Foucher and Henri Dorion

Production Musée de Lyon (Departement du Rhône) and CCCB

Exhibition design Massip-Bosch, Natàlia Valldeperas and Megan Charnley

Graphic design Postdata

BORDERS

This exhibition showed a series of eight “worlds”, linking photographic reports with meditations on various pro-blems relating to the issue of political borders. The exhi-bition Borders focused on geopolitical issues and aimed to demonstrate the ambiguity of the concept of a “border” (which both separates and connects, and which encoura-ges both division and exchange etc.), while refl ecting on the actual situation on the ground. The eight “worlds” of the borders were:

European borders and the issue of their limits

The global challenges of migration (the European situa-tion)

Borders that remain closed: North Korea and its “Para-dise”

Land disputes: Kashmir, a contentious region

A frontier being formed: Israel and Palestine

The economic challenges of borders arising from globali-sation: between Mexico and the United States.

The world of communities without homogenous territo-ries: the Gypsy peoples distributed throughout Europe.

Permeable and non-permeable borders: refugees in exile

Nine specialists were invited to offer their expert opinions on each of these eight territorial scenarios: two experts in geopolitical boundaries, eight photojournalists and one cartographer, a total of eleven guests involved in the

problems of border policies, who were requested to offer their perspective on specifi c problems, and shared their experiences and observations.

The exhibition included two installations produced by the CCCB:

An installation created as a result of the series of talks entitled Fronteres (Debate de Barcelona VII), which took place at the CCCB from January 12 to the March 29, 2004, with original work and artistic direction by Frederic Amat.

The installation OceanMalecónDrive, created by Enric Massip and Ángel Morúa, which juxtaposed the seafronts of Malecón in Havana and Ocean Drive in Miami Beach which are separated by just 200 km of water _opposite one another to create a “border street”.

RELATED EVENTS

Guided visits by specialists. From June 7 to September, 20 (see page 15)

BCNmp7 - Border Music, Screening of the documentary Crossing the Bridge: the Sound of Istanbul (Fatih Akin, 2005), Round table with the musician Alexander Hacke and the music journalist and writer Charlie Gillett, and Concert with Ceza. May, 17.

Premiere at the CCCB of the documentary DeNadie by Tin Dirdamal, Mexico, 2005, 82 min. A documentary that approaches the reality lived at the border of Mexico and USA. Thursday 27, Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September.



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APARTHEID

Dates September 26, 2007 – February 3, 2008


Curator Pep Subirós

Production CCCB and Bancaja

Exhibition design Anna Alcubierre


With the sponsorship of El País

Graphic design Avantgardebcn (image and interior) and Manuel Cuyás with David Lorente (catalogue)

The narrative thread that ran through this exhibition was one of a return journey: starting with the European ori-gins of modern racism, it followed racism’s spread throug-hout the world during the colonial era, before returning to the wealthiest regions of the world in the post-colonial era. The aims of the exhibition were:

to show and explain how racism originated and took root in our tradition as the dark side of and counterpoint to enlightened and democratic values.

to offer an understanding of apartheid in South Africa during the period from 1948-1994 –and how diffi cult it was to move on– not just as an extreme manifestation of historical racism of Western origin but also as a forerun-ner and paradigm of certain central issues inherent in the current process of globalisation

to show how these issues have found and continue to fi nd their correlation in the fi eld of artistic creation, and how this fi eld has infl uenced, and could continue to infl uence, the struggle against these prejudices and practices, and

to provoke refl ection and debate about old and new forms of racism operating in the western world, an issue that will doubtless have a growing importance as socio-cultural diversity increases in this region due to the increase in immigration.

The majority of the exhibition consisted of original works of art that are representative of the creativity of the areas most affected by apartheid, as well as areas of cultural opposition to it. There was a special emphasis on artists from the ethnic majority, most of who are barely known outside South Africa. There was also a selection of objects and documents from the period 1750-1950 sourced from history, anthropology and natural science museums and archives, which illustrated attempts to establish a scienti-fi c basis for racism. Documentary photography and videos were also presented as part of the exhibition.

RELATED EVENTS

Debate Local racism, Global Apartheid. South Africa as a Paradigm. September 27 and 28. (see page 33)



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This exhibition did not set out to be a chronological, narrative description of a historical period but rather a way of understanding a dense, complex process that acted as a bridge between dictatorship and democracy and which affected, and developed through, the people who experien-ced it.

In line with this, the exhibition focused on the general public, establishing a history of the experiences of a gene-ration. The result was a multidirectional narrative linking personal and collective stories, of both success and failure.

Visitors experienced the exhibition in the present. It was not a retrospective look at the Transition. The exhibition aimed to convey the feeling of movement and personal experience, without reference to time.

The exhibition also demonstrated the disparity in the pace of change between the creation of political systems on one hand and social change on the other, as well as the tension between them.

The exhibition was structured along different thematic lines in order to explain the development of a society in transition, and illustrated the process through which everything that the Francoist regime seemed to have tied down, unravelled.

Dates November 20, 2007 - February 24, 2008


Curators Manel Risques, Ricard Vinyes and Antoni Marí

Consultants Kiko Amat, Jordi Calafell and Santos Julià

Exhibition design Emiliana Design Studio

Graphic design La Japonesa (image and interior) and Marc Valls and Oriol Soler (catalogue)

Production CCCB, Departament d’Interior, Relacions Institucionals i Participació de la Generalitat de Catalunya (D.G.de la Memòria Democràtica), the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC),linked to the Ministerio de Cultura, and the Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX), which will take care of the international touring of the project

With the sponsorship of El Periódico de Catalunya

IN TRANSITION



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EXPOSICIONS IN COLLABORATION WITH

SOMALIA SURVIVING OBLIVION

There is a map on which communi-ties that are not part of the processes that dominate world geopolitics are condemned to oblivion. These communities are overlooked by the international political agenda, and so are banished from the sphere of solu-tions and political responsibilities.

In this awareness-raising project by MSF, the multimedia installation Somalia, based on photographs by Pep Bonet, is the starting point for a series of activities, culminating in the debate Geography of forgotten crises, organised by the CCCB. Words and images will be used to highlight the crises that are overlooked today, sug-gesting the reasons and the agencies

responsible, but above all aiming to voice questions about the suffering of invisible communities caught bet-ween oblivion and violence. With this initiative by MSF, the CCCB reopened the debate on the most overlooked humanitarian crises on the planet.

RELATED EVENTS

Debate Somalia. The west and the destruction of Hope. April, 12 (see page 33)

Dates April 10 – May 1


Organised by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) with the collaboration of the CCCB

WORLD PRESS PHOTOINTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM EXHIBITION

An image by photographer Spencer Platt (USA, Getty Images) was the winner of the World Press Photo competition, and represented the World Press Foundation, exhibition and competition throughout 2007.

The choice of the image Young Leba-nese drive through devastated neigh-borhood of South Beirut, 15 August was surprising in relation to WPP winners in recent years. It seems that the 2007 wasn’t looking for an image that could become an icon represen-ting the victims of our age, but rather for a more in-depth exploration that includes humanity as a whole. This photograph moved us as human beings living in society. We could contemplate the path that was shown to us: the increasingly harsh

inequalities among us and total indi-fference in the face of fellow human beings.

With his camera, the photographer marks a new attitude to the world’s problems: it’s not about just another inequality between upper and lower classes within a country or between developed and poor countries, but rather about the growing rift that separates the rich and the poor at a global level. Lifestyles and material goods are no longer the only markers of difference; instead, we are facing the increasingly obvious disappea-rance of human feeling and solidarity.

Dates October 16 – November 11


Production Photographic Social Vision with the collaboration of the CCCB

CCCB© Photographicsocialvision, 2007



CULTURALACTIVITIES


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After fi ve editions, Xcèntric has established itself in Barcelona as a regular program of fi lm and audiovi-sual works that that don’t fi t into the commercial mainstream, selected for their artistic potential, irrespective of genre or format.

The Xcèntric programme offers recent and archival works with shared affi nities, counter-cultural classics, and new productions aimed at an audience that is hungry for creative, unfettered audio-visual initiatives.

Núria Aidelman, Gonzalo de Lucas, Núria Esquerra, Laida Lertxundi, Antoni Pienet and Andrés Hispano make up the team of programmers, directed by Carolina López.

The 2007 programme continued its now-familiar sections: Rewritten

(cinema relating to the other arts), Variations of Reality (documentary) and Invisible Cinema (experimental), which included the work of fi lm-makers like Peter Watkins, Albert and David Mayless, António Campos, Yukio Mishima, Fumio Kamei, Heddy Honigmann, Pedro Costa, Sophie Fiennes, Bob Dylan, Howard Alk, Andy Warhol, Frans van de Staak, Bärbel Neubauer, Jean Claude Rosseau, Louise Bourque and Bretzy Bromberg, among others.

There were also one-off and dedicated sections, such as a one dedicated to life in the ghetto, with work by the fi lmmakers Shirley Clarke, Ken Mac-kenzie, Billy Woodberry and Lionel Rogosin.

Running in parallel with the exhibi-tion That’s not entertainment! Cinema begets cinema that was held at the CCCB until March 18, 2007, the Xpe-rimenta conference set out to become a regular meeting point that brought together experts from all over the world –academics, theorists, fi lm-makers, programmers, distributors, documentary-makers and others- to debate the current state of experi-mental cinema. Over three days, the conference will sound out the genera-

tional, technological and epistemolo-gical changes that have taken place in the world of avant-garde fi lmmaking in recent decades and encourage discussion of innumerable questions that don’t always have answers.

Participants: Craig Baldwin, Peter Tscherkassky, Peter Kubelka, Paul Arthur, Martin Arnold, Dominic Angerame, Mark Webber, John G. Hanhardt, Emmanuel Lefrant, Nicole Brenez and Pip Chodorov.

Dates February 19-21

Organised by CCCB

Directed by Miguel Fernández Labayen and Antoni Pinent

Consultants Loïc Diaz Ronda, John Sundholm, Andrés Hispano and Eugeni Bonet

Organised by CCCB

XCÈNTRIC THE CCCB’S CINEMA

XPERIMENTA’07CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CYCLES AND FESTIVALS


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The world today is crisscrossed by over 226,000 kilometres of land bor-ders. The exhibition “Borders” looks at geopolitical issues, with the pre-sentation of 10 examples of borders

The exhibition is designed as a journey through different worlds, a movement that brings together history and geopolitics, the views of photographers and eye-witnesses, sounds and maps, general refl ections and fi eld studies. We know how to get in... What will we have discovered by the end of our trip, when we pass the fi nal landmark

This cycle of guided visits is organi-zed in the conviction that crossing borders helps us to see and unders-tand. With the help of people who have worked on, studied and expe-rienced in depth the borders they

present, it sets out to teach us something more about them

The visits to the ten borders were guided by the following specialists:

México- USA, by Teddy Cruz

The Borders of Europe, by Mónica Zgustova

North Korea, by Marine Buissonière

Exiles, by Mariano Aguirre

Gypsies scattered throughout Europe, by Manel Zabala

Melilla, by Rafael Vilasanjuan

Miami – Havana, by Richard Schweid

Israel-Palestine, by Isabel Galí

Africa, by Alfonso Armada

Kashmir, by Kenny Gluck

While science and business have adopted processes of R+D+i (research, development and innova-tion), the same thing can’t be said for the world of culture. The accelerated pace of current changes raises the need to include these processes in the new cultural scene. What formats are in crisis? How is the exhibition genre reacting to new technologies? Can festivals be sustainable? How can new audiences be developed? How can complex cultural projects be better publicised? What type of programming encourages the emer-gence of a new culture? Is it neces-sary for cultural organisations to create R+D+i departments? A debate about research and innovation in the cultural arena will be developed over

the course of seven working sessions with artists, architects, curators, designers, scientists, technicians, business people and journalists.

During 2007, I + C + i has included the participation of artists, curators, cultural managers, designers and experts in innovative cultural pro-jects. Gerfried Stocker, Arantxa Men-diharat, Roberto Gómez de la Iglesia, Santi Eraso, José Luis de Vicente, Óscar Abril, Pedro Soler, Ian Kirk, Rosa Pera, Joan Roca, Friedrich von Borries, Marleen Stikker and Shaun Chang, among others, have presented innovative initiatives of national and international scope: Ars Electronica, Disonancias, Shrinking Cities, The Waag Society...

BORDERSGUIDED VISITS BY SPECIALISTS

I+C+i

RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE

Dates February 7, March 9, April 26,

May 31, September 20, October 17

Organised by CCCB

Dates June 7 to September 20

Organised by CCCB

CCCB©Jordi Gómez, 2007

CCCB©Xavier Soto, 2007



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BCNmp7MUSICS IN PROCESS

BCNmp7 is a regular event of creation, agitation and dis-cussion about popular contemporary kinds of music. In its second year, it presented a program that explored alter-native visions of today’s music scene, together with new concerts that aimed to illustrate the fusions and frictions that infl uence different music genres.

BCN mp7 aims to highlight Barcelona’s specifi c musical character, while also looking at the increasingly complex ties that link cities, areas and trends throughout the world.

The following sessions were held in 2007: The revivers (concert by Bert Jansch), Music from the borders (concert by Ceza), The hit of the Summer (several groups in concert), Cover versions, copies and tributes (Exclusive presentation of the documentary of the same title and concert by Nouve-lle Vague), Soundtracks. New music for fi lming (concert by Carlos Casas, Sebastián Escofet, Miquel Marín and Ciu-dadano) and The music of the future (concert by Jaume L. Pantaleón, David Mengual, Oriol Roca and Sergi Sirvent).

Dates April 13, May 17, July 20, September 21, October 19 and November 8

Organised by CCCB with the collaboration of Imprevist and Pocket

CCCB©Marta Amat, 2007



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Now is a project focussing on the scientifi c, technological, artistic, social and spiritual transformations taking place at the start of the 21st century. A process of research, crea-tion and diffusion bringing together different local and international agents involved in actions and alternatives that promote a change of paradigm in the information and knowledge society and in globalised cultures.

Now is designed as a space for knowledge around the following thematic areas:

Open science / Cybersphere / Eco factor / Art now Emerging factor / Psi particle / New activism

The fi rst Now event for 2007 included the participation of David Peat (researcher at the National Research Council of Canada) in a conversation with the artist Victoria Vesna, co-ordinated by Raquel Paricio, the philosophers Peter Singer (author of Animal Liberation, one of the key texts of speciesism), Jesús Mosterín (senior professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science) and the political scientist Joost Smiers, who presented a new vision of copyright in the age of electronic globalisation. Other participants included the collective Platoniq, who presented the Bank of Open Knowledge and the independent publishing company Trafi cantes de Sueños.

For the NOW event in November 2007, there was a ses-sion on the uses of the radio spectrum, with the presence of the artists Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Honor Harger and Armin Medosch who participated in a teleconference conversation with William Mitchell (Professor of Archi-tecture at MIT), co-ordinated and moderated by José Luis de Vicente; a session on the uses and politicization of public space organised by the RiSc collective, with contri-butions from Pierre Humeau (activist), Stueve Lambert (artist) and Richard Sennet (sociologist); and another session co-ordinated by the collective Capsula, which explored the urban habitat and it’s tendency to absorb rural areas, and included contributions by the geologist Václav Cílec, the environmentalist Alex Steffen and the researcher in environmental technology Joan Rieradevall. Other activities included the screening of an unreleased, exclusive interview with Vandana Shiva, the participation of the Orquesta del Caos, a performance by BandaÈria and Xavier Maristany, as well as the screening of various documentaries.

Programmed with the collaboration of Platoniq, Orquesta del Caos, Raquel Paricio, Trafi cantes de sueños, José Luis de Vicente, Observatori del RiSc, Capsula.

Dates March 22, 23 and 24, November 29 and 30 and December 1

Organised by CCCB In the framework of Barcelona Science 2007

NOWMEETINGS IN THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS

CCCB©Xavier Soto, 2007



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Once again, the CCCB presented the Off-program series, which provides a space for audiovisual works that res-pond quickly to events of social and human importance, as a result of the author’s social committment.

The CCCB will continue to identify and follow these works throughout the year, and present them with the inmediacy inherent to them.

This year, the off-program premiered the documentary Euroafricanos by Lluís Vidal, an artist who participa-ted in a project that merged Art and development and aimed to bring Africa closer to Europe by creating a new currency called “Euroafricanos”.

The screening was followed by a discussion with the participation of Samba Mballo, director of the Funda-ció Gune’s comprehensive education project in Senegal.

PANTALLA CCCB ONE MONTH, ONE ARTIST

Organised by CCCB

It’s diffi cult for audiences to access video art - works that aren’t produ-ced by commission but rather from the artist’s own desire. Apart from festivals, showcases and a few art galleries, there are no other channels that allow them to reach potential viewers. The PANTALLA CCCB pro-gram aims to create a space and allow a time for people to become familiar with these independent works. Just as we’d hang a work of art, the CCCB has hung a screen, as though it were a painting. One month in which to contemplate the audiovisual works of artists with an interest in experimen-ting and innovating with new formal and thematic languages.

The artists presented in 2007 were: Andrés Duque, Ernesto Kofl a, Kikol Grau, Blanca Casas, Peter Wels, Jordi Oliver, Lope Serrano, Morrosko Vila-San-Juan, Kike Barberá and Maria-nela Vega.

OFF-PROGRAMPERMANENT UNPLANNED AUDIOVISUAL PROGRAMMING


Organised by CCCB


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Gandules’07 was a cartographic journey in which cinema broke beyond known territory to map new frontiers. This map was sketched out by fi lmmakers from different countries and periods who, through their journeys, sent us fi lms as though they were postcards: world images and words that took us to different continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, America), to the sea, the mountains, cities, islands, the snow. An exploration of areas and routes that confi gured a fi lm atlas. With Goddard we went to Rome and Capri, with Wenders we visited the United States and Germany; Sissako showed us Mali; Herzog, his extreme journeys; Olmi, the Italian high country; Bernet, an island in the Caspian Sea and Cassavetes, New York.

Under the title “Travelling. Travel, Discovery and Emtions at 24fps”, the month-long program offered a double journey: physical movement and emotional movement. Escapes and return journeys that showed us that to move is always a moving experience. Some of the journeys were more explicitly and covered long tracts; others were an in-depth exploration of a borderland or showed us how we also travel when we try to reach the other.

Over the month, the fi lms were grouped into thematic blocks: Rediscovering the Territory, The Search for the Other, In Transit, Off the Map, and Escapes. In this way, each session made up a specifi c journey, while the overall program marked out a broader journey that began with Oskar Fischinger’s 1927 documentary, fi lmed between Munich and Berlin, and ended with the premiere of a fi lm by Benoit Jacquot À tout de suite (2004), that covered France, Spain, Morocco and Greece.

A program of short fi lms, documentary, essays, video clips and narrative fi lms that mixed internationally renown directors with lesser-known ones: Oskar Fischinger, Abde-rrahmane Sissako, Jonathan Hodgson, Wim Wenders, Georges Schwizgebel, Jean-Luc Goddard, Stuart Hilton, Jem Cohen, Sophie Calle y Greg Shephard, David Crone-nberg, Werner Herzog, Bennett Miller, D.A. Pennebaker, Nagisa Oshima, Aki Kaurismäki, Boris Barnet, Kelly Rei-chardt, Poman Polanski, Ermanno Olmi, Georges Schwiz-gebel, Terrence Malick, Jonathan Glazer, John Cassavetes, Johan van der Keuken and Benoît Jacquot.

GANDULESTRAVELLING. TRAVEL, DISCOVERY AND EMOTIONS AT 24FPS

Dates August 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30 Organised by CCCB


CCCB©Martí Pons, 2007


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The BAFF is considered to be the best festival in Europe specialising in Asian Cinema, and it is the only one is Spain. The 2007 festival closed after ten days during which viewers attended the different festival venues, where 60 feature fi lms and 11 short fi lm programs were screened.

The BAFF’07 jury awarded the Golden Durian to the fi lm Summer Palace by Lou Ye (China), pointing out the way in which Lou Ye tells a love story set against a political bac-kdrop with excellent interpretations. This recognition was also a gesture of solidarity with the director, who was unable to release the fi lm in his own

country and is facing a fi ve year ban on fi lming.

Two special mentions: the Chi-nese fi lm The Exam and Strawberry Shortcakes, from Japan. The audience award went to the Chinese fi lm Get-ting Home, closely followed by A Dirty Carnival.

The tenth BAFF featured the fi lms of guest country Hong Kong.

An interdisciplinary and kaleidos-copic event that sounds out new projects and formats related to contemporary arts that are evolving around the body, movement and performance. The festival was held in Barcelona from March 9 to 24, 2007, at the Mercat de les Flors, the CCCB, La Poderosa and La Caldera.

Dance is not just one single thing, and it’s increasingly becoming less like what its name suggests. The idea of LP is to generate a dynamic con-text by bringing together particular formats and ways of doing, looking to movement for the best way to “publish” the ideas, processes or per-formances of guest artists. The CCCB

hosted the performances Slow Down by Martine Pisani, Freeze/Défreeze by *Melk Prod./Marco Berrettini, Dueto by Idoia Zabaleta and Filipa Francisco, the screening of Death Is Certain by Eva Meyer-Keller, Experiencias con un desconocido by Sònia Gómez, the collective Nits salvatges and a round table with Isabel de Naverán, Jaime Conde-Salazar and Paula Caspão.

Each night in the CCCB Hall, an open stage allowed guest artists and companies to present their works, surrounded by an audience eager for new expressive discourses who fi lled the venue every night of the festival.

Dates From April 27 to May 5 Organised by 100.000 retinas

BAFF9TH BARCELONA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

Dates From March 9 to 14 Organised by La Porta

CCCB©Jordi Azategui, 2007

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION

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OFFFINTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR THE POST-DIGITAL CREATION CULTURE

Dates May 10, 11 and 12

Organised by OFFF

As its slogan “Re:fresh” made clear, the seventh OFFF festival champio-ned simplicity as a tool for reconside-ring basic concepts. A leitmotiv that mobilised the loyal fans of an event that had once again sold out all tic-kets for the three daily sessions at the CCCB by the time it opened its doors.

The CCCB hall, renamed the ROOTS space, witness a parade of over 80 design and digital artists, including John Maeda, Neville Brody, James Victore, Zachary Lieberman, Alva Noto, Raster Noton, Frank Brets-chneider, Olaf Bender and Stefan Sagmeister, together with groups like the Wooster Collective, Graffi ti Research Lab, Universal Everything

and Stamen.

But OFFF isn’t only about conferen-ces and presentations. Showplace exhibited the most outstanding work coming out of Spain, Openroom and Cinexin were reserved for new artists and the Pati de les Dones was once again transformed into the social hub and meeting point for the festival. Without forgetting the two works-hops with Erik Natzke and ISO50 Scott Hansen.

XIV FESTIVAL DE FLAMENCO DE CIUTAT VELLA

Dates from May 22 to 26 Organised by Taller de Músics, CCCB and Ajuntament de Barcelona Districte Ciutat Vella

In the 14th Festival de Flamenco de Ciutat Vella, the cante or fl amenco singing, the rhythm of the baile or dance, and the creativity of different musical arrangements were the thread that linked this festival, which attracted 6,080 visitors.

The main concerts in the Pati de les Dones put the spotlight on the bass and double bass as jazz instruments applied to fl amenco. The hall catered for small-scale concerts, which featu-red the female voice, and a short look at rumba catalana.

The guest artists who participa-ted in the festival included: Carles Benavent, Israel Galván, Pepe Habi-chuela, Josemi Carmona, La Negra, Javier Colina, Calima, La Troba Kung-Fu and Son de la Frontera.



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SONAR’07INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED MUSIC AND MULTIMEDIA ART FESTIVAL, BARCELONA

One again, Sónar was able to close its doors knowing that it had fulfi lled its objectives. The festival involved three days of activities in which music and multimedia art invaded the different venues, which attracted a total of 83,230 visitors.

In total, 275 works were presented by 421 artists from all disciplines. This 14th Sónar festival included big names that need no introduction as well as many projects that, precisely because they are not as well known, also managed to surprise and capture the attention of audiences and the media. The program included headli-ners the Beastie Boys and Devo.

The 2007 program was full of surprises and special performances. The exhibition Et Voilà, held at the CCCB, was one of the most popular

with audiences and the media alike. This project involved recovering the idea of conjuring through the link between magic and technology.

Emphasising its international nature, the Sónar 2007 program included many artists from all over the world. The presence of China and, of course, Japan, stood out among the dozens of countries invited along with local and Spanish projects.

Sónar closed having been clearly suc-cessful in terms of audience numbers and national and international media coverage.

Dates June 14, 15 and 16 Organised by Advanced Music, CCCB and ICUB

DIES DE DANSAINTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL IN URBAN LANDSCAPES

Dates from June 28 to July 1

Organised by Marató de l’espectacle

In 2007, the International Dance Festival in Urban Landscapes at the CCCB focused on Asia. Big names featured included Satomi, Sachiko Shigetake, Hisako Horikawa and the grand master Min Tanaka from Japan, as well as Tribal Sarong/Yiphun Chiem from Cambodia. Other performances worth noting included those by Antón Lachky & Milan Tomasik (Slovakia), Julie Dos-savi (Benin), Jordi Galí (Catalonia-

France) and Lali Ayguadé and Ramon Graell (Catalonia-Belgium). All the presentations were very popular with audiences, who once again created a warm and intimate atmosphere at the CCCB’s Pati de les Dones.

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INN MOTION4TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Dates from July 4 to 7

Interventions in public space, con-temporary dance, actions and DJ ses-sions. But these labels don’t always manage to defi ne works that aim to erase the borders between different arts disciplines in a search for new communication channels through the fusion of art, thought, science and technology or to generate new ways of understanding the creative act in relation to the transformation of the imaginary and society.

The participants in the fourth Inn Motion were: ANNE JUREN & KRÖÖT JUURAK (Estonia, France, Belgium), CUQUI JEREZ (Madrid), Cia. LAS SANTAS / BEA FERNAN-DEZ (Barcelona), Cia. LAS SANTAS/ MONICA MUNTANER & KIKE

SALGADO (Barcelona), JUDIT SAULA / MARTA GALAN (Bar-celona), GOB SQUAD (UK - Ger-many), COMPARTIENDO CAPITAL (everywhere), ACCIDENTS POLI-POÈTICS (Barcelona), LLONOVOY (Mallorca), CONSERVAS (Barcelona), SLAVINA amb dj UX, KERNOW CRAIG and MATTHEW DAY, JULIUS POPP (Germany), JONA-THAN GITELSON (USA), ZOOP (Mallorca).

EL PAÍS HIPNOTIKHIP HOP UP IN ARMS

Dates September 15 and 16

Organised by Hipnotik

In 2007, Hipnotik aimed to show that Hip Hop culture goes way beyond the same tired old clichés, and looked at Hip Hop Up in Arms. Over two days, the festival presented a selection of the most outstanding artists in Spain and around the world, and carried out activities open to any-body who was interested, including: DJ workshops, music productions, writing Hip Hop and Krumping, as well as MC battles and graffi ti, photo-graphy and video competitions.

Organised by Asociación Cultural Conservas with the collaboration of the CCCB, the ICUB and the Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació de la Generalitat de Catalunya. This activity was part of the GREC festival program.





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DOCÚPOLISBARCELONA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

Dates October 3 to 6

Organised by Tercer Ojo

Bruno Ulmer’s documentary Welcome Home was named winner of the 7th Docúpolis festival, following a selection from more than 600 competitors from around the world. The jury also awarded a special men-tion to the South African fi lm The Mother’s House.

Festival highlights included: Patricio Guzmán’s seminar, the retrospective on Slovenian fi lm, guest presentation of Witness for the Rescat section and, as always, the parallel sections toge-ther with the international competi-tion, which included OFF as a new category in 2007.

Docúpolis, Barcelona’s Documentary Festival, remained loyal to its concep-tual line, that is, a desire to contri-bute to developing new languages, new directors and the ideal platform for discussing and refl ecting on the documentary genre. However there is still much territory to be covered, and the festival only plays a small role in the social and cultural relevance of documentary fi lms as a mirror of our culture.

L’ALTERNATIVA14TH BARCELONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Dates November 16 to 24

Organised by La Fàbrica with the collaboration of the CCCB, ICUB and the Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació de la Generalitat de Catalunya

For L’Alternativa, 2007 was a year of major achievements. Firstly, the festi-val was able to offer a program of 350 fi lms from 46 countries, through its offi cial sections, parallel sections and Pantalla Hall, as a result of a rigorous selection of the 2,500 fi lms received throughout the year. Secondly, the wide media coverage helped the fes-tival become an essential event in the independent cinema scene in Spain and Europe. Thirdly, the number of accredited journalist doubled the 2006 fi gure, and, fi nally, the festival once again attracted its loyal audience of independent fi lm fans, who eagerly await the festival each year.

Another positive note was the increase in the number of direc-tors present, which allowed visitors to converse with fi lmmakers in a unique opportunity for exchange. Directors specially worth mentioning due to the relevance of their work include Peter Brook, Don Askarian, Paul Bush and Eugenio Polgovsky.

The program was rounded off by round table discussions, cinema con-cert, presentations and workshops.

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BAC! 2007

Dates November - December

Organised by La Santa

BAC! is a contemporary art festi-val that plays an important role in Barcelona’s cultural scene. It has consolidated itself as a key event for critical refl ection on different plastic and audiovisual arts languages gene-rated from an initial theme suggested by participating artists.

The eighth BAC!, under the title Bac Babylon, focused on the concept of the contemporary city, inviting artists working in different disciplines to recreate and offer a critical vision of the phenomenon. Through their participation, they contributed to building a more active and commit-ted cultural awareness.

As in earlier editions, the offi cial opening of the main exhibition took place at the CCCB, and it remained open over one month. This exhibition brought together the work of almost 80 artists from all over the world, who offered their own particular vision. Collaborating venues all over the cities presented other exhibitions and events.

DRAP ART 2007INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE RECYCLING FESTIVAL

Dates December 14, 15 and 16

Organised by Drap Art Associació

The aim of Drap-Art is to encourage creative recycling as a tool for trans-formation in art, society and ecology. To recycle, reuse and recover is a way to re-value things. As well as leading to more thoughtful consumption, this also helps to increase respect for the environment and the people who inhabit it, thus favouring cultures based on knowledge and respect. As it becomes increasingly easy to discern a bleak future on the horizon, provoked by insustainable global development, Drap-Art believes that it is imperative to encourage new generations to use recycling - not just as a critical resource, but also as a tool within everyone’s reach for the

transmutation of protest into positive ideas, which are the seeds of a more sustainable world.

The traditional market, the works-hops, round tables, concerts, stage productions and fi lm screenings formed part of the DRAP ART’07 program. Participants included Circus Delirium vs Selva de Mar, L.U.V.E. + The Ultraviolet Expe-rience, El Gran Litófono and la Funk reggae latin jazz old-school, La Cònica lacònica, FICMA and Tadeusz Wierzbicki.

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READING WILL MAKE US GO FAR

“Reading will make us go far” was the slogan for Barcelona’s Internatio-nal Week of Books for Children and Young People co-organised by the Goethe Institute in Barcelona and the Frankfurt Book Fair, with the collabo-ration and support of the Generalitat de Catlunya, the Institut Ramon Llull and the CCCB.

The exhibition attracted 15,000 visitors who came to participate in the many different activities offered as part of the week’s program, and to see the varied exhibition of over 2,000 books by Catalan, German, Austrian, Swiss, French, English and Portuguese publishing companies.

Children’s books illustration was one of the main themes of the week, with original art works by acclaimed German and Catalan illustrators on display, as well as those by up and coming younger artists.

The idea that the Week of Books would target professionals on one hand, and lovers and readers of children’s books – especially children themselves - resounding success.

Lectures, readings and presentations, together with a diverse program of children’s activities (with workshops, fi lms and theatre) rounded off the program.

Dates January 26 - February 4

Organised by Frankfurter Buchmesse, Goethe-Institut Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya’s Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació

With the collaboration of CCCB, British Council, Institut Français, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Instituto Camões, Gremi d’Editors de Catalunya, Consell Català del Llibre per a Infants i Joves, Fundación Bertelsmann and Gremi de Llibreters

With the support of Fundación Goethe España, ICUB-Biblioteques de Barcelona, Diputació de Barcelona-Xarxa de Biblioteques

BOOK WORLD

Dates April 21 and 22

Organised by ICUB

Book World is an area full of stories, shows, fi lms, exhibitions, workshops, music, magic and circus, all with the same principal theme: books. Adventure books and scary books, fairytales and tales of witches or animals lost between the jungle and the zoo... The great book fair for boys and girls returned to the CCCB, this time coinciding with Sant Jordi - Sant Jordi for kids.

Over two days, visitors were able to enjoy over 150 activities organised around the Story Kitchen, the Island of Rats and the Library of Lost Books. All these activities and surprises were

made possible thanks to the colla-boration of over 40 children’s book publishers all over the world, who brought a wide range of activities and hundreds of books to the fair.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OTHER ACTIVITIES

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TRÀFIC 07

Dates October 21 to 28

Organised by Centre de Fotografía Documental de Barcelona

With the collaboration of: Photographic Social Vision, Ojo de Pez, NoPhoto and Carles Guerra, among others.

The aim of the Centre de Fotografía Documental de Barce-lona is to deepen research into documentary photography focusing on urban subject matter, and help spread this kind of photography to a wider public.

In 2007, the Centre faced the challenge of organising a festival conceived as a forum and platform allowing mate-rials to move through the public and those who dedicate themselves to photography in Barcelona (collectives, asso-ciations, curators, galleries, publishers, specialist libraries) in order to offer a diverse and interactive event –a festi-val!– that complements the work of organising exhibitions that had been the Centre’s only focus so far.

Activities organised between the 21st and the 28th of October included documentary photography workshops, audiovisual screenings, debates, exhibitions and a series of varied, interactive activities, all with the same objective: to stimulate citizens to learn about and refl ect upon their personal and social environment through documentary images that are beautiful, committed, complex and made by the photographers who best represent the image cul-

ture, with a creative and critical sense in the face of reality, and a desire for authorship in relation to production of series.

TRÀFIC is more than the title of this week of photogra-phy. The idea of “traffi c” brings together a whole lot of issues that concern us and that we’ve observed in the work of photographers, social and political synergies and cultural forms today: information fl ux, speculation, over-accumulation, immigration, speed, cultural exchange, changes and modifi cations in the landscape and urban environment, abusing goods and resources...

Other collectives were invited to contribute activities as part of the TRÀFIC photography experience. These included: Photographic Social Vision, Al·liquindoi and No Photo.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OTHER ACTIVITIES


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BARCELONA, CITY, CITIES

A program of itineraries designed to offer a critical look at the new challenges facing the city of Barcelona today: transformations in the metropolitan environment, social cohesion, cultural leadership, environmental regene-ration, the quality of public space, communications networks, high velocity... Fundamental issues that are becoming increasingly important, which this series of urban and metropolitan itineraries aims to demonstrate. The program of itineraries for schools and the general public for 2007 has been:

El Raval. First Port of Call

This itinerary sets out to offer perspectives from several viewpoints of a neighbourhood that has been a port of call from the 19th century up until the present day.

Views of La Ribera

Views of La Ribera takes the form of a historical route that explains the evolution of the city from the 15th century up until the present.

The Golden Square

Starting out from the CCCB and ending at la Pedrera, this itinerary takes a closer look at the economic and social context that led to the construction of the Eixample.

Poblenou@22

In one visit, this itinerary combines spaces and building related to 19th century forms of life and production, and the fi rst areas to be urbanised and the buildings associated with the 22@ project.

Besòs. A Second Opportunity

This itinerary analyses the territory through which the river Besòs fl ows and its function as a corridor for all kinds of fl ows (trains, cars, electricity, water...).

Llobregat. Last Chance

This itinerary comprises an analysis of the territory that the Llobregat river passes through. The river forms the southern limit of the city and organises one of the major lines of communication for the entire Metropolitan area.

When it Rains in the City...

This itinerary centres on the construction of a network of subterranean deposits built to collect runoff water during torrential rainfall, and includes a visit to two new deposits: at the Escuela Industrial and Bori i Fontestà.

The Garraf Dump. Solution or Problem?

This itinerary aims to analyse, on site, both the treatment of waste and the environmental problems presented by the dump, and the recently begun landscape restoration project, which won the 3rd European Prize for Urban Public Space in 2004.

This itinerary was cancelled due to the closing of the Dump.

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Dates Mondays from February 12 to March 26

Production CCCB and Fundació Collserola

With the collaboration of El País

After the crisis of religion and of the great ideologies that marked the 20th Century, our own time appears to be a triumph of the most superfi cial aspects of existence: leisure, perso-nal beauty and consumption are the panaceas that will supposedly ensure our happiness. However, behind the dazzling surface of this hedonistic society, our anguish for the meaning of our existence has not gone away. A vague and undefi ned spirituality, suffused with oriental wisdom and off-the-shelf beliefs is increasingly revealing this nostalgia for absolute values. How do we fi nd meaning in a world dominated by pre-packaged formulas for happiness and imme-

diate consumption? How are spiritual needs expressed in the contemporary world?

Through this cycle, the CCCB and Fundació Collserola continued the critical refl ection on the human condition in the contemporary world that began with the ‘Passions and Life’ series of discussions in 2005 and 2006.

Speakers: Víctor Gómez Pin, Gilles Lipovetsky, Carlos Castilla del Pino, Gianni Vattimo, John Gray, Frédéric Lenoir and Javier Muguerza.

MEANINGQUESTIONS ON LIFE IN TIMES OF HYPERCONSUMPTION

DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM

The fi rst in a series of activities orga-nised in collaboration with MSF was the screening of the fi lm Invisibles, fi ve stories looking at fi ve internatio-nal crises, directed by Wim Wenders, Isabel Coixet, Fernando León de Aranoa, Mariano Barroso and Javier Corcuera and produced by Javier Bardem with the support of MSF. The screening was followed by a dis-cussion session with Aitor Zabalgo-geazkoa, director of MSF Spain, Javier Bardem, Fernando León de Aranoa, Javier Corcuera and Mariano Barroso.

INVISIBLES

Date March 5

Organised by CCCB and MSF (Doctors Without Borders)

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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK RETORNO DE FILIP LATINOVITZ

Date March 7

Organised by Editorial Minúscula, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia and CCCB

Predrag Matvejevi_, the internationa-lly renown Croation writer and essa-yist presented the novel El retorno de Filip Latinovicz by Miroslav Krleza, the most emblematic Croatian writer of the 20th century. With the participation of Simona _krabec, literary critic, and Jadranka Vrsalovi_-Carevi_, who translated the book into Spanish.


DREYER AFTER HAMMERSHØI

Dates 7, 14, 21 and 28 March, 11, 18 and 25 April

Organised by CCCB with the collaboration of the Ordrup Gaard Museum of French Impressionism

A fi lm cycle with screenings of the essential works of Carl Theodor Dreyer, accompanied by presenta-tions offering different approaches to the central themes of the exhibition. These included the connections bet-ween the painter Vilhelm Hammers-høi and the fi lmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, who in spite of working in a different medium, can be conside-red to be the most authentic –and perhaps the only successor– to the Danish painter in terms of the dra-matic intensity, austerity, light and silence of his work.

Screenings and presentations: Master of the House (1925), with Juan Manuel Bonet; Gertrud (1964), with Pere Gimferrer; Vampyr (1932), with Pilar Pedraza; President (1918), with Casper Tybjerg; Dies Irae (1943), with Miquel de Palol; Michael (1924), with Carlos Martí; and Ordet (1954), with Antoni Marí.



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POPULISMS

Dates 16 and 17 of April

Directed by Bashkim Shehu, CCCB advisor on Eastern Europe

Production CCCB and Casa del Libro in Tirana, Albania

With the collaboration of Tusquets Editores and El País

Hostile to traditional ideologies, populism feeds off the charisma of its leader and of the constant exaltation of the people that makes it similar to xenophobic discourses and, para-doxically, also to the most advanced theories in defence of human rights and social justice. Thus, populism is linked to a wide range of political trends that go from the extreme right to the radical left, from eco-nomic liberalism to egalitarianism, from nationalism to the anti-globa-lisation movements. Its ambivalent relationship to democracy and its authoritarian turns make populism a multifaceted phenomenon that both fascinates and disturbs.

The CCCB brought together various experts who compared specifi c experiences in order to offer a shared conceptual framework that contri-buted to understanding of populism today. This seminar was part of the ongoing collaboration with the Insti-tute of Dialogue and Communication and the Albanian Institute of Tirana (Albania), through which the CCCB aims to promote and strengthen intercultural exchange in the new Europe.

Speakers: Guy Hermet, Fermín Bouza, Ivan Krastev, Pavol Demes, Michael Kaza, Francisco Panizza and Norman Manea. Moderators: Bash-kim Shehu, Piro Misha, Remzi Lani, Francisco Fernández Buey and José María Ridao.

CHECHNYA, THE SILENCED CONFLICT TRIBUTE TO ANNA POLITKÒVSKAIA

Date Tuesday March 20

Within the framework of the world-wide reading of the tribute to Russian journalist Anna Politkòvskaia, pro-moted by the Peter Weiss Foundation in Berlin, Anna Lizaran read texts by this journalist who was assassinated in Moscow on the 6th of October 2006. The following debate looked at the country’s history from the fall of the Berlin Wall and its current com-plex political and social situation.

Speakers: Andrei Babitski, Mairbek Vatxagàiev and Jonathan Littell

Moderator: Carmen Claudín


CCCB©Miquel Taverna Homs, 2007


Production CCCB

With the collaboration of the Centro Internacional de Prensa de Barcelona and El País


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SOMALIATHE WEST AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HOPE

Date April 12

Production CCCB and MSF (Doctors Without Borders)

The discussion on one of the most important but also most forgotten crises in the world, was held in para-llel to the MSF exhibition Somalia, Surviving Oblivion. The aim of the discussion was to analyse the delicate political and social reality of Somalia, a country that has been in a state of permanent crisis since the start of the civil war over 15 years ago.

Speakers: Jabril Ibrahim Abdulle, Ibrahim Hassan Addou, Moha-med Abdi Mohamed “Gandhi” and Nuruddin Farah.

Presenters: Kenny Gluck and Alfonso Armada.

LOCAL RACISM, GLOBAL APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA AS A PARADIGM

Dates September 27 and 28

Directed by Pep Subirós

To mark the opening of the exhi-bition Apartheid: The South Afri-can Mirror, the CCCB organised a symposium that, like the exhibition itself, focused on the South Afri-can experience as its main point of reference. Likewise, the symposium covered new forms of discrimina-tion and segregation inherited from traditional racism, which feed the old mechanisms of inequality and exclusion and create new ones, both within the most developed areas of the North-Western work and, especia-lly, in the relationship between richer and poorer countries. In this sense, to consider the phenomenon of racism, especially South African apar-

theid, means immersing ourselves in another peoples’ past history and also in the dark side of one of the forms of reason – and practices – inscribed in our on history and, in part, still alive today.

Participants: Pascal Blanchard, Ash Amin, Ciraj Rassool, Patrick Pond, Les Back, Peter McKenzie, Carles Lalueza, Zaid Minty, Edgar Pieterse, Nandipha Mntambo, Verena Stolcke, Jane Alexander, Elvira Dyangani, Núria Vives, Angèlica Sátiro and Alfred Bosch.



Organised by CCCB and Bancaja

With the collaboration of El País


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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK LA CONSCIÈNCIA MORAL DE RÚSSIA BY ANNA POLITKÒVSKAIA

Date October 1

Organised by Catalan PEN, la Lliga dels Drets dels Pobles, la Federació Catalana d’ONG pels Drets Humans and the CCCB

As part of the event organised as a tribute to the assassinated Russian journalist Anna Plitkòvskaia, La cons-ciencia moral de Rusia, a book publis-hed by Atesta that compiles ten of her articles on the Chechnyan confl ict will be presented. Journalist Llibert Ferri, ex-correspondent for TV3 in Eastern Europe and Russia, and Oleg Panfi lov, director of the Moscow Centre of Journalism in Extreme Situations, looked at freedoms in Russia, the status of journalists, the repression that civil society is subjec-ted to and political opposition to the Kremlin.

PRESENTATION OF NAOMI KLEIN’S THE SHOCK DOCTRINE

Date October 26

Organised by CCCB, Editorial Paidós and Editorial Empúries

Far from the cliché that unquestio-ningly fuses democracy and capita-lism, The Shock Doctrine reviews the recent history of the world (from Pinochet’s dictatorship to the recons-truction of Beirut; from Katrina to the tsunami; from 9/11 to the Madrid bombing attack), bringing to the fore the civilian populations that have been subjected to the ruthless voracity of the new lords of the world: the industrial, commercial and government conglomerates for whom disasters, wars and citizen insecu-rity are the sinister fuel of the shock economy.

Speaker: Naomi Klein

Presenter: Antoni Doménech


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ELÍAS CANETTI, CROSSROADS OF CULTURES

Date October 30

Directed and organised by CCCB and Círculo de Lectores

Leading specialist on the writer Elías Canetti discussed his literary output (the recently published Sketches and Crowds and Power, 50 years on), as well as the various elements that come together and colour his body of work: nations, cosmopolitanism, extraterritoriality...

Participants: Jordi Llovet, Marisa Siguán and Ignacio Echevarría.

THINKING EUROPE

Dates November 12 and 26, and December 3

Directed by Judit Carrera and Lisa Appignanesi

Production CCCB

With the collaboration of El País and Editorial Crítica

With the series “Thinking Europe”, which Jorge Semprún inaugurated in September 2006, the CCCB opened a forum of debate on the future of Europe with a humanistic and cultural perspective. More than sixty years after the Second World War, Europe is currently a united space of peaceful coexistence between nation-states that have decided to share their sovereignty under a set of common principles. Yet the diffi culties in the processes of integration and expan-sion, together with the increasing global fl ows of people, ideas and goods, make the limits of Europe vaguer than ever and reopen the debate on the very notion of Euro-pean civilisation.

In this context, the CCCB invited leading intellectuals from around the world in order to try and answer some of the following questions: What unites Europeans today? What does European culture mean to us? What is Europe’s contribution to uni-versal culture? What philosophical categories or new political principles could help to confi gure a cosmopo-litan, hospitable and more deeply democratic Europe?

Participants: Eric Hobsbawm, Donald Sassoon, Josep Fontana, Timothy Garton Ash and Ian Buruma.



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One by one, the walls of Europe’s cities gradually came tumbling down at different times throughout the second half of the 19th Century. From then on, an intensifi ed urbanisation process and the changes gradually brought on by new means of transport such as the railway fi rst and then the cars produced a dynamic that gobbled up availa-ble land and gradually colonised it on an unprecedented scale and dimension. In the 20th century, cities, which had previously been exceptions to mainly undeveloped lands, would be come the most recognisable features of the humanised landscape.

This continuing process of urban expansion did not, however, mean the disappearance of the limits and bor-ders of the city. The end of cities delimited by city walls was replaced by a combination of physical limits that show how the fact the urban landscape has spread through most of the territory doesn’t mean that it has done so in an unlimited, continuous and homogenous way. On the contrary, motorway toll barriers, petrol stations-cum-shops and endless rows of terraced housing form the new limits of the urban world.

In a sense we fi nd, the closed, continuous walls of the 19th century dismembered and multiplied in a series of discontinuous limits that draw out a the new map of the city – and its new walls – in the 21st century

Speakers: Ivan Muñiz, Matias Serracant, Maria Buhigas, Josep Font, Josep Bàguena, Anna Badia, Joan Roca, Laura Cantarella, Andreu Ulied, Enric Mendizàbal, Octavi Rofes and Silvia Bianchini.

Date February 20

Directed by Francesc Muñoz, lecturer in Geography, UAB

Production CCCB

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In this conference series, the CCCB offers a new look at some of the Middle Eastern cities that are in the fore-ground of international current affairs and that we only usually hear about in relation to the stigma of war and the stereotype of poverty. Without shying away from this rea-lity, the discussions aim to bring us closer to the spirit and cultural life of these cities. In 2006, the debates dealt with Beirut, Teheran and Mecca, and in 2007 they centred on Baghdad and Istanbul.

Baghdad, a City in the Throes of DeathMarch 6

Founded in the 8th century as the capital of the Abbasid empire, in modern times Baghdad has been the artistic and architectural centre of the Arab world and the capital of Iraq. Over the last three decades, the city has been victim to war, insurrection and denominational confl ict. Following an eight-year war with Iran (1980-2988) and the United States bombings (1991-2003), since the North American invasion in March 2003, the city has become the centre of increasingly serious confl icts that is a mix of the insurrection against the US and its allies on one hand, and an intense civil war between Sunni and Shiite Muslims on the other.

The CCCB brought together three leading experts on Iraq, who explained the keys behind the current confl ict and analysed the impact of so many years of violence and destruction on the city of Baghdad.

Participants: Faleh A. Jabar, Yahia K. Said, Patrick Cock-burn and Fred Halliday.

The Destinies of IstanbulNovember 5 and 6 (debates); November 3, 4 and 5 (scree-nings)

Along with Athens and Rome, Istanbul is one of the three great historic and cultural centres of the Mediterranean. Substituted by Ankara as the Turkish capital since the beginning of the Kemalist period, in recent decades it has undergone major transformations. On one hand, a great interest in the earlier Christian and Ottoman pasts, and in the diverse cultures and peoples that have come together in the city, has surfaced. Likewise, the collapse of the USSR and the Balkan communist regimes has brought new commercial and migratory links to the Black Sea and beyond. Yet at the same time, while parts of the Turkish intelligentsia have sought to restore Istanbul as a model of cosmopolitanism and tolerance, mass migration from rural Anatolia has changed the character of much of the city and made it a base for new Islamist forces.

This seminar (the fi fth in the series on the Middle East) explored a set of visions of the role played by Istanbul in modern Turkey and Europe. Speakers included leading contemporary Turkish and Armenian academics and wri-ters, and the debates were accompanied by the screening of fi lms and documentaries about Istanbul. The aim of this conference was to create a forum for debate to ques-tion the stereotypes of the past and to analyse the challen-ges of the contemporary city.

Participants: Ayhan Aktar, Umut Ozkirimli, Soli Ozel, Murat Belge, Nouritza Matossian, Fred Halliday and Fran-cisco Veiga.

Directed by Fred Halliday, Professor in International Relations, London School of Economics

Production CCCB

With the support of the Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and the Ministerio de Cultura, and the collaboration of El País

CITIES OF THE NEAR EAST


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New York, 11 September 2001. Madrid, 11 March 2004. London, 7 July 2005. The spectre of terrorist attacks has come to dominate the collective unconscious of many cities of the West. Planes, trains, underground transport, features of urban infrastructure that were once symbols of cosmopolitan freedom and prosperity, have now become, in the hands of terrorists, lethal weapons that threaten the very life of the city. In the aftermath of the attacks, many urban spaces are being represented as objects of total security within the framework of a recently declared war against global terrorism that has no clear end in temporal terms and no fi xed geographic limits. Not only terro-rism but also counterterrorist responses have begun to infl uence urbanism in the West and may be striking at the heart of an urban way of life that is founded on inclusion, anonymity and pluralism.

The aim of this symposium was to refl ect upon the ideology of fear that has characterised the international scene since 9/11 and thus to draw conclusions about the reshaping of the politics of security in the West, its impact on city design and the diffi culties this entails for keeping democratic principles alive. Directed by Stephen Graham (University of Durham) and hosted by the CCCB, the present debate forms part of an ongoing series refl ecting on the intersections of power and territory. This began in 2004 with the “Frontiers” cycle after and was further explored by debates on “Urban Traumas” (2004) and the “Archipelago of Exception” (2005).

Participants: Stephen Graham, Peter Marcuse, Angharad Closs, José María Irujo, Marina Garcés, Frank Furedi, Francesc Muñoz, Jeremy Parker, Carles Guerra, Jordan Crandall, Gemma Galdon Clavell, Louise Amoore, Deborah Natsios, Francisco Klauser, Ulrike Engel, Joan Subirats, Julie-Anne Boudreau and Eyal Weizman.

ARCHITECTURES OF FEAR: TERRORISM AND THE FUTURE OF URBANISM IN THE WEST

Dates May 17 and 18

Directed by Stephen Graham, Professor in Human Geography, University of Durham

Production CCCB

Sponsored by COPCISA and El País


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The exponential growth of urban populations and the expansion of cities everywhere are the most obvious symptoms of the tremen-dous pace of urbanisation all over the world and are giving urban periphe-ries a new importance. Today, the periphery is an area that is part of a city and simultaneously excluded from it. The outskirts of cities have become containers for the problems that can’t be assimilated by city centres, but often also the refuge of the better-off looking to improve their living conditions away from the contaminations of traditional historic centres. Far from the commonplaces of marginalization and violence that tend to be associated with it, the peri-phery is often a space for artistic crea-tion and experimentation with new ways of understanding and experien-cing democracy. This intensifi cation of cultural life on the urban outskirts and the emergence of movements of insurgence and demands for impro-ved living conditions seem increasin-gly to indicate that the future of the city centre will be played out in the

periphery. This debate goes to the heart of the many ambivalences of the periphery at the global scale.

This discussion was a continuation of Esquerdes urbanes. Segregació i contracultura al Brasil (“Urban lefts. Segregation and the counterculture in Brazil”) conference held in July 2006. A second part will be held in October 2008 at the Centre for Global Metropolitan Studies as part of an ongoing collaboration between the CCCB and the University of Ber-keley, California.

Dates December 13 and 14 Directed by Teresa Caldeira, Professor of Anthropology, University of California

Production CCCB

URBAN PERIPHERIES

INTERNAL SEMINARS

Meetings between experts on some of the key issues in contemporary society, who come together for dis-cussions behind closed doors. After a period of working together, they have the possibility of producing a synthesis that can be addressed to the main agents and responsible parties in political, economic or social life.

The business world and culture

Dates fi rst 6 months of the year

Organised by CCCB and Esade

Religion and society

Dates fi rst 6 months of the year

Organised by CCCB and Fundació Joan Maragall

Participants: Pere Lluís Font, Jaume Fontbona, Antoni Matabosch, Josep M. Carbonell, Joan Rigol, Jaume Casals, Josep Joan Moresco, Manuel Cruz, Valentí Puig and Josep Ramo-neda.


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From philosophy to literature, cinema to theatre and history to art, the Institute aims to penetrate deep into the world of humanities and discover different disciplines through the opinions of leading intellectuals and thinkers. Through a series of conferences featuring a different guest each week, and specialist seminars imparted by a single lecturer, the cycle encouraged interchange between different fi elds of cultural, participate in widening their

reach and contribute to the reception of the most impor-tant instances of European culture.

The courses programmed for 2007 included: Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture of Landscape, Dance as a Language of the Body, Technology and Ethics, Theory of Fantasy literature, Thinking Cinema, Great Books of Western Culture.

INSTITUT D’HUMANITATS

The Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo-CUIMPB offers a series of courses and master seminars that can be taken as optional credits towards various degrees.

The following courses have been carried out during 2007: Islam South of the Sahara, The challenges of local urban planning law in the 21st century, Emerging Eurasia: a big new game surrounding Central Asia, Public policies for regional competitiveness, Neuroethics: Law and the science of willpower, The Euro-Mediterranean Association in the globalisation era,

Annual Accounts Financing and expenditure policies, Multi-lingualism and universities, Legislating audiovisual freedom, Multi-culturalism, the key to international business, Carbobi, Climate and Society. Towards decarbonisation, Renewable wind and solar energies, Living with volcanoes, Cities and immigration. Urban planning and local politics, Cooperation amongst public administrations, Strategic territorial planning, Model of protected rental dwellings, Governing mobility, and Brain and Cognition. Women vs. Men.

CUIMPB – CENTRE ERNEST LLUCH

In the fi rst six months of the year, Elisava (Escola Supe-rior de Disseny) presented its Postgraduate and Masters

programs in Communication and Graphic Design, Design and Product and Design and Space.

ELISAVA

A post graduate course for graduates in art, the humani-ties, social sciences or architecture, led by philosophers, anthropologists, art critics and artists, urban designers and architects, to refl ect on the new realities emerging around major cities.

This year 2007 we have had the following lecturers Xavier Costa, Suzanne Strum, Teddy Cruz, Stephen Graham, Ilka & Andreas Ruby, Judit Carrera, Ernest Ferré, Rafael Gómez-Moriana, Antoni Luna, Armando Montilla, Martí Peran, Alexander Pilis and Juan Carlos Sánchez-Tappan.

METRÒPOLIS MASTERESCOLA TÈCNICA SUPERIOR D’ARQUITECTURA DE BARCELONA-UPC

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Date November 8

Organised by Observatorio del Sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos, at the University of Barcelona (OSPDH)

With the collaboration of the CCCB

Based on the research project “Per una nova cultura del territori? Mobilitzacions y confl ictes territorials a Cata-lunya” carried out by the IGOP and the Jaume Bofi ll Foun-dation, this seminar setted out to go deepen the debate on the role of social movements in territorial confl icts. What effects do the have on public policy? What do the different kinds of mobilisations share? Is a movement in favour of

the territory taking shape? What’s happening in this area in the rest of Europe?

Participants: Joan Subirats, Enric Tello, Gianni Piazza, John Karamichas, Charlotte Halpern, Christopher Rootes, Toni Altaió, Eva Fernández, Raül Valls and Maria Herrero.

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND TERRITORIAL CONFLICTS.TOWARDS A NEW CULTURE OF TERRITORY?

Date April 20

Organised by The Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (IGOP)

With the collaboration of the CCCB and Jaume Bofi ll Foundation

BARCELONA AND THE SOCIAL RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS. THE REALITY AND PROPOSALS

Round table to coincide with the presentation of the report “On the exercise of the right to education of foreign minors in primary school and health care for foreigners residing in the city of Barcelona”, prepared by the OSPDH and publis-hed by the Regidoria de Drets Civils de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona.

Participants: Oriol Amorós i March, Joaquim Mestre i Garrido, Ma. Jesús Larios Paterna, Sheila González Motos, Lourdes Ponce and Héctor Silveira Gorski.

Date December 12

Organised by Editorial Minúscula and CCCB

Presentation by Jorge Semprún

LAUNCH OF “RELATOS DE KOLIMÁ” BY VARLAM SHALÁMOV

Relatos de Kolimá is one of the greatest and most tragic odysseys of the 20th Century. Varlam Shalámov, a Russian writer born in 1907, penetrated de white hell of Kolyma, a region located in the far north-eastern area of Siberia, and described the Stalinist work camps in great detail. This book - the fi rst of the six volumes that form

the overall work – marks the start of a process that will lead to the complete work being published in Spanish, following the structure given to the project by its author.

Participants: Jorge Seprún, Ricardo San-Vicente and Josep Ramoneda.

DEBATES AND REFLECTION IN COLLABORATION…


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Information and communication technologies are deve-loping quickly and transforming the possibilities for pro-ducing and spreading culture. Through this project, the CCCB aims to set out a mid- and long-term strategy that will strengthen the use of the net as a tool for diffusion of cultural production and facilitate innovation in terms of formats. Rather than constructing a project based on technology, the idea is to explore how technology can help improve the fulfi lment of traditional aims of cultural facilities. The project is organised around two separate initiatives:

CULTURAL RING http://www.anellacultural.cat/

The Cultural Ring is a project that seeks to strengthen the use of the Internet as a tool for diffusion and production in cultural exchange, and to promote innovation in terms of formats. As the fi rst project of its kind to be based on cultural activities, it is a pioneering project in the area of research, innovation and development (R+I+D).

The project consists of developing a network of cultu-ral facilities –“Anella Cultural” or Cultural Ring- that allow intensive use of the new possibilities offered by second generation Internet. The aim is to activate content exchange and co-production of online events, and promote new lines of research into Internet use in cultural produc-tion, improving diffusion and offering artists a platform for experimenting with new digital arts applications.

The implementation of the fi bre optic network in Cata-lonia was carried out in two phases. The fi rst phase connected the CCCB and four cultural centres from the Xarxa Transversal (Lleida, Granollers, Olot and Reus). The remaining Transversal cities (Manresa, Figueres, Tortosa, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Mataró, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Girona, Vic, la Seu d’Urgell and Perpinyà) will be connected in the second phase. Ultimately, the network will become a tool for exchange at the service of all the cultural centres in Catalonia.

In September 2007, the fi rst phase begun with the HIP-NOTIK FESTIVAL, were the following network activities were developed: GRANOLLERS – Granollers Museum, interactive live connection. Break dance exhibition and workshop. REUS - Centre d’Art Cal Massó, live interactive connection. Rap concert and DJ. LLEIDA – IMAC, live interactive connection. Graffi ti demonstration. BARCE-LONA – CCCB, live broadcast at the three centres of the fi nals of the Festival’s MC and Break Dance competition.

Participating institutions Xarxa Transversal, Fundació I2Cat, Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació de la Generalitat de Catalunya and CCCB.

With the collaboration of SETSI, ICUB, Ministerio de Cultura and Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda.

PROJECTS ON THE NET

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Although Prague doesn’t ever explicitly appear in Kafka’s work, Prague and Kafka are inseparably intertwined. The way in which Kafka sifts his city into his work remains one of the most enigmatic operations in modern literature. In his books, Kafka doesn’t name the places he describes. The city draws back; it is no longer known for its buildings and monuments. In his fi ctions, Kafka carries out a diffi cult operation: Prague is transformed into an ima-ginary topography that transcends fallacious realism.

This exhibition, the third in the Cities and Their Writers cycle produced by the CCCB, was presented at the Jewish Museum in New York from August 2002 to January 2003. Since June 2005 it can be visited as a permanent exhibition in Prague at the Hergetova Cihelena, which has become the Franz Kafka Museum.

Directed by Juan Insua

Production CCCB

THE CITY OF K. FRANZ KAFKA AND PRAGUE IN PRAGUE

ONCE UPON A TIME CHERNOBYLIN ALCALÁ DE HENARES

Curator Galina Ackerman

Production CCCB i Bancaja

The exhibition, sponsored by Funda-ción Bancaja, explains the catastro-phe that took place in Chernobyl and its consequences, as a framework and tool for refl ecting upon the important challenges of the 21st Century: techno-science and its real and imaginary dangers. The exhibi-tion includes photographs, audio-visual material, recovered objects, children’s’ drawings and some art works inspired by the catastrophe

OPEN CCCB EXHIBITIONS. BEYOND THE CCCB

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This exhibition traces an itinerary that follows places linked to the Cata-lan literary exile (1939-1975) through testimonies narrated by the writers themselves, in their literature and personal experiences and histories. The exhibition allows visitors to relive the experience of exile through the voices and words of its protagonists: how the disappearance of a world leads to certain decisions being made and survival strategies developed, and also to the opening up of new horizons, resulting in a great number of cultural initiatives.

The exhibition was presented at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires until February 15, at the Palacio

de la Moneda in Santiago de Chile form March 1 to April 30, at the Centro Cultural de España in Mexico from July 16 to October 14, and, fi na-lly, at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo from November 29 until February 10, 2008.

LITERATURES OF EXILE IN BUENOS AIRES, SANTIAGO DE CHILE AND MEXICO AND SANTO DOMINGO

Curators Julià Guillamon, Joaquim Jordà and Francesc Abad

Production CCCB, SEACEX and Institut Ramon Llull

The aim of this exhibition is to explore the personal and literary world of Julio Cortázar by means of his travels, his letters and his incur-sions into photography, a discipline that was accorded particular impor-tance by the author of Rayuela, who compared it to the short story form.

The exhibition includes the series of photographs from Meditations on the Observatory which Cortázar himself took on a trip to India, the originals from the Los autonautas de la cosmo-pista and the Muñeca rota series, as well as photos from other journeys, unpublished portraits, letters to friends, etc.

The exhibition was presented at the Centro Cultural Okendo in San Sebastian from April 26 to June 26.

Curators Juan Insúa and Rocío Santacruz

Production CCCB

JULIO CORTÁZAR: TRAVELS, IMAGES AND OTHER TERRITORIES IN SAN SEBASTIAN

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CITIES AND THEIR WRITERSIN VALENCIA

Curator Juan Insúa

Production CCCB

The CCCB has conceived a travelling literature project for the new cen-tury, made up of a series of creations which share an open and heterodox vision of the literary phenomenon and the new expositive formats and languages. The productions include the audiovisual version of the series Cities and their writers and will be presented from October to 7 January

2007 in the Valencia Centre of Con-temporary Culture, sponsored by the Caixa Catalunya Foundation.

A touring adaptation of the major exhibition organised at the CCCB in 1995 to commemorate 100 years of cinema. It consists of fi ve sections that illustrate the world of cinema in a meaningful way, through photogra-phs and audiovisual materials: An Industry of Prototypes, A Mythology, Basic Instincts, Universal Viewers and Forms of Seduction.

After its exhibition period in Zara-goza, until the 7th of January 2007, the exhibition was on display at the new Espai Metropolità d’Art in Torrent (Valencia), from January 26 to March 11, with the sponsorship of the Fundació Caixa Catalunya, and

at the main venue of the Fundació Caixa Sabadell from March 29 to June 3.

Curator Jordi Balló

Production CCCB

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La mostra proposa un recorregut pel cinema de les idees, aquest cinema que no és part de la indústria de l’entreteniment i que en la seva factura i el seu contingut demostra el potencial artístic, refl exiu i documen-tal del mitjà.

L’exposició presenta autors i movi-ments clau del cinema experimental i independent, però no està plante-jada com una història alternativa al cinema de consum. La idea és defi nir el cinema des de pràctiques que, tot sovint, contravenen tòpics, mostren un món del cinema que es pot exercir de maneres properes a la pintura, la música o l’assaig.

Una versió reduïda de l’exposició es presentà al Centro Párraga de Múrcia entre el 6 de juny i el 28 de juliol. El 13 de desembre s’inaugurà en l’espai remodelat de la Fundació Bancaixa de València.

Comissaris Andrés Hispano i Antoni Pinent

Producció CCCB

THAT’S NOT ENTERTAINMENT! CINEMA BEGETS CINEMA IN MURCIA AND VALENCIA

This exhibition offers a journey through a cinema of ideas - the kind of cinema that isn’t part of the enter-tainment industry, that shows the medium’s artistic, thought-provoking and documentary potential through its content and the way it is made.

The exhibition presents key authors and movements from the experi-mental and independent cinema circuit, without pretending to be an alternative history parallel to mains-tream cinema. The idea is to defi ne cinema based on practices that often contradict clichés and show a world in which cinema can be practiced in ways similar to painting, music or literary essay.

A reduced version of the exhibition was presented at the Centro Párraga in Murcia from June 6 to July 28. On December 13, it moved to the Funda-ción Bancaja de Valencia’s recently remodelled exhibition space.

Curators Andrés Hispano and Antoni Pinent

Production CCCB

THAT’S NOT ENTERTAINMENT! CINEMA BEGETS CINEMAIN MURCIA AND VALENCIA

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An exhibition of the work carried out by the CCCB so far in the fi eld of critical refl ection around the contemporary city, understood from the urban and architectural point of view, but also in its political, social and philosophical dimensions. This exhibition offers a selection of mate-rial from the projects submitted to the European Prize for Urban Public Space in 2006, focussing specially on the two winning projects and the three honourable mentions. Other reference material available for public consultation includes the European Archive of Urban Public Space and a compilation of lectures, books and audiovisual archives from the CCCB’s

collection of documentation on public space and the contemporary city. It will be presented at the Insti-tut Français de l’Architecture in Paris and in Tirana (Albania).

The exhibition was presented at the gallery of the Faculty of Visual Arts in the Tirana Academy of Arts from October 15 to November 25, and accompanied a series of debates on urban public space.

Production CCCB

IN FAVOUR OF PUBLIC SPACE IN TIRANA

The exhibition brings together Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, two acclaimed fi lmmakers, in a dialogue about their creative concerns: the transparency of fi lming, the search for reality and they way it can be captured etc. The starting point was the hypothesis of a possible encoun-ter between these two fi lmmakers, a proposal which was accepted enthusiastically by both. Following its presentation in Barcelona and at La Casa Encendida cultural centre in Madrid, this exhibition will be shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris from September 19, 2007 to January 7, 2008.

ERICE – KIAROSTAMI. CORRESPONDENCES IN PARIS

Curators Alain Bergala and Jordi Balló

Production CCCB and La Casa Encendida, with the collaboration of SEACEX



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INCLUSIVE CITIES: THE CHALLENGES OF URBAN DIVERSITY

Production CCCB, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) de Washington and the Development Bank of Southern Africa in Johannesburg

Cities are necessarily settings of cultu-ral diversity, in particular with regard to traditions, beliefs, knowledge, tech-nical skills, professional activities and the aspirations of their inhabitants. It is on the basis of this heterogeneity that cities are born, grow and frequen-tly prosper as centres of interaction and interchange, innovation and

development. This inherent diversity of cities is a source of material and immaterial wealth as well as confl icts an confrontations so that, at least in the modern and democratic sense, cities only fully exist as such to the extent that they manage to become the stage and mechanism for the inte-gration and synergy of diversity. That is, the stage for organising a certain cohesion based on difference.

The aim of the debate was to look at ways of creating and maintaining this organisation in a period of accelerate growth of urban diver-sity and, at the same time, ways of implementing strategies of civic inclusion that construct effective share citizenship mechanisms that surpass individual differences. The debate, which was held over two days

behind closed doors and included a public session on November 7, was part of the research and discussion project “Inclusive Cities: Challenges of Urban Diversity”, promoted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS), Washington, the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg and the CCCB.

Participants: Mejgan Massoumi, Ellen Brennan Galvin, Caroline Kihato, Loren Landau, Edesio Fernandes, Blair Ruble, Viktor Stepanenko, Alícia Fuentes, Steven Friedman, John Hannigan, Edgar Pieterse, Ash Amin, Michael Crang, Nezar Alsayyad, Ananya Roy, Pumla Gqola, Richard Stren, Joseph Tulchin, Josep Ramo-neda, Joan Roca and Josep Subirós.

This conference aimed to explore the roles of Barcelona and Krakow within modern European civilisation and to share the historical and urban experiences of these two cities that have many points in common. Some of the issues to be discussed include urban development in each of the cities throughout their history, the experience of living through dictator-ships in the 20th Century (Barcelona under Franco and Krakow under Nazism and communism) and the fact that although neither city is the capital, they both play an important role as cultural capitals.

In collaboration with the IMCK (Krakow International Centre for Cul-ture), this initiative was organised as part of the CCCB’s policy of tending bridges to Eastern Europe.

Speakers: Joan Roca, Jacek Purchla, Josep Ramoneda, Andrzej Chwalba, Jordi Balló, Jan M. Ma_ecki, Miguel Pajares, Jerzy Miku_owski-Pomorski, Francesc Muñoz, Monika Murzyn, Jordi Puntí, Bronis_aw Maj, Pasqual Maragall and Janusz Sepio_.

Moderators: Josep Ramoneda, Jacek Purchla, Janusz Sepio_, Jacek Pur-chla, Jerzy Miku_owski-Pomorski and Bashkim Shehu.

Dates March 29 and 30

Place Krakow, Poland

Production CCCB and the IMCK (Krakow International Centre for Culture)

BARCELONA – KRAKOW


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URBAN PUBLIC SPACE, IN TIRANADate October 15

Place Tirana (Albania)

Directed by Bashkim Shehu

Organised by CCCB, Institute of Dialogue and Communication (Tirana) and the Albanian Media Institute

With the support of the Spanish Embassy in Tirana and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacio-nal (AECI).

With the objective of promoting the exchange of ideas and experiences between Albanian and Catalan inte-llectuals and architects, a series of debates were organised to look at the issue of public space from the pers-pectives of philosophical, political, sociological and urban design.

The issue of public space is particu-larly important at a time when globa-lization is seeing the rise of private space. This is a key issue in relation to citizenship and ensuring that citi-zenry and peaceful coexistence based on diversity. Albania, a country that has just opened up to the world, and its capital Tirana, provide a setting of great interest thanks to the context of an incipient energetic, chaotic and very aggressive form of capitalism that highlights various problems at a scale that goes beyond the country itself.

The conference coincided with the exhibition “In Favour of Public Space”, organised by the CCCB at the Gallery of the Faculty of Visual Arts at the University of Tirana. It was part of an ongoing collaboration between the CCCB and the Institute of Dialogue and Communication and the Albanian Media Institute in Tirana, with the aim of promoting and strengthening cultural exchange in the heart of the new Europe.

Participants: Olivier Mongin, Artan Fuga, Manuel Montobbio, Edi Rama, Piro Misha, Elías Torres, Artan Shkreli, Josep Ramoneda, Carme Ribes, Besnik Aliaj and Dritan Shutina.

Within the framework of ongoing critical refl ex ion around the city and new cultural imaginaries, the CCCB will set up stable collaborations with the following institutions:

• Bard College (New York, United States)

• Casa del Libro (Tirana, Albania)

• International Centre for Culture (Krakow, Poland)

• Centre for Research Architecture - Goldsmiths College (London, United Kingdom)

• The Development Bank of Southern Africa(DBSA), Johannesburg

• ESPRIT magazine (Paris, France)

• The New School University (New York, United States)

• Partners for Urban Knowledge and Action Research (Mumbai, India)

• Social Science Research Council (New York, United States)

• Wits Institute for Social and Econo-mic Research (WISER) (University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

• Wilson Center (Washington D.C., United States)

INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS


OPEN CCCB

OPEN CCCB DEBATES. BEYOND THE CCCB


CCCBHOLDINGS


European Archive of Urban Public Space and Urban Library http://urban.cccb.org

Production CCCB

With the sponsorship of COPCISA and the collaboration of Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), The Architecture Foundation (London), Architecturzentrum Wien (Vienna), the Netherlands Architecture Institute (Rotterdam) and the Museum of Finnish Architecture (Helsinki).

The European Archive of Urban Public Space brings together some of the most important public space renewal interventions that have been carried out in various European cities over the last twenty years. The idea is to contribute to extending the reach of projects that, while setting out to re-evaluate the nature of urban public space, have improved its collective use, the activates that take place within it and the identifi cation of citizens with these spaces that they use in their daily lives.

Urban Library http://urban.cccb.org/urbanLibrary

The Urban Library offers the main texts on the city and urban issues that the CCCB has been collecting since it fi rst opened its doors. Exhibitions, debates and conferences comprise this source on the contemporary city that is now presented in the form of a virtual library, putting within reach of the public the more theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of the city that have been generated by the CCCB. The library includes texts by Zygmunt Bauman, Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells, Jean-Louis Cohen, André Corboz, Robert Fishman, Jan Gehl, Oriol Nel·lo, Xavier Rubert de Ventós, Saskia Sassen, Michael Sorkin, Eyal Weizman and Sharon Zukin, among others.

XCÈNTRIC Archivehttp://www.cccb.org/xcentric/homeg.htm

The idea of the Xcèntric Archive is to refl ect its programming, without any attempt to create an exhaustive collection of experimental cinema.

Each year, the archive will continue to grow in parallel with the themes that make up the program. The fi lms programmed by Xcèntric are hard to see and are seldom or never programmed in other commercial distribution circuits. The archive allows public access to a wide selection of movies – over 300 works – that have been screened over these last fi ve years. From December 22 to March 18 2007, the archive has been presented in conjunction with the exhibition That’s not entertainment! Once the exhibition was over, it wwnt to form part of the CCCB reference collection, available for public consultation.

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Sonoscop. Sound Art Archivehttp://www.sonoscop.net

Sonoscope is the ongoing collaboration project between the Orquestra del Caos and the Centre de Cultura Contemporanía de Barcelona. Its aim is to create a multimedia archive of experimental music and sound art that is accessible to the public, either physically or through other forms of electronic presence, such as the net. There are already more than a thosand sound art works in the archive, which also includes catalogues, programs, publications, audiovisual material and CD-ROMs.

The Observatory Archives. OVNI.http://www.desorg.org/intro_arxius.php

The OVNI (Observatori de Video No Identifi cat) archives are structured around specifi c themes and have a clear purpose: to encourage a critique of contempo-rary culture using different strategies such as video art, independent documen-tary and mass media archeology.

The archives cover a huge range of works of different kinds that all share a commitment to freedom of expression and refl ect on our individual and collec-tive fears and pleasures. Together, they offer a multifaceted view, thousands of tiny eyes that probe and explore our world and announce other possible ones. It is a discourse that above all values heterogeneity, plurality, contradiction and the subjectivity it arises from. In itself, an antidote to the cloning and repeti-tion of corporate mass media.

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DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

The CCCB’s documentation centre is open to the public and organised around the following main sections:

CCCB reports

• documentation generated by exhibitions since 1994

• documentation of cultural activities (festivals, workshops, etc.)

• photographic and audiovisual reports

CCCB publications

• institutional reports

• exhibition catalogues

• collection of refl ections with an urban theme: Urbanitats and Urbanitats digital

• philosophical collection: Breus

• digital publications

Specialised library

• the history of the CCCB and its impact on the Raval

• the Raval, Ciutat Vella and Barcelona

• specialist collection on urban design and public space (2,000 volumes)

• specialist collection on culture and globalisation

The Documentation Centre is also the core of internal information mana-gement among the different departments of the CCCB and liaison with the documentation and research centres outside of the C’CB.

Throughout 2007, the Documentation Centre returned to and promoted its project to reorganise and digitalise its collection, in order to improve access to it, and continue the process of integrating its bibliographic collection in the Collective Catalogue of Universities in Catalonia (CCUC).

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PUBLICATIONS

1994-2006. CCCB Exhibitions

A collection of the introductions by Josep Ramoneda published in each catalogue that has been produced by the CCCB since its doors opened. The publication, lovingly illustrated, is a graphic report of the exhibitions programmed by the CCCB since 1994 to the present.

The book closes with an article by Jordi Balló (head of exhibitions at the CCCB), which refl ects on the CCCB’s exhibition policy over the thirteen years of the Centre’s existence. 17 x 24 cm

Catalan and Spanish, with English translation at the end

328 pages, 350 colour images

Published by: CCCB and Institut d’Edicions de la Diputació de Barcelona

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Hammershøi - Dreyer

Presentation of selection of paintings by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), and a comparasion of the fundamental elements that his work shares with that of the fi lmmaker Car Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968): light, domestic space, landscape, the human face.17 x 24 cm

Catalan and Spanish, with English translation at the end

160 pages, 150 colour and black and white images


ISBN: 978-84-9803-138-6

Fronteres

Refl ection and analysis on the transformation of current geopolitical borders and the displacement of symbolic borders, and the repercusions of these developments. The border as a place of transit, coexistence or confl ict. This publication also includes reports by international photographers that illustrate current border confl icts: Europe, migrations, North Korea, Kashmir, Palestine, Mexido, etc17 x 24 cm

Catalan with Spanish translation at the end

206 pages, 160 images


ISBN: 978-84-9803-208-6

Apartheid

A return journey: from the European origins of modern racism, following the tracks of its expansion throughout the globe in the colonial era, and returning to the most priviliged areas in the world in the postcolonial periood.

17 x 24 cm

Published in Catalan, Spanish and English


Published by: CCCB, Institut d’Edicions de la Diputació de Barcelona and Actar

ISBN (Catalan): 978-84-9803-208-6

ISBN (Spanish): 978-84-96954-02-1

ISBN (English): 978-84-96954-03-8

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En transición

A refl ection on the transition to democracy in Spain, a complex and dense process that acts as a limit between dictatorship and democracy and affects and takes form within the people who lived through it. 17 x 24 cm

Published in Catalan and Spanish



ISBN (Catalan): 978-84-9803-247-5

ISBN (Spanish): 978-84-9803-248-2

URBANITATS COLLECTION

This collection collects the materials generated through the seminar, con-ference cycles and symposium that have taken place in the CCCB, leaving a record of current discussions and refl ections around subjects that are relevant to contemporary society. The presentations are published in their original language.

In 2007 we published Arxipèlag d’excepcions. Sobiranies de l’extraterritorialitat, which documents the conferences held at the CCCB on the 10th and 11th of November 2005. These meetings analysed the proliferation of enclaves that lie outside of traditional sovreignty, and seem to be goverened by a permanent state of emergency. From concentration and refugee camps to urban guetos, the discussions were a critical refl ection on the intersection bet-ween power and territory in the contemporary world. The publication includes texts by Zygmunt Bauman, Teddy Cruz, Keller Easterling, Stephen Graham, Thomas Keenan, Simón Naveh, Lluís Ortega, José Luís Pardo, Josep Ramo-neda, Eyal Sivan, Rafael Vilasanjuán and Eyal Weizman.

BREUS COLLECTION

As from a year ago, the CCCB has been publishing this collection with the aim of highlithting, in brief publications, some of the presentations or conclu-sions-documents arising from the debates, seminars, conference cycles and symposiums held at the CCCB. The collection, with bilingual versions of the texts, already includes conferences by Jürgen Habermas (International law in the transition towards a postnational juncture), Zygmunt Bauman (New universal values and borders), Michael Walzer (Terrorism and just wars), Roger Bartra (Liquid cultures in a waste land), Ulrich Beck (Reinventing Europe: a cosmopolitan view), Alain Touraine (Economic globalisation and social frag-mentation), Pascal Bruckner (The good life), Harvie Ferguson (Desire, oasson and surrender) and Daryush Shayegan (Is Teheran and emblematic city?). This year it continued with lectures by Olivier Roy (The worldlying of Islam), Jean & John Comaroff (Postcolonial law and violence: a refl ection on the complicities between North and South) and Gilles Lipovetsky (Hypermodern Times).

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AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS

Borders

An audiovisual work based on the lectures presented within the cycle Borders (Barcelona Debate VII) held at the CCCB between January 12 and March 29, 2004. These conferences aimed to analyse the transformations of traditional borders and discuss the extent to which the emergence of new borders puts the defense of universal values at risk.

Through this audiovisual work, we hear the refl ections of Tzvetan Todorov, Manuel Cruz, Francisco Fernández Buey, Georges Corm, Roger Bartra, Eyal Weizman, Michel Foucher, Zygmunt Bauman and David S. Landes.

The artist Frederic Amat has participated in the physical creation of this 9-screen set-up.

Nomads: East and WestAudiovisual project for an installationDates July - August Created by Montse Arbelo and Joseba FrancoOrganised by CCCB

Over the last few years, the artists Montse Arabelo and Joseba Franco have been on a permanent journey, crossing one border after another. Accompanied by still and video cameras and a computer, they walk through a world full of contradictions, sharing and assimilating cultures, learning the human biodi-versity on the streets.

In an almost linear path that takes them from New York to Tokyo, passing through many European and Asian countries, their aim has been to capture the rhythm and day to day reality of life in the places they visit, tapping into the vital pulse of the cities.

Over 50 hours of material recorded on video and thousands of photographs create a mosaic, a puzzle that will be presented to viewers on two oblique screens that converge in the centre of the viewer’s fi eld of visions. The furious pace of our civilisation, focusing mainly on cities, defi nes the visual discourse. The comparison between the real and imagined, actor and viewer, inside and outside, will be offered to visitors so that they can construct their own expe-rience.

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CCCB GENERAL INFORMATION 2007

CCCB STAFF

General DirectorJosep Ramoneda Molins

Deputy director-ManagerRafael Vilasanjuán Sanpere

Services Co-ordinatorElisenda Poch Granero

Administrator Clara Rodríguez Serrahima

Head of Exhibitions Service Jordi Balló Fantova

Head of Documentation and Debate CentreJudit Carrera Escudé

Head of Cultural Activities ServiceJuan Insúa Sigeroff

Head of Audiovisuals and Multime-dia SectionÀngela Martínez Garcia

Head of Communication and Exter-nal Resources SectionImma Mora Boguña

Head of General ServicesManel Navas Escribano

Head of Recruitment and Human ResourcesCori Llaveria Díaz

Head of the Budgets and Finance SectionAnna Sama Vaz

Management Offi ceGonzález Castro, CarolinaMitats Flotats, Montse Novellón Giménez, Montserrat

Exhibition ServicesAmice Corella, EstherEscoda Alegret, Anna Giménez Moreno, Mònica

Exhibition Co-ordination UnitIbàñez Dalmau, Mònica (head)Anglès Pérez, Teresa Antoniucci Garcia, Liliana Broggi Rull, Carlota Gimeno Cases, EvaNogués Colomé, Miquel Pérez Bares, CiraRomeu Coloma, Miriam

Records and Conservation UnitMoyano Miranda, Neus (head)García San Vicente, SusanaPapalini Lanprecht, Alex Querol Pugnaire, Josep

Educational Services and Touring UnitNavas Ferrer, Teresa

Production UnitCorea Dellepiane, Mario (head)Aznárez Antigas, LuísGarcía Rodríguez, Francisco Martínez Torrente, JesusMolinos López, José LuisMonfort Pastor, Oscar Navas Escribano, Antonio Pérez Hernández, David Porras Zambrano, Gabriel Saludas Fortuna, AlbertTarragona Ramírez, Rosó

Debate and Documentation CentreAran Ramspott, SòniaCiurana Risques, MuntsaGoula Sardà, ElisabetIbàñez Tudoras, Anna Mallart Romero, LucilaPorta Aguila, Ferran Vila Fernández, CristinaZrncic, Masha

Cultural Activities ServiceAlonso Ortega, Eva Garsaball Collado, Carolina Giralt Romeu, Marta Guarro Navarro, AnnaHerrero Ferran, LauraLópez Jiménez, Manel Roestel Antigas, Victoria Roig Isern, Bàrbara Rosell Nicolás, Teresa

Audiovisuals and Multimedia SectionDesmonts, MarcCarreras Font, Neus Coll Deopazo, Eduard Curcó Botargues, Toni Gómez Farran, Jordi Mallol González, MariaRodríguez González, Juan Carlos Soria Soria, José Antonio Viza Serra, Igor

External Resources Management UnitLlabrés Bernat, Amàlia (head)Pérez Testor, Teresa

Publications UnitPalà Selva, Marina (head)Puig Carreras, Rosa Ma.

Communications UnitRibas Bruguera, Maria (head)Betoret González, Matilde Blanco Pérez, Carme Fernández Alonso, Susana Llaberia Cots, Magda Martínez Bermúdez, Elena Muñoz Castanyer-Gausset, Eulàlia Muñoz Castanyer-Gausset, Mònica Roig Sitjar, Teresa Ruiz Auret, IreneSalinas Calle, Núria

Technical and General ServicesBellmunt Duran, Guillem Maicas Guillen, EmiliSangerman Vidal, Lluís Zamora Gómez, Maribel

Recruitment and Human Resources SectionAndrès Beltran, Mònica Ferrer López, Núria López Artero, Francesc Martín Tarrason, Lara Pérez Barrera, José Antonio

Budget and Finance SectionAran Perramon, Ma Dolors Boix Lara, Xavier Esteve Mateu, Mariàngela Jara Cuenca, Remei Jornet Espax, Jordi


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COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS AND COMPANIES


Co-producers:

CCCB is a concorcium of:

Sponsors:

Collaborating Media:

Sponsors and collaborators:

Albanian Media Institute / Editorial Paidós / Editorial Tusquets / Fundación i2Cat / Fundación Reina Isabel de Dinamarca / Goethe-Institut Barcelona / Imprevist / Institute of Dialogue and Communication (Tirana) Lafotobcn / MECAD / Orquestra Caos / Platoniq / Pocket Producciones / Xarxa Transversal d’Activitats Culturals Fundación Collserola / Vestas / Novo Nordisk.


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EXHIBITIONS

EXHIB BAMAKO 05. Another World 6.817EXHIB That’s not entertainment! 28.933EXHIB Hammershøi and Dreyer 44.052EXHIB Borders 36.361EXHIB Apartheid 25.403EXHIB In transition 9.787Total 151.353

SMALL SCALE EXHIBITIONS

Manos Unidas 680Somalia 6.068Tres videos tristes - Made in Mad 3.490Barcelona - El Consorci 4.190Installation Nomads 1.589World Press Photo 08 29.178BAC! 8.546Total 53.741

ACTIVITIES

Reading will make us go far 11.355I+C+i 596Xperimenta 825Invisibles 925Ciclo Dreyer after Hammershøi 1.550Homenage tp KAPUCISKI 180LP’07 Dance Festival...or not 2.660NOW 2.700Festival Magdalena 80Book World 12.000Festival BAFF 5.850Festival OFF 5.070Festival Flamenco Ciutat Vella 5.730LOOP 1.000MICEC 885Festival Sonar 33.626Dies de Dança 3.000Inn Motion 1.200Evening, Friends of CCCB 400Gandules ‘07 8.550Festival Hipnotik 6.700Documentary De Nadie 349BAM 10.200Labrys 76Festival Docupolis 2.960OCC - Concerts 340Documentary La Ribot 100Trafi c 1.600

…ACTIVITIES

Screenings Mauritania 130Festival La Alternativa 11.781Drap’art 3.800Off program - Euroafricanos 400BAC! BLA 185Resfest 650BCNmp7 2.870Xcèntric 2.682Archive Xcèntric 1.258Pantalla CCCB 10.413Weekend Itineraries 730Groug Itineraries 3.992Total 159.398

Courses, Debates and presentations

Meaning. Questions on Life ...... 2.373New City Walls 40Bagdad 160Chechnya 220Debate Somalia 145Debate Populisms 100Debate Architectures of fear 200Lectures Master Metropolis 300Debate Mediterranean 300Festivals and Music from the Mediterranean 47Debate Apartheid 300Naomi Klein- book presentation 420Debate Canetti, crossroads of cultures 180Debat Istambul 525Cicle Thinking Europe 1.055Debate Urban Periferies 183Press presentation CCCB – 2008 program 100Institut d’Humanitats 8.364CUIMPB 2.114Total 17.126

VENUE HIRE

Company functions 3.752Miscellaneous Presentations 7.123Miscellaneous conferences 6.408Other arrangements 1.776Total 19.059TOTALES 400.677

VISITOR FIGURES



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REVENUE Budget Provisional Settlement

Revenue from activities 4.338.886 3.622.335 Patrimonial revenue 132.800 208.714 Contributions from collaborating institutions 8.114.782 8.117.217 Capital contributions 681.500 648.682 Total 13.267.968 12.596.948

BUDGET AND SETTLEMENT FOR 2007 FISCAL YEAR

EXPENDITURE Budget Provisional Settlement

Staff 4.028.650 3.998.335 Structural 2.551.283 2.362.794 Activities 5.891.005 5.395.966 Investments 797.030 757.556 Total 13.267.968 12.514.652

Contributions from collaborating institutions 64%

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Meaning. Questions on Life in Times of Hyperconsumption. (12/02/07 - 26/03/07) Castilla del Pino, Carlos

Gómez Pin, Víctor

Gray, John

Lenoir, Frédéric

Lipovetsky, Gilles

Muguerza, Javier

Vattimo, Gianni

Barcelona’s New Walls (20/02/07) Badia, Anna

Bàguena, Josep

Bianchini, Silvia

Buhigas, Maria

Cantarella, Laura

Font, Josep

Mendizàbal, Enric

Muñiz, Ivan

Muñoz, Francesc

Roca, Joan

Rofes, Octavi

Serracant, Matíes

Ulied, Andreu

Invisibles (05/03/07)Bardem, Javier

Barroso, Mariano

Corcuera, Javier

León de Aranoa, Fernando

Zabalgogeazkoa, Aitor

Bagdad, a City in the Throes of Death(06/03/07)Cockburn, Patrick

Jabar, Faleh A.

Halliday, Fred

Said, Yahia K.

Dreyer after Hammershøi(07/03/07 - 25/04/07)Bonet, Juan Manuel

Gimferrer, Pere

Marí, Antoni

Martí, Carlos

Palol, Miquel de

Pedraza, Pilar

Tybjerg, Casper

Presentation of the book Retorno de Filip Latinovitz by Miroslav Krléza (07/03/07) Matvejevič, Predrag

Ŝkrabec, Simona

Vrsalovič-Carevič, Jadranka

Ciudades inclusivas. Inclusive Cities. Johannesburg workshop (12/03/07 - 13/03/07) Amin, Ash

Crang, Michael

Dineo Gqola, Pumla

Fernandez, Edesio

Friedman, Steven

Fuentes-Calle, Alicia

Gotz, Graeme

Hannigan, John

Hornberger, Julia

Huczermeyer, Marie

Kihato, Caroline

Landau, Loren

Massoumi, Mejgan

Morojele, Mphethe

Narsoo, Monty

Nieftagodien, Noor

Pieterse, Edgar

Roca, Joan

Ruble, Blair

Subirós, Pep

Spiropolous, John

Stepanenko, Viktor

Stren, Richard

Vatxagàiev, Mairbek

Winkler, Tanja

Chechnya, the Silenced Confl ict. Tribute to Anna Politkòvskaia (20/03/07) Babitski, Andrei

Claudín, Carmen

Littell, Jonathan

Lizaran, Anna

Presentation of the book “Ricardo Muñoz Suay: una vida en sombras” by Esteve Riambau (21/03/07) Riambau, Esteve

Semprún, Jorge

Barcelona – Krakow(29/03/07 - 30/03/07) Balló, Jordi

Chwalba, Andrzej

Maj, Bronislaw

Malecki, Jan M.

Maragall, Pasqual

Mikulowski-Pomorski, Jerzy

Muñoz, Francesc

Murzyn, Monika

Pajares, Miguel

Puntí, Jordi

Purchla, Jacek

Roca,Joan

Sepiol, Janusz

Shehu, Bashkim

Somalia, the West and the Destruc-tion of Hope (12/04/07) Abdulle, Jabril Ibrahim

Addou, Ibrahim Hassan

Armada, Alfonso

Farah, Nuruddin

Gluck, Kenny

Mohamed, Mohamed Abdi

Populisms (16/04/07 - 17/04/07)Bouza, Fermín

Demes, Pavol

Fernández Buey, Francisco

Hermet, Guy

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Kazin, Michael

Krastev, Ivan

Lani, Remzi

Manea, Norman

Misha, Piro

Panizza, Francisco

Ridao, José María

Shehu,Bashkim

Architectures of fear: Terrorism and the Future of Urbanism in the West (17/05/07 - 18/05/07) Amoore, Louise

Boudreau, Julie-Anne

Carrera, Judit

Closs, Angharad

Crandall, Jordan

Engel, Ulrike

Furedi, Frank

Galdon Clavell, Gemma

Garcés, Marina

Graham, Stephen

Guerra, Carles

Irujo, José María

Klauser, Francisco

Marcuse, Peter

Muñoz, Francesc

Natsios, Deborah

Packer, Jeremy

Subirats, Joan

Weizman, Eyal

Mediterranean: Mith and Reality (19/09/07 - 20/09/07) Alcoverro, Tomás

Armstrong, Karen

Balta, Paul

Bessis, Sophie

Bramon, Dolors

Çiçekoglu, Feride

Fabre, Thierry

Gürsel, Nedim

Halliday, Fred

Hitti, Nassif

Martí, Jordi

Martinell, Alfons

Murado, Miguel-Anxo

Ridao, José María

Valenzuela, Javier

Local racism, Global Apartheid. South Africa as a Paradigm (27/09/07 - 28/09/07) Alexander, Jane

Amin, Ash

Back, Les

Blanchard, Pascal

Bond, Patrick

Bosch, Alfred

Dyangani, Elvira

Lalueza, Carles

McKenzie, Peter

Minty, Zayd

Mntambo, Nandipha

Pieterse, Edgar

Rassool, Ciraj

Sátiro, Angèlica

Stolcke, Verena

Subirós, Pep

Vives, Núria

Urban Public Space: debate in Tirana (15/10/07) Aliaj, Besnik

Bravo, David

Fuga, Artan

Misha, Piro

Mongin, Olivier

Montobbio, Manuel

Rama, Edi

Ribes, Carme

Shkreli, Artan

Shutina, Dritan

Torres, Elías

Presentation of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine (26/10/07)Doménech, Antoni

Klein, Naomi

Elías Canetti, Crossroads of Cultures (30/10/07) Echevarría, Ignacio

Llovet, Jordi

Siguan, Marisa

The Destinies of Istanbul (03/11/07 - 05/11/07) Aktar, Ayhan

Belge, Murat

Halliday, Fred

Matossian, Nouritza

Ozel, Soli

Ozkirimli, Umut

Veiga, Francisco

Thinking Europe(12/11/07 - 03/12/07)Buruma, Ian

Fontana, Josep

Garton Ash, Timothy

Hobsbawm, Eric

Sassoon, Donald

Launch of “Relatos de Kolimá” by Varlam Shalámov (12/12/07)San-Vicente, Ricardo

Semprún, Jorge

Urban Peripheries (13/12/07 - 14/12/07) Caldeira, Teresa

Donzelot, Jacques

Holston, James

Nel·lo, Oriol

Simone, Adou Maliq

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ACCA Associació Catalana de Ciències Ambientals

Advanced Music S.L.

Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitari i de Recerca

Agrupación española del género de punto

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Àrea de Medi Ambient - Parcs i Jardins de Barcelona, Institut Municipal.

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Departament de Participació Ciutadana

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Direcció de Comunicació Cor-porativa i Qualitat

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Direcció de Participació Social

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Direcció d’Educació Ambiental

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Divisió Serveis Personals Dis-tricte Ciutat Vella

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Sector de Promoció Econòmica

Albiñana Films, S.A.

Asociación Bangladesh Cultural

Asociación Cultural de Bangladesh a Catalunya.

Assegurances Catalana Occident S.A.

Assemblea de Cooperació per la Pau.

Associació Catalana d’Enginyeria Sense Fronteres

Associació Catalana per a la celebració del dia Internacio-nal de la Dona

Associació Escola de Clínica Psicoanalítica amb Nens i Adolescents. ECPNA.

Associació IMAGO Barcelona.

Associació Joventut Organitzada i Activa

Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM).

BBDO España. S.A. Fresa

Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo

Centre de Recursos Pedagògics Ciutat Vella

Centre d’Estudis Dona i Societat

Centre Especialitzat en la Prevenció de Riscos Laborals.

Centre Espirita Amalia Domingo Soler.

CIDEM Centre d’Innvovació i Desenvolupament Empre-sarial.

Col·legi Ofi cial d’Enginyers de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya.

Col·legi Professional de Disseny Gràfi c de Catalunya.

Col·legi Professional de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya.

Consell Islàmic Cultural de Catalunya

Consulado General de Colombia en Barcelona

COPCISA INDUSTRIAL, S.L.U.

COPCISA SA

CP Proximity Barcelona S.A.

Creación, Asesoría y Desarrollo, S.L.

Cristina Nadal

D’Aleph Multimedia S.L.

Diputació de Barcelona. Direcció de Serveis de Relacions Internacionals

Diputació de Barcelona. Direcció dels Serveis d’Assistència al Govern Local.

Diputació de Barcelona. Gabinet de la Presidència.

Diputació de Barcelona. Ofi cina de Patrimoni Cultural

Diputació de Barcelona. Organisme de Gestió Tributària

Diputació de Barcelona. Servei de Formació Local.

Diputació de Barcelona. Servei de Salut Pública i Consum.

Diputació de Barcelona. Servei Vies Locals.

Entorn SCCL.

Espai País Valencià.

Esquerra Unida i Alternativa. EUiA.

Estudios PIRAMIDE S.A.

Facultat de Comunicació Blanquerna. URLl

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Fundació Alfons Comín

Fundació Alternativa

Fundació Barcelona Digital

Fundació Barcelona Media. UPF

Fundació Bosch i Gimpera.

Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la innovació.

Fundació IES Barcelona.

Fundació Institut Català d’Oncologia.

Fundació Jaume Bofi ll

Fundació Josep Sans

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Fundació Mies van der Rohe.

Fundació Privada Carme Serrallonga.

Fundació privada Catalunya Comerç

Fundació Privada Elisava Escola Universitària.

Fundació Privada Empresa i Progrés

Fundació Rafael Campalans.

Fundació Vicente Ferrer.

Fundación Alternativas.

Fundación Carmen Arnau Muro para el estudio y la difu-sión de la cultura de los pueblos indígenas

Fundación Reina Isabel de Dinamarca

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de la Vicepresi-dència

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Salut. Secreta-ria d’Estratègia Coordinació.

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Treball

Generalitat de Catalunya. EADOP. Entitat Autònoma del Diari Ofi cial i de Publicacions

Generalitat de Catalunya. Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals. ICIC

Grup Cultura 03 / Ara llibres

Head Training Consultores S. L.

Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds.

Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques. UAB

Institut d’Estudis Catalans. IEC.

Institut d’Estudis Territorials

Institut Gestalt, S.L.

Institut Ramon Llull

Intelligent Coast

Intracatalònia, SA. - Agència Catalana de Notícies.

Mandala Creative Productions.

Mehetab Hoque.

Metropolis

Min Hyun-sik

Novart Media Films, S.L.

PIRAMIDE

PPM Editorial 2006, S.L.U.

PSC (PSC-PSOE) Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya

QSL Serveis Culturals.

Red Bull España S.L.

Runtal Radiadores, S.A.

Seguros Catalana Occident S.A.

Solidaritat pel Desenvolupament i la Pau. SODEPAU.

TRIAC. Associació de Traductors i Intèrprets pro Col·legi de Catalunya.

Universidad de Salamanca. Master en Diseño de Interiores

Universitat de Barcelona

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Viatges Iberia

Woodbury University

Xarxa Consum Solidari.

Xarxa Economia Solidària. XES

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GENERAL CCCB

AVUI - 10/02/2007SECTION CULTURA


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LA VANGUARDIA - 15/08/2007SECTION LA CONTRA


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EL PERIÓDICO - 17/08/2007SECTION CONTRAPORTADA


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EL PERIÓDICO - 28/12/2007SECTION CONTRAPORTADA


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EXHIBITION IN FRANKFURT



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EL PAIS - 10/10/2007SECTION CULTURA


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EL PERIÓDICO - 9/10/2007SECTION CULTURA


85

HAMMERSHØI-DREYER

ABC - 10/02/2007SECTION ART


86

EL PAIS - 3/02/2007SECTION ART


87

BEAUX ARTS - 2007


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BEAUX ARTS - 10/02/2007SECTION CULTURA


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CINEMA ZEUXIS - 10/04/2007


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LA VANGUARDIA - 26/01/2007SECTION CULTURA


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AVUI - 17/04/2007SECTION DIÀLEG


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LIBERATION - 19/03/2007


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BORDERS



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EL PUNT - 04/05/2007SECTION CULTURA


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LAPIZ - 01/07/2007SECTION TRAVELLING


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APARTHEID

LA VANGUARDIA - 2007SECTION ART


99

LA VANGUARDIA - 2007SECTION ART


100

EL PERIÓDICO - 11/10/2007SECTION ART


101

EL PAIS - 27/09/2007SECTION CATALUNYA


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EL PUNT - 27/09/2007SECTION CONTRAPORTADA


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IN TRANSITION

EL PERIÓDICO -18/11/2007SECTION CUADERNO


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BEYOND THE CCCB

CINÉMA -19/09/2007


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CINÉMA -19/09/2007


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CINÉMA -19/09/2007


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EL PAIS - 17/07/2007SECTION CONTRAPORTADA


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XCENTRIC

EL PAIS - 2007SECTION CULTURA


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EL MUNDO - 21/12/2007SECTION CULTURA

EL PUNT - 2007SECTION CULTURA


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NOW

CINÉMA -19/09/2007


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PANTALLA CCCB

BENZINA - 08/2007


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OFF-PROGRAM



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GANDULES

LA VANGUARDIA - 2007SECTION ARTE


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LA VANGUARDIA - 2007SECTION ARTE


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AVUI - 16/08/2007SECTION BARCELONA


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FLAMENCO



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SONAR



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INN MOTION



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ABC - 03/07/2007SECTION CATALUNYA


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HIPNÒTIK



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127

DOCÚPOLIS



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129

BAC



130

EL MUNDO - 27/11/2007SECTION CULTURA


131

ITINERARIES

ABC - 04/11/2007SECTION CATALUNYA


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CULTURAL RING



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EL PAÍS - 1/03/2007SECTION CULTURA


135

LA VANGUARDIA - 1/03/2007


136

AVUI - 19/03/2007SECTION CULTURA I ESPECTACLES


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EL PAÍS - 1/04/2007SECTION CATALUÑA


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EL PERIÓDICO - 26/04/2007SECTION LA ENTREVISTA


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EL PAÍS - 21/05/2007SECTION CATALUÑA


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AVUI - 13/04/2007


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LA VANGUARDIA-MAGAZINE - 02/12/2007SECTION ENTREVISTA


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AVUI - 11/03/2007SECTION COMUNICACIÓ


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EL PERIÓDICO - 20/05/2007SECTION INTERNACIONAL


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CULTURAS LA VANGUARDIA - 13/06/2007SECTION ESPACIOS


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CULTURAS LA VANGUARDIA - 13/06/2007SECTION ESPACIOS


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AVUI - 02/01/2008SECTION MÓN


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EL PAÍS BABELIA - 01/03/2008


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AVUI - 26/09/2007SECTION MÓN


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CULTURAS LA VANGUARDIA - 07/02/2007SECTION ESCRITURAS


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