CCCB // 2014 Programme

CCCB

Programme

2014

CCCBProgramme 2014

Montalegre, 5 08001 BarcelonaT. 933 064 100

www.cccb.org

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Contents

Exhibitions Espriu

Metamorphosis

Commonwealth of Catalonia, 1914-2014

Big Bang Data

Cities Under Siege

World Press Photo 14

Show Home

Festivals and Open Formats


Family and Young People’s Programme

Spaces for Debate and Reflection

City

Science and Humanities

Ideas and the World

In collaboration

CCCB Education Activities

Itineraries

Workshops

CCCB Holdings CCCB Archives

Publications

Beyond the CCCB

CCCB Lab

Social Programme

European Prize for Urban Public Space

20 Years 20 Actions

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This year the CCCB celebrates its 20th birthday. Over the course of these 20 years, the Centre has multiplied its activity and its projection. Furthermore, its field of action has grown to embrace practically all formats and languages, always at the service of con-temporary thinking and creation. It has also expanded in physical terms. Thus, in 2011 the Centre’s new multi-purpose building, known as the Teatre CCCB, was inaugurated, giving the Centre new potential as it conditioned a space ideal for the stage arts, music and audiovisuals.

Over the course of all this time, the “CCCB formula” – if we can call it that – has de-monstrated, besides a productive vitality, a proven capacity to surprise, to go beyond convention, to make relevant contributions, and to offer exhibitions and activities of a high quality level. This track record has made it deserving of notable renown, both in Catalonia and Spain alike, and very significantly, in the international sphere. Naturally, this represents an enormous satisfaction, for us and for all those who have formed part of the Centre or have collaborated with it over the course of these two decades.

Our greatest wish now is to be able to take advantage of these 20 years in order, based on the great value accumulated, to open a new phase of renewal – and of exploration not free of risk – whose objective should be the CCCB being able to grasp and adapt to the maximum to the multiplicity of drastic changes that are transforming our society. These are changes that affect our lifestyle and also our view of the reality around us and of the world. Similarly, all these changes are restructuring the relationship between the individual, thinking and creation, and, in short, leading to the evolution of the way we have of approaching and enjoying culture.

This 20th birthday is a good time, we believe, to reaffirm the CCCB’s commitment to constant renewal, which unfailingly involves openness towards society and a strong and close connection with everything that happens outside of our walls. This commitment, which is more than anything else an attitude and determination, has to allow us to ex-plore new ground and to reach more citizens, but also to try out new forms of working. We need to pay greater attention to processes and collaboration through networking, which at the same time means making way for new proposals and providing support and opportunities to up-and-coming groups and creators who hold promise for the future.

The CCCB, which has experimentation and change engraved into its raison d’être, now proposes to take another step forward and, taking advantage of this 20th anniversary, to open a phase that aims to be one of impetus that will allow it to continue being an essential reference point in high-quality culture within everyone’s reach. The 20 year celebration is, therefore, a commitment to renewal, a commitment that has to make a strong mark on the immediate future of our institution.

In this new phase that we are opening we propose, also, that awareness of the CCCB and of its current of activities should be raised, especially among those people in Bar-celona and Catalonia who still do not know us or who do not know us well. A better connection with society, with creative communities and with people involves, partly, the possibilities offered by the digital environment – web, social networks, etc. – understood not only instrumentally, as a means for disseminating and animating the constant acti-vity that the Centre carries out, but also as an environment from which to offer specific contents. In this sense, our challenge is to make the CCCB an absolutely integrated space, in other words, one that is physical and virtual at the same time.

We have aimed to express this desire for renewal in our programme for 2014 with a series of activities and proposals designed for active, curious and creative people. 20 actions to celebrate the 20 years of existence of the CCCB.

20 actions to give meaning to and materialise our commitment to constant innovation.

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1. CCCB International Prize for Cultural Innovation

2. New line of exhibitions

3. Short films competition. Gandules 2014

A new biennial competition organised by the CCCB with the aim of stimulating projects that explore possible cultural scenarios for the coming years by encouraging the research, experimentation and innovation that a world undergoing constant change requires. Each edition of the prize will propose a work topic for the contestants. For the first edition the subject will be Audience/s. This Prize is a step forward in the search for new languages and formats and in the presentation of contents.

On the third floor of the CCCB, we are opening a central space for projects that take an integrated approach to the culture of the 21st century and the major transformations of these times. Big Bang Data is the first of this series of exhibition projects that over the course of the coming years will explore spaces of change and of tension at the intersections of society, science and culture.

More than ever we believe that “Gandules is you” and we are inviting the public to take part in a short films competition that will be organised following the theme of the programme for 2014. The shorts will be shown on our website and selected through votes by the public. The nine winning short films will be screened at the Gandules sessions and the most voted short film will receive a special prize.

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4. R'estrenaA second chance for the best in film

5. LapsusFestival

6. Brunch Barcelona

We want to give a “second chance” to films that have been premiered in our country but have not had the commercial impact that they deserve, as well as to Catalan and Spanish films that have only been viewable at festivals. The sessions will be accompanied by presentations, a face-to-face and online film forum, and digital publications.

This is the annual culmination of the Lapsus project and will be condensed into a week of concerts, performances and exhibitions within the framework of the CCCB, where the best audiovisual art and electronic music will join hands to offer a unique and distinctive experience to the audience in attendance. An opportunity for new musical groups, visual artists and ephemeral architecture.

This is a meeting that combines a relaxed Sunday brunch with cultural, music and gastronomic activities geared towards a family audience. It then gives way, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., to music (live and DJs) and to other parallel activities aimed at young people, with film screenings, skateboarding, workshops, board games and circus activities, or vintage flea markets, second-hand books, etc.

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7. DesignProject for the CCCB Hall

8. Internet Universe

9. New CCCB Grant

A competition aimed at young designers, curators and architects to design one of the CCCB’s major spaces: the Hall. The idea is to create a new space where people can work, interact and talk, providing that there is no other activity taking place at that moment in time A space for relations and connections with different uses.

This is a programme of activities dedicated to reflecting on how the Internet has changed the world and our lives. What does educating mean in the Internet age? The idea is to offer a global view of the phenomenon, an understanding of the new system that is being outlined in order to offer new tools to teachers of children who are now digital natives. The programme will be structured around four sessions focusing on understanding the tool and raising our awareness that we can also make good use of it and integrate it into the school curriculum.

A new grant for one of the essential projects in the CCCB’s digital strategy, the online activation of contents from the CCCB Archive.

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10. Room 1418

11. CulturenautsA CCCB Summer Camp

The CCCB and the MACBA are opening a new activity area for young people aged between 14 and 18 years. Room 1418 is a meeting place that is active every Saturday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. It is launched as a highly flexible platform, and it is the users themselves who will gradually mould its profile. In Room 1418 they can find a continued programme of activities and make use of the resources proposed to them by the CCCB and the MACBA. The programme aims to involve outreach activity with young people from the metropolitan area and it will develop a special bond with the Raval.

Culturenauts is not really a camp, it is more a base for exploration around the galaxy of innovation. With the aim of making its work more accessible to all audiences, the CCCB has built up a specific offering for the 6-12 years age group: a summer camp designed to educate in leisure during the school holidays. Culturenauts will work on the conceptual lines developed in the CCCB’s exhibitions and programmes over the course of the year 2014 (the animation exhibition Metamorphosis, the exhibition on data technology Big Bang Data, the Xcèntric cinema programme and the literary activities of Kosmopolis).

Peace and reconciliation between old enemies were the driving force behind European integration over 60 years ago now. The forthcoming European elections envisage a scenario of growth of the forces of the extreme right who would fill with gloom the dream of a Europe guided by the principles of equality and liberty. Faced with this horizon, the CCCB proposes to give the word to a new generation of European creators so that, together, they can contribute towards defining a new idea for a united and reinforced Europe. With the collaboration of the main international culture institutes in Barcelona, the project will consist of a series of lectures, recitals and screenings with the participation of young creators from all over the European continent.

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13. CCCB Alzheimer Programme

14. New Friends of the CCCBFor people born in 1994!

15. The CCCB with the Raval

The warm reception given to this programme designed for Alzheimer patients, their families and carers, has encouraged us to organize a meeting of centres and museums and from all over Spain that offer similar proposals for this group that so lacks a comprehensive cultural offering. The meeting, designed to promote the sharing and exchanging of experiences, will help to grow and improve the CCCB Alzheimer Programme.

An action to attract new Friends of the CCCB: all those who accredit that their 20th birthday is in 2014 will have free access to all the CCCB’s production activities through a free Young Friends of the CCCB card for the whole of 2014.

The CCCB is actively collaborating with different educational and civic centres in the Raval neighbourhood. The year 2014 will be one of intensification of the shared projects with local schools and institutes, and another step will be taken in the programming of activities and social actions organised jointly with the Casal dels Infants, with the shared aim of promoting the improvement of living conditions for children, young people and families with problems related to social inclusion.

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16. New Open SpacesVisit the Mirador!

17. CCCB Screen OnlineOne month, one artist

18. Renewal of the Veus Blog

One weekend per month it will be possible to climb the CCCB’s Mirador and enjoy its magnificent views over the city of Barcelona. A free visit, open to all, that will explain the CCCB from another viewpoint.

Online and face-to-face activity. Works of video creation, multimedia, net art, those that do not emerge through commissions but through the artist’s own stimulus, are difficult for the public to access, and apart from festivals, exhibitions and certain art galleries, have no more channels for dissemination. These works inherently contain the purest and most primitive concept of artistic creation. This programme aims to create a space and give time so that some of these signature works can become known, during one month via the window of our website and one week on one of the CCCB’s screens.

The blog Veus CCCB (Voices CCCB) was launched in the year 2009 as a tool for communication and interaction with our audience. It is the daily news channel where staff, collaborators, artists, cultural managers, curators, etc., explain in the first person how in-house projects are produced. The blog also documents cultural current affairs with interviews and specialised articles. For the CCCB’s 20th anniversary, Veus CCCB will be renovating its design, organising and presenting contents thematically in order to continue being one of the digital windows on contemporary culture (http://blogs.cccb.org/veus/).

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19. Digital Breus CCCB

20. Cultural Ring. Connective Space

The CCCB Breus Collection, in which 65 instalments have appeared over its eight years of existence, will begin 2014 in digital format, with an opportunity to reach further and more audiences and to expand the reading experience of the printed book.

Access to the second-generation Internet for groups of young artists. In 2014 the activation of digital networks will be given new impetus through the Latin America-Europe Cultural Ring and the incorporation of Barcelona Lab. During 2014 the different nodes of the Cultural Ring will be working on a joint programme (Internet Universe) devoted to reflecting on how the web is generating radical changes in our way of understanding, creating, producing and distributing cultural assets.

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The year 2013 marked the commemoration of 100 years since the birth of Salvador Espriu i Castelló (1913-1985). The CCCB, in collaboration with the Catalan Government’s Department of Culture, organised one of the central events of Espriu Year: the exhibition Espriu. I Looked Upon This Land, which offered to the public an approach to the creative career and life history of the writer, to show not only the capital importance of his figure for Catalan culture, but also the complexity and richness of Espriu’s body of work which transcends any label and thus stands as a timeless classic.

The exhibition develops different aspects of his biography, of his literary world and of the public repercussions of his work. It also defends the current relevance of the writer, and the validity of his themes and viewpoints in the world today, based on the triple perspective that the exhibition proposes: the mythical and sym-bolical world, social transcendence and indomitable criticism.

A poet, narrator and playwright, Espriu asks himself about the great human questions. The exhibition evokes the myth of Sinera; ethical commitment when faced with the Civil War and the post-war years; the defence of Catalan culture in difficult times; the Espriu phenomenon, when he became an indispensable reference

point in Spanish Culture; his vision of the “bull’s hide” based on dialogue and tolerance; his candidature for the Nobel Prize, and his imaginary world – sometimes grotesque, sometimes evoca- tive, but always of an extraordinary power.

The exhibition presents a great quantity of unpublished materials originating from archives and private collections. The last part of the exhibition recreates one of Espriu’s fundamental ideas: the world as a grotesque labyrinth, based on a gallery of characters that inhabit his narrative, his poetry and his theatre, presented in animations produced by young creators. The characters of this gallery are integrated into an animated tale, of surprising currency, that allows the visitor unfamiliar with the Espriu universe to enter it from a highly contemporary perspective.

I Looked Upon This Land takes us to the view of Espriu towards his land and towards his world: sometimes critical and wildly amusing, but always understanding and full of compassion towards human weaknesses.

Idea and original script —Xavier Bru de Sala

Executive curator —Julià Guillamon

Advisors —Ramon Balsach, Sebastià Bonet, Rosa Delor, Julià de Jòdar, Víctor Martínez Gil and Agustí Pons, with the collaboration of Gabriel Planella

Organised by — CCCB

Co-produced by —CCCB and Espriu Year (Generalitat de Catalunya)

With the collaboration of — ARA.cat and Catalunya Ràdio

EspriuI Looked Upon This Land

30 October 2013 — 16 March 2014 — sala 3

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MetamorphosisThe Fantastic Versions of Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay

25 March — 7 September 2014 — sala 2

What do Franz Kafka, James Ensor, Bruno Schulz, Arnold Böc-klin, Goya, Alicia, Sigmund Freud, Lotte Reiniger, a collection of insects, the films of Charles Bowers, the Brothers Grimm, Salva-dor Dalí, Felisberto Hernández, J. J. Grandville, Buñuel, Jacob Von Gunten and an anatomical Venus made of wax have in common?

Metamorphosis presents the work of four essential figures of ani-mated films who have been and are enormously influential in different spheres of contemporary creation: the Paris-based pio-neer of Russian animated films, Ladislas Starewitch (1882-1965), the Czech maestro Jan Švankmajer (1934) and the unclassifiable Brothers Quay (1947), whose work was recently the subject of an anthological exhibition at the MoMA in New York.

The exhibition swings like a pendulum between the individual worlds of these artists and their shared universe. As a central pillar, a journey through their film-making careers and through the items they have constructed to produce their films: sets, puppets, drawings and objects. In parallel, a significant number of literary, artistic and cinematographic references sketch the lines of affiliation defended by the artists: fairy tales, horror stories, the world of dreams, cabinets of curiosities, pre-Enlightenment science, alchemy, magic and conjuring. A world of imagination that roams

from dark romanticism, through symbolism and surrealism, to our own times – above all through what are considered as fringe genres – and that, in the hands of these animated filmmakers, are revealed to us in their most radical modernity.

Their films are films of resistance against narrative conventions; their universe is eccentric and subversive, a universe that visitors will find strange yet vaguely familiar, like the echo of a continent lost who knows when, and which has been renounced in honour of the correctness inhabiting the world that is adult and rational. Against this renunciation, the imagination of Starewitch, the pro-vocation of Švankmajer and the characters in eternal convalescence of the Brothers Quay are postulated as an unexpected invitation to freedom.

In a rather similar way to the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th century, the exhibition breaks the relationship logic between the objects and between the origins of materials and juxtaposes the different categories to sketch an eccentric landscape. A dreamlike landscape where innocence, cruelty, voluptuousness, magic and madness all coexist. A surrealist and disturbing, poetic and lucid landscape, sometimes grotesque and sometimes phantasmagori-cal, inhabited by insects of fable that love and suffer, by puppets

Curated by —Carolina López Caballero

Organised by —CCCB

Co-produced by —CCCB and La Casa Encendida, of the Fundación Especial Caja Madrid

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that laugh at the world or that resist being subjected to its obses-sions, by characters that play, that smile, that love what is unpro-ductive and futile.

The proposal will reflect on the interest of many contemporary creators in procedures that generate meaning that, as in Wun-derkammer, are organised and structured outside of the rigorous hierarchical concept, in tune with the avant-garde associative techniques of collage and montage, to end by asking us whether the Internet is not the new cabinet of curiosities of the 21st century.

This is the first time that the work of these four artists is presented in depth in our country, but what represents a truly internatio-nal event is having brought together in a single space the work of these animators who maintain an explicit dialogue between them-selves: the Quay twins acknowledge that they are admirers of Jan Švankmajer and all three enjoy the company of Starewitch.

Jan Švankmajer and the Quay twins will produce a specific ins-tallation for the exhibition that will immediately subsequently be presented in Madrid, at La Casa Encendida, from 2 October 2014 to 11 January 2015.

Creators with work in the exhibition:

Leonardo Alenza, Arnold Böcklin, Walerian Borowczyk, Charles Bowers, Luis Buñuel, Émile Cohl, Gustave Courbet, Segundo de Chomón, Salvador Dalí, Monsu Desiderio, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Francisco de Goya, Jean Grandville, Emma Hauck, Max Klinger, Alfred Kubin, Eugenio Lucas, Marey, Josep Masana, Méliès, Joaquim Pla Janini, Lotte Reiniger, Bruno Schulz, Irène Starewitch, Eva Švankmajerová, Robert Walser.

Activities related to the exhibition:

— Metamorphosis. Series of conferences (see page 53)— Culturenauts. Summer camps (see page 75)— Educational workshops (see page 70)— Film season (see page 30)— Catalogue (see page 83)

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Commonwealth of Catalonia,1914 – 2014The Start of Tomorrow

8 April — 20 July 2014 — sala -1

Within the context of the centenary of the creation of the Com-monwealth of Catalonia, which is being promoted by the Dipu-tació de Barcelona, the CCCB is organising an exhibition formed by a series of networked installations that is to be presented at different venues in the city of Barcelona – the CCCB itself, the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the Escola Industrial – and at other points elsewhere on Catalan territory.

What in essence did the Commonwealth of Catalonia consist of? With a clear desire for projection towards the future, the Com-monwealth acted for a decade with an unusual energy to create solid tools for connectivity and growth in Catalonia. It was an institution capable of fast transformation of the country and of practising a policy of proximity. With simply a first approach to its history, its efficacy, flexibility, efficiency, and desire to be construc-tive and to embrace all disciplines of knowledge is quite apparent to us.

What was the “work done”? What projects did it promote or materialise? The Commonwealth was capable of launching a large number of initiatives: it strengthened and deployed infrastructures, such as the telephone and road networks, it was the driving force behind the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, it worked on tangible

and intangible heritage, on health, on prevention and charity, it updated the cartography, the meteorology, it created the bases for an advanced education, it was concerned with tourism, it invited Albert Einstein and Maria Montessori to Barcelona, it even con-sidered problems of environmental sustainability, and above all, it was capable of creating a community vision of the future.

The exhibition aims to be present in different places in Catalo-nia and in fact it is organised as a “networked project” that also represents the connectivity of the territory, one of the priorities of the Commonwealth’s policy. The exhibition project will be formed by six installations devoted to different fields of action where the Commonwealth undertook pioneering work (the crea-tion of popular libraries, standardisation of the Catalan language, infrastructures and mobility, charity and healthcare, the telephone network, etc.) and the seventh installation will be devoted specifically to analysing Commonwealth’s history, its architects and its way of doing things.

The thematic installation that will be hosted by the CCCB will be that devoted to the policies of charity and healthcare, in connec-tion with the history of the venue itself, as the former Casa de la Caritat (Alms-house).

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Curated by —Víctor Batallé

Executive curator —Santi Martínez de Castilla

Organised and co-produced by —CCCB, Diputació de Barcelona, Diputació de Girona, Diputació de Lleida and Diputació de Tarragona

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“After the novel, and subsequently cinema privileged narrative as the key form of cultural expression of the modern age, the compu-ter age introduces its correlate: the database. It is only appropriate, therefore, that we should want to develop poetics, aesthetics and ethics of this database”. (Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, MIT Press, Cambridge 2001)

On the third floor of the CCCB, we are opening a central space for projects that deal with the culture of the 21st century and the great transformations of these times in an integrated way. Big Bang Data will be the first in this series of exhibition projects that over the course of the coming years will explore the spaces for exchange and tension at the intersections of society, science and culture.

Big Bang Data is a project that, from the arts, research, politics, in-novation and participation, makes inroads into the phenomenon of the data boom in which we are immersed.

As citizens, we all generate data through sensors, social networks, digital photos and videos, records of transactions and the GPS of our mobile phones. Over the last five years, a broad awareness has existed between the academic and scientific sectors, the administrations, en-terprise and culture that generating and interpreting data with the technologies that we are developing may radically change our society.

Are data the new oil? A potentially infinite source of riches? Or must they be, above all, a tool for constructing a more transparent and participative democracy? Are they an opportunity? An instrument for knowledge, prevention, efficiency and transparency? Or the ammunition for loading the weapons of mass surveillance?

Creators participating in the project:

Artists such as Christopher Baker, Chris Jordan, Ingo Gunther, Erik Kessels, David Bowen and Diller Scofidio + Renfro among others; researchers, activists, designers, educators, analysts, carto-graphers, engineers, economists, art directors, architects, commu-nicators, programmers, journalists and a long etcetera.


During over five months of the duration of Big Bang Data the exhibi-tion space will be simultaneously a platform for meeting and debate around this issue of maximum currency, that will host workshops, hackathons, educational programmes and meetings of local and international communities. It will be supported by a programme open to all audiences which will be the framework for holding Big Data Week (networked with over 25 cities worldwide) and the Data Journalism Conference, among other numerous activities.

Curated by —José Luís de Vicente and Olga Subirós


Co-produced by —CCCB and Fundación Telefónica

Big Bang Data8 May — 26 October 2014 — sala 3

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Within the context of the commemoration of the 300th anniver-sary of the Siege of Barcelona by Bourbon troops in the year 1714, the CCCB presents an audiovisual installation and a programme of activities, and proposes a reflection on the most contemporary aspects of cities under siege . The objective of the activities is to transfer the notion of siege to the world of today, from the forms in which in the present the besieging of cities continues to be a fully current warfare strategy (Beirut, Sarajevo and Gaza, among so many examples), to the subtlety with which today, new urban realities spread based on segregation and marginalisation, or also, how the new obsession with security in the great metropolises has allowed the normalisation of forms of control and surveillance over their citizens.

The CCCB’s reflection will place the emphasis on all those realities of the contemporary city that condemn its citizens to live under new forms of siege. Moreover, the activities will also explore the opposite of the besieged city: the open city, the city where the in-habitants do not live under the shadow of a threat that places in question their liberties. It will propose a reflection on which ele-ments are necessary to make an open city possible.


— The New Sieges. Series of lectures (see page 50)

Cities Under Siege9 September — 9 November 2014 — Hall

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The CCCB presents a new edition of the international exhibition World Press Photo organised by the Fundació Photographic Social Vision, offering the public of Barcelona the opportunity to remain informed on the state of the world not only through the images, but also thanks to the presentation of multimedia projects and the organisation of meetings with prize-winning photographers.

World Press Photo is one of the photographic exhibitions that at-tracts the largest audience in Barcelona. The exhibition is consi-dered worldwide as the most important in the sphere of photo-journalism, being distinguished by the quality of its photographs, as well as the debate and criticism generated by each of the works presented. But World Press Photo is not just an appointment with the social, political, cultural and sporting events of the last year, but also a showcase where the best photo-reporters of the mo-ment can raise the visibility of their work, so often censored by governments and media alike.

The exhibition comprises the close to 200 winners of the presti-gious international photojournalism prize. An international and independent jury is responsible for selecting the winning images from among those sent in by photojournalists, agencies and news-papers worldwide, classified into eight categories: General News,

Spot News, Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, Observed Portraits, Staged Portraits, Nature and Sports.

The exhibition invites visitors to witness, free of censorship and manipulation, the state of the world today and it confronts us with the global and also the local reality to be able to reflect and expand our points of view. As every other year, the prize-winning images will inform us, move us and question us, converting World Press Photo into an unmissable appointment for any citizen who wishes to be better informed.

Organised and produced by —Fundació Photographic Social Vision

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November — December 14 — sala -1

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Beyond their differences, Medellín and Barcelona are cities of comparable sizes, with a long relationship of mutual cooperation and that have been distinguished internationally for having pro-moted an inclusive urban planning strategy that has put many public spaces at the service of social redistribution. Even so, like so many other cities in the world, each still has pending the matter of accommodating all those who need a roof over their heads.

The exhibition Show Home aims to make use of the accumulated knowledge of both cities in the sphere of urban planning and social research, as well as relations of cooperation that they are developing, to explore in a cross-sectional and collective way pro-posals that combine the public and the domestic space with the objective of intensifying the debate regarding the right to housing and the right to a city. To date, none of the different routes of ac-cess to housing, from formal solutions offered by the State and the market, to the expeditious informality of self-building and squatting, have shown themselves to be sufficient to guarantee these rights. However, the hybridisation of these paths and the coordination of the agents that are behind them could generate valuable contributions.

The ultimate aim of Show Home is to draw together a corpus of in-terdisciplinary materials to make possible the execution of a pilot neighbourhood that transfers to a real construction the interven-tion strategies in housing and its immediate environment that the project has generated.

Show Home is a dynamic and participative process that is based on a series of prior research and experiences, that will materialise in the production of the exhibition and the activity at the CCCB in Barcelona, and that will have a third phase with the presentation of the exhibition in Medellín in the year 2015.


— The Right to a City. Series of conferences (see page 51)

Show HomeMedellín & BarcelonaNovember 2014 — April 2015 — sala 2

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Curated by —Guillén Augé, Josep Bohigas, David Bravo, Àlex Giménez and Anna Vergés


Co-produced by— Barcelona City Council, Medellín City Hall and CCCB

With the collaboration of — Fundació Kreanta

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XcèntricThe Cinema of the CCCB

January — June 2014


Produced by —CCCB

Xcèntric is consolidated with its 13th season also as a place for the interpretation of essential film. The 2014 screenings programme will take as its starting point offerings from the exhibition Meta-morphosis, The Fantastic Visions of Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay.

For the inaugural session we will be accompanied by the Swit-zerland-based Catalan author Antoni Pinent, who will offer us a review of his film work and that of other experimental authors from his artistic environment. Pinent has collaborated closely with Xcèntric, as a programmer and as a curator.

Highlights in the programme include the session devoted to the portrait of three singular filmmakers: Margaret Tait, Ute Aurand and Marie Menken, the programme of works unreleased in Spain by Chris Marker and Robert Gardner (anthropologist and pro-ducer of ethnographic documentaries), a programme of scientific films viewed through the prism of avant-garde art, a monographic of Canadian experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett (one of the maximum reference points for appropriation and collage in film) and another dedicated to the young Lois Patiño, whose camera captures the beauty of landscapes with a unique sensitivity.

Next to the team of habitual programmers formed by Gonzalo de Lucas, Celeste Aráujo and Oriol Sánchez, this year we will have as guest programmer Josetxo Cerdán, lecturer at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona and the author of different publications on documentary cinema.

Related activities:

— Xcèntric Archive (see page 82)— Xcèntric Workshop (see page 42)

http://www.cccb.org/xcentric/en/

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Soy CámaraThe CCCB’s TV Programme

One Saturday each month on TVE’s La 2

The broadcast by TVE’s La 2 channel of the programme Soy Cá-mara. El programa del CCCB continues. A monthly programme of thirty minutes’ duration that in the year 2013 was watched by over 800,000 viewers.

Each programme is devoted to reflecting on issues that emerge from the CCCB’s exhibitions and activities, with the intention of showing a different way of seeing and understanding our insti-tution. The programme has a desire for experimentation both in its formal language and its narrative treatment. To produce the programme, use is made of the holdings of the CCCB’s archive in addition to purposely-filmed material.

Issues to be covered in 2014, among others:

— The Art of Provocation — The Nouveau Poor — On Poetic Expression, The Word at the CCCB— Artists and the Visualisation of Data — Cities Under Siege — The Power of Images

Produced by —CCCB and TVE

Off-Programme

January — December 2014


Audiovisual creation is increasingly more alert to current affairs and reacts quickly to events with powerful social and human transcendence. Off-Programme tries to detect, over the course of the year, those works produced that are rooted in the commit-ment and solidarity of their authors, and also tries to add to the screening the presence of authors, experts, or people directly in-volved with the issue at hand.

Following the thread of global tensions and the human factor, this year we will devote the 2014 sessions to fundamental issues that gear our present towards the future, such as "The New Coopera-tivism, What Shall We Do About Old Age?", and "The Overfed Society".

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BCNmp7

13 March, 16 April, 15 May, 2 October and 27 November 2014

The BCNmp7 series of music sessions conceives music as art and, at the same time, experimentation. It is a springboard for enjoying new musical experiences, a communal adventure that aims to link music to the social environment, and for that reason, BCNmp7 is also a space where the values and forms of an era are placed in harmony and in contradiction.

In 2014 it will follow in the wake of the line initiated in 2013 with the consolidation of unique proposals, simplifying the format of the sessions and reinforcing the live music performances to try and make each of the live sessions at the CCCB’s Sala Teatre an exceptional occasion, for the audience and the guest artists alike.

Each session will respond to a “concept” or theme that the pro-grammers consider to be of vital importance; these will provide the foundations of the sessions in the series, before the styles, schools or performers. To enrich the points of view about music, this year each session will be programmed by two groups/pro-grammers. In this sense, a review of the list of programmers in the 2014 edition allows the programme’s vocation to be intuited.

Produced by —CCCB

Programme —Side Walks Bookings, Cuatro Co-cos, Domestica Reccords, Boston Pizza Records, Gent Normal, La Fonoteca, Sones, Aurelio Santos, Nativa-Indigestió and Internet 2

Poetry Slam Barcelona11 January, 8 February, 15 March, 5 April, 10 May, 7 June and second half of 2014


Directed by —Hipnotik Faktory and Red927

Produced by —Hipnotik Faktory, Red927 and CCCB

Poetry Slam Barcelona is a platform for contemporary artistic creation where the word is the essential element.

An educational project that uses Slam and the Spoken Word as a resource for working and fomenting expression and communica-tion skills. A performative and leisure space that revolves around the word. A social network of creators/poets that find in the use of language and specifically in the Poetry Slam a resource for de-velopment of their creativity and the pillar that articulates a space of social relationship and exchange. A project that puts the word and the stage at the centre of creation of a new cultural offering.


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Animac at the CCCBJanuary and second half of 2014

Animac, the International Animated Cinema Festival of Catalonia, returns for another year to the CCCB to present the new features for its 16th event. In the year 2014, the Festival will feature excep-tional guests and a selection of the best animated films from all times and from all around the world.

The Mobile Animac programme is a synthesis of the best works screened at this year's event.

Organised by —Animac (Lleida) and CCCB

Emergència!201415 February 2014

Cuello, Desert and Cold Pumas are just some of the confirmed artists for the sixth Emergència! Festival that, as every year, is pro-grammed by the CCCB. A festival that shows a fragment of the emerging local, national and international music scene and that once again backs seven projects that range from pop to folk pas-sing through dream-pop and rock.

Participating groups:

— Cold Pumas (Brighton) — Cuello (Valencia) — Gente Joven (León) — KÍAR (Girona) — Escarlata (Madrid/ Barcelona) — Desert (Barcelona) — Montgomery (Seville)

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Mecal

7—9 and 14—16 March 2014

Mecal, International Festival of Short Films and Animation of Barcelona, has become a festival of international reference. This year it will be holding its 16th event, once again demonstrating its consolidation as one of the most important events of its type in Spain and unique in Barcelona.

Mecal will be divided into four official competitive sections: In-ternational, Oblique, Animation and Documentary, where the winners will directly compete directly for the pre-selection of nominees for the Goya Prizes, a fact which certifies its prestige, and confirmed by the presence of producers, distributors, direc-tors, filmmakers and media from all over the world, as well as the best film schools.

A festival that screens over 350 short films from over forty coun-tries at cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces – such as the CCCB – combining screenings with special events, a professional market and parallel cultural activities, in addition to 20 non-com-peting sessions devoted to horror, a programme for teenagers, children’s sessions, and an exhibition about the Catalan audiovisual scene, animation, documentaries, lectures and master classes.

Organised by —Mecal

With the collaboration of —CCCB

OVNI

29 February — 2 March 2014

A critique of contemporary society and culture using different strategies: video art, independent documentary, mass media ar-chaeology, etc.

A reading, a particular record of the dreams and nightmares of our times.

A constellation of diverse works whose common denominator is free expression and reflection on individual and collective fears and pleasures; constructing together a vision with numerous facets, thousands of small eyes that look deep into and explore our world, or announce other possible worlds.

A discourse in which the main values are heterogeneity, contra-diction and the subjectivity from which it is produced. In itself a salutary lesson for the cloning and repetition of the corporate mass media.

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CaudorellaElectronic Music Sessions

21 and 22 March 2014

The association Cau d'Orella came into existence in 2010 to de-fend and promote electronic music, artists and labels established in our territory, offering a continual programme of exchange over the course of the year for all those involved such as professionals from the electronic music sphere in any of its formats and mem-bers of the general public interested in this kind of genre.

The Caudorella Electronic Music Sessions from a cultural event that takes place over the course of a week, with evening and night-time activities at different locations around Barcelona. This annual event is fundamental for bringing together in one physical space all the parties involved in the process: artists, professionals and the public. Through the programmed activities the aim is to tighten links and strengthen creative and artistic bonds and pro-fessional relationships and above all provide material for the stage. All these aspects are consolidated over the course of the year through different projects carried out by the association as a platform for the concentration of artists and labels, a tool for profes-sionals, and an information point for the general public.

Organised by —Associació Cau d'Orella

With the collaboration of —CCCB, Hangar, Museu de la Mú-sica, UPF, UB, Moog, Miscelanea, Nitsa, 33/45, Niu, Microfusa, Plastic, Madcenter, Icattrònica, Scannerfm and TwinCam

LapsusFestival4 and 5 April 2014

Lapsus Festival is the annual culmination of the Lapsus project condensed into a week of concerts, performances and exhibitions within the CCCB. The best of audiovisual art and electronic music will join hands to offer a unique experience to the audience in attendance.

The Sala Teatre will host the concerts and audiovisual shows of a more performance-based nature, and will also be the venue for an inaugural concert on the Friday night, with the main core of the festival reserved for Saturday 5 April. The Sala Raval, hub of the exhibition proposal of an interactive nature, is where the audiovisual installations and works that seek the immersion of the spec-tator will be the main focal point of activity. The lobby area and the rest of the building will be subject to intervention by visual artists and proposals of ephemeral architecture, impregnating the building with the Lapsus character, and thus giving continuity to the main two proposals.

Directed and produced by —Lapsus

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Primera Persona(First Person)9,10 and 11 May 2014

Halfway between emotional striptease and no-holds-barred autobiography, Primera Persona is a multidisciplinary festival in which stories are told based on the purest self. Life stories, sometimes more camouflaged, sometimes more literal, but always literary, atypical, tragicomic and anti-epic, prove that anyone can be the hero (or the antihero) of an experience worthy of a novel, film or song.

From hilarious monologue to confessional pop concert, via un-compromising reading or dramatic performance, the second edition of Primera Persona uses this premise to bring together leading names with points in common such as humour or non-transferable biography. All have prepared an exclusive show for a season that places the premium on the exclusive nature of the life and work of each of them. Primera Persona is a festival conceived by journalists, writers and cultural agitators Kiko Amat and Miqui Otero.


Directed by —Miqui Otero and Kiko Amat

D'AInternational Festival of Auteur Films of Barcelona

25 April — 4 May 2014

D’A, International Festival of Auteur Films of Barcelona, presents the best contemporary international film unreleased at our cine-mas. The basic objective is to explore contemporary cinematographic authorship in its broadest sense, tracing the best of the new film creation and combining well-established names with new talents. The inescapable aim of the event is to become a reference point among urban festivals and to give satisfaction to the cinephile audience of the city by presenting films that do not reach the commercial circuits but that find in the festival an ideal place among an audience avid to see independent, risk-taking films. This is combined with a historical view of an auteur of reference in contemporary auteurship and with the presence of works that have distinguished themselves in the international circuit of independent festivals. The spaces that the Festival will occupy for this third event in addition to the CCCB are Aribau Club 1 and 2 and the two halls of the new headquarters of the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

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Barcelona Poetry WeekSecond fortnight of May 2014

The poetic universe impregnates the rest of the arts, forming part of our everyday landscape. Poets are outstanding and keen chroniclers of the reality that surrounds us, and books, the materialisation of their rich voices. Barcelona Poetry Week aspires to open wide the window of poetry for people curious about it, with the hope that it will remain open wide for 365 days per year.

Organised by —ICUB - Ajuntament de Barcelona


DocsBarcelona

26 May — 1 June 2014

The CCCB will host the activities for professionals that are or-ganised by the International Documentary Festival of Barcelona, DocsBarcelona, a meeting point for professionals from around the world. The ideal space for showcasing projects to potential financ- ers and distributors, with participation by professionals from 36 countries. The following activities will be carried out at the Teatre CCCB: Pitching Workshop, Pitching Forum, One to One Meet- ings and Latin Forum. At the Auditori there will be screenings from the section Finisterrae, devoted to documentaries that are situated at the extremes or on the edges of production, that are committed to a frontier language. In the production of all of them lie implicit a formal risk and research.

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CCCB Experimental GrecJuly 2014

CCCB Experimental Grec aims to tempt the spectator with a stage experience that goes beyond the conventional reception of the performance. With the help of social networks, with the organising of complementary events, of actions that help us to situate ourselves within the context of each proposal, with the collaboration of professionals and artists from diverse spheres and in different formations, we want to put theatre into the public space, into the shared space that we sometimes lose due to numerous known causes, from excess of information to undefined information without categories.

A show is an expressive effort, an aesthetic venture that wants to express the world and, while expressing it, understand it. All performance is a form of understanding. At a time when it is so difficult to say anything about the world, at a time in which any discourse is immediately muddied and disarmed, it is necessary to try to fuel our capacity to surprise, to produce discourses that go beyond selfish denial and the promotion of ignorance. It is for all these reasons, and so that we can enjoy the show together, that we are programming CCCB Experimental Grec.

Organised by —Grec

Produced by —Grec and CCCB

R'EstrenaA second chance for the best films

June 2014

This new cinematographic programme aims to give a “second chance” to quality films that have been premiered in our country but have not had the commercial repercussions that they deserve due to the circumstances of the commercial exhibition circuit and films that could only be seen at a festival in the case of Catalan and Spanish cinema. The sessions will be accompanied by presentations, a face-to-face and an online film forum and a digital publications.


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Pròxims

18 July 2014

Pròxims is a decided commitment to the independent music scene that emerged some years ago in Catalonia, encompassing styles that range from folk and rock to pop and where the language, whether Catalan, Spanish or English, becomes another instrument for communication. The closeness of the groups to their audience, as well as the discovery of new musical proposals, becomes the very essence of the festival.

The Pròxims festival makes inroads into the idea of taking mu-sic from close to home, made right here, to different points in Catalonia, thus becoming the first touring festival of indie-pop-folk music.

The first date will be 18 July at the CCCB, and it will be followed by other dates and locations around Catalonia during the months of July and August.

Organised by —Legal Music and Producciones Animadas

With the collaboration of—CCCB

Gandules 2014Gas Natural Fenosa

August 2014

In the lively audiovisual scene of Barcelona, Gandules has become consolidated as something more than a successful summer film season: it has become a platform from which people can explore a concept of open and integrative cinema that mixes genres, lan-guages and eras, and that configures a testing ground for a new vision of cinephilia.

The title for this edition is "Away From Home" and it emerges directly from the concerning increase of forced emigration of our young people, scientists and professionals to foreign countries in search of employment that they cannot find here. The issue of emigration, of the ups and downs experienced by emigrants in an unknown and often hostile country, has been the subject of excel- lent films throughout the course of the history of cinema.

With this edition more than ever before we think that “Gandules is you” and we invite the entire audience to take part in a shorts competition that will be organised following the subject of the programming for this year. The shorts will be shown on our web-site and will be selected through voting by the audience. The nine winning shorts will be screened during the Gandules sessions and the most voted short will receive a prize.


Sponsored by —Gas Natural Fenosa

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Hipnotik Festival

13 September 2014

Over 50,000 people attending, over 1,150 national and international artists, over 260 accredited professionals and over 1,800 parti-cipants in the competitions: the figures speak for themselves. The eleventh edition of Hipnotik, the only hip hop festival in Barcelo-na that is a hit year after year with lovers of urban culture.

Barcelona becomes the capital of hip hop with over 13 hours full of music, competitions, battles, graffiti, break dance, workshops, talks, exhibitions, graphic and audiovisual design within the con-text of the different CCCB scenarios.

Organised by —Hipnotik Faktory


CCCB Screen OnlineOne Month, One Artist

Starting in September 2014

Audiovisual works of video creation, multimedia, net art, those that do not emerge through commissions but through the artist’s own stimulus, are difficult to access by the audience, apart from festivals, exhibitions and some art galleries, there are no other channels for their dissemination. These works bear inherent in themselves the purest and most primitive concept of artistic crea-tion.

This programme aims to create a space and give time so that these signature works can be known, in the same way that we would hang up a painting, we will hang up the screen in the style of a canvas, one month in the window of our website and one week on one of the screens of the CCCB.

One month to be able to contemplate audiovisual works by au-thors with an interest in experimenting and innovating with new formal and thematic languages. Authors who have a firm desire to transgress formats and genres. The CCCB will select the authors and they will select the content to be shown from their work.




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The Influencers

October 2014

The Influencers is a festival devoted to experiments with art, com-munication, politics and popular culture in the digital era and that shows us them through presentations of artists, screenings and public experiments during the three days of the festival.

The Influencers is an anomalous festival dedicated to non-conven-tional forms of art and communication that reveals to us rebel projects, inventions and adventures that occur on a daily basis in the turbulent terrain of the information society, of everyday tech-nologies and the collective imaginaries.

Directed by —Bani Brusadin, Eva Mattes and Franco Mattes

Produced by —The Influencers.org and CCCB

With the collaboration of —Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, ICUB – Ajuntament de Barcelona and Ministry of Culture of the Government of Spain

Barribrossa

October 2014

Barribrossa consolidates its vocation: to re-read the most sig-nificant artistic movements of the 20th century from today’s viewpoint, the links between the avant-gardes and popular cul-ture, and to continue doing so with the complicity of some of the main facilities of Ciutat Vella while maintaining a commitment to the territory.

Organised by —La Seca. Espai Brossa


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Xcèntric Workshop October — November 2014

Since 2008 this theoretical and practical seminar at postgraduate level has been organised to provide insight into concepts related with trial and experimental audiovisual production. The content for 2014 will revolve around animation and its relationship with other artistic disciplines.

Organised by —CCCB and Institut d’Humanitats de Barcelona

ArtFutura

October — November 2014

ArtFutura 2014 returns with a collection of high-impact images, including the latest contributions in 3D animation, Motion Graph- ics, videogames and special effects. The programme will be pre-sented in over 12 cities worldwide that will share the audiovisual programme, catalogue and communication.

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Mira Lab

13, 14 and 15 November 2014

Mira Lab is a space devoted to research in the spheres of the vi-sual arts in real time, an event of an international nature that promotes the exchange of knowledge among all agents involved in the creative industry.

Mira Lab has been integrated into the Mira Festival, a Music & Visual Arts Festival that is holding its fourth event with the aim of involving different areas in the city with a single objective: to transform Barcelona into the capital of the Visual Arts.

Directed by —Oriol Pastor and David Domingo

Organised by —Mira Festival

With the collaboration of —CCCB, Barcelona City Council, Government of Catalonia, ESDI, VjSpain and Institut Français

L'Alternativa

November 2014

L’Alternativa passes the frontier of 20 editions with the same phi-losophy as the first event: contributing to the discovery and re-covery of stimulating, surprising authors and films that dare to flee from the conventional and take the risk of remaining on the fringe of the commercial circuits. It has spent 21 years promoting film with a commitment to cinematographic language, to creative expression and to the viewer. A true challenge.

L'Alternativa has two competitive sections in "L'Alternativa Offi-cials": Feature films and Shorts. Meanwhile "L'Alternativa Paral·le-les" presents tributes, premieres, little-known works of cinemato-graphy and works by new creators. In addition, "L'Alternativa Hall" offers hours of free, rich and diverse programming, in an exceptional environment, which also hosts screenings from Film Schools.

Organised by —L'Alternativa


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Drap-Art'14

18 December 2014 — 5 January 2015


Drap-Art is a showcase of the tendencies in art that use objets trouvés and reject materials as resources. It is a platform for the emerging sector of artists, designers and craftspeople from all over the world who use waste as a raw material; it is a forum for debating theories and urban utopias. Drap-Art is a meeting place for specialists with an audience in search of alternative routes in a world geared towards self-destruction.

The habits of using and disposing, acquired during the 20th cen-tury, have to be redirected towards the awareness that nothing disappears, everything is transformed.

Drap-Art considers it imperative to encourage the new genera-tions 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 proposals, which are the seeds of a more sustainable world.

Organised by —Associació Drap-Art


Miniput

November 2014

Miniput is an exhibition of quality television with the year’s most innovative, provocative, educational programmes with a public service vocation. The programmes that are screened are those most suited to its innovative, committed and experimental pro-posal, because they offer a new television format, because they make use of new technologies, or because they have generated controversy. The programmes will be presented by professionals of television and in some cases will feature the presence of their directors.

Organised by —Comunicació UPF, TV3, TVE, Comunicació UAB, Universitat de Lleida, URV, URLl and CCCB

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Christmas Screenings20 December 2014 — 5 January 2015

A thematic programme of the documentary genre that follows current events.


BrunchBarcelonaone Sunday in January, February, March and April 2014


Brunch Barcelona is a meeting that combines a relaxed Sunday brunch with cultural activities, music and gastronomy geared towards a family audience. It continues at 3 p.m. with music (live and with DJs) with parallel activities aimed at young people.

Sundays are the best days for enjoying one of the most prized meals of the day, brunch. On each Sunday we will offer a va-riation on the British and Mediterranean Brunch, plus a space named “Brunch Culture” where we will invite an association from a specific country to present a typical brunch from their home-land.

In addition, other activities planned (exchanges, second-hand books, screening of films, skateboarding, cookery workshops, music workshops, board games and circus activities) will comple-te the standard programme of a Brunch Barcelona session.

Directed and produced by —Ex-centris

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Viu el Teatre

January — March 2014


The Viu el teatre (Experience Theatre) family programme comes to the CCCB this year to convert Saturday afternoons into a festi-val of emotions to share with all the family!

This season the Sala Kids will be the venue for four multidisci-plinary proposals from interesting companies who, through puppets, dance and music, will transport us through the world of dreams of children aged 3 to 10 years. And the Sala Babies will present two innovative proposals aimed at babies aged 0 to 3 years to initiate the youngest members of the family in the magic of live art.

Organised by —Viu el teatre

Participants —Companyia Teatre Imaginari, Tuta-tis, Pep Gol, Mucab Dans, Centre de Titelles de Lleida, Fes-t’ho com vulguis and Únics Produccions

With the collaboration of — CCCB, TR3SC, La Galera, Sóc Petit, Fundació BCN Comerç, Teatralnet and Tera Afan

FlicFestival of Children’s and Young People’s Literatures and Arts

16, 17 and 19 January 2014

The CCCB will be hosting the 4th edition of the Flic Festival, the literature and creation festival for families, schools and professionals. A programme of literary experiences for all audiences with national and international guests that takes place in Barcelona, Bellver de Cerdanya, Bilbao, Sabadell, Girona, Madrid, Salt and Sarrià de Ter between the months of November and February.

Flic aims to bring reading closer to children and young people through creation and experimentation, backing innovation in literary transmission and promotion, paying special attention to incentivising literary action in unusual spaces, and through any artistic expression, literature and cross-art forms.

In this edition, Flic Barcelona invites you to participate in all of its activities: to enjoy the film sessions, animation workshops and to get to know close-up the paper engineer and illustrator Marion Bataille. Barcelona, furthermore, will host the creation festival for children and adults with a literature and play space, a creation fac-tory, exhibitions, tales and creators which will convert 19 January into the great literature and creation festival.

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Món Llibre

12 and 13 April 2014

Món Llibre (Book World) is the great book festival for children: a very special Sant Jordi full of tales, writers, shows, films, exhi-bitions and magic in an environment of literary scenarios that transport little ones away to the imaginary world of books.

During the entire weekend, children can enjoy a variety of activi-ties at the CCCB, at Plaça de Joan Coromines and at the MACBA, organised with the collaboration of children’s literature publishers from all over the country who offer very tempting proposals and bring hundreds of books to the festival.

Adventure books and thrillers, witches and fairies, stories from around the world, workshops, animations and games. In addition visitors can leaf through, read and, even swap books for others at the exchange market!

Organised by — ICUB - Ajuntament de Barcelona

With the collaboration of — CCCB

Raval Zirkus

July 2014


Raval Zirkus is an Almazen project that came into being with the objective of making the arts known for being a driving force of so-cial cohesions, through social circus. A project that aims to create a meeting point in the Raval neighbourhood for reflection, learning and communal artistic creation in the public space, through contemporary social circus.

Organised by —Almazen

With the collaboration of — CCCB and Ajuntament de Barcelona

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From the city, every day, a new city emerges, the result of the inces-sant movement of its inhabitants, of the juxtaposing of their sto-ries, of the never-ending friction and mixture of life in its streets. In the same way that the street, the “room of the collective”, is the basic cell of the urban form, openness is the condition and essen-ce of the city, the measure of its vitality and its creative force. Inevi-tably, however, this condition brings with it ambiguity, conflict, novelty and risk. For that reason, the tension between closure and openness is constant, and even though the city is by definition so-mething that is unfinished, polymorphous, resistant to determina-tion and control, mechanisms and strategies proliferate for closure, limits and boundaries that aspire to discipline, integrate and redu-ce the genuine heterogeneity of the city. The open city is a tool for thinking: an aspiration, a utopian condition, an ideal horizon. Its matrix, imperfect and incomplete, makes it possible to dream of the city as a space for emancipation, to imagine other ways of living together and evidencing the logic of exclusion, strategies for survival, the inevitable discord that arises from life in common.

Open City will feature the participation of Erri de Luca, Evgeny Mo-rozov, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Marta Segarra, Bruce Bégout, Ra-fael Chirbes ,Richard Sennett and Kamila Shamsie, among others.

Within the context of the commemoration of the 300th anniver-sary of the siege of Barcelona by the Bourbon troops, in the year 1714, the CCCB is proposing a reflection on the most contempo-rary aspects of cities under siege.

The siege as a military strategy is as ancient as the concept itself of settling a town and a city. Even though with the transformations of military strategy and weapons at the start of the 20th century, it was thought that the siege was a worn-out military strategy, it is true to say that the siege has remained in use in contemporary conflicts. Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, Beirut, Gaza, Fallujah and Homs, among others, are cities that have suffered the sad merit of incor-porating into their recent history the experience of the siege.

Today, sieges take place under the world’s gaze. All recent sie-ges have been filmed, photographed, documented and followed by millions of people. Nowadays, a certain paradox arises be-tween the idea of a siege, in which the physical limits of a city are imposed upon its citizens, and the circulation without boundaries or frontiers for information in a globalised world.

Open CityBarcelona Debate27 January — 24 March 2014

The New SiegesIn parallel with the exhibition Cities Under Siege

Autumn 2014


Within the framework of the Eu- rope City project and the support of the European Union’s Culture Programme and of BCN Tricentenary 1714-2014


Within the framework of the Eu-rope City project and the support of the European Union’s Culture Programme and of the Tricentenari BCN 1714-2014

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Spaces for Debate and Reflection — Science and Humanities

The Right to a CityIn parallel with the exhibition Show Home

Autumn 2014


Co-produced by— Barcelona City Council, Medellín City Hall and CCCB

ICREA-CCCB DebatesSpring and Autumn 2014

Catalonia maintains a high level of scientific research, thanks to investigators worldwide who work in different spheres of knowledge such as the life sciences and medicine, the experimental sciences and mathematics, social and behavioural sciences, hu-manities and technology and engineering. It is now a year ago that the CCCB, committed to the dissemination of knowledge, started up a stable collaboration with ICREA to enable the advances in high-level research in Catalonia to reach the general public. After the warm reception of the debates that we focused on biomedicine and energy challenges, in 2014 we will be tackling new subjects of maximum scientific currency and that have a powerful social impact, such as stem cells or the most recent research into the word and the brain.

Beyond their differences, Medellín and Barcelona are cities of comparable sizes, with a long relationship of mutual cooperation and that have been distinguished internationally for having pro-moted an inclusive urban planning strategy that has put many public spaces at the service of social redistribution. Even so, like so many other cities in the world, each still has pending the urgent matter of accommodating all those who need a roof over their heads.

In parallel with the exhibition, the CCCB will offer a series of public debates that, based on the accumulated knowledge of both cities, will explore solutions that combine the public and the do-mestic space with the objective of enforcing the right to housing and the right to a city.

Organised by —ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) and CCCB

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Urban growth seems to be unstoppable. It is estimated that by the year 2050, some 70% of the population will live in urban environ-ments, and, already today, the largest cities in the world – Delhi, Shanghai, Mexico City and Tokyo – have a population in excess of 20 million inhabitants. What is the influence of this urban grow-th process on climate change and, in turn, what consequences does this intense urban life have on our health? The growth of the cities opens up serious question marks regarding the access to ba-sic resources such as food and water, contamination – both due to the toxic gases caused by the concentration of vehicles and the production of urban solid waste – and exposure to electromag-netic radiation, among others. What are the main risks for health caused by this urban environment? How can cities grow yet cause the minimum environmental impacts possible? How can we make the cities a healthier environment? The CCCB is promoting this debate with the collaboration of top-flight researchers in global health and environmental epidemiology from two leading scien-tific centres in Barcelona, with the support of the B·Debate Inter-national Center for Scientific Debate.

The famous quantum physicist David Bohm once stated: “Thought creates the world and then hides and says it didn’t do it”. The world is as we think it, even though at times it seems that its order, its limits, its zones of darkness and of light are independent of our gaze. For that reason it is necessary to defend thinking and reflection, whether it is philosophical, scientific, literary or artis-tic, as the main tool for understanding the reality that surrounds us and gives it form. It is necessary that the great ideas of philo-sophy – ethics, justice, rights and the common good – make their re-entrance into public life. Only thus can we reconsider together the meaning and the purpose of collective life.

Duo is a series of lectures designed for two segments of public, in which each speaker will offer a dual intervention: one addressing an adult audience and the other addressing a younger audien-ce, one at La Pedrera and the other at the CCCB. With this collaboration, the two institutions are uniting forces to ensure that young people are also reached by the voices of outstanding thinkers who incite us to reflect on the world that we live in and the values that we should encourage as a society.

Health and the EnvironmentAutumn 2014

Ideas and the WorldDuo lecture series

March and April 2014

Organised by —B·Debate International Center for Scientific Debate Barcelona, Centre de Recerca en Epidemiolo-gia Ambiental (CREAL), Centre de Recerca en Salut Internacional de Barcelona (CRESIB) and CCCB

Organised by —Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera and CCCB

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The Idea of Europe April and May 2014

Peace and reconciliation between old enemies were the driving force behind European integration over 60 years ago now. Today, we Europeans share democratic principles, laws and sovereign-ties, an idea of the city, and, above all, diversity as a principal cul-tural value. Nevertheless, in the face of the uncertainties of these times of crisis, the disaffection of Europeans towards the integra-tion project is growing and it seems that the ideal of peace is no longer sufficient for the generations who did not live through or have no direct memory of the Second World War. The next Euro-pean elections envisage a scenario of growth of the forces of the extreme right which would fill with gloom the dream of a Europe guided by principles of equality and liberty. Faced with this ho-rizon, the CCCB proposes letting a new generation of European creators have their say so that, together, they can contribute towards defining a new idea for a united and reinforced Europe.

The exhibition Metamorphosis. The Fantastic Visions of Sta-rewitch, Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay, will give us a chance to reflect on the duality of curiosity/knowledge and on the new role of what is marginal in contemporary society. The debates will expand upon the most relevant questions proposed by the exhi-bition.


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Following in the wake of Fernand Braudel and Alain Touraine, the Collège d’Études Mondiales in Paris is a research centre di-rected by Michel Wieviorka which has the fundamental aim of promoting debate on the major intellectual challenges of our time. Democracy, human rights, and the effects of globalisation are the three thematic cores of this centre for debate that, over time, has become a European space of reference. The CCCB will host the annual meeting of this institution which will feature the partici-pation of, among others, Nancy Fraser, René Frydman and Michel Foucher.

Do the traditional concepts of politics such as “citizenship”, “so-vereignty”, “public sphere”, “State”, “democracy” and “revolution”, still serve to understand the world in which we live and act? Do they still, today, continue accounting for the multiplicity of for-ces, structures, problems and orientations that shape collective life? The erosion of the traditional ways of doing politics and the discrediting of the institutions, the changes of scale, speed and perspective of a globalised world, the new relations between the power, the state and the market, or the depth of technological change have expanded and in some cases forced the limits and the possibilities of these categories. It is necessary to rethink and review the political lexicon in the light of these new circumstan-ces to also expand the possibilities for acting, understanding and changing the conditions of our life in common.

Thinking the PresentMeeting of the Collège d’Études Mondiales

8 — 10 May 2014

A New Political LexiconAutumn 2014



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Postgraduate Course on Public SpaceUrban Policies and Citizenship

February 2014 – July 2015

Spaces for Debate and Reflection — In Collaboration

Directed by —Jordi Borja, Itziar González and Joan Subirats

Organised by —Department of City Management and Urban Planning-UOC and IGOP (the UAB’s Institute of Go-vernment and Politics)


Master’s Degree in the Design and Production of Spaces October 2014 — June 2015


Space is not univocal. Each of us has their own concept of space, whether interior or exterior, whether for habitat or to accommo-date an exhibition. It is evident that for each of these processes a different mentality is needed along with specific instruments of reference that serve to think about the empty space and the way in which to fill it. Space is where people carry out their activities, from the most private, such as the place where they live, to the most collective and participatory, such as the space devoted to exhibitions.

The Master’s Degree in the Design and Production of Spaces brings together different professional concerns and is built based on two postgraduate courses. One of these is Design of Interiors, located in the professional sphere of interior design, a discipline of bril- liant tradition in Barcelona and that needs its own references. Sec- ondly, the postgraduate course on The Exhibition Space, which tackles space as a meeting point between humankind and culture, within the framework of creative museography. Taking both the postgraduate courses leads to the Master’s Degree being obtained.

The public space incorporates the main values of the city and also shows up its inequalities. It is an integrating tool for urban planning and at the same time the scenario and space of conflicts. These postgraduate studies aim to offer theoretical and practical training to think about, design and manage urban public space in an integrated way, assuming the complexity of the urban reality and extolling its democratic virtues. The CCCB contributes to the programme its wealth of experience from the European Prize for Urban Public Space and its constant reflection on urban themes.

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The Institut d’Humanitats of Barcelona, founded in 1986, is a pri-vate, non-profitmaking foundation whose objective is reflection on culture with the conviction that debate and discussion around the major humanistic themes will facilitate our comprehension of the world that surrounds us. From philosophy to literature, from history to art, and taking in film and theatre, the Institute aims to take an in-depth approach to the world of humanities and dis-cover its different disciplines through the opinions of important intellectuals and thinkers, while it aims to favour the exchange be-tween diverse cultural spheres, collaborate in their dissemination and help to host the most important manifestations of European culture.

Courses of the Institut d’HumanitatsAll year 2014


Listed among the courses for 2014 are:

— The Great Civilisations of Europe, 2. Rome Series directed by Jordi Llovet

The Institut d’Humanitats presents a series of courses focusing on the cultures and civilizations of our continent that have excelled in notable and diverse aspects: political organisation, religion, literary culture, architecture and the plastic arts, philosophy and the history of science, from classical Greece to Noucentista Catalonia.

With the participation of Carles Múrcia, Adolfo Egea, Noemí Moncunill, Esther Artigas, Carles Buenacasa, Alejandra de Ri-quer, Adolfo Egea, Antoni Conejo, Jordi Cornudella, Jaume Juan and Glòria Torres

— The Self and Others. Archetypes for Representing the WorldSeminar led by Gisela Llobet and Enric Puig Punyent

This course explores different forms of representation – mytho-logical, religious, artistic and cinematographic – to take an in-depth look at the issue of the identity of the self before the social environment.

— Film Criticism Workshop

What is and has been the role of film criticism? How does one go about reviewing a film? Where do the people who work as critics come from and in what conditions do they work? What are the challenges and changes of today’s criticism in the mutating media scene?

With the participation of José Enrique Monterde, Carlos Losilla, Quim Casas, Manu Yáñez, Sergi Sánchez, Àngel Quintana, María Adell, Gerard Casau, Xavi Serra, Desirée De Fez, Imma Merino, Xavier Pérez, Isaki Lacuesta, Covadonga G. Lahera, Carles Mata-moros, Eulàlia Iglesias, Violeta Kovacsics and Joan Pons

— Old Patriotism, Modern Patriotism1714 and the Genesis of Modern Politics

The aim in these courses is to take advantage of the commemo-ration of 1714 to further add to recent debate about the changing significance of politics and institutional frameworks in Euro-pe from the 17th to the 19th centuries when, in short, the Old Europe of a class-based nature and segmented freedoms gave way to a continent of Nation-States and of citizens who fought to gain the same rights and liberty in the singular.

With the participation of Xavier Gil, Xavier Torres, Pablo Fernán-dez Albaladejo, José María Portillo Valdés, Josep Maria Fradera, Dieter Longewiesche and Anthony Pagden. Within the framework of BCN Tricentenary 1714-2014.

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CUIMPB ProgrammeAll year 2014


The mission of the CUIMPB - Centre Ernest Lluch is the management of the permanent centre of the International Menéndez Pelayo University (UIMP) in Barcelona. This university centre coordinates and develops the UIMP’s own activities: a universi-ty centre of a high level of culture, research and specialisation, where activities converge from different university qualifications and specialities, and whose objective is to disseminate culture and science, as well as to promote relations of exchange and scientific and cultural information of international and inter-regional in-terest.

The Consortium Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo de Barcelona - Centre Ernest Lluch comprises the Universidad Inter-nacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), the Diputació de Barcelona, the Ajuntament de Barcelona and the Centre de Cultura Contem-porània de Barcelona.

The programming of the CUIMPB - Centre Ernest Lluch cour-ses is divided into four main areas: Urban Politics; Public Policy and the Welfare State; New Regional Scenarios in the World; and Science, Technology and Society. In total, it includes more than a dozen courses and workshops led by renowned professors, with the participation of prominent personalities in the world of scien-ce, economics, politics, international relations, communication, etc., and with the support of a number of public and private ins-titutions. Also during the summer, the CUIMPB-Centre Ernest Lluch organizes courses in Spanish Language and Catalan Culture aimed at foreign students, mostly Americans.

University students have reduced registration fees for summer and autumn courses and can validate them as elective credits at most public catalan universities . Registration can be formalised online at the CUIMPB-Centre Ernest Lluch’s website: www.cuimpb.cat

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With the collaboration of — Museum of Architecture and Design MAO (Ljubljana), The Archi-tecture Foundation AF (London), Museum of Finnish Architecture MFA (Helsinki), La Cité de l’Archi-tecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM (Frankfurt) and Architektur-zentrum Wien AZ W (Vienna)

Within the framework of the Eu-rope City project with the support of the European Union’s Culture programme

In 2014 the European Prize for Urban Public Space reaches its eighth edition. Since the year 2000, the aim of this biennial and honorary award has been to recognise, foster and disseminate examples of good practices in the treatment of the numerous challenges facing European cities. Subject to exponential processes of growth and transformation, these cities are now seeing how the democratic ideal that for millennia has pursued coexistence in equality within plurality is in jeopardy. Segregation and inequalities, unsustainable urban development and consumption and severe shortfalls when it comes to enforcing the right to housing and the right to a city are problems that are made palpably manifest in their public spaces and it is precisely on that front where they can fight with the best results.

Faithful to this cause, the Prize addresses all kinds of interventions involving the creation, recovery or improvement of the democratic quality in the urban spaces that we share and is awarded jointly to their authors and developers. The works that are presented for this edition must have been executed in European cities between the years 2012 and 2014 and can be registered free of charge, up to 23 January 2014, on the Prize’s website. The terms and required do-cumentation as well as the conditions for participation can also be downloaded from the site.

The Prize’s Jury will meet on 3 and 4 April to assess all the works presented and issue its verdict. It will be presided over by architect Carme Ribas in representation of the CCCB and its other mem-bers will be directors of the other six institutions involved in awarding the Prize: Matevž Čelik (Museum of Architecture and De-sign, Ljubljana), Sarah Ichioka (The Architecture Foundation, Lon-don), Juulia Kauste (Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki), Francis Rambert (La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris), Peter Schmal (Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt) and Dietmar Steiner (Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna). They will be assisted by the secretary appointed by the CCCB, David Bravo, who will record the minutes of the sessions during the process of selecting the works.

The results of this edition will be made public at the Prize awards ceremony which will take place at the CCCB. The event, which will be broadcast via streaming through the Prize’s website (www.publicspace.org), will coincide with the inauguration of an exhibition that will give an account of the winning works and those receiving special mentions. The exhibition will also give rise to a series of activities linked to the spirit of the Prize. Firstly, there will be lectures and debates on urban issues, and secondly, a series of activities linked to the Europe City programme, such as workshops to bring closer the concept of citizens to children and young people and events that will seek significant coincidences between the public space and theatre.

Europe City Project

With 14 years having passed since its inception, the European Prize for Urban Public Space wishes to take a qualitative leap to explore, interpret and assess in depth an accumulated legacy of around 500 experiences featuring over 200 cities. From these, lessons must be extracted, debated among experts and those in-volved and educational material made of them geared towards the new generations. With this wish, four of the seven European institutions that, being linked to architecture or the city, regularly award the Prize, have decided to join forces and place in com-mon their experience in order to give impetus to the Europe City Project. Backed by funding from the European Union’s Culture Programme (2007-2013), the Architecture Foundation of London, the CCCB, the Museum of Architecture and Design of Ljubljana and the Museum of Finnish Architecture of Helsinki will develop over two years, until August 2015, a series of networked activities designed to update, foster and disseminate a European idea of the city.

Among other initiatives, the four institutions will co-produce and host a touring exhibition on the lessons that can be extracted from the Prize, and will organise series of debates and lectures regar-ding the public space as well as developing workshops designed to raise awareness among people so that they become more actively involved in the common task of making the city. Some of these workshops will be aimed at children and teenagers as incipient citizens and others will establish links with the theatre to learn from its skills in interacting with the public. The Prize’s website will also be consolidated to expand and diversify its contents and extend its network of complicities. Ultimately, Europe City is born to fuel the ranks of those who are aware that the city belongs to everyone.

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During 2014 we will continue working and emphasising the con-nection between the contents published and the programming of the Lab and of the CCCB, especially with the following projects:

— Data: We will be giving support to the incubation of the ex-hibition Big Bang Data, publishing posts and interviews on the datification of the world and on the question of the new model of exhibition space that it raises.

— Internet Universe: a project that reflects on the effects that the web has on our lives and that CCCB Lab produces in collabora-tion with CCCB Education and the different cultural centres that form part of the Latin America-Europe Cultural Ring. During 2014 we will be publishing articles, contents and audiovisual re-sources linked to the project.

— Audiences: we will be publishing a series of interviews produ-ced in-house with heads of projects that stand out for their rela-tionship with the new audiences of culture, a central issue of the first edition of the CCCB International Prize for Cultural Innova-tion.

The articles to be published are brand new and their authors are specialists in different subjects. Among others, the following have written on the blog: Agustín Fernández Mallo, Bashkim Shehu, Bernard Stiegler, Breixo Harguindey, Carlos A. Scolari, César Re-yes, Dolors Reig, Ele Carpenter, Felipe G. Gil (Zemos98), Irene Lapuente, Jordi Carrión, Juan Insua, Jussi Parikka, Karma Peiró, Luis Ángel Fernández-Hermana, Mara Balestrini, Oriol Ripoll, Paisaje Transversal, Platoniq, Ramón Sangüesa, Ricard Solé, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Rubén Martínez, Sandra Álvaro, Sergi Jordà, Tamara Vázquez-Shröder, Tomás Díez, Vicente Luis Mora, Yuk Hui and Zzzinc.

http://blogs.cccb.org/lab/

The CCCB International Prize for Cultural Innovation is a new biennial award organised by the CCCB with the aim of stimulating the projects that explore possible cultural scenarios for the coming years by fostering research and praxis. The first edition of the Prize will take place in the year 2014, on the occasion of the 20th anni-versary of the CCCB. It represents another step in the creative his-tory of our institution, characterised from its origins by research into new languages and formats for presenting contents and it expresses our desire for adaptation to the intense transformations of a local and global city context that converts research in culture in a demand.

Each edition of the Prize will propose a theme on which the com-peting projects must work. In this first edition, the theme chosen focuses on the dilemmas around the concept of Audience/s: What can we understand today by audience at cultural centres, museu-ms and similar spaces. What is the meaning of this concept at a time in which frontiers between the physical and the virtual space are diluted, mixed or confused? Has the classic paradigm, according to which the audience followed and at the very most participated in the proposals of centres and museums, been altered? What

would the new models be that are currently applied in this sphere? What are the real needs of these new audiences? Do we, as centres and museums, satisfy those needs? What are the changes neces-sary to tackle the Audience/s challenge in the coming years?

Those who want to compete for the Prize – individuals, groups and collectives of any nationality – must present a project of crea-tion, production or presentation of contents that responds in an innovative way to these questions, whether due to its format, sub-ject or form of management. For this reason, the projects must also have a sound theoretical base and be viable both financially and logistically.

The winning proposal will be selected by an international jury formed by specialists in the proposed sphere and will be awarded a financial sum, with the CCCB reserving the right to execute the project within a one year deadline.

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The 8th edition of the festival will be held in the year 2015 and so 2014 will be a year of preparation: we will be launching a new website that will improve access to the audiovisual archive of all the previous editions and will be producing an activities programme in collaboration with independent publishing companies: Book-camp Activities 2014.

We are proposing a small-format activities programme, such as presentations of books, dialogues with authors or conversations with the heads of independent publishers, digital publishers or linked to K15 themes. There are currently plans for two promi-nent events: - The April session, linked to Sant Jordi, will feature the pre-sence of Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of Leaves, a cult phenomenon recently published for the first time in Spanish (La Casa de Hojas). Danielewski’s visit will be the highlight of a day dedicated to hypertext and to literature that experiments with the possibilities of the Internet. - The K Nights, a proposal for enjoying the evenings and nights of July at the Pati de les Dones with activities of an entertaining nature linked to literature. http://www.cccb.org/kosmopolis/

17 February, 17 March, 21 April, 20 May, 3, 9, 17, 23 and 31 July, 7 October, 4 November and 2 December 2014


With the collaboration of —Alpha Decay and Pálido Fuego

Data Journalism 25 April 2014

CCCB Lab

Data journalism is a discipline that the main international news media have incorporated in recent years. It offers readers visuali-sations and treatments of data to explain the news in a clear and understandable way. It is a subject that allows us to connect and work on the content of the Big Bang Data exhibition and that represents an important sub-theme of Internet Universe: the datification of the world in which we are immersed and that fore- shadows a new phase of the web.

The 1st Data Journalism and Open Data Conferences, held in May 2013 – at the CCCB, at the Blanquerna Communication Faculty and at Medialab Prado – were a success in terms of participation. The interest shown by those attending made manifest the need to continue exploring the world of data. For this reason, the CCCB is hosting monthly work sessions so that journalists, IT specialists and designers can come together to consider new work challen-ges. These are practical meetings, with two objectives: learning and making an in-depth approach to working with data through workshops, and raising awareness of local projects. We will also be repeating the Data Journalism and Open Data Conference.

With prior work sessions —22 January, 19 February, 20 March, 19 November, and 10 December 2014

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Internet Universe Teacher training sessions

5, 7, 12 and 14 February 2014

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Internet Universe is a programme of activities that focuses on re-flecting on how the Internet has changed the world and our lives. These changes have consequences at different levels – cognitive, social, economic, educational, political, environmental, etc. – and they affect a large part of Humanity. The process, due to the very nature of technology, is developing at a dizzying pace, where the only constant is the speed of change. Internet is the product of numerous theoretical and technical advances developed during the second half of the 20th century, but its implementation and mass consequences are a 21st century phenomenon. The impact of the web in this last decade represents a kind of Big Bang of a new Universe whose laws, consequences and boundaries we still do not fully know.

For the majority of people, especially those who were born in the digital society, the Internet has always existed. It has gradually installed itself in their lives with the naturalness with which, in their times, electricity, the steam engine, the telephone, the television or any other technology that has caused substantial changes over the course of History did. However, from the diverse theoretical disciplines, the phenomenon has generated an avalanche of studies, analysis, opinions and prophecies. Scientists, technologists, phi-losophers, educators, artists, economists, etc., all explain their analysis and conclusions from their realities, knowledge and ideologies: they propose maps so that people can guide themselves around this new territory.

Internet Universe is a project whose aim is to offer an overall vi-sion of the nature and consequences of the Internet in our world, which generates intelligible contents and reflects opinions and theories of different kinds in order to offer a complete vision of the phenomenon.

- Series of posts and interviews in the blog: that will gradually configure a theoretical corpus around the Internet phenomenon that will serve as a basis for the training sessions.

- Teacher training session: What does educating mean in the Internet era? The aim is to offer a global view of the phenomenon, an understanding of the new system that is being shaped in order to offer tools to the teachers of children who are digital natives. The programme will be structured around four sessions focusing on understanding the tool and taking awareness that we can also make good use of it and integrate it into the school curriculum.

- Educational briefcase: as a result of the training sessions and the materials worked on the blog, we will propose educational materials for use by teachers.

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Networked ProjectsCCCB Lab

One of the missions of the CCCB Lab is the creation of distributed networks that favour the cooperation and exchange of experiences between different cultural projects. In the year 2014 we will continue strengthening the networks in recent years with the incorporation of Barcelona Lab which, together with the Latin America-Europe Cultural Ring, will enable consolidation of a permanent work platform with Latin America.

Barcelona Lab

This is a space for innovation open to citizens and promoted from Barcelona City Council’s Directorate of Creativity and Innovation, together with other cultural institutions, research centres and city companies. The CCCB Lab is a natural ally of this project that aims to convert Barcelona into an international reference point in the new scenario of cities that generate intelligence, creativity and innovation.

http://barcelonalab.cat

Latin America-Europe Cultural Ring

The Latin America-Europe Cultural Ring is a network of co-creation, collaboration and participation that links Latin Amer- ica and Europe in the field of contemporary cultural action based on the intensive use of information and communication technologies and second-generation Internet. The programme for 2014 will work on the Internet Universe theme at the different head-quarters.

http://anillacultural.net

Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation

In 2008, the CCCB, together with Microsoft, joined the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation IRI, created in 2006 by the Centre Georges Pompidou and directed by philosopher Bernard Stiegler. This is a space for research related with the application of new technologies in the creation, production and formalisation of cul-tural activities. The activities for 2014 will focus on collaboration for the exhibition Big Bang Data, specifically for the Digital Hu-manities section as well as the activities of Internet Universe.

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The objective of the CCCB’s educational proposal is to explore the relations between the activities programmed by the Centre, its archive and the cultural life of the city, placing special emphasis on education centres. This programme offers a range of proposals that make manifest the aim of converting the CCCB into a reference point for all people interested in education.

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Exhibitions

Schoolgoing Audience

At all our exhibitions we offer visits accompanied by an educa-tor and activities adapted especially to the latter years of primary school, secondary school, college and advanced education. These visits incentivise the capacity of each student for observation, per-sonal reflection, and dialogue with the group. The aim is to offer informal education experiences that enrich the work of teaching staff and a successful experience for young people that in many cases are being initiated in the cultural world of the city. All visits end with a proposal for artistic creation where the concepts and images that we have worked during the visit to the halls are put into play.

Resources and documentation for classroom work available on our website: http://www.cccbeducacio.org

General Public

For the general public we offer visits to the exhibitions, with the accompaniment of a guide on Saturdays and Sundays at 11.30 a.m., in Spanish and in Catalan (visit included in the price of ad-mission to the exhibition).

At those exhibitions that allow it, we offer itineraries around the city of Barcelona linked to the exhibition’s contents. This will be the case with the exhibition Metamorphosis. The Fantastic Visions of Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay and with the exhibition Commonwealth of Catalonia. 1914-2014. The Start of Tomorrow.

Exhibitions include a space for inviting all visitors to share what the exhibition has inspired in them, based on a free creative ex-perience.

Espriu I Looked Upon This Land 30 October 2013 – 16 March 2014 (see page 20)

—Metamorphosis The Fantastic Visions of Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay

25 March – 7 September 2014(see page 21)

—Commonwealth of Catalonia 1914-2014 The Start of Tomorrow 8 April - 20 July 2014 (see page 23)

Big Bang Data8 May – 26 October 2014 (see page 24)

—Exhibition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 25 April - 4 June 2014 (see page 88)

—Cities Under Siege 9 September - 9 November 2014 (see page 25)

—Show Home Medellín & Barcelona November 2014 - April 2015 (see page 27)

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A good relationship with teaching staff is an important need for the CCCB, we seek their complicity so that the world of education and the world of culture can meet and enrich each other.

Internet Universe5, 7, 12 and 14 February 2014

We want to reflect on how the Internet has changed the world and our lives. The development and expansion of the Internet and its derived technologies is causing radical changes at a dizzying pace with consequences at all levels: cognitive, social, economic, edu-cational, political, environmental, etc. – that affect a large part of Humanity. The project, generated by the CCCB Lab, is structured into three spheres of content: the effects of the Internet on our bo-dies and our minds, on the social sphere and on a planetary level. Along these lines, a teacher training course will be programmed for teaching staff in the second school term.

CCCB Education — Activities

Cinema in the Classroom: Proposals and Methodologies

CCCB Education collaborates with the educational programme of the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Filmoteca for Schools 2013-2014. Within the framework of this programming, A Bao A Qu / Cine-ma en curs are developing teacher training that offers tools and methodologies for introducing film as art and as creation into the classrooms of primary and secondary education.

CCCB Debates

During the school year, the CCCB programmes debates and con-ferences that may be of interest for educators. For this reason, we offer free admission to teachers presenting their Teacher’s Identity Card. Themes range from sociology and politics to philosophy and sciences, or literature and justice, a very broad spread, with top-flight guests, whom you can find later on the CCCB’s website and in the CCCB Archive.

CCCB Archive

The CCCB offers the educational community the holdings of its digital and multimedia Archive where people can consult a wide-ranging variety of materials on key themes in contemporary culture and society.

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For another year the CCCB presents its programme of urban itineraries, maintaining the principle of dis-covering the city based on its urban and social transformations. We continue with the bicycle itineraries to explore the metropolitan area of the city. And we consolidate the itineraries chapter with Barcelona Reads and Lavínia, the Barcelona of Salvador Espriu.

Literary Itinerary — Barcelona Reads

Barcelona Reads is an itinerary organised jointly by the CCCB and the Library Consortium of Barcelona that tours key aspects of reading through the extraordinary collections and singular premises offered by different institutions in Barcelona, with the presence and explanations of specialists in the different subjects.

Sessions with specialists in each subject and visiting little-known corners of the city:

- Session on The Travelling Text, in the Sala Cervantina of the Library of Catalonia. Led by Núria Altarriba, of the Library of Catalonia.

- Session on The Book and its Revolutions, in the Sala de Reserves, at the Library of the University of Barcelona. Led by Albert Soler, from the Department of Catalan of the University of Barcelona.

- Session on Reading in Society, at the City Historical Archive, led by Montserrat Comas, director of the Museu Víctor Balaguer Library.

- Documentary El Cervell Lector (The Reading Brain) by Arturo Fuentes.

Literary Itinerary— Lavínia. The Barcelona of Salvador Espriu

A tour around the Barcelona of Salvador Espriu, through the prose and the biography of the writer himself, led by Maria Nunes (chair professor of Catalan Literature and Language). This itinerary includes a guided visit to the exhibition Espriu. I Looked Upon This Land.

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Urban Itineraries by Bicycle

These itineraries are offered all year round upon request for groups of the general public.

Approximate distance covered by bicycle: 12 km

These itineraries are offered all year round upon request for school groups, the general public and Apropa Cultura groups (in this case only El Raval, El Poblenou and L’Eixample).

— Raval. Cosmopolitan Territory (on foot)

What was once the emptiest sector of walled Barcelona is today the most densely populated neighbourhood in the city. In this process the Raval has become a cosmopolitan territory, but it has never managed to free itself of the effects of marginalisation. How is it possible to favour a mixture of uses, cultures and classes without excluding anyone?

— El Poblenou. The Productive City (on foot)

The Utopian socialism of Cerdà saw in Poblenou the possibility of a New Icaria, while the 22@ Plan saw in it a testing ground for exploring the knowledge society. De-industrialisation has filled it with abandoned factories and the collective memory of the workers and the cooperatives has charged it with meaning. What must the city live on after de-industrialisation?

— El Carmel and Nou Barris. From the Right to Housing to the Right to a City (on foot)

The need for a roof over people’s heads is more imperative than any urban planning regulation. The fight of the neighbourhoods of El Carmel and Nou Barris to achieve dignified housing is full of lessons for tackling a challenge that is still all-too-pressing today: how can we ensure that the city accommodates everyone?

— The Eixample. The Shape of the City (on foot)

The results of recent research have accurately given us a closer view of the complexity of the original Cerdà plan, but have also helped us to be fully aware of the great flexibility of Cerda’s urban design and its extraordinary capacity to adapt to the changes that the city has experienced over the last 150 years. The Eixample is a vibrant modern district that is geared towards a future that de-mands new actions.

— Rainwater Control Tank at the Joan Miró Park. When It Rains in the City (on foot)

They often pass by unnoticed, but when it rains torrentially, these elements of the drainage network help to avoid flooding and pre-serve the quality of our beaches. We descend to the depths of the city to see how if functions and to discover the constant sociologi-cal and urbanistic transformation of our city and its environment. With the support of CLABSA.

— Besòs. From Frontier to Public Space (by coach)

What was once a frontier between urban peripheries is now a nerve centre that transcends the municipal sphere and is helping to configure a new metropolitan city. Today the Besòs is a privileged space for interconnection within a context in which planning and urban vision on a large scale have become fundamental.

— Llobregat. New Metropolitan Axis (by coach)

The Llobregat continues to be an essential river for the entire terri-tory that it crosses: for the urban fabric surrounding it, for the del-ta generated by it and for the economy in motion around it. A visit to the river – from Sant Joan Despí to its arrival at El Prat – aims to analyse the Llobregat’s role as a fundamental axis in the territorial and economic organisation of this sector of the metropolitan city.

— From Montgat to the Barceloneta A Variety of Seafronts

The stretch from Montgat to the river Besòs is marked by the al-ternation of consolidated urban fronts and industrial sectors si-tuated right along the coastline. Having crossed the Besòs, two ur-banistic operations serve to date the transformation of Barcelona’s urban front: the Forum and the Vila Olímpica. The Barceloneta, the city’s port and fishing district since it was founded in the 18th century, is today adapting to the new challenge presented by the advent of mass leisure and tourism.

— La Sagrera-Sant Andreu-Sant Martí Three Neighbourhoods Undergoing Transformation

The La Sagrera area is the place where the largest urban trans-formation in the city of Barcelona is taking place, with the construction of the great new railway station of Barcelona for the high speed train and the incorporation of a linear park from the bridge on Bac de Roda to the Trinitat interchange. The route leads around the sector first above it and then below it.

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Workshops

The City of Photographers— Photography Workshop at the MACBA and CCCB

Ideas and the World

Duo lecture series (see page 52).

Programme —A Bao A Qu

With the collaboration of —MACBA and CCCB

This workshop proposes a creative and reflexive discovery by pho-tography based on the link between photographic practice and the exploration of the city.

The activity unfolds in three main phases. Firstly, there is a visit to the halls of the MACBA and photographs from the permanent collection are analysed based on the reflection about the way in which photographers construct their views of the city. Next, and inspired by these references, the photographic exploration per se begins of both architectural spaces of the MACBA and the CCCB and their nearby surroundings through a practice that brings into play some of the essential choices in photography (framing, colour and composition). Finally, the participants choose and order the images, thus giving form to their photographic projects. The workshop, therefore, is proposed as an exploration of the pho-tographic heritage and of the expressive selections of photography, and an investigation into the city as a public space through pho-tographic creation.

The photographs produced are published on the website www.fotografiaencurs.org, thus creating a photographic archive and visual cartography of the city.

Picto-Writing Programme in Ciutat Vella— Creative Writing Workshops

Organised by —VoxPrima

With the collaboration of —Ciutat Vella District, CCCB and the Consorci de Biblioteques

A team of writers, narrators and illustrators run workshops that incorporate illustration as a fundamental element in narrative and they facilitate the creative explosion in a group setting. Because we know that educating creativity means creating the habit of creating, writers, narrators, and illustrators travel to the schools so that children can experience for themselves the process of crea-tion of a book.

This VoxPrima proposal is inspired by projects that have been born in recent years in the English-speaking world geared towards involving the world of literature and publishing in education, such as 826 Valencia in the USA, First Story and The Ministry of Stories in the UK and Fighting Words in Ireland.

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Xcèntric Archive. Teen Menu — Experimental Film Workshop


We work on experimental film based on a representative selection from the Xcèntric Archive collection, formed by over 700 experi-mental film and creative documentary works. These are personal, original and free visions, generally produced with a dearth of fi-nancial resources, that we hope will inspire you to make your own films.

Total duration: 40 min.

Room 1418 Space— Programme and space for young people at the MACBA and the CCCB

Organised by —MACBA and CCCB

Proposal for young people aged 14 to 18 years.

The creation of an activity space, outside of the exhibition halls of the two institutions, as a meeting point for young people that they can consider their own and where they can learn, relate and create freely every Saturday is considered an ideal platform.

The programme aims to do outreach work with young people from the metropolitan area and will develop a special bond with the Raval. The MACBA and the CCCB are working together with the idea that the project can be launched in 2014.

Culturenauts – Summer at the CCCB

25 June — 1 August (by the week)

Times —from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Weekly proposals with the main core being: “the discovery of a cultural centre: the CCCB, and of its activities”. Work will be done on animation on the basis of workshops based on the exhibition Metamorphosis and what new technologies mean through work-shops in the exhibition Big Bang Data, as well as other activities such as the itineraries around the Raval, the photography work-shop, the viewing of XCèntric films, etc.

Children will discover what it is like inside and what goes on at a cultural centre and how much fun the discovery of creativity and art can be through life experiences designed especially for them.

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The CCCB offers its activities (where permitting) to people with some kind of disability or specific condition of a social nature, and it works with the Raval neighbourhood, being an active agent in the social and cultural cohesion of its inhabitants.

Alzheimer Programme

The Raval Neighbourhood

A cultural programme aimed at people affected by Alzheimer’s Disease, their families and their car-ers. It offers commented visits to the exhibitions at the CCCB building and a special programme of films. This programme is an opportunity to: stimu-late the emotional memory, establish connections between personal experiences and the world as a whole, evoke distant memories, participate in an activity that promotes personal development, and share ideas and interests with the other parti-cipants in the group.

This year the CCCB is organising a meeting of centres and museums from all around Spain that offer similar proposals for this group. The meeting is intended to foster, share and exchange expe-riences and it will serve to improve the CCCB’s own Alzheimer Programme.

The CCCB offers visits to its exhibitions to the nei-ghbours in the district (on certain dates) and to nei-ghbourhood schools and organisations, free of char-ge and whenever they desire, forming part of the networking, coordintion and communication between the different agents working in the area.

This year we are running the project Sponsor Your Facility with the aim of the neighbourhood schools making one of the cultural facilities in the city their own. The CCCB is participating through two pro-jects: the talks programme for secondary schools and the picto-writing programme at primary schools.

The CCCB will be hosting part of the programme of the festival Ravals which will reveal some of the many facets of cultural life in the neighbourhood, promoting links between organisations and people, through the creation of joint cultural actions.

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Against Social RiskApropa Cultura

CCCB Grants Programme

Open All Areas

The CCCB provides support for all those organi-sations working with people facing social risk due to health, financial, and immigration conditions and with interns in prison centres; it also opens the doors of its exhibitions free of charge and offers commented visits.

The CCCB enters to form part of the Apropa Cul-tura programme, the social education programme of the main cultural facilities aimed at the users of these centres and social services that work with people at risk of social exclusion.

http://www.apropacultura.cat/

Every year the CCCB offers collaboration grants together with the programming and communica-tion departments, and it subscribes to agreements for stays, under a work experience scheme, for secondary and advanced education centres, pro-minent among which is the agreement with the Casal dels Infants del Raval, linked to the building maintenance area.

In 2014, the CCCB will be expanding the pro-gramme with the creation of a grant for the online activation of contents from the CCCB Archive.

The Open All Areas project is a European programme for the exchange of experiences, metho-dologies and knowledge between European cultu-ral entities with the aim of working on cultural inclu-sion and achieving access to culture for everyone, with the improvement in quality of ongoing learning. On 14 and 15 November 2013 a session was organised in which projects being implemented in our city were presented, with the aim of debating these cases with technical experts that attended from all over Europe.

During the year 2014 a repository of experiences of Catalan cultural organisations that are working on specific issues for social inclusion will be pro-duced, so that in the month of July we will have a broader and clearer vision of what is being done

and be able to enhance the exchange of experien-ces and between professionals.

And, also during this year, Catalan professionals from the organisations in the articketBCN group will be attending the sessions for the presentation of cases by partners in different European cities: Belfast in February, Rome in April, Brussels in May and Rotterdam in June, to be able to broaden knowledge and methodologies towards the social inclusion of adults in culture.

Social Programme

Organised by —Audiences Europe Network

articketBCN group —Museu Nacional d’Art de Cata-lunya, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Fundació Joan Miró, Fundació Antoni Tàpies and CCCB

With the collaboration of —Rotterdam Festivals, ECCOM, Danish Center for Arts&Interculture, Demos, Audiences Norway, Audiences Nor-thern Ireland and CCCB-articketBCN, with a Grundtvig grant from the European Union

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The CCCB Archive is a digital and multimedia collection that con-tains all the CCCB’s baggage and offers the public access to a broad variety of materials on key issues in contemporary culture and so-ciety, from the very first exhibitions to the most recent debates and festivals.

Currently, by visiting the CCCB Archive over 10,000 multimedia references can be consulted (recordings of lectures; performances, recitals and concerts; audiovisuals created in house; photographs; in-formation on activities and authors, curators and speakers that take part), which represent 100% of the CCCB’s historical holdings, with all materials being generated by its programming also incorporated.

In addition to its promotional aim, the Archive also has the voca-tion of being the space for the synthesis of the CCCB’s history, and an area of reception, reading and relaxation for all of its visitors.

Public Space is the CCCB’s dedicated website on the city and the public space. Structured around the European Prize for Urban Pu-blic Space, it offers information on the projects presented for the Prize, texts by leading authors and news on debates, exhibitions and festivals with an urban theme. Currently, the website contains details of around 500 interventions in the public space featuring over 250 cities. Thanks to the Europe City Project, backed by funds from the European Union’s Culture Programme (2007-2013), the project aims to make a qualitative leap to start exploring, inter-preting and evaluating in depth the whole of this legacy that has accumulated over nearly 14 years. Thus, the Prize’s website aims to expand its contents, extend its network of complicities and beco-me consolidated as one of the reference websites in urban themes.

CCCB ArchiveOrganised by —CCCB

Sponsored by —Fundació Banc de Sabadell

Public Spacehttp://www.publicspace.org

This year the Archive becomes part of the exhibition Metamor-phosis and will serve as a space for viewing the films that we will find quoted with fragments in the exhibition.

In the second half of the year educational activities will be carried out such as workshops and special presentations of new incorpo-rations. A new feature will be commented visits made-to-measure for groups, Friends of the CCCB, groups of artists, film schools, university and postgraduate classes. Together with the CCCB’s Education Service, we will prepare menus or itineraries suggested by the Archive’s contents and other educational materials specifi-cally aimed at a teenage audience. And through the Drac Màgic group, this year for the first time, there will be visits to the archive for schoolchildren.

Until the summer of 2014, at the XCèntric Archive, visitors will be able to see a selection of the most interesting pieces from El ví-deo del minut (The One-Minute Video), an open project from the International Exhibition of Women’s Film of Barcelona and from Trama, coordinator of women’s film festivals in Spain, in which participants make films lasting one minute in duration and in a sequential plan. Programming is the responsibility of filmmaker Virginia García del Pino and researcher and teacher Elena Oroz.

Xcèntric ArchiveOrganised by —CCCB

Archives in Collaboration

OVNI. Observatory Archives http://www.desorg.org

The Archives of the OVNI – Unidentified Video Observatory have an intentional and thematic nature: to facilitate criticism of contemporary culture using different strategies: video art, independent documentary, mass media archaeology, etc. The Archives contain an entire constella-tion of diverse works; their common denominator is free expression and reflection on individual and collective fears and pleasures; and it builds overall a vision of numerous facets, thousands of small eyes, that make inroads into and explore our world, or announce other possible worlds. It is a discourse where the main values are heterogeneity, contradiction and the subjectivity from which it is produced. In itself a salutary lesson for the cloning and repetition of the corporate mass media.

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

Sonoscop is the long-term collaboration project between the Or-questra del Caos and the CCCB. Its aim is the creation of a multi-media archive of experimental music and sound art that is accessi-ble to the public, whether through the latter’s physical presence, or through other electronic forms of presence such as via the Inter-net. The total number of sound works in the archive now exceeds a thousand, and in addition, it includes catalogues, hand programmes, printed publications, audiovisual material and CD-ROMs.

Organised by —CCCBWithin the framework of the Europe City Project

Sponsored by —Copcisa and Abertis

With the collaboration of —Museum of Architecture and Design MAO (Ljubljana), The Archi-tecture Foundation AF (London), Museum of Finnish Architecture MFA (Helsinki), La Cité de l’Archi-tecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM (Frankfurt) and Architektur-zentrum Wien AZ W (Vienna)

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Catalogues

— Metamorphosis Fantastic Visions of Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay

Presentation and journey through the work and references of filmmakers Ladislas Starewitch, Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay, to trace the lines of intersection and convergence between their imaginaries. Although these are three very personal univer-ses of great richness and multiple nuances, they often share an at-mosphere or reference points or sinister, surreal, humorous poe-tics in which the fairy tale coexists with the cabinet of curiosities, Renaissance science, magical illusions and a certain intellectual, aesthetic and literary legacy originating from the Eastern Europe of the early 20th century.

× Edition in Catalan and English / Edition in Spanish and English 194 pages, 200 images in b/w and colour17 x 24 cmPublished by — CCCB, La Casa Encendida and Direcció de Comunica-ció de la Diputació de Barcelona

— Big Bang Data

A broad consensus currently exists between the academic and scientific sectors, the administrations, enterprise and culture, that the analysis and interpretation, with the technologies we are developing, of the large quantities of data that we generate, are playing a crucial role in our daily life and may also radically change society. But are data really the new oil? A potentially infinite source of ri-ches? A tool for constructing a more transparent and participative democracy? Or may they also be the ammunition for loading the weapons of mass surveillance?

× Daily newspaper of the exhibition in the original language Catalan, Spanish, English

4 issues, 4 pages 29 x 40.5 cm Published by — CCCB and Direcció de Comunicació de la Diputació de Barcelona

— Show Home Medellín & Barcelona

Research into the relationship between housing and the public space based on the specific experience of two cities: Medellín and Barcelona. Two questions, the home and the street, that should be treated jointly to be able to achieve an equitable and sustainable balance between the individual and the collective, between what is public and what is private.

× Bilingual edition in Catalan and Spanish 176 pages, 150 images in b/w and colour17 x 24 cmPublished by — CCCB and Direcció de Comunicació de la Diputació de Barcelona

CCCB Holdings

Dixit Collection

The result of collaboration between the CCCB and the Argenti-nian publisher Katz Editores, Dixit publishes, in Spanish, a se-lection of lectures previously published in the Breus collection. With Dixit, the CCCB makes available to an audience in the rest of Spain and in Latin America the best lectures delivered at the CCCB.

The collection, launched in the year 2008, features texts by Roger Bartra, Jürgen Habermas, Michael Walzer, Daryush Shaye-gan, John Gray, Zygmunt Bauman, K. A. Appiah, Dipesh Chakra-barty, Jean and John Comaroff, Teresa Caldeira, Jordi Llovet, Harvie Ferguson, Ismail Kadaré, Judith Butler, Tzvetan Todorov, Marta Nussbaum, Richard Sennett, Rüdiger Safranski, etc.

Next planned publications: — Eva Illouz, El futuro del alma— Saskia Sassen, Nuevas geopolíticas— Avishai Margalit, Pactos envenenados— Cristina Lafont, La religión en la esfera pública

× Edition in Spanish

From 40 to 90 pages approx.11 x 12 cmPublished by — CCCB and Katz Editores

Breus CCCB

The CCCB’s Breus printed collection contains, in brief format and in the original version accompanied by a translation into Catalan or Spanish, some of the most significant lectures given at the CCCB within the con-text of its debates, seminars, lectures, conferences and symposiums.

In 2014, the Breus collection will be opening up to a new format, the digital, which will expand the reading experience of the prin-ted book. In Breus digitals we will be recovering some of the texts already published in the collection and at the same time we will offer the ePub version of the latest titles published.

The printed collection, launched in 2006 and now with 65 titles published, features, among others, texts by: Jürgen Habermas, Mi-chael Walzer, Pascal Bruckner, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jorge Semprún, Ash Amin, Judith Butler, Eric Hobsbawm, Tzvetan Todorov, Axel Honneth, Claudio Magris, Orhan Pamuk, Richard Sennett, Gior-gio Agamben, Marta C. Nussbaum, Zygmunt Bauman, Juan Ga-briel Vásquez, Eva Illouz, Josep M. Ruiz Simon, Lluis Duch, Saskia Sassen, Herta Müller, Xavier Antich, Marina Garcés, Peter Burke, Cristina Lafont, Ramon Andrés, etc

In 2014 it is planned to publish, among others, volumes by the following authors: Nadeem Aslam, Salvador Cardús, Daniel Den-nett, Dacia Maraini, Perejaume and Abraham Yehoshua.

× Original language with translation into Catalan

From 40 to 90 pages approx.12,5 x 17 cmPublished by — CCCB

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In Buenos Aires

19 December 2013 —16 February 2014Centro Cultural Recoleta

A decade on from his death, and inspired by Bolaño’s well-known devotion to Argentinian literature (he was a voracious reader of Arlt, but also of Macedonio Fernández, Borges and Cortázar), the City of Buenos Aires wanted to be the first to pay him tribute by hosting the Bolaño Archive (1977-2003) exhibition at the Centre Cultural Recoleta.

In Madrid

2 October 2014 — February 2015Casa del Lector

After Buenos Aires, the Casa del Lector in Madrid, a new cultural centre that makes readers and reading its main protagonists, will be the next venue to host the exhibition.

In Rome

15 April — 20 June 2014Pallazzo delle Esposizione

After achieving a notable impact in the press and on the audience at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris (where in one month they achieved close to 20,000 visits), the exhibition will be presented in Rome. In no other place could showing the exhibition acquire so much meaning as here, within view of people who inhabit every day the city to which it is dedicated.

In Berlin

15 September 2014 — 6 January 2015Martin Gropius Bau

The German capital will host the exhibition straight after its presentation in Rome.

For Pasolini, Rome was not just a stage set or a simple place of residence. Rome had a physical, carnal and passionate existence for the man as much as for the writer, the poet, the filmmaker. His encounter with Rome was, for the author, like a great love story, with its disappointments, its be-trayals and its mixed feelings of passion and hate, phases of attraction and phases of rejection, of distancing and return.

This is an eminently collective project conceived from the very beginning to be a touring exhibition. At each of its presentations, the project aims to strengthen its networking vocation in a dual di-rection: due to the attraction held in working each and every one of the centres (with their power and speciality) and due to the exchange of experience and knowledge on the legacy and influence that Pier Paolo Pasolini has exercised over contempo-rary European culture.

Pasolini Roma Curated by —Gianni Borgna, Alain Bergala and Jordi Balló

Co-produced by —CCCB, Cinémathèque Française (Paris), Palazzo delle Esposizione (Rome) and Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin)

With the support of the European Commission’s Culture Programme

Bolaño Archive 1977- 2003

Bolaño Archive is the result of the collaboration between the CCCB and Bolaño’s widow, Caroli-na López. What the exhibition establishes beyond its thematic focus, its innovative museographic elements and other aspects, is the presentation of unpublished material from the archives of Ro-berto Bolaño. Novels, short stories, poems, diver-se texts and notebooks, correspondence, family photographs, magazines and fanzines, his per-sonal library, a plethora of interviews, board and strategy games, and other valuable materials that provide a greater understanding of the creative universe of Bolaño, and help to produce a more free and prolific interpretation of his work.

Curated by —Juan Insua and Valérie Miles

Production —CCCB

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In Paris

16 April — 30 July 2014 Centre Georges Pompidou

Film is confirmed today as a central element of visual culture. Sin-ce it was opened, the Centre Georges Pompidou placed it at the central core of its programming. After having screened it, exhi-bited it, shown its process of creation, it proposes a new series of manifestations conceived on the basis of the exhibition The Com-plete Letters which was presented by the CCCB in 2012.

In this singular touring exhibition that takes the name of Cineas-tes en correspondence the Centre Georges Pompidou invites as guests the duos of filmmakers that made the filmed letters sepa-rately: at the end of 2012 they programmed Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerin; in 2013 the Centre hosted the proposal by Albert Se-rra and Lisandro Alonso; and from April 2014 Jaime Rosales and Wang Bing will present their filmed correspondence formed by three shorts, a retrospective of their films, the pre-premiere of Les Trois soeurs du Yunnan (San Zimei), an unreleased film by Wang Bing, a video installation by the Chinese director, and a meeting between both film directors.

Istanbul and Berlin

Also beginning in 2014 is the collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes for the season to be presented at other branches of the institution such as Istanbul and Berlin.

The Complete Letters was presented between 2012 and 2013 at the CCCB (Barcelona), at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (Mexico City), at La Casa Encendida (Madrid), at Las Ciga-rreras Cultura Contemporánea (Alicante), Cinema-theque Seoul Art Cinema / K. A. C. T. (Seoul) and at the Sala Lugones, Teatro San Martín (Buenos Aires).

The Complete Letters Curated by —Jordi Balló

Co-produced by —Casa Encendida (Madrid), Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (Mexico), Acción Cultural Española (ACE) and CCCB

A Madrid

2 October 2014 — 11 January 2015 La Casa Encendida, of the Fundación Especial Caja Madrid

This exhibition presents the work of four essential figures in anima-ted film – little known by the general public, but that have been and continue to be enormously influential and reference points in different spheres of contemporary creation – Ladislas Starewitch (1882-1965), Jan Švankmajer (1934) and the classification-defying Quay Brothers (1947); it has been co-produced with La Casa En-cendida.

La Casa Encendida is an institution that the CCCB has worked with for nearly ten years, presenting in that time four exhibitions and other experimental activities where the film of resistance against conventions takes on a very specific weight.

MetamorphosisThe Fantastic Visions of Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay

Curated by —Carolina López Caballero

Co-produced by —CCCB and La Casa Encendida, of the Fundación Especial Caja Madrid.

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Beyond the CCCB − In Favour of the Public Space

Exhibition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012

The exhibition of the European Prize for Urban Pu-blic Space 2012, which presents the winning and runner-up projects from the seventh edition of the Prize, continues with its international journey. After being shown at the Centro de Desarrollo Cultural de Moravia (Medellín), the Centre Méridional de l’Architecture et de la Ville (Toulouse), the Museo de Bogotá, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoi-ne (Paris), the Archipel Centre De Culture Urbaine (Lyon), the Centro de Formación de la Coopera-ción Española (Cartagena de Indias), the Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera (Prague) and the Museum of Architecture and Design (Ljubljana), the exhibition will culminate the cycle with runs at the Orpheus Arcade in Athens (January-February 2014), organi-sed by the Onassis Foundation, at the Universidad San Francisco in Quito (23 January - 7 February de 2014) and at the Fondation de l’Architecture et de l’Ingénierie in Luxembourg (1 April - 11 May 2014).

Exhibition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2014

The new edition of the Prize will also be accompa-nied by the touring exhibition which will highlight the best projects from the 2014 Prize and will be presented at the CCCB (24 April – 6 June 2014), coinciding with the Prize awards event. Immed- iately following this, it will commence its journey around Europe, starting its route at The Architec-ture Foundation in London, one of the co-orga-nisers of the Prize, between June and July 2014, and following that it will visit the Estonian Museum of Architecture in Tallinn.

In AthensOnassis Foundation

In QuitoUniversidad San Francisco

In LuxembourgFondation de l'Architecture et de l'Ingénierie

In LondonThe Architecture Foundation

In TallinnEstonian Museum of Architecture

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PolisSeven Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space

After being presented in different cities around La-tin America, the exhibition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space will land for the first time in the United States. The Center for Architec- ture Foundation will host a retrospective of the 35 winning works over the course of the first seven editions of the Prize. Far beyond limiting itself to giving an account of the results of the competition, this exhibition will place emphasis on the lessons that can be learned from them. For this reason, the works exhibited will be grouped under seven head- ings that have emerged in an empirical fashion: Periphery, Complexity, Voids, Water, Mobility, Me-mory and Democracy. All of these confirm the so-cial and political dimension that impregnates the city and that is so well reflected in the Greek term polis, which will also be the name of the exhibition.

In New York

27 March — July 2014Center for Architecture Foundation, American Institute of Architects, New York

Beyond the CCCB − In Favour of the Public Space

Published by —CCCB

Design —www.postdata.cat

Printing —Ediciones Gráficas Rey, S.L.

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