Annual report 2007

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Exhibitions 3

Bamako 05 6

That’s not entertainment! 7

Hammershøi and Dreyer 8

Borders 9 Apartheid 10

In Transition 11

Exhibitions in collaboration 7

Somalia: Surviving oblivion 12

World Press Photo 12

Cultural activities 13

Cycles and festivals 14

Festivals in collaboration 20

Other activities 26

Urban itineraries 28

Debate and reﬂ ection 29

New humanism 30

The city and public space 36

Ongoing reﬂ ection 39

Debate and reﬂ exion in collaboration 40

Open CCCB 42

Projects on the net 43

Exhibitions. Beyond the CCCB 44

Debates. Beyond the CCCB 49

Networks 50

CCCB Holdings 51

Archive 52 Publications 55

Audiovisual productions 57

GENERAL INFORMATION 58

CCCB staff list 59

Collaborating Institutions and Companies 60

Visitor ﬁ gures 61

Budget 63 List of Speakers in Debates and Lectures 64

Venue hire 66

SELECTION OF PRESS CLIPPINGS 68

INDEX

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Edition

CCCB

Graphic Design

Postdata disseny i comunicació

Printer

Centre d’Impressió i Reprograﬁ a - Diputació de Barcelona

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EXHIBITIONS

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EXHIBITIONS

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

In keeping with the spirit and structure of the Rencontres, the CCCB selection was wideranging and included: work by the photographers who won the major awards, Rana El Nemr (Egypt), Uchechukwu James Iroha (Nigeria),

Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa) and Zohra Bensemra

(Algeria); the most interesting projects from the main section of the biennale, under the theme Another World; monographs on the work of John Mauluka (Zimbawe),

Malick Sidibé (Mali) and Ranjith Kally (South Africa); work by nine photographers from Algeria in the national section; and, ﬁ nally, in the Transversals section for plastic artists who also work with photography, the work of Jane Alexander (South Africa) and Pascal Marthine Tayou

(Cameroon).

The CCCB exhibition was organised into the following sections:

International exhibition: Another World

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

Tribute

John Mauluka (Zimbawe, 1932-2003)

Coup de chapeau

Malick Sidibé (Mali)

Remembering

Ranjith Kally (South Africa)

National exhibition:Algeria

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

Transversals

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

BAMAKO’05. ANOTHER WORLD

AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY MEETINGS

Dates October 5, 2006 – February 28, 2007

Venue gallery 3, CCCB

Curator Pep Subirós

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

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

With the sponsorship of Fundació Caixa Catalunya and Consorci Zona Franca

Exhibition design Bracha Berkovitch, Elisabet Cristià and Alejandro Quintillá

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

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EXHIBITIONS

7 A whole series of ﬁ lm-related activities were organised to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RELATED EVENTS

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

Xcentric Nights

THAT’S NOT ENTERNTAINMENT!

CINEMA BEGETS CINEMA

Dates December 21, 2006 – March 18, 2007

Venue gallery 1, CCCB

Curators Andrés Hispano and Antoni Pinent

Production CCCB

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

Exhibition design Bracha Berkovitch, Elisabet Cristià and Alejandro Quintillá

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

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

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

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

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

RELATED EVENTS

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

Hammershøi - Dreyer Variations. Children’s workshop.

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

Dates January 25 - May 1

Venue Gallery 2, CCCB

Curators Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Annette Rosenvold Hvidt,

Casper Tybjerg and Jordi Balló

Production CCCB and Ordrupgaard Museum (Denmark)

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

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

Graphic design Lali Almonacid (image and catalogue)

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Dates May 3 - September 30

Curators Michel Foucher and Henri Dorion

Production Musée de Lyon (Departement du Rhône) and CCCB

Exhibition design Massip-Bosch, Natàlia Valldeperas and Megan

Charnley

Graphic design Postdata

BORDERS

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

European borders and the issue of their limits

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

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

Land disputes: Kashmir, a contentious region

A frontier being formed: Israel and Palestine

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

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

Permeable and non-permeable borders: refugees in exile

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

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

The exhibition included two installations produced by the CCCB:

An installation created as a result of the series of talks entitled Fronteres (Debate de Barcelona VII), which took place at the CCCB from January 12 to the March 29, 2004, with original work and artistic direction by Frederic Amat. The installation OceanMalecónDrive, created by Enric Massip and Ángel Morúa, which juxtaposed the seafronts of Malecón in Havana and Ocean Drive in Miami Beach which are separated by just 200 km of water _opposite one another to create a “border street”.

RELATED EVENTS

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

BCNmp7 - Border Music, Screening of the documentary

Crossing the Bridge: the Sound of Istanbul (Fatih Akin,

2005), Round table with the musician Alexander Hacke and the music journalist and writer Charlie Gillett, and Concert with Ceza. May, 17.

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

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APARTHEID

Dates September 26, 2007 – February 3, 2008

Curator Pep Subirós

Production CCCB and Bancaja

Exhibition design Anna Alcubierre

With the sponsorship of El País

Graphic design Avantgardebcn (image and interior) and

Manuel Cuyás with David Lorente (catalogue)

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

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

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

to show how these issues have found and continue to fi nd their correlation in the fi eld of artistic creation, and how this fi eld has infl uenced, and could continue to infl uence, the struggle against these prejudices and practices, and to provoke refl ection and debate about old and new forms of racism operating in the western world, an issue that will doubtless have a growing importance as socio-cultural diversity increases in this region due to the increase in immigration.

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

RELATED EVENTS

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

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11 This exhibition did not set out to be a chronological,

narrative description of a historical period but rather a way of understanding a dense, complex process that acted as a bridge between dictatorship and democracy and which affected, and developed through, the people who experien-ced it.

In line with this, the exhibition focused on the general public, establishing a history of the experiences of a gene-ration. The result was a multidirectional narrative linking personal and collective stories, of both success and failure. Visitors experienced the exhibition in the present. It was not a retrospective look at the Transition. The exhibition aimed to convey the feeling of movement and personal experience, without reference to time.

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

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

Dates November 20, 2007 - February 24, 2008

Curators Manel Risques, Ricard Vinyes and Antoni Marí

Consultants Kiko Amat, Jordi Calafell and Santos Julià

Exhibition design Emiliana Design Studio

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

Production CCCB, Departament d’Interior, Relacions

Institucionals i Participació de la Generalitat de Catalunya (D.G.de la Memòria

Democràtica), the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC),linked to the Ministerio de Cultura, and the Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX), which will take care of the international touring of the project

With the sponsorship of El Periódico de Catalunya

IN TRANSITION

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EXPOSICIONS IN COLLABORATION WITH

SOMALIA

SURVIVING OBLIVION

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

Somalia, based on photographs by

Pep Bonet, is the starting point for a series of activities, culminating in the debate Geography of forgotten crises, organised by the CCCB. Words and images will be used to highlight the crises that are overlooked today, sug-gesting the reasons and the agencies

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

RELATED EVENTS

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

Dates April 10 – May 1

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

WORLD PRESS PHOTO

INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM EXHIBITION

An image by photographer Spencer Platt (USA, Getty Images) was the winner of the World Press Photo competition, and represented the World Press Foundation, exhibition and competition throughout 2007. The choice of the image Young Leba-nese drive through devastated

neigh-borhood of South Beirut, 15 August

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

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

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

Dates October 16 – November 11

Production Photographic Social Vision with the collaboration of

the CCCB

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CULTURAL

ACTIVITIES

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

The Xcèntric programme offers recent and archival works with shared afﬁ nities, counter-cultural classics, and new productions aimed at an audience that is hungry for creative, unfettered audio-visual initiatives. Núria Aidelman, Gonzalo de Lucas, Núria Esquerra, Laida Lertxundi, Antoni Pienet and Andrés Hispano make up the team of programmers, directed by Carolina López.

The 2007 programme continued its now-familiar sections: Rewritten

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

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

Running in parallel with the exhibi-tion That’s not entertainment! Cinema

begets cinema that was held at the

CCCB until March 18, 2007, the Xpe-rimenta conference set out to become a regular meeting point that brought together experts from all over the world –academics, theorists, ﬁ lm-makers, programmers, distributors, documentary-makers and others- to debate the current state of experi-mental cinema. Over three days, the conference will sound out the

genera-tional, technological and epistemolo-gical changes that have taken place in the world of avant-garde ﬁ lmmaking in recent decades and encourage discussion of innumerable questions that don’t always have answers. Participants: Craig Baldwin, Peter Tscherkassky, Peter Kubelka, Paul Arthur, Martin Arnold, Dominic Angerame, Mark Webber, John G. Hanhardt, Emmanuel Lefrant, Nicole Brenez and Pip Chodorov.

Dates February 19-21

Organised by CCCB

Directed by Miguel Fernández Labayen and Antoni Pinent

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

Organised by CCCB

XCÈNTRIC

THE CCCB’S CINEMA

XPERIMENTA’07

CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CYCLES AND FESTIVALS

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15 The world today is crisscrossed by

over 226,000 kilometres of land bor-ders. The exhibition “Borders” looks at geopolitical issues, with the pre-sentation of 10 examples of borders The exhibition is designed as a journey through different worlds, a movement that brings together history and geopolitics, the views of photographers and eye-witnesses, sounds and maps, general refl ections and fi eld studies. We know how to get in... What will we have discovered by the end of our trip, when we pass the fi nal landmark

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

present, it sets out to teach us something more about them The visits to the ten borders were guided by the following specialists:

México- USA, by Teddy Cruz

The Borders of Europe, by Mónica Zgustova

North Korea, by Marine Buissonière

Exiles, by Mariano Aguirre

Gypsies scattered throughout Europe, by Manel Zabala

Melilla, by Rafael Vilasanjuan

Miami – Havana, by Richard Schweid

Israel-Palestine, by Isabel Galí

Africa, by Alfonso Armada

Kashmir, by Kenny Gluck

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

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

BORDERS

GUIDED VISITS BY SPECIALISTS

I+C+i

RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE

Dates February 7, March 9, April 26,

May 31, September 20, October 17

Organised by CCCB

Dates June 7 to September 20

Organised by CCCB

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BCNmp7

MUSICS IN PROCESS

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

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

The following sessions were held in 2007: The revivers

(concert by Bert Jansch), Music from the borders (concert by Ceza), The hit of the Summer (several groups in concert),

Cover versions, copies and tributes (Exclusive presentation of

the documentary of the same title and concert by Nouve-lle Vague), Soundtracks. New music for ﬁ lming (concert by Carlos Casas, Sebastián Escofet, Miquel Marín and Ciu-dadano) and The music of the future (concert by Jaume L. Pantaleón, David Mengual, Oriol Roca and Sergi Sirvent). Dates April 13, May 17, July 20, September 21, October 19 and

November 8

Organised by CCCB with the collaboration of Imprevist and Pocket

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

December 1

Organised by CCCB In the framework of Barcelona Science 2007

NOW

MEETINGS IN THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS

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Once again, the CCCB presented the Off-program series, which provides a space for audiovisual works that res-pond quickly to events of social and human importance, as a result of the author’s social committment. The CCCB will continue to identify and follow these works throughout the year, and present them with the inmediacy inherent to them.

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

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

PANTALLA CCCB

ONE MONTH, ONE ARTIST

Organised by CCCB

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

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

OFF-PROGRAM

PERMANENT UNPLANNED AUDIOVISUAL PROGRAMMING

Organised by CCCB

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19 Gandules’07 was a cartographic journey in which cinema

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

Under the title “Travelling. Travel, Discovery and Emtions at

24fps”, the month-long program offered a double journey:

physical movement and emotional movement. Escapes and return journeys that showed us that to move is always a moving experience. Some of the journeys were more explicitly and covered long tracts; others were an in-depth exploration of a borderland or showed us how we also travel when we try to reach the other.

Over the month, the ﬁ lms were grouped into thematic blocks: Rediscovering the Territory, The Search for the Other,

In Transit, Off the Map, and Escapes. In this way, each

session made up a specifi c journey, while the overall program marked out a broader journey that began with Oskar Fischinger’s 1927 documentary, fi lmed between Munich and Berlin, and ended with the premiere of a fi lm by Benoit Jacquot À tout de suite (2004), that covered France, Spain, Morocco and Greece.

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

GANDULES

TRAVELLING. TRAVEL, DISCOVERY AND EMOTIONS AT 24FPS

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

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The BAFF is considered to be the best festival in Europe specialising in Asian Cinema, and it is the only one is Spain. The 2007 festival closed after ten days during which viewers attended the different festival venues, where 60 feature fi lms and 11 short fi lm programs were screened. The BAFF’07 jury awarded the Golden Durian to the fi lm Summer Palace by Lou Ye (China), pointing out the way in which Lou Ye tells a love story set against a political bac-kdrop with excellent interpretations. This recognition was also a gesture of solidarity with the director, who was unable to release the fi lm in his own

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

Two special mentions: the Chi-nese ﬁ lm The Exam and Strawberry

Shortcakes, from Japan. The audience

award went to the Chinese ﬁ lm

Get-ting Home, closely followed by A Dirty

Carnival.

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

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

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

hosted the performances Slow Down

by Martine Pisani, Freeze/Défreeze

by *Melk Prod./Marco Berrettini, Dueto by Idoia Zabaleta and Filipa Francisco, the screening of Death Is Certain by Eva Meyer-Keller,

Experiencias con un desconocido

by Sònia Gómez, the collective Nits

salvatges and a round table with Isabel

de Naverán, Jaime Conde-Salazar and Paula Caspão.

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

Dates From April 27 to May 5 Organised by 100.000 retinas

BAFF

9TH BARCELONA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

Dates From March 9 to 14 Organised by La Porta

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CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FESTIVALS IN COLLABORATION

LP’07 BODY, MOVEMENT AND ACTION

DANCE FESTIVAL...OR NOT

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OFFF

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR THE POST-DIGITAL CREATION

CULTURE

Dates May 10, 11 and 12

Organised by OFFF

As its slogan “Re:fresh” made clear, the seventh OFFF festival champio-ned simplicity as a tool for reconside-ring basic concepts. A leitmotiv that mobilised the loyal fans of an event that had once again sold out all tic-kets for the three daily sessions at the CCCB by the time it opened its doors. The CCCB hall, renamed the ROOTS space, witness a parade of over 80 design and digital artists, including John Maeda, Neville Brody, James Victore, Zachary Lieberman, Alva Noto, Raster Noton, Frank Brets-chneider, Olaf Bender and Stefan Sagmeister, together with groups like the Wooster Collective, Grafﬁ ti Research Lab, Universal Everything

and Stamen.

But OFFF isn’t only about conferen-ces and presentations. Showplace exhibited the most outstanding work coming out of Spain, Openroom and

Cinexin were reserved for new artists

and the Pati de les Dones was once again transformed into the social hub and meeting point for the festival. Without forgetting the two works-hops with Erik Natzke and ISO50 Scott Hansen.

XIV FESTIVAL DE FLAMENCO DE CIUTAT VELLA

Dates from May 22 to 26 Organised by Taller de Músics, CCCB and

Ajuntament de Barcelona Districte Ciutat Vella

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

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

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

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SONAR’07

INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED MUSIC AND MULTIMEDIA ART

FESTIVAL, BARCELONA

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

In total, 275 works were presented by 421 artists from all disciplines. This 14th Sónar festival included big names that need no introduction as well as many projects that, precisely because they are not as well known, also managed to surprise and capture the attention of audiences and the media. The program included headli-ners the Beastie Boys and Devo. The 2007 program was full of surprises and special performances. The exhibition Et Voilà, held at the CCCB, was one of the most popular

with audiences and the media alike. This project involved recovering the idea of conjuring through the link between magic and technology. Emphasising its international nature, the Sónar 2007 program included many artists from all over the world. The presence of China and, of course, Japan, stood out among the dozens of countries invited along with local and Spanish projects.

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

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

ICUB

DIES DE DANSA

INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL IN URBAN LANDSCAPES

Dates from June 28 to July 1

Organised by Marató de l’espectacle

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

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

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INN MOTION

4TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Dates from July 4 to 7

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

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

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

EL PAÍS HIPNOTIK

HIP HOP UP IN ARMS

Dates September 15 and 16

Organised by Hipnotik

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

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

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DOCÚPOLIS

BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

Dates October 3 to 6

Organised by Tercer Ojo

Bruno Ulmer’s documentary

Welcome Home was named winner of

the 7th Docúpolis festival, following a selection from more than 600 competitors from around the world. The jury also awarded a special men-tion to the South African ﬁ lm The

Mother’s House.

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

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

L’ALTERNATIVA

14TH BARCELONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Dates November 16 to 24

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

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

Another positive note was the increase in the number of direc-tors present, which allowed visidirec-tors to converse with ﬁ lmmakers in a unique opportunity for exchange. Directors specially worth mentioning due to the relevance of their work include Peter Brook, Don Askarian, Paul Bush and Eugenio Polgovsky. The program was rounded off by round table discussions, cinema con-cert, presentations and workshops.

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BAC! 2007

Dates November - December

Organised by La Santa

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

The eighth BAC!, under the title Bac

Babylon, focused on the concept of

the contemporary city, inviting artists working in different disciplines to recreate and offer a critical vision of the phenomenon. Through their participation, they contributed to building a more active and commit-ted cultural awareness.

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

DRAP ART 2007

INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE RECYCLING FESTIVAL

Dates December 14, 15 and 16

Organised by Drap Art Associació

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

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

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

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READING WILL MAKE US GO FAR

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

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

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

The idea that the Week of Books would target professionals on one hand, and lovers and readers of children’s books – especially children themselves - resounding success. Lectures, readings and presentations, together with a diverse program of children’s activities (with workshops, ﬁ lms and theatre) rounded off the program.

Dates January 26 - February 4

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

Mitjans de Comunicació

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

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

BOOK WORLD

Dates April 21 and 22

Organised by ICUB

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

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

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

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TRÀFIC 07

Dates October 21 to 28

Organised by Centre de Fotografía Documental de Barcelona

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

others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BARCELONA, CITY, CITIES

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

El Raval. First Port of Call

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

Views of La Ribera

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

The Golden Square

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

Poblenou@22

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

Besòs. A Second Opportunity

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

Llobregat. Last Chance

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

When it Rains in the City...

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

The Garraf Dump. Solution or Problem?

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

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

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AND

REFLECTION

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Dates Mondays from February 12 to March 26

Production CCCB and Fundació Collserola

With the collaboration of El País

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

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

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

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

MEANING

QUESTIONS ON LIFE IN TIMES OF HYPERCONSUMPTION

DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM

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

INVISIBLES

Date March 5

Organised by CCCB and MSF (Doctors Without Borders)

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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK

RETORNO DE FILIP LATINOVITZ

Date March 7

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

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

DREYER AFTER HAMMERSHØI

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

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

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

Screenings and presentations:

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

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POPULISMS

Dates 16 and 17 of April

Directed by Bashkim Shehu, CCCB advisor on Eastern Europe

Production CCCB and Casa del Libro in Tirana, Albania

With the collaboration of Tusquets Editores and El País

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

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

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

CHECHNYA, THE SILENCED CONFLICT

TRIBUTE TO ANNA POLITKÒVSKAIA

Date Tuesday March 20

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

Speakers: Andrei Babitski, Mairbek Vatxagàiev and Jonathan Littell

Moderator: Carmen Claudín DEBATE AND REFLECTION NEW HUMANISM

Production CCCB

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

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SOMALIA

THE WEST AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HOPE

Date April 12

Production CCCB and MSF (Doctors Without Borders)

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

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

Presenters: Kenny Gluck and Alfonso Armada.

LOCAL RACISM, GLOBAL APARTHEID

SOUTH AFRICA AS A PARADIGM

Dates September 27 and 28

Directed by Pep Subirós

To mark the opening of the exhi-bition Apartheid: The South

Afri-can Mirror, the CCCB organised a

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

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

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

Organised by CCCB and Bancaja

With the collaboration of El País

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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK LA CONSCIÈNCIA

MORAL DE RÚSSIA BY ANNA POLITKÒVSKAIA

Date October 1

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

As part of the event organised as a tribute to the assassinated Russian journalist Anna Plitkòvskaia, La

cons-ciencia moral de Rusia, a book

publis-hed by Atesta that compiles ten of her articles on the Chechnyan conﬂ ict will be presented. Journalist Llibert Ferri, ex-correspondent for TV3 in Eastern Europe and Russia, and Oleg Panﬁ lov, director of the Moscow Centre of Journalism in Extreme Situations, looked at freedoms in Russia, the status of journalists, the repression that civil society is subjec-ted to and political opposition to the Kremlin.

PRESENTATION OF NAOMI KLEIN’S

THE SHOCK DOCTRINE

Date October 26

Organised by CCCB, Editorial Paidós and Editorial Empúries

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

Speaker: Naomi Klein

Presenter: Antoni Doménech

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ELÍAS CANETTI, CROSSROADS OF CULTURES

Date October 30

Directed and organised by CCCB and Círculo de Lectores

Leading specialist on the writer Elías Canetti discussed his literary output (the recently published Sketches and

Crowds and Power, 50 years on), as

well as the various elements that come together and colour his body of work: nations, cosmopolitanism, extraterritoriality...

Participants: Jordi Llovet, Marisa Siguán and Ignacio Echevarría.

THINKING EUROPE

Dates November 12 and 26, and December 3

Directed by Judit Carrera and Lisa Appignanesi

Production CCCB

With the collaboration of El País and Editorial Crítica

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Date February 20

Directed by Francesc Muñoz, lecturer in Geography, UAB

Production CCCB

BARCELONA’S NEW CITY WALLS

DEBAT AND REFLECTION CITIES AND PUBLIC SPACE

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