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Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT /introduction-to-contemporary-art-course-2013 For primary school educators This course offers a framework for interpreting some of the main artistic expressions of the second half of the twentieth century, in order provide an overview of contemporary art and dismantle the myth that it is "cry… Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT /first-conference-of-secondary-and-high-school Detailed information will be soon available. Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT /5-expressart-conference As in previous years, the 5th Expressart Conference will be held at the start of the school year. The purpose of this conference is to bring together professionals from all educational levels. As such, the programme of the conference includes a c… Sat, 19 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT /portable-museum-expressart-course The course is aimed at teachers of nursery school, primary school and first- and second-year secondary students The purpose of this course is to pool efforts in order to explore all the possibilities that can arise from Expressart, a project that… Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT /invent-your-city Photographers, architects and artists have imagined, portrayed and built cities taking account of the constant transformations of the cityscape. Do you dare to build a new image of Barcelona? Invent your city is a workshop that offers the challeng… Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT /video-macba-2013 For secondary education and high school students This project showcases a series of videographic works from the MACBA Collection that allow us to analyze how images in motion – cinema, television, video games, Internet, etc. – influence our percep… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:00:00 GMT /the-secrets-of-conservation-and-restoration-2013-14 What is the task of curator-restorers? What does preventive conservation entail? What are the conservation and restoration criteria for contemporary art? In this tour, an educator and a curator-restorer engage with participants in a dialogue around s… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 06:00:00 GMT /city-photographers This workshop offers a creative, thought-provoking introduction to photography that combines the analysis of photographs with practical creative photography. The activity takes place in two main stages. Firstly, participants work with photographs… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 05:05:00 GMT /hybridisations-art-architecture-2013-2014 Museums, as an expression of contemporary architecture, have become powerful visual symbols in the urban fabric of today’s cities. MACBA, which was originally built as part of the city’s urban renewal for the Olympic Games and which reconfigured the… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 05:00:00 GMT /performative-tours-for-young-2013-14 Program for secondary education and high school students Our performative tours of MACBA and its exhibitions are the key through which we introduce contemporary art to students and answer the questions that they come up with in a participatory, co… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 02:05:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-2013-2014 The Expressart project is based on a series of didactic exercises that can be carried out in the classroom with the help of a set of materials (three-dimensional objects, images and texts) that come in a box (available through Educational Services an… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 01:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-2013 The Expressart project is based on a series of didactic exercises that can be carried out in the classroom with the help of a set of materials (three-dimensional objects, images and texts) that come in a box (available through Educational Services an… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-2013-14 The Expressart project is based on a series of didactic exercises that can be carried out in the classroom with the help of a set of materials (three-dimensional objects, images and texts) that come in a box (available through Educational Services an… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT /contemporary-art-level-one For secondary school educators Contemporary Art. Level zero is an introductory course that explores some of the basic notions around contemporary practices and then applies them as a way of offering an open, flexible approach to new artistic langu… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT /city-photographers-highschool This workshop offers a creative, thought-provoking introduction to photography that combines the analysis of photographs with practical creative photography. The project is explained in the Secondary Education section. Photographic Spaces is a… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-elementary For early childhood and primary education students These visits are lead by an educator and hope to stimulate children to interact directly with the works on display and bring them closer to the different artistic forms by presenting a critical an… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT /facilities-resources Ongoing advisory service for teachers The MACBA educational programmes team offers an advisory service throughout the academic year. You can address questions and comments on the use or implementation of these projects to educacio@macba.cat or by… Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT /itineraries-macba One of MACBA’s main roles is to devise, create and order content from which new narratives can eventually emerge. Through the Itineraries, users and the Museum can propose paths that cut across all the content on the website. The Itineraries are c… Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /hybridasations-2013 To look at and walk through a museum building is an experience in itself, separate from contemplating the artworks on display. With a view to deepening the dialogue between content and container, the tour Hybridisations. Art and Architecture explores… Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /ca-tarragona-centre-d-art-publications The CA Tarragona publishes its annual report for 2012, and Centro José Guerrero explores the project TRANSDUCTORES: Pedagogías en red y prácticas instituyentes. Two new publications that reflect on the connections between cultural institutions and th… Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /semefo-1990-1999-presentation AUTHORS José Luis Barrios: Lives and works in Mexico City. After obtaining a bachelor's and master's degree in philosophy, he specialised in the study of aesthetics and art theory. Currently writing his doctoral thesis in Art History at UNAM, under… Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /daniela-ortiz-talks-about-eulalia-grau A guided tour of the exhibition Eulalia Grau. I Have Never Painted Golden Angels with the artist Daniela Ortiz (Cuzco, Peru, 1985). The visit offers a reading of the work of Eulàlia Grau that questions the capitalist, patriarchal and colonial systems… Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /open-conversation-about-holy-food … Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /corpo-insurrecto-3-0 La Pocha Nostra, considered the most influential Latin American performance group of the past ten years, presents as a part of Experience MACBA Corpo Insurrecto 3.0, a new production with classical and modern actions based upon bodily transformations… Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /debates-edu-henry-levin MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /reading-a-collection-2013-2014 … Sat, 01 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT /hemisferi-dret -… Sat, 01 Jun 2013 03:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-2013-2014 Program for secondary education and high school students Visits geared towards Jr High and High school students hope to make the works of art significant and intelligible, breaking with the preconceived idea that Museum visits are simply boring co… Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:00:00 GMT /activity-what-is-macba Every weekend, the MACBA offers an ongoing program targeted at families, which combines tours of the exhibition galleries with workshops and film screenings. The Museum opens up to families with the intention of offering a space in which to learn tog… Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /schhhh Mireia c. Saladrigues presents a new intervention with students of the Institut Quatre Cantons exploring the limits of the Museum. This proposal is the result of a year-long investigation about MACBA as a museum institution. The project has also r… Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /audiopantalla-macba-disco-rave Audioscreen MACBA brings together three projects presenting new relations between image and sound. In the current technological and cultural context, they recover the experimental tradition around multisensory creation. On this occasion the programme… Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT /reading-group-new-approximations Music is an alteration of time. Musical experiences are determined by two converging temporal axes: listening and remembering, present and past. In this reading group we will start with a text, an audition and a discussion with an artist, and look at… Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-las-muertes-chiquitas ‘Orgasms, like the land, belong to those who work on them.’ This is the phrase that runs through several of the voices involved in Las muertes chiquitas (Small Deaths). This is part of a project in which Mireia Sallarès recalls moments of her four-ye… Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /lawrence-weiner-escrit-en-el-vent Lawrence Weiner (Bronx, USA, 1942) is one of the most influential artists in contemporary art practice, a sculptor of words who uses drawing, film or video to interact in a more personal way with the world around him. WRITTEN ON THE WIND, the exhibit… Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /grup-lectura-art-language This reading group offers the opportunity to delve into the identity of one of the most radical artistic groups of the sixties and seventies. For many, Art & Language is synonymous with difficulty (often mythologised) and inscrutability. But if Art &… Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /day-night-museums-2013 On 18 May two special occasions on the cultural calendar will take place: International Museum Day and the Night of the Museums. For this reason, MACBA will stay open from 10 am until 1 am with a varied programme of activities for publics of all ages… Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /experience-macba-salonnieres From 9 pm, the artistic group Les Salonnières will intervene in the Museum space under the umbrella of the activities of Experience MACBA. By interacting with the public, Les Salonnières create uninhibited scenes that question the environment through… Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-art-language The Philippe Méaille Collection of Art & Language works comprehends the most variegated categories of art: writing notes, typescripts, documents, essays, photostats, periodicals, publications of all sorts, books, drawings and paintings, and last but… Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-collaboration-with-screen-festival Once again MACBA participates in the activities of Screen Festival. In this edition the Museum presents two video-essays recently acquired for the Collection: The Radiant, by The Otolith Group, included in the last Documenta; and The Anabasis of May… Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-paint-with-the-imagination The aim of this new workshop is to bring you closer to drawing and painting through the creative travelling spirit of the artist Lawrence Weiner. We will explore our creativity without any rules or limits, letting our imagination fly and following a… Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /experience-macba-bodies-white The programme Experience MACBA invites you to discover the Museum and contemporary art in a different and surprising way. Every Saturday until 21 h. you can experience a different type of Museum visit with special activities such as dance, music, cin… Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-personal-diaries-tantagora People often go through life constructing a story (fictitious or real, who knows?) that will help give sense to their existence and register the passage of time. Sometimes this is manifested in the form of a diary. A diarist is someone who strives to… Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-international-poetry-festival-barcelona Starting with a Poetry Competition on 8 May and ending with the International Festival on 14 May, Barcelona celebrates Poetry Week. Offering about thirty activities, the programme includes recitals, meetings, concerts and lectures with performers and… Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activitat-barcelona-creative-commons-festival BccN Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival will hold its fourth edition from 9–12 May at MACBA Auditorium. This is the first festival in the world under a Creative Commons licence. More flexible than traditional licences, these allow authors to pu… Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /edu-debates-john-macbeath MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /percussion-concert-esmuc MACBA presents a second concert organised in collaboration with the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). Taking part, besides ESMUC’s Percussion group, is the quartet of improvisation GAO. The programme includes works by Jean-Luc Fafchamps… Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-rua 'The act of representing (and hence reducing) others, almost always involves violence of some sort to the subject of the representation.' The Shadow of the West, Edward Said The former catalytic and symbolic role that the metropolis played in t… Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-three-sided-match Selection by Alberto Sánchez Balmisa Esse est percipi Reflections of the self in MACBA's video collection Esse est percipi is a selection of video works from the collection of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) that reflect on the… Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-voz-files Once again on a Saturday, MACBA proposes a different approximation and invites an artist to experiment with the potentialities of the Museum. Jaume Ferrete articulates his artistic practice around the uses, functions and accidents of the voice, and a… Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-close-your-eyes When artists use sound as creative material, museum rooms are filled with music and become a space where the experience of art is transformed. Works by Pere Portabella, Hélio Oiticica and Miralda will be the starting point in an itinerary accompanied… Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-critical-cartography-of-art The seminar, whose programme includes two days of interventions, will be held at the Aula Magna of the UB (Universitat de Barcelona) and at MACBA's Auditorium. The speakers include Oliver Grau, Jonathan P. Harris, Angela Dimitraki and T.J. Demos, amo… Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-save-as-publications ferranElOtro and Irene Minovas are the founders and directors of the editorial project Save As… Publications. They have been invited to talk about their professional experience and to share their vision of their editorial practice. The culture of art… Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-longoni-estrategies Lecture held by Ana Longoni as part of Open PEI The creative strategies of the human rights movement during the last dictatorships in Argentina (1976–83) and in Chile (1973–90) may be recognised and contrasted by two great matrixes of visual repre… Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-archive-of-emotional-gestures In the context of the programme Experience MACBA and the weekend Món llibre (Book World), MACBA will be screening the work by José Antonio Portillo, winner of the 11th Premi de Projectes d'Arts Escèniques Lleida 2010. Portillo, a multifaceted artist,… Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /mon-llibre-2013 Món Llibre (Book World) is an annual literature festival for children up to 12, organised by the ICUB. Taking place just before St George's Day (The Day of the Book in Catalonia), it is a very special festival full of stories, writers, shows, cinema,… Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guide-tour-eulalia-grau-josep-ma-marti Josep M. Martí Font, journalist and cultural activist, suggests a personal tour of the exhibition Eulalia Grau. I have never painted golden angels. Between 1975 and 1977, Martí Font was the director of the Galeria G, where artists like Warhol, Mir… Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /course-art-complex Specialists invited to participate in this course must have a didactic commitment to impart basic lessons that will bring us nearer to what will be called the art complex from now on. The exhibitions of the MACBA Collection are designed as an open te… Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-hybridisations To look at and walk through a museum building is an experience in itself, separate from contemplating the artworks on display. With a view to deepening the dialogue between content and container, the tour Hybridisations. Art and Architecture explores… Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-new-artistic-ingredients "I take elements from the world around me, remove them from their ordinary contexts, and put them back together according to some other order. Through the new and unusual relationships that arise, through contrast, similarity or inference, I re-exami… Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-gesture-drawing-language The protagonist of this new activity is the artist Lawrence Weiner for whom language is sculpture’s main tool. Surrounded by drawings, words, plans and letters, in the manner of a collage, we will discover a series of gestures that are like paths con… Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /screening-of-the-documentary-fons-esther-ferrer The advantage of working in a contemporary art museum is that you get to deal directly with the artists. The conversations that occur become a firsthand document that brings us closer to the works from a perspective other than that of the curators or… Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /cinema-crisis-documentation Cinema programme This programme includes four films associated with the different types of militancy during the 1970s. The critique of the institutions and the forms of collective production marked a cinema where producers and recipients were ofte… Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /performance-sonia-gomez Experience MACBA In this new activity Experience MACBA, dancer and performer Sònia Gómez will lead visitors on a silent ‘guided tour’ by means of her singular interventions in the Museum space. A simple, straightforward expression of the relation… Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /screening-of-the-documentary-fons-benet-rossell The advantage of working in a contemporary art museum is that you get to deal directly with the artists. The conversations that occur become a firsthand document that brings us closer to the works from a perspective other than that of the curators or… Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /edu-debates-richard-gerver MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /reading-group-from-the-barrio-chino-to-the-raval In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the history of the Raval – formerly known as the Barrio Chino or the Fifth District – is the history of a great many people who have lived, shared or simply passed through this area during that period. It… Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guide-tour-what-does-macba-sound-like The musician Llibert Fortuny explores with his saxophone the acoustic possibilities of Richard Meier's building, in collaboration and in conversation with the architect Isabel Bachs. Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-all-in-front-of-a-puppet-show Eulàlia Grau's work makes for uncomfortable reading for the society around it, being a form of political intervention on the context and ideological framework that supports it: one that exposes both the tricks and contradictions. Coinciding with the… Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guide-tour-eulalia-grau-teresa-grandas Guided tour to Eulàlia Grau. I Have Never Painted Golden Angels by Teresa Grandas, curator of this exhibition, and the artist Eulàlia Grau. (Exclusive to the Friends of MACBA)… Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-eulalia-grau The curator Teresa Grandas offers a guided tour, open to al visitors, of the exhibition Eulalia Grau. I Have Never Painted Golden Angels. An opportunity to discover some of the subjects that interest the artist and are reflected in the exhibition… Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /porosities-cascando Cascando is a radio piece for music and voice, in which three characters bring listeners up against the basic mechanisms of radio. One of them is the Opener (L'Oeuverer), who directs the action from a mixing desk in a neutral studio space; another is… Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-let-us-invent-too Let us invent too is the title of a work by Eulàlia Grau, an artist who qualifies her work as 'portraits' of reality. Using photographs taken from the media, this workshop proposes to experiment with some of the techniques and formats used by the art… Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /presentation-for-teachers-ahlam-shibli-and-eulalia-grau As part of the ongoing programme of teacher training, MACBA invites you to discover the new temporary exhibitions of Ahlam Shibli and Eulàlia Grau, two proposals tracing an uncomfortable parallel with the present. In the case of Ahlam Shibli (Pal… Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-opencurating This event is part of Latitudes' ongoing #OpenCurating research, which explores the implications of Web 2.0 and the expectations of participation and transparency in regard to contemporary art production and programming. The core of #OpenCurating is… Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /literary-zoetrope-roser-ros The writer Roser Ros offers an original tour of works from the MACBA Collection on Level 0 of the Museum, in which participants will be invited to take part in stimulating rotary games involving the artworks and literary fragments. A new approach to… Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-african-postcolonial-imaginaries INFORMATION ON THE FILMS AND THEIR DIRECTORS Spectres (2011) by Sven Augustijnen. Vvideo, colour, 16:9, French spokensoundtrack, BE, 2011, 104' Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo,… Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /ask-a-curator-eulalia-grau The second session of this new programme in which MACBA sets up informal conversations between MACBA or independent curators and the general public. On this occasion, the conversation focuses on Eulàlia Grau. I Have Never Painted Golden Angels, wi… Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-ahlam-shibli-pardoxes-of-rootlessness- Based on a documentary use of photography and structured around ethnographic principles of testimony, the work of Palestinian artist Ahlam Shibli (1970) is a complex exploration of the tragedy of the country where she was born and continues to live:… Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-the-secrets-of-conservation What is the task of curator-restorers? What does preventive conservation entail? What are the conservation and restoration criteria for contemporary art? In this tour, an educator and a curator-restorer engage with participants in a dialogue around s… Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guide-tour-carles-guerra-ahlam-shibli Guided tour to Ahlam Shibli. Phantom Home by Carles Guerra, co-curator of this exhibition and Chief Curator of MACBA. (Exclusive to the Friends of MACBA)… Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-occupy-overflow-cooperate The word 'crisis' has gained widespread popularity as a new semantic fetish. Our ability to grasp the situation in its present and historical complexity is obstructed by the short memories of the mass media serving private interests and of the politi… Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /performance-the-ping-pong-dialogues Aimar Pérez Galí invites six players to establish a dialogue on a specific subject while they play ping pong under a set of rules invented for the occasion. It is a dialectic proposal showing the production of knowledge as a physical bodily practi… Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-conflict-and-documentary-practices Coinciding with the exhibition dedicated to the photographer Ahlam Shibli (Palestine 1970), MACBA is organising a seminar to debate the critical function of documentary practices. The articulation of specific visual policies in the context of conflic… Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /book-launch-arte-diccionario-ilustrado The research group "Modos de conocimiento artístico" (Modes of Artistic Knowledge) from the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Vigo has just published a new work called arte: diccionario ilustrado. Ninety artists from all over Spain, includin… Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /experience-macba-ask-a-curator We are introducing a new programme of informal discussions between the MACBA curators or independent curators, and the public. On this occasion the discussion is with Soledad Gutiérrez, curator of the exhibition Seep. Every Saturday MACBA will… Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-an-adventure-to-discover- How can we make cities and buildings more interesting and healthier to live in? How would you like your city to be? We offer you an adventure in which to discover and research a thousand different ways of looking and understanding our city and our… Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /presentations-visites-performatives-per-a-joves Within the permanent teacher training programme, MACBA invites you to discover the new educational activities through an exclusive offer: to visit the Museum accompanied by a restorer and an artist, to experience the architecture with the body, to cr… Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /experience-macba-percussion-concert Final year percussion students at the ESMUC will offer a programme of works by John Cage, Steve Reich, Phillippe Manoury and John Psathas for piano, marimbas, tom-toms and vibraphone. Every Saturday MACBA will remain open until 9 pm. During these… Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /special-visit-to-icsid Coinciding with the final days of the exhibition that recovers the Congress of the ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) in Ibiza in 1971: an unprecedented event in the Spanish State. Teresa Grandas, curator of the exhibitio… Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-tales-become-maps Some artists translate their ideas and experiences of the world around us into very special maps, the so-called maps of knowledge. Guided by creators such as Matt Mullican and Erick Beltrán, included in the MACBA Collection, we will discover tales ab… Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /experience-macba-the-song-of-the-birds An alternative proposal for Twelfth Night. The Song of the Birds is a very personal tale by the filmmaker Albert Serra. It narrates the troubled journey of the Three Magi in search of the infant born in Bethlehem. Barcelona-based filmmaker and pr… Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours In order to fulfil its educational mission, MACBA offers a series of programmes and resources that help visitors to engage with its contents. There's a team of full-time educators work with the public, offering guided tours at set times and tours for… Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-artistic-ingredients What are works of art made of? Are there any materials that can, a priori, be considered artistic while others can't? With materials such as iron, marble, ceramics or oil painting, we would probably reach a consensus very quickly. But would that cons… Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT /sabados-en-el-macba1 Every Saturday in December MACBA will remain open until 9 pm. During these extra opening hours (6 to 9 pm), the Museum will offer a specific programme with music, dance, artistic actions and talks in the exhibition galleries. There will also be speci… Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT /debates-on-education-yong-zhao MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /teachers-the-secrets-of-conservation Within the ongoing teacher-training programme, MACBA invites you to take part in our new educational activities starting with an exclusive offer: a visit to the museum in the company of a restorer and an artist; to experience the architecture with th… Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /open-house-25th-anniversary-fundacio-macba On the occasion of its 25th Anniversary, the Fundació MACBA organises, together with MACBA, an Open Day on Saturday 24 November from 10 to 21 h. During the day the Museum will offer free visits to the exhibitions and a programme of special activities… Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /film-screening-treintaycuatropiecesdistingueesonestriptease On 1 and 2 December, La Ribot will present Llámame Mariachi as part of the Secció Irregular programme at Mercat de les Flors http://mercatflors.cat/es/espectacle/sesion-1-seccion-irregular-llamame-mariachi/. As an introduction to the work of this… Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-tropicamp Directed by Beatriz Preciado with the participation of Aimar Arriola, Alex Brahim, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, R. Marcos Mota, Alicia Navarro, Fernanda Nogueira, Miguel A. López, and Marc Siegel. The term 'Open PEI' refers to the specific activities… Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /down-to-earth-imaginary-inflatables Is it possible to build an inhabitable blow-up city? In this workshop, we will try to find out through the exhibition Utopia is Possible – ICSID. Eivissa, 1971. We will invent, build, marvel, question and discover the potential for action of materi… Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /book-launch-the-world-explained Book launch by Anke Bangma, book's editor* and Erick Beltrán, artist. * Due last minute changes, Anke Bangma will not participate in this event. To coincide with the exhibition Critical Episodes (1957-2011). MACBA Collection, the artist Erick Be… Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /presentation-niwa-un-paisaje-sonoro This new installation by Ramon Humet and Neu Records brings together three of the most representative works by the Catalan composer in 5.1 surround sound, performed by one of the leading new music ensembles: the prestigious London Sinfonietta. Record… Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-to-critical-episodes- (Exclusive to the Friends of MACBA) Guided tours by Carles Guerra, Chief Curator of MACBA, and Antònia Maria Perelló, curator and Head of the MACBA Collection. Since the sixties, contemporary art has been associated with periodic crises. These… Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /presentation-for-teachers-hybridisations Within the ongoing teacher-training programme, MACBA invites you to take part in our new educational activities starting with an exclusive offer: a visit to the museum in the company of a restorer and an artist; to experience the architecture with th… Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-course-2012-2013 The course is aimed at teachers of nursery school, primary school and first- and second-year secondary students The purpose of this course is to pool efforts in order to explore all the possibilities that can arise from Expressart, a project that… Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /4th-expressart-conference Following the success of the three previous Expressart. Portable Museum conferences, held in the course of the last three academic years, we present the programme of the fourth Conference, which aims to continue to share first-hand experiences around… Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-nasrin-tabatabai-babak-afrassiabi Seep departs from two archives related to the construction of modernity and modernization in Iran: One is the archive of British Petroleum (BP) related to the company's origin in Iran between 1901 and 1951, when it found the first oil in the Middle E… Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-aura-and-temporality This lecture will begin by presenting a critique of the aesthetics of the "anarchive", which seems to be based on a misunderstanding of the concept of the archival. There is nothing "anarchic" about the digital world, in which every action is based o… Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-international-experimental-poetry-conference In the framework of the university-funded project 'Catalan Experimental Poetry between 1959 and 2004' (FFI2010-18880 FILO sub-programme), the research group Poció Poesia i educació is organising the International Experimental Poetry Conference: Poeti… Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /approaches-to-contemporary-artistic-practices For secondary school educators Today, art is constantly shrouded in debate: there are works that are political but also aesthetically seductive, there is visual impact versus bodily exploration, restraint versus excess, reality or fiction… In the… Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-political-practice-art-and-the-clinic This year, a constellation of anniversaries allows us to see the outline of a complex map of ideas and practices that have come into alignment. The commemoration of one hundred years since the birth of the revolutionary Catalan psychiatrist Francesc… Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /teacher-debate-education-david-istance MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /debates-on-education-r-b-kozma MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /musica-lem-festival The seventeenth LEM Festival brings the Prix International Luigi Russolo to Barcelona, thanks to the ongoing collaboration over the last few years of a network made up of Gràcia Territori Sonor (Barcelona), Studio Forum (Annecy), Monochrome Vision (M… Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /triptic-77-screening On 31 January 1977, the Centre George Pompidou, designed by the architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, opened its doors to the public in Paris. Three months later, on 6 May, Roberto Rossellini wrapped up the editing of a 54-minute film that testi… Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-towards-a-political-economy-of-free-culture This conference brings together different perspectives in relation to the sustainability and development of free networks, focusing on issues such as the emergence of the Internet, open protocols, and free telecommunications infrastructures. It also… Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /course-six-conflicts Depending on the points of departure or arrival, these six sessions will take us on a reflective journey that will help us establish brief tales on contemporary creation, necessarily open and always in relation to the political, economic and ideologi… Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /the-invasion-of-abstract-and-geometric-shapes In this new MACBA for Families activity, we will identify and examine abstract and geometric shapes that are hidden in artworks. For example, a dot that becomes a circle and then evolves into a conical light sculpture… Shapes that are visible or hidd… Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-construyendo-el-recorrido-de-los-amigos-del-macba Los "Recorridos" son una herramienta de gran utilidad para profesores, investigadores y usuarios del Museo, disponible en wwww.macba.cat, que permite realizar colecciones de todo tipo de contenidos que se encuentren en la web: audio, vídeos, fichas d… Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /open-house-merce-festival To mark the occasions of the Mercè Festival, on Monday 24 this year, MACBA shall hold an open day. Visitors can visit the six exhibitions currently programmed at the Museum. Special sale: catalogues for 6 euros On 24 September, from 10 am to 8 pm… Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-merce-2012 MACBA for Families The Museum kicks off the new season with a family workshop in which to discover the protagonists of the paintings by Luis Claramunt. We will look at a series of characters that emerged from the artist’s personal geography in Ba… Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /ask-a-curator 'Ask a Curator' brings together passionate experts from museums and galleries around the world to answer your questions on art, history and science. Next September 19th 2012, the MACBA will join the 'Ask a Curator' Twitter event, so just ask us! Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /reading-group-barcelona-from-model-to-brand 'Given its close links to the major changes that have taken place in Barcelona since the Transition to democracy, the concept of the "Barcelona model" is a useful point of entry for reflecting on the city's most significant processes of transformatio… Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT /rick-prelinger-lost-landscapes Archives and libraries are currently overcome with anxiety about protocols, rules and regulations, but it might be better to focus on linking to what people (not institutions) need to celebrate and remember, and understand archival and library work a… Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-icsid Guided tour to Utopia is possible. ICSID. Eivissa, 1971 by Daniel Giralt-Miracle and Teresa Grandas, curators of the exhibition. (Exclusive to the Friends of MACBA)… Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-luis-claramunt-the-vertical-journey The exhibition's curator Nuria Enguita Mayo will conduct a guided tour of Luis Claramunt. The Vertical Journey, which features a broad selection of works that range from paintings, drawings and photographs to the self-published books that the artist… Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:30:00 GMT /contemporary-art-level-zero For secondary school educators Contemporary Art. Level zero is an introductory course that explores some of the basic notions around contemporary practices and then applies them as a way of offering an open, flexible approach to new artistic langu… Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-2012-2013 The Expressart project is based on a series of didactic exercises that can be carried out in the classroom with the help of a set of materials (three-dimensional objects, images and texts) that come in a box (available through Educational Services an… Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /espacios-fotograficos-en-el-macba-y-el-cccb This workshop offers a creative, thought-provoking introduction to photography that combines the analysis of photographs with practical creative photography. The project is explained in the Secondary Education section. Photographic Spaces is a… Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /macba-nocturn From Friday 13 July to 22 September 2012, MACBA extends its usual opening hours and remains open until 10 pm on Fridays and Saturdays. During the summer months, visitors can visit the five exhibitions currently programmed at the Museum during these s… Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /educational-programs-2012-2013 Presentation of the educational programmes 2012-2013 academic year This year, our commitment to teacher training continues and we triple the scope of our educational programme. We have expanded our usual programme of two courses per term held at M… Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-disrupted-objects The times and format of this programme will change over the summer months, until we resume our regular activities from the feast of La Mercè onwards. This means that there will be no family workshops on weekends during the summer quarter, although th… Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-alenka-zupancic-joan-copjec The main aim of this conference is to create a space for pluralist, diverse dialogue based on a female perspective that is linked to the experience – and especially the representation of the experience – generated in and through the body in relation… Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /video-macba For secondary education and high school students This project showcases a series of videographic works from the MACBA Collection that allow us to analyze how images in motion – cinema, television, video games, Internet, etc. – influence our percep… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-2012-2013 For secondary education Although this project has been conceived for early childhood and primary education students, we also recommend it for junior high schools. The project is explained in detail in the Early Childhood and Primary Education sect… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /photographic-spaces-at-macba-and-the-cccb This workshop offers a creative, thought-provoking introduction to photography that combines the analysis of photographs with practical creative photography. The activity takes place in two main stages. Firstly, participants work with photographs… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /hybridisations-art-and-architecture Museums, as an expression of contemporary architecture, have become powerful visual symbols in the urban fabric of today’s cities. MACBA, which was originally built as part of the city’s urban renewal for the Olympic Games and which reconfigured the… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /the-secrets-of-conservation-and-restoration What is the task of curator-restorers? What does preventive conservation entail? What are the conservation and restoration criteria for contemporary art? In this tour, an educator and a curator-restorer engage with participants in a dialogue around s… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-2012-2013 Program for secondary education and high school students Visits geared towards Jr High and High school students hope to make the works of art significant and intelligible, breaking with the preconceived idea that Museum visits are simply boring co… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /performative-tours- Program for secondary education and high school students Our performative tours of MACBA and its exhibitions are the key through which we introduce contemporary art to students and answer the questions that they come up with in a participatory, co… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-childhood-and-primary-2012-2013 For early childhood and primary education students These visits are lead by an educator and hope to stimulate children to interact directly with the works on display and bring them closer to the different artistic forms by presenting a critical an… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /reading-a-collection-2012-2013 For secondary education and high school students This project starts with material designed for use in the classroom before visiting the Museum. It contains the basis for initiating a debate that will then continue in the museum, accompanied by th… Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-macba-collection-matta-clark The guided tour of the MACBA Collection by Carles Guerra, Chief Curator of MACBA, and Antònia Maria Perelló, curator and Head of the MACBA Collection, offers a three-part overview of the relationships that have developed over time between artistic pr… Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /education-secondary-disrupted-objects The times and format of this programme will change over the summer months, until we resume our regular activities from the feast of La Mercè onwards. This means that there will be no family workshops on weekends during the summer quarter, although th… Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-macba-collection Guided tour by Carles Guerra, Chief Curator of MACBA to the MACBA Collection: Le Corbusier and Jean Genet in the Raval; Gordon MattaClark. 'Office Baroque' Portfolio; Roberto Rossellini. Filming Beaubourg (Exclusive to the Friends of MACBA)… Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /education-disrupted-objects The times and format of this programme will change over the summer months, until we resume our regular activities from the feast of La Mercè onwards. This means that there will be no family workshops on weekends during the summer quarter, although th… Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /round-table-eivissa-1971 In 1971, during the final years of Franco's dictatorship, the International Council of the Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) held its 7th Congress in Eivissa. On the island that year, what had previously been an eminently professional event beca… Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:00 GMT /lecture-blind-date-en-arena Since its inception in 1997, Rita McBride's Arena – the highly celebrated and well-travelled 4 meter by 4 meter modular tribune – has hosted over 100 artists, poets, writers, architects, musicians, curators and politicians. As part of the exhibition… Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /education-debates-david-istance MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /music-game-of-life During Sónar the exhibition Rita McBride. Oferta pública/Public Tender will include a showcase of The Game of Life, the only mobile wave field synthesis system in the world. The system, featuring 192 specially designed loudspeakers, provides listener… Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /round-table-officebaroque During the summer of 1977, Gordon Matta-Clark completed his last bulding cuts in the city of Antwerp, an intervention in an abandoned office block with the title Office Baroque. This kind of interventions was meant to disappear as the building in que… Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /course Introduction to Contemporary Art Course: "A" is for Architecture and Art. Hybridisations. Contemporary artistic practices are characterised by a diversification of formats, media and languages that operate in the sphere of complexity, distortion,… Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /screening-electroclass-maria-ruido ElectroClass is a film about the imaginary of labour made by a regional television broadcasting channel in Spain starting from the 80s. Taking the archives of ETB (Basque Country broadcasting channel) as source material and the city of Bilbao as a sp… Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /screening-the-nine-muses The Nine Muses uses Homer's Odyssey as a point of departure for its elegiac exploration of migration, exile, alienation and the definition of home. Built around images of Caribbean and African migrants in the 1950s and 60s, the film looks in part at… Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /round-table-what-about-production This roundtable opens the professional symposium What About Production? organised by Screen from Barcelona in parallel with the LOOP Fair. The symposium gathers in Barcelona key professionals with diverse and complementary experiences in the audiovis… Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /alleged-opposites Since 2002, MACBA has brought together professionals from the fields of psychoanalysis, art therapy and anthropology with the aim of generating innovative formulations that are adapted to the use of artistic productions. The aim of Alleged opposites… Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-isabel-bachs-hiuwai-chu (Exclusive to the Friends of MACBA) Guided tour with commentary by Isabel Bachs, head of Architecture and General Services and Hiuwai Chu, coordinator of the project. Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-silvia-federici Silvia Federici is a writer, teacher and feminist activist. She has written numerous books and articles on feminist theory and philosophy, women’s history, education and culture, and more recently on international struggles against capitalist globali… Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /screening-in-free-fall In Free Fall is a trilogy that includes Before the Crash, After the Crash and Crash. It relates the story of the current economic crisis through the example of a plane cemetery in the Mojave Desert in California. Following the life of the Boeing 4X-J… Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-rita-mcbride-bartomeu-mari Oferta pública /Public Tender is certainly a major monographic exhibition by Rita McBride, but it is also a complex project involving several interrelated features and multiple agents throughout the process: from the selection of pieces and the produ… Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /the-night-of-the-museums-2012 To mark the occasions of the International Museum Day, on Friday 18 May and La Nit dels Museus (Museum Night), on Saturday 19 May this year, MACBA shall hold two open days. MACBA has scheduled several special presentations of its temporary exhib… Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /film-bccn-barcelona-creative-commons The BccN Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival is the world's first festival for works licensed under Creative Commons, which allows greater flexibility, boosts online film distribution, and enables filmmakers to discover their audiences. The… Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /the-volume-of-words Three poet-researchers will take over the MACBA Atrium and give substance to words from very different perspectives. Benet Rossell, poet and artist in equal measure, will present the poetic action Allons enfants de la movie! which he describes as a "… Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /education-debates-eric-debarbieux MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /book-launch-poesia-escenica-i MACBA, together with the Joan Brossa Foundation, Arola Editors and Friends of La Seca Espai Brossa, present Poesia escènica I: al voltant de Dau al Set by Joan Brossa, a book that brings together the pieces that the poet wrote between 1945 and 1950,… Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /screening-confession … Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-memorabilia "The romance of sound collecting may be dead – not because of the music, but due to the loss of the personal human component of the process." William Bennett, in a conversation about his music collection on Ràdio Web MACBA, 2011 Memorabilia. Colle… Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /global-audiences-in-culture A conference organised by articketBCN group that will explore issues relating to audiences for culture. The conference will focus on the role of the tourist appeal of our cities, and the needs and requirements of local audiences in regards to the cul… Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /barribrossa-2012-dau-al-set Continuing in its efforts to recover the avant-gardes and other significant artistic movements of the twentieth century from the perspective of the present, the 2012 Barribrossa festival presents three multidisciplinary mise-en-scènes of the second C… Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-controlled-disorder Guided by the work of Joan Brossa, this new MACBA for Families activity will lead us deep into a world where the most insignificant and commonplace objects are transformed into artworks full of magic and mystery. Visual poems, object-poems, music and… Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /mon-llibre-controlled-disorder Món Llibre (Book World) is an annual literature festival for children up to 12, organised by the ICUB. Taking place just before St George's Day (The Day of the Book in Catalonia), it is a very special festival full of stories, writers, shows, cinema,… Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-whatever-happened-theory-ii During the 1980s, ideas surrounding art within an Anglo-American context were profoundly transformed by the influence of French, and to a lesser extent, German philosophy and critical theory. The reception of these ideas was accompanied by a deep ren… Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-easter-week-artistic-ingredients What are artworks made out of? Are some materials more artistic than others? We will probably agree on iron, marble, ceramics and oils, but don't you think it will be harder to decide about foam and plastic? On our visit to the Museum we will analyse… Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /expanded-choreography-situations Choreography is today emancipating itself from dance, engaging in a vibrant process of articulation. Choreographers are experimenting with new models of production, alternative formats, have broadened out the understanding of social choreography cons… Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /screening-spiritual-voices The five episodes of Spiritual Voices (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1995) – lasting a total of five hours and forty-three minutes – recount an extended stay at a frontier military post on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border. The long sequences showing the routin… Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /acerca-de-jacinto-esteva- Manuel Delgado – whose essay 'El arte de danzar sobre el abismo' ('The art of dancing on the abyss') remains a key resource for understanding the films of Jacinto Esteva – is the ideal companion with whom to approach the work of this singular Catalan… Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMT /lecture-aleksandr-sokurov Barcelona-based filmmaker and producer Albert Serra is one of the most unique and exciting figures to emerge on the recent European scene. His films include Honor de cavalleria (Honour of the Knights), 2006; El cant dels ocells (Birdsong), 2008; and… Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-free-culture This study group is focused on introducing the basic concepts and debates that surround the Free Culture movement. The course is divided into three sections, which together aim to establish a wide overview of the foundations, objectives and founding… Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /round-table-historicization-seventies Round table The idea of this panel is to review and question some of the dominant elements that keep recurring in the historicization of the Spanish transition to democracy, in particular the magazine Nueva Lente, the normalisation of a particular… Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /test-eu … Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /presentacion-sokurov-esteva-carles-guerra Presentation of the MACBA Collection: Military Series. Aleksandr Sokurov and Lejos de los árboles (Far from the trees). By Carles Guerra, chief curator at MACBA. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-whatever-happened-theory During the 1980s, ideas surrounding art within an Anglo-American context were profoundly transformed by the influence of French, and to a lesser extent, German philosophy and critical theory. The reception of these ideas was accompanied by a deep ren… Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-habits-inhabiting Some of the works on show in Volume! are sculptures that almost seem inhabitable. Or maybe it really is possible to live in them, and as such they should be considered architectural pieces? During this workshop, we will present fragments of imaginabl… Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /presentation-etceteres-joan-brossa MACBA presents Els etcèteres (1970), a previously unpublished book of visual poetry by Joan Brossa that is part of his Poemes habitables cycle. The volume has been published by the Centre Internationale de Poésie Marseille (cipM), with a grant from t… Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /visit-cifb Guided tour-debate to the 'Centre Internacional de Fotografia Barcelona (1978-1983)' exhibition, with commentary by Jorge Ribalta, curator of the exhibition. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT /lecture-art-system-spain The art system in Spain tentatively began to take shape in the eighties, during the early days of the transition to democracy. A decade later it had put down roots, with the opening and promotion of new museums and contemporary art centres throughout… Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:30:00 GMT /education-debates- MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT /reading-group-expanded-choreography A reading group to accompany the event Expanded Choreography. Situations, Movements, Objects… The group will include a close reading and discussion of relevant texts by some of the speakers at the conference. Organised by: Museu d'Art Contemporan… Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-unusual-paintings Is it possible to hold a painting workshop without paper, or paintbrushes, or paint, or any of the tools with which we usually paint? This workshop-tour through the exhibition Volume! looks at contemporary artworks that attempt to burst the bounds of… Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /course-overview-live-art The term "live art" is often used to refer to a series of artistic practices that have processed a huge range of influences, from performance art to theatre, dance, visual arts, activism, digital technologies and different kinds of multimedia practic… Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:30:00 GMT /conversation-muntadas-benichou-bartomeu 'I conceived this work as a whole, whole as a project and in its presentation to the public. This project is the result of a process of ten years of work, a reflection on the system of art, a system that has been created by a (capitalist) society in… Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:30:00 GMT /seminar-brief-narratives-contemporary-art Five Questions for the Alleged End of Art The series Brief Narratives of Contemporary Art is intended to offer an insight into recent artistic practices, based on the understanding that they are in a constant process of feedback with the socioecon… Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-graphic-design-intersections Program for secondary education, high school students and art academies Art and graphic design. Intersections, is a visit/workshop programme that seeks to bring visual and graphic arts students closer to some of the works of the Volume! Works from… Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-christmas-volumetrics-at-stake- The starting point for the tour-workshop is the exhibition Volume!, which takes up all three floors of the Museum and invites participants to reflect on the surpassing of the physical limits of art. We will look at works that go beyond two dimensions… Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-credit-self-esteem-and-sharing According to the founding fathers of liberal theory – from David Hume and Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill –, human beings are wanting but resourceful: though their desires are both insatiable and inconstant, they gradually learn to optimize their sati… Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:00:00 GMT /kafca-knowledge-against-financial-capitalism Open PEI seminar organised by Francesco Berardi The accumulated effect of thirty years of application of neoliberal ideology has caused a collapse of economic life and is destroying the social fabric of European countries. Over the last three de… Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-light-sculptures MACBA for Families The exhibition Volume! From art for looking at to art for listening to adds new nuances to the sculptural conception of the artwork. From architectural space to aural space, sculpture reinvents itself by assimilating not only th… Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /visit-volum Guided tour by Bartomeu Marí, curator of the exhibition and MACBA's director and Antònia M. Perelló, head of the MACBA Collection (Exclusive to the Friends of MACBA)… Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-vasco-araujo Vasco Araújo (Lisbon, 1975) is one of the most acclaimed artists of the Portuguese contemporary art scene. His work has consistently explored the nature of established codes of communication – including those that are conveyed through gestures and mo… Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /why-and-how-do-i-do-what-i-do Soledad Gutierrez, temporary exhibitions curator at the MACBA, talks to Sadr Haghighian about her project De paso, conceived and produced specifically for Capella MACBA. This conversation is part of the series Why and How Do I Do what I Do? Artists… Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /workshops-listening-to-the-urban-landscape MACBA for Families Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s work De Paso, which she produced specifically for Capella MACBA, will become our point of departure for exploring sound as a work tool and an art form. The artist explores highly topical and complex is… Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT /lem-october-2011 Concerts and musical actions… Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT /initiation-to-contemporary-art-course-i-as-in-installation-2011-2012 For primary and secondary school educators The objective of this course is to provide educators with basic notions that allow them to examine contemporary artistic practices with an open and flexible mind, while also creating a space for dialogue… Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-minimal-interventions Creating interferences in nature, moving through urban spaces and constructing geometric shapes with her own body are some of the actions that Àngels Ribé has carried out in the course of her artistic career. Minimal Interventions offers a playful, p… Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT /conferencia-a-cargo-de-abigail-solomon-godeau Lecture Abigail Solomon-Godeau is a professor in the History of Art and Architecture department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She will talk about the artistic context of the 1970s in the United States, and its relationship to the… Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-merce-2011 MACBA for Families Drawing with the body, following a trickle of water, building with light, discovering invisible geometries… The museum launches the new season with a big family workshop that will give you, the participants, an insight into Ànge… Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT /visita-comentada-a-cargo-de-carles-hac-mor The writer Carles Hac Mor will discuss his personal take on some of the works in the exhibition, which have been specially selected for this event. - Tickets Online purchase: Buy your tickets here. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT /body--memory-and-representation Seminar This two-day conference includes presentations by Judith Butler, a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley, and Adriana Cavarero, professor of Political Philosophy at the U… Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT /wikpolis Workshop by the Iconoclasistas group As part of this year's QUAM 2011, entitled Wikpolis. Cartographies and Collective Creation of the Social Space, the MACBA's Independent Studies Program (PEI) is co-organising a workshop led by the Argentinian c… Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT /audiopantalla-macba--monocromos Concert programme Linked to the destructive vanquishing of pictorial art and to a certain transcendent, late-Romantic representations of infinitude, monochromatic paintings been instrumental in bringing about substantial changes since the late nin… Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-by-soledad-gutierrez (Exclusive to the Friends of MACBA)… Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:00:00 GMT /course-jacques-derrida Open PEI Summer Course by Manuel Asensi Although the words that give this course its title are Gayatri Spivak's, they could easily have been Derrida's. The term Deconstruction has been assimilated into film language, politics and even gastronom… Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /sonarkids Music and creative experiences festival for boys and girls Workshops, creative experiences, concerts and sound experimentation: Sonarkids is at the crossroads of creative experimentation and the most advanced music. Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT /sonar-2011 Advanced Music and Multimedia Art Festival Like every year, the MACBA is opening its exhibition to those attending the 18º Advanced Music and Multimedia Art Festival and will be hosting, among other activities, the Sónar Complex stage. For these f… Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-special The Expressart project has also been created with an aim of inclusivity. It is a resource designed for everyone and aims to be absolutely respectful of diversity and not to exclude any type of student, despite any disabilities they may have. This… Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-course-2011-2012 The course is aimed at teachers of nursery school, primary school and first- and second-year secondary students Its objective is, over and above providing information on the artists' works that comprise the project, to furnish specific resources… Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-2011-2012 For early childhood and primary education students This project offers resources for work in the classroom, allowing time for an in-depth study and understanding of elements that were only touched on during the guided tour. By opening this up to s… Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /3rd-expressart-2011-2012 … Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /education-expressart-secondary For secondary education Although this project has been conceived for early childhood and primary education students, we also recommend it for junior high schools. The project is explained in detail in the Early Childhood and Primary Education sect… Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /education-facilities-resources Permanent teacher's aides The MACBA's educational program team offers aide throughout the schoolyear. Group services can address any questions about the use and purpose of these projects, or you can speak to your own Servicios educativos / Centros… Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /reading-a-collection For secondary education and high school students This project starts with material designed for use in the classroom before visiting the Museum. It contains the basis for initiating a debate that will then continue in the museum, accompanied by th… Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-primary For early childhood and primary education students The MACBA extends an invitation to schools to participate in ongoing scheduled tours/workshops through the Museum exhibitions so that the visit becomes a cultural experience, not just more work. Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-secondary-education- Program for secondary education and high school students Visits geared towards Jr High and High school students hope to make the works of art significant and intelligible, breaking with the preconceived idea that Museum visits are simply boring co… Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /education-volum-secondary For secondary education and high school students This exhibition seeks to illustrate the shift in artistic paradigm that came to pass in the late 20th century. It constituted a shift from a sculptural concept of the artwork, in which the work gene… Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families-city-of-the-future MACBA for Families Floating, never-ending or vertical cities? Observing the relationship between art and architecture, this visit-workshop to the MACBA Collection sets you the challenge of creating an architectural collage which, by means of it… Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /valie-export-capturing-the-performance Screening and debate by Berta Sichel Presentation and reflection around a screening of VALIE EXPORT's performance films by Berta Sichel, expert in performance and moving-image art. Two fields at the intersection of which VALIE EXPORT's films are l… Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /the-alternative-collectivisms Round table A round table to coincide with the opening of the Museum of Parallel Narratives exhibition, with the participation of artists and collectives whose work is included in the exhibition, and moderated by its curator, Zdenka Badovinac. Mir… Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /museum-of-parallel-narratives-in-the-framework-of-linternationale-1 L'Internationale is a long-term cooperative initiative launched by five European museums and artist's archives whose combined holdings total more than 40,000 works: Moderna Galerija of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Július Koller Society (SJK) of Bratislava (… Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /the-night-of-the-museums-1 To mark the occasions of La Nit dels Museus (Museum Night) on Saturday 14 May and International Museum Day on Wednesday 18 May this year, MACBA shall hold two open days. MACBA has scheduled several special presentations of its temporary exhibitio… Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /laibach-die-kunst-der-fuge Concert To coincide with the opening of the exhibition Museum of Parallel Narratives (1956-1986). In the framework of l'Internationale, Slovenian industrial band Laibach presents its singular interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fu… Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /de-museo-en-museo-vaciones-de-verano-en-la-ciudad (Only available in Spanish) Actividad dirigida a niños y niñas de 8 a 12 años, que ofrece una semana diferente para recorrer museos de todo tipo, con actividades específicas a cada uno. Pasear por Barcelona y moverse con todas las modalidades de t… Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /beneath-the-open-sky-activations-of-the-sensitive-inventions-of-sense-a-non-produced-curatorial-proposal-for-the-30th-sao-paulo-biennial PEI Obert Lecture by Suely Rolnik Beneath the Open Sky, the place/concept that Suely Rolnik submitted as a curatorial concept for the 30th São Paulo Biennial, leads us into a semantic field with numerous resonances. In this project, these resonanc… Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT /mon-llibre-2 Book Festival for children up to 12 years of age A very special preview of Sant Jordi celebrations, packed with stories, writers, performances, film, exhibitions, music and magic, in an atmosphere of scenes from literature that take us on a journe… Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT /we-cant-promise-to-do-more-than-an-experiment Film programme This film program accompanies the exhibition Museum of Parallel Narratives (1956-1986). In the framework of L'Internationale. It presents films that triggered a change in the dominant cinematic language within the cultural context o… Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT /the-modern-and-the-present-change-of-century-in-the-macba-collection-1 This presentation from the MACBA Collection will be marked by a new thematic thread, a response to a hypothesis which argues that, in our cultural context, the aesthetic eruption of modernity began, not in the early-20th century, but in the 1950s. Th… Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT /around-hydra-decapita-ii-2011 Screening and debate This session entails a discussion that will introduce and contextualise the ideas and methodologies behind The Otolith Group's practice as they present the research they have gathered for the second in their new trilogy of fil… Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT /actions-out-of-orbit Family tours The MACBA offers families an activity that combines guided tour and practical workshop, in which to explore the concepts of exhibition, ephemeral art and performance. After reflecting on some works from the collection as a group, part… Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT /memorabilia Lecture series "A collector of records is by definition a historian, but a radio listener has a window open to the present." Jon Leidecker, Audio Notebook #03: Radio Music Memorabilia. Collecting Sounds with... is a new series from Ràdio Web M… Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT /easter-workshop-the-transformation-of-matter Dirt mixed with water becomes mud, or clay. Clay can be used to make everyday ceramic objects, but in the hands of an artist it becomes an experimental material that has very special tactile, visual and expressive qualities. In this workshop, we will… Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /barribrossa-2011 Performance The eighth Barribrossa festival features special guest Oulipo, a creative movement influenced by Dada that was created in Paris in 1960 with the intention of revolutionising European textual poetry and writing. It is characterised by c… Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /ibon-aranberri-organogramme Workshop by Ibon Aranberri MACBA collaborates with Fundació Antoni Tàpies on the next workshop by the artist Ibon Aranberri, within the framework of the exhibition "Ibon Aranberri. Organogramme", in which a number of issues and concepts relevant t… Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-museo-en-museo (Only available in Spanish) La actividad que os propone el MACBA es una visita guiada por la Colección del Museo. Un paseo por las salas donde podremos hablar de todo aquello que nos sugieran las obras, cual es la intención del artista, que nos qu… Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /why-and-how-do-i-do-what-i-do-artists-speak-2 Conversation between Pep Duran, Jordi Puntí and Toni Cumella The writer Jordi Puntí (Manlleu, 1967), whose books include the short story collections Pell d'armadillo (1998) and Animals tristos (2002) and the novel Maletes perdudes (2010), will tal… Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /screening-of-albert-serras-els-noms-de-crist Screening Full screening of the 14 episodes of the television series based on Fray Luis de León's 1586 work De los nombres de Cristo (The names of Christ), which was conceived for the exhibition Are you Ready for TV? Filmed partly in the MACBA gal… Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT /the-otolith-group-thoughtform-1 The work of the Otolith Group, founded in London in 2002 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, reflects on the perception and nature of documentary practice through films, texts and activities related to media archives. Expanding on the documentary genr… Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-tv-giants Children's film programme TV Giants looks back and rediscovers key figures and programs that marked the history of North American children's and family television, through examples spanning from the fifties to the eighties, with a special focus on… Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT /anjalika-sagar-and-kodwo-eshun-the-otolith-group-in-conversation-with-chus-martinez Conversation The two founding members of The Otolith Group will discuss the works in the Thoughtform exhibition and the processes behind their work. They will also talk about their future projects, including the new trilogy Hydra Decapita, a co-pr… Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT /weve-taken-over-the-tv-1 MACBA for Families… Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT /the-traffic-in-photographs Open PEI Lecture by Allan Sekula Allan Sekula is a North American artist, writer and critic. His books include Photography Against the Grain (1984), Fish Story (1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (1997), Dismal Science (1999) and The Traffic… Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT /fictitious-museum Christmas Workshop In 1968, Marcel Broodthaers invented a fictitious museum consisting of wooden boxes, index cards and postcards of miniature works. It was a fiction, a trick, through which the artist posed a question: "when the status of an artw… Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT /trapped-by-the-limits Family tours "to separate means to create a space / in a surface enclosed by boundaries..." Taking Gil J Wolman's definition of Wolman's land as a point of departure, this tour will allow us to explore the artist's universe by putting into practi… Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT /igor-zabel-award-for-culture-and-theory-iza-2010-writing-art-history-dialogues-in-the-present-continuous Seminar The biannual Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory was created in 2008 by Mateja Kos Zabel, Bojan Zabel and the ERSTE Foundation to honour the memory of Slovenian curator, critic and writer Igor Zabel (1958 - 2005). It aims to contribute… Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT /tapologo Open PEI Film Club With Tapologo, we launch a program of activities that offer a reflection around AIDS and its biopolitical management from the eighties onwards. Tapologo allows us to analyse the contemporary context of the global spread of HIV a… Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT /weve-taken-over-the-tv Family tours What is television? In this activity, several artists will show us a different way of making television. We will discover new strategies that will allow us to question the medium and penetrate inside of it, decipher its language and p… Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT /are-you-ready-for-tv-2 Guided tour by Chus Martínez, Chief Curator… Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT /zero-tv TV workshop A space for experimentation that invites you to develop new strategies relating to the television medium from the point of view of its relation to art. The productions will be broadcast live online, through MACBAZEROTV. Watch live… Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT /are-you-ready-to- Talks and screenings Program of talks and screenings based on case studies from the exhibiton. This project has several extensions: a website, a Twitter account, a publication, a Vimeo video channel, the e ducational project Zero TV. Follow t… Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT /macba-collection-23-1 Guided tour by Antònia Maria Perelló, Head Collection Curator… Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /art-accessible-1 Workshop on accessibility in museums This seminar is organised by Articket (www.articketbcn.org). Articket brings together the seven best museums of Barcelona (Museu Picasso, La Pedrera, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, MACBA, CCCB, MNAC and Fundació… Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /launch-of-the-book-tipus-i-contratipus-by-benet-rossell Published by Eumo Editorial and Café Central ("Jardins de Samarcanda" collection) With a working method based on improvisation, paradox and creative freedom, Rossell's poetry moves through a microworld of characters – types and countertypes that c… Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /2nd-expressart-portable-museum-forum Following the success of the first Expressart – Portable Museum Forum in July last year, we now present the program for the second Forum, which aims to foster an exchange of experiences relating to the project. We believe it is interesting to allow t… Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /after-wolman Poetic actions and performances The sound-related activities organised alongside the exhibition Gil J Wolman. I am immortal and alive kicked off with an audition of Wolman’s “megapneumes” in the exhibition galleries. They continue with the Ràdio W… Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /lem-autumn-programme Concerts and musical actions… Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /of-animals-and-monsters Open PEI seminar organised by Xavier Antich and Manuel Asensi Gilles Deleuze already suggested that the question of the animal could offer a strategic base from which to develop a theory of the anomalous. He believed that humanity is beholden to t… Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /sick-80s-the-aids-crisis-art-and-counter-biopolitical-guerrilla Open PEI seminar organised by Beatriz Preciado The eighties are often seen as the end of the revolutionary period that had rocked the Western world since May 1968: the decline of the social emancipation movements had given way to a neoliberal demo… Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /benet-rossell-behind-and-in-front-of-the-camera-1 Film programme Benet Rossell, in Front of and Behind the Camera is not intended to be a retrospective or an anthological program – this would be a difficult undertaking given that more than a dozen sessions would be required to show all of the art… Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /the-history-of-exhibitions-beyond-the-ideology-of-the-white-cube-part-two Course in art and contemporary culture With this course, the MACBA continues the rereading of contemporary art history that it began in Autumn 2009, through an analysis of exhibition dispositifs focusing on alternatives to the «white cube» theoriz… Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /painted-film Family tours Is it possible to make movies without filming? This activity is part of the MACBA for Families program. Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /the-mediterranean-to-come-shore-to-shore-dialogues-on-art-economy-and-society Lectures and conversations In collaboration with the Birbeck Institute for the Humanities (London), the MACBA embarks on a series of lectures and conversations with artists, researchers, writers and cultural managers from countries that make un th… Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /-and-for-la-merce-invented-calligraphy-benet-rossell-and-asian-calligraphies MACBA for Families The Museum kicks off its new season with a big family workshop, where kids and grownups can come together to look at some of the works in the Parallel Benet Rossell exhibition, try their hand at new calligraphies with different… Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT /from-words-to-images-visual-poetry-as-an-alternative-poetic-discourse Monographic course by Enric Bou This course offers tools for understanding the relationships between a literature based on traditional text and one in which images hold a privileged place from a historical view of visual poetry’s role in the avant… Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT /benet-rossell-night-amb-el-temps-i-una-fanga Poetry reading and actions A stroll through the exhibition galleries led by performances, songs and poetry readings that draw visitors into Benet Rossell’s poetic universe, and also confirm the complicity of some of his friends in his work as an a… Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /why-and-how-do-i-do-what-i-do-artists-speak-1 Conversation between Latifa Echakhch and Soledad Gutiérrez The project Why and How Do I Do what I Do? Artists Speak aims to bring transparency to the process of creating an exhibition and to make it more understandable to the general public. To th… Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /02-latifa-echakhch-la-ronda-1 Guided tour by Soledad Gutiérrez, coordinator of the exibition, n the presence of the artist Opening: July 6 at 7.30 pm Exhibition: until February 6 2011… Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /course-the-philosophic-gesture-of-gilles-deleuze Open PEI Summer Course In spite of its complexity, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze has shown its ability to penetrate all kinds of discourses – including the discourse of art, of course – and a potential for metaphoric contagion that sets him apa… Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /audiopantalla-macba-japanese-audiovisions Concert programme The computer has been a fully-fledged musical instrument for many years now, allowing real time performances and giving a very diverse range of artists the means to express them in singular ways. All in all, a revolutionary devic… Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /multiplying-space MACBA for Families A tour that will take us through the spaces that different works occupy, while we explore their physical limits and talk about the mental spaces that they evoke. We will engage in observing and discussing specific works, but als… Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /visit-benet-rossell Guided tour by Teresa Grandas, co-curator of the exhibition The exhibition on Benet Rossell (Àger, 1937) offers a broken, fragmented vision of his work that avoids the conventions of chronological retrospectives, and provides several ways of appro… Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /nits-de-macba-2 The MACBA's nocturnal summer program includes its regular guided tours as well as a series of special activities related to the Dorothee and Konrad Fischer and Benet Rossell exhibitions. As in every summer, the bar located on the Museum's First Fl… Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /space-brimming-over-other-ways-of-visiting-an-exhibition Guided tours of the exhibition Dorothee and Konrad Fischer. Archives of an attitude This activity offers a singular tour through the MACBA’s galleries, with the mission of analysing the physical, temporal and mental spaces that are occupied by the… Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /video-macba-an-analysis-of-audiovisual-images For secondary education and high school students This project showcases a series of videographic works from the MACBA Collection that allow us to analyze how images in motion – cinema, television, video games, Internet, etc. – influence our percep… Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-2 Program for secondary education This project offers resources for work in the classroom, allowing time for an in-depth study and understanding of elements that were only touched on during the guided tour. By opening this up to schools, we can pro… Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /are-you-ready-for-tv-1 For secondary education and high school students Are You Ready for TV?, the catchphrase for one of the first commercials for the invention, is an exhibition that creates a visual and emotional context to analyze a schema of visual categories forge… Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum- Course lead by Marta Berrocal This course is addressed to infant and primary school teachers who have already worked, or intend to work, with the "ExpressArt: Portable Museum" project produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA)… Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /initiation-to-contemporary-art-course-2010-2011 For primary and secondary school educators The objective of this course is to provide educators with basic notions that allow them to examine contemporary artistic practices with an open and flexible mind, while also creating a space for dialogue… Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-2010-11 Program for secondary education and high school students Visits geared towards Jr High and High school students hope to make the works of art significant and intelligible, breaking with the preconceived idea that Museum visits are simply boring co… Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /about-educational-programs-5 … Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /gil-j-wolman-i-am-immortal-and-alive-2 Guided tour by Bartomeu Marí, curator of the exibition and MACBA's director The French artist Gil J Wolman (1929-1995) was a pioneer in investigating the intersection and alteration of visual and textual languages, and also a leading member of the… Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /sound-poetry-by-gil-j-wolman Sixty minutes of radical experimentation around the expressive power of the voice and sound amplification. Introduction by Frédéric Acquaviva. Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /media-art-documentation-and-conservation-strategies-the-docam-project Workshop led by Alain Depocas The DOCAM (Documentation and conservation of media arts heritage) project was entrusted with a mandate to examine the factors that threaten the technological arts heritage and to put forward solutions and tools to all… Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /documentation-and-conservation-of-media-arts-the-daniel-langlois-foundations-centre-for-research-and-documentation-crd Lecture by Alain Depocas Since 1999, the Daniel Langlois Foundation's CR+D developed a large collection of documents about art practices using technologies. This important collection has been used by many researchers and the CR+D published many of… Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /with-a-probability-of-being-seen-dorothee-and-konrad-fischer-archives-of-an-attitude-2 Guided tour by Friedrich Meschede, curator of the exibition Konrad Fischer (Düsseldorf, 1939-1996) had, in his different facets (artist, gallery owner and curator), a major influence on conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s. On 29 October 1967, at… Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /questions-of-space MACBA for Families Questions of Space proposes an analysis not just of physical spaces, but also the temporal and mental spaces which the works on display at the Museum occupy. The exploration of these spaces would suggest situations experienced p… Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /televised-art-jef-cornelis-talks-to-marta-garcia-about-his-extensive-work-for-television During his more than 25 years working at Flemish television network VRT, Jef Cornelis (1941) produced and directed films on architecture, art, theatre and literature. Cornelis is a beacon and a pioneering legend of new formulas for creating and commu… Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /screening-news-from-ideological-antiquity-by-alexander-kluge Film programme Spanish premiere of the film News from Ideological Antiquity Marx/Eisenstein/ Das Kapital, in its 83-minute abridged version, prepared by Alexander Kluge for the Moscow Film Festival and the Goethe-Institut in Buenos Aires, introduc… Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /screening-of-documenta-5-by-jef-cornelis During his more than 25 years working at Flemish television network VRT, Jef Cornelis (1941) produced and directed films on architecture, art, theatre and literature. Cornelis is a beacon and a pioneering legend of new formulas for creating and commu… Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /konrad-fischer-a-context-an-attitude Lecture programme This lecture series, organised in collaboration with the Goethe Institut of Barcelona, aims not only to offer a deeper look into the figure of Konrad Fischer (1939-1996), artist, gallery owner and exhibition curator, but also to… Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /the-museums-night-1 On Saturday 15th May the MACBA will participate in the Night of the Museums and offer free admission from 7 pm to 1 am. There will be guided visits through the «Rodney Graham. Through the Forest» and «With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee an… Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /post-urban-architectures-scenarios-for-the-future-of-the-city Open PEI Lecture Programme At present the city reveals, with increasing clarity, how a diffuse and complex whole acquires its real dimension from the territory of encounter and exchange between the general trends of globalisation and the pre-exis… Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /lem-spring-programme Three nights of delateralised music For the second time, Gràcia Territori Sonor brings its spring programme to the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, this time offering the possibility to discover delateralised sound laboratories, musical guer… Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT /mon-llibre-1 Book festival for boys and girls Since 2005, the ICUB has been organising Book World, a literature festival aimed at children up to 12 years old with the involvement of the CCCB and the MACBA, with publishers of children's and juvenile literature… Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT /film-peter-watkins Film programme The British filmmaker Peter Watkins (Norbiton, United Kingdom, 1935) is the subject of a retrospective that reviews his contribution to contemporary cinematography and, in particular, his condition as a pioneer of docudrama and fals… Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT /barribrossa-2010-the-word-in-space Poetry and music Valère Novarina is the creator invited to Barribrossa 2010 – a theologian of words who invites us to perceive the materiality of words and sheds light on the connecting links between verb, visual poetry and music. In this context,… Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT /on-artistic-research Thinking and teaching art: between practice and theoretical speculation Seminar Over the last decade, use of the concept of "artistic research" has gained cohesion for referring not only to the nature of the artistic process but also to a new dis… Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT /-and-in-easter-week MACBA for Families Family tours of the exhibition Rodney Graham. Through the Forest This activity is part of the MACBA for Families program. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /why-and-how-do-i-do-what-i-do-artists-speak Conversation between Armando Andrade Tudela, Gabriel Acevedo and Chus Martínez The project Why and How do I Do what I Do? Artists Speak aims to open a direct line of communication between artists and audiences, and to make the creation process mor… Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /between-production-and-facts-the-reinvention-of-artistic-activism Seminar PEI Open Program Moderated by Marcelo Expósito The debate around the articulations between art, politics, activism and communication has gained prominence and legitimacy in recent years. From the mid 1990's, the activities that traditio… Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /social-dangerousness-sexual-minorities-language-and-practice-in-70s-and-80s-spain Independent Study Program (2008-2009) Research workshop The projects brought together in this room are not presented as an exhibition in the usual way; rather, they should be seen as a cross-section in an ongoing research process launched under t… Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /john-baldessari-pure-beauty-3 Guided tour by Bartomeu Marí, curator of the exibition and MACBA's director This exhibition is the biggest retrospective mounted in Spain of the work of John Baldessari (1931), one of the most notable and influential American artists. It contains… Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /baldessari-as-seen-by- Guided tours of the exhibition John Baldessari. Pure Beauty «Baldessari as seen by…» is an invitation to discover the retrospective exhibition John Baldessari. Pure Beauty through the eyes of five chosen guests, who will offer their personal selec… Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-with-mariana-castillo-deball-and-irene-kopelman This workshop teaches participants how to apply literary strategies to the process of visual creation. Its methodology is based on group and individual exercises and the subsequent discussion of results. The exercises are inspired by some of the stra… Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-by-lynne-cooke-on-the-exhibition-rodney-graham-through-the-forest Lecture by Lynne Cooke on the exhibition Rodney Graham. Through the Forest Lynne Cooke is deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS) in Madrid. In 1991 she began working as a curator at the Dia Art Foundation (New Yo… Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /noses-and-ears-portraits- MACBA for Families This activity is part of the MACBA for Families program. Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /variations-a-showcase-of-sound-appropriationism Concerts program Variations. A Showcase of Sound Appropriationism offers an introduction to the history of sampling and sound appropriationism guided by some of its leading figures, all of who have a militant, provocative discourse in relation to… Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-between-john-baldessari-and-bartomeu-mari Conversation between John Baldessari and Bartomeu Marí To mark the opening of the retrospective John Baldessari. Pure Beauty, the artist and MACBA director, Bartomeu Marí, will discuss some of the ideas that emerge from his work. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-eureka-science-on-the-move Children's film programme Science, like art, has allowed us to see and understand the world in a new way. Science doesn't just reveal the world from the objective and verifiable point of view, it also requires imagination to move forward, and at e… Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /helvetica Screening and Debate with Experimental Jetset Can typography be political? Helvetica shows that it is not only the content, but also the form, that conveys the message. This film offers a fascinating presentation of the history of this legendary t… Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /rodney-graham-through-the-forest-1 This exhibition brings together a hundred or so works by the Canadian artist Rodney Graham done between 1978 and 2008 and taken from public and private collections in Europe and North America. Graham uses different supports (books, video, sculpture,… Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /but-wheres-the-coast-rodney-graham-and-art-in-vancouver Lecture by Grant Arnold on the exhibition Rodney Graham. Through the Forest * "But Where's the Coast?" is a line from Rodney Graham's songs titled "Man, I Really Miss the Coast" [Author's Note] Grant Arnold is Audain Curator of British Columbia… Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /what-is-the-macba- MACBA for Families "What is the MACBA?" is an unusual tour through the Museum’s exhibition spaces, offering an entertaining, interactive approach to contemporary art in which both parents and kids can give their honest opinion on the works display… Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT /macba-for-families Family Activities Every weekend, the MACBA offers an ongoing program targeted at families, which combines tours of the exhibition galleries with workshops and film screenings. The Museum opens up to families with the intention of offering a space… Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT /tawfik-saleh Film program This program presents a selection of works by Egyptian filmmaker Tawfiq Saleh (Alexandria, 1927), one of the representatives of modern Arabic anti-colonial intelligentsia. The films have been selected by North American artist of Pales… Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT /discussion-with-stuart-bailey Discussion with Stuart Bailey Stuart Bailey is an artist and, along with David Reinfurt, the co-editor of the magazine Dot Dot Dot. Together they founded the Dexter Sinister bookshop and print shop in 2006. Bailey also co-authored Appendix Appendi… Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT /discussion-with-will-holder-and-alexander-waterman Discussion with Will Holder and Alexander Waterman Will Holder (London, 1969) is a publisher, writer and artist who explores graphic form. By transforming stories into posters, giving performances that bring written texts to life or applying editi… Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT /guattari-wont-stop-proliferating Seminar PEI Open Program Right from the start of the jointly produced output of Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, and up until quite recently, there has been a marked tendency to erase the former from the scene that was created inseparably by bot… Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /el-mundo-explicado-the-world-explained Performance by Erick Beltrán El mundo explicado is the title of a curious encyclopaedia that is written and printed on a daily basis before the eyes of the viewer at the MACBA Documentation Center. A project conceived by the artist Erick Beltrán,… Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /family-activities-cage-cunningham-autumn … Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /fernand-deligny-permit-draw-see-1 Seminar MACBA seeks to make the work of Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) better known to the general Spanish public by publishing a selection of his texts, entitled Fernand Deligny. Permit, Draw, See and organising a seminar and film season devoted to… Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /conference-debate-every-letter-i-write-is-not-a-love-letter-inventing-sociality-with-ray-johnsons-postal-system Ina Blom (Universitetet i Oslo), author of The Postal Performance of Ray Johnson (MIT Press, 2003) will talk about the artist and lead a debate in which exhibition curator, Alex Sainsbury (director of the Raven Row Gallery, London), will participate. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /fernand-deligny-permit-draw-see Film series MACBA seeks to make the work of Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) better known to the general Spanish public by publishing a selection of his texts, entitled Fernand Deligny. Permit, Draw, See and organising a seminar and film season devoted… Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /art-accessible Workshop on accessibility in museums This seminar is organised by Articket (www.articketbcn.org) and Caixa Catalunya's Social Projects. Articket brings together the seven best museums of Barcelona (Museu Picasso, La Pedrera, Fundació Antoni T… Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /cage-cunningham-autumn Cinema, performance and lectures The convergence of two major events in Barcelona this autumn, the MACBA exhibition The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art —the first major Spanish retrospective on the North American avant-garde co… Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /all-around-us-is-music Workshop-tour of the exhibition "The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art" The exhibition is Spain's first major retrospective focusing on North American avant-garde musician John Cage (1912-1992), an artist who developed a music com… Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /modernologies-1 Guided tour by Teresa Grandas, coordinator of the exibition The aim of this exhibition is to achieve an account of the state of artistic research and to discuss selected contributions to the subject matter that appear central after two to three de… Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /those-who-are-involved Irit Rogoff lecture To coincide with her visit to Barcelona as a guest of the Department of Art History, Barcelona University, Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths (London University) will give a lecture on participation in cult… Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-the-rules-of-the-game Children's film series Over four sessions, The Rules of the Game explores the world of children from the perspective of play, fun, games and the learning of its rules as a way of perceiving reality and becoming part of it. The program aims to awak… Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /workshops-for-students-from-a-secondary-school-and-a-uec-shared-schooling-unit Since 2004, the MACBA has been organising workshops in collaboration with the Miquel Tarradell Secondary School and the Shared Schooling Unit of the Casal dels Infants del Raval, aimed at students from both of these educational institutions, and dire… Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-for-users-of-mental-health-day-centres In collaboration with Fòrum Salut Mental (Barcelona) Since 2001, the MACBA, in collaboration with Fòrum Salut Mental (Mental Health Forum) Barcelona, has organised an annual workshop for users of day centres, directed by the psychoanalysts Montser… Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /modernity-and-after Film programme This film programme reflects the legacy of modernity and its complex reception in contemporary artistic practices through a selection of audiovisual works by some of the artists included in Modernologies, as well as films directly r… Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-history-of-exhibitions-beyond-the-ideology-of-the-white-cube-part-one Course in art and contemporary culture Though the history of art has been largely built on an analysis of individual works, another way of writing that history could involve an analysis of exhibitions. Discourse on contemporary art is mainly furth… Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /family-workshops-during-the-merce-celebrations Family activity for children Once again, the MACBA inaugurates its season of educational activities with an outdoor workshop for the whole family during the Mercè Celebrations. The activity starts inside the Museum, where an educator gives a talk… Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-anarchy-of-silence-john-cage-and-experimental-art-2 Guided tour by Julia Robinson, curator of the exhibition The display will trace a path through the artist's career, from his initial works in the 1930s, pieces that broadened the parameters of percussion music by incorporating the most unconventio… Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /why-is-modernity-so-unique-and-attractive-for-visual-artists-today- Round tables In the past few years, the reference to the visual symbols of modernity, the reappropriation of geometric abstraction and the recycling of popular culture and its materials have become common resources in artistic practice. Contempora… Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /xiv-international-lem-festival Concerts program As part of the LEM 2009 14th Experimental Music Meeting, three international names are being presented at the MACBA Auditorium: the musician/composer Wobbly (United States), the guitarist Jochen Arbeit (Germany) and the quartet Fr… Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /on-the-margins-of-art-creation-and-political-engagement-1 Guided tour by Mela Dávila, head of the Study Center Curated by Guy Schraenen, this exhibition presents a broad overview of the various ways in which artists from the second half of the 20th century have placed their creative capacity at the servi… Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /1st-expressart-portable-museum-forum The Expressart. Portable Museum project has now been running for two school years, and many teachers and students all over Catalonia have already had the opportunity to work with it. The project is theoretically aimed at early childhood and primary s… Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT /post-rock- Grec 2009 Concert Series In his March 1994 review of the album Hex for Mojo magazine, British music critic Simon Reynolds used the term post-rock to describe the music of the group Bark Psychosis. Although it was not the first time the label was u… Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT /time-as-matter-macba-collection-new-acquisitions With a view to showing the works acquired by the MACBA Collection in the last two years, as yet unseen in that context, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art devotes all of its exhibition space to its Collection. This presentation accentuates the… Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT /sonar-2009 As every year, the museum will be opening its exhibitions to festival-goers and hosting the Sonarcomplex stage, among other activities. During the festival, entry into the museum will be limited exclusively to those holding Sonar tickets, and the Mus… Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT /picasso-my-master-or-how-rodney-graham-appropriates-picasso Guided tour in conjunction with the exhibition on Rodney Graham The exhibition focusing on Canadian artist Rodney Graham will present works spanning two decades, from 1978 to 2008. In his complex work, Graham uses appropriation techniques so as to… Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT /about-educational-programs-4 Presentation of the programs for the 2009-2010 school year The MACBA's educational programs reach beyond a merely static and aesthetic contemplation of a work of art: they show the student the artist's intention, encouraging reflection and extrapo… Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-1 For early childhood and primary education students The MACBA extends an invitation to schools to participate in ongoing scheduled tours/workshops through the Museum exhibitions so that the visit becomes a cultural experience, not just more work. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-2 Program for secondary education and high school students Visits geared towards Jr High and High school students hope to make the works of art significant and intelligible, breaking with the preconceived idea that Museum visits are simply boring co… Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-edgar-pera-children-and-godchildren Cinema series Part of the Portugal Convida09 festival, The Edgar Pêra Children and Godchildren Portuguese film sessions examine the work of experimental cinematographer Edgar Pêra (Lisbon, 1960) and of several young Portuguese directors who have w… Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT /with-a-japanese-accent-osamu-tezuka A film program for children Little Histories of Cinema offers a first look at Japanese animation through the work of one of its great storytellers, Osamu Tezuka. Manga (comic) and anime (cartoons) would not be what they are today without the o… Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /time-as-matter Summer Workshop The new presentation of the MACBA collection includes a set of works which explore the ideology of play and the selfless acquisition of pleasure. Having contemplated and discussed the work of Palle Nielsen, Peter Friedl and Öyvind… Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-night-of-the-museums On Saturday 16th May the MACBA will participate in the Night of the Museums and offer free admission from 7 pm to 1 am. Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-uncertainty-principle Cinema, performance, lectures video and audio Located in the MACBA Chapel, The Uncertainty Principle is an intensive programme that through lectures, performances, films, videos and artists' presentations will analyse the many different ways of ge… Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /nits-de-macba-1 As is customary, in the summer on Thursdays and Fridays the MACBA opens until midnight. Likewise, the bar on the terrace on Level 1 of the Museum will remain open until 24 September. The price of admission also includes the guided tours that take… Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /visual-histories-feminist-queer-and-trans-narratives-versus-the-historiography-of-art Seminar PEI Open Program With the participation of Marina Grzinic, Catherine Lord, Richard Meyer, Juan Antonio Suárez, Frank Wagner and Tim Stüttgen among others. Presenter: Beatriz Preciado. In recent years the relationship between art, femini… Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /lem-spring-lapse-extra-murs-three-nights-of-sound-art-from-portugal Concert program Gràcia Territori Sonor elects once again to collaborate with the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and to offer a program that brings some of the most representative examples of experimental, innovatory music and sound creation… Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-by-michael-snow Linked with the American avant-garde in his beginnings, Michael Snow has had a personal, multidisciplinary career that has made him a referential figure within the visual arts and a pioneer in video art. Michael Snow's work aims to challenge our a… Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /working-on-the-project-atlas-with-alice-creischer-and-andreas-siekmann Workshop directed by Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann In 1929 the economist and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882 Vienna, Austria – 1945 Oxford, United Kingdom) and the artist and graphic designer Gerd Arntz (1900 Remscheid – 1988) began their co… Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /john-cage Monographic course curated by Carmen Pardo This course, organised in connection with the exhibition The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art, which will open at the MACBA in Autumn 2009, will trace a course through the career of John… Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /mon-llibre Book festival for boys and girls Món Llibre is a literature festival aimed at boys and girls up to 12 years old that has its origin in the Any del Llibre i la Lectura (2005). Organized by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, it relies on the part… Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /launch-of-the-book-public-photographic-spaces-propaganda-exhibitions-from-pressa-to-the-family-of-man-1928-1955 Public Photographic Spaces. Propaganda Exhibitions, from Pressa to The Family of Man, 1928-1955. This monographic book, ground-breaking in its genre, will be officially launched by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) at the Raval br… Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /visit-for-families-during-easter A space for dialogue for parents and children focused on the exhibition of Cildo Meireles A completely red room, the sound of balls falling while we see them at rest at the same time, standing before a blind mirror... From his first works in the… Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-deleuze-connections Lecture by John Rajchman John Rajchman is Professor and Director of the Modern Art M.A. Programs in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Among his books are Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy (1985); Le Sav… Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /reality-cuts-around-the-films-of-gordon-matta-clark Film program The camera was a constant element within Gordon Matta-Clark's artistic process. After starting out as an instrument for recording his performances, it very quickly became a tool for perceiving the architectural, urban and social space… Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /absorption-and-resistance-identity-rethorics-and-marks-of-visibility Seminar. Outcome of the Art After Feminism Throughout the two-year duration of each biennial Independent Studies Program (PEI), students participate in a monographic workshop that articulates the continuity of the whole syllabus in a practical man… Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-new-productivisms Seminar The revolutionary Soviet art produced between the 1910s and the 1930s still has a significant input into many aspects of our cultural model. However, the predominant means of evoking it have historically fluctuated between fetishising its… Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-led-by-thomas-bayrle … Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /what-is-architecture- Workshop for children The Museum is the place where art works are exhibited, but it is also a place in the city, a building with distinctive spaces and unusual spatial qualities. This activity proposes a series of games that will allow girls an… Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-film-universe-of-joan-brossa Cinema-cabaret This programme offers a new look at the cinema in terms of the poetic luxuriance of Joan Brossa by rescuing some of the favourite titles in his personal cinemathèque. Programmed within the framework of Barribrossa 2009. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /cildo-meireles-1 Guided tour by Bartomeu Marí, MACBA's director The work of the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles (Rio de Janeiro, 1948) stands out not only for its social, political and aesthetic commitment, but also for its conceptual rigour and capacity to rattle… Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-tropicalia-effect Concert series "Tropicalismo" refers to the contextualisation of an aesthetic tradition at a particular time and place: the late sixties in Brazil, where the plastic arts meet bossa nova, samba and anarchism, experimental theatre and rock'n'roll. No… Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /thomas-bayrle-ive-a-feeling-were-not-in-kansas-anymore-1 Guided tour by the curator, Chus Martinez Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937) is considered one of the leading representatives of the reception of the Pop movement in Germany. Using a highly diverse range of mediums including prints on paper, models, scu… Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /transdykequeer-micropolitics-deviant-activism-before-and-after-aids Seminar. Outcome of the Art After Feminism Throughout the two-year duration of each biennial Independent Studies Program (PEI), students participate in a monographic workshop that articulates the continuity of the whole syllabus in a practical man… Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /poetics-and-politics-of-deconstruction-with-regard-to-jacques-derrida Seminar This seminar seeks to address the poetic-political dimension of deconstruction. Firstly, by analysing the creative potential of deconstructive strategies on the basis of viewing and discussing Safaa Fathy's film with Derrida (D'ailleurs,… Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /peut-etre-un-tour-inopportune-thinking-in-michel-foucault Monographic course led by Miguel Morey The aim of the course is to undertake a general presentation of the ideas of Michel Foucault, by considering how the use of an inopportune point of view of sorts orientates and drives his theoretical decision… Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-boing-boing-upa-the-revolution-of-modern-animation Children's film series «To talk about animation design in the fifties without mentioning United Productions of America (UPA) is like talking about the great film comics without mentioning Chaplin or Keaton.» Amid Amidi In the late 1940s, a g… Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /rote-sonnered-sun-1969-rudolf-thome Film programme With an introduction by Chus Martínez, MACBA chief curator and curator of the exhibition Thomas Bayrle. I've a Feeling we're not in Kansas Anymore, who will present the film and discuss its relationship with the artist's work. R… Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /tropicalia-movement-and-moment Lecture and concert by Arto Lindsay Arto Lindsay (b. 1953) was born in the United States, but grew up in Brazil during the Tropicalia movement in the sixties. From his works about architecture of the late seventies to his bossa nova albums from th… Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-between-thomas-bayrle-and-lars-bang-larsen-theorist-and-curator Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937) is considered one of the leading representatives of the reception of the Pop movement in Germany. Active since the late sixties, his work explores how the process of production, repetition and reading of an image is linke… Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /fendercats Performance The Fendercats project emerged from the connections and disconnections among Micha Schulze, Stefan Müller and Sergej Jensen since 1988. With two CDs under their belt in a previous incarnation as Süd (deutsch), the definitive boost for… Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /obama-the-world-and-the-construction-of-another-possible-world … Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT /where-the-political-was-or-went-astray Seminar. Outcome of the Art After Feminism Throughout the two-year duration of each biennial Independent Studies Program (PEI), students participate in a monographic workshop that articulates the continuity of the whole syllabus in a practical man… Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT /rabascall-production-1964-1982-1 Guided tour by Joan Rabascall and Bartomeu Marí This exhibition analyses Rabascall's production during the early sixties to the early eighties, a key era in the artist's career as it enables us to decipher the central code of his concerns. Rabasc… Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-between-joan-rabascall-and-writer-jordi-coca Rabascall's work may be situated in the setting of a 'perverse', steely vision of criticism of the object and the consumption unfolding in Europe, in contrast to the fascination for the industrial product of American Pop. An expert in British and Fre… Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT /workshops-with-angels-margarit The Mercat de les Flors, in collaboration with the MACBA, ofers a series of family workshops exploring the plastic arts, the body and movement based on the stage production FlexeIF, with choreographer Àngels Margarit and the dancers from the company… Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-image-of-spain-photography-and-tourism-1951-77 Monographic course led by Carmelo Vega After the Second World War Spain began to shape up as a privileged tourist destination. In the mid-1940s the creation of the State Tourist Office set out to generate an authentic tourist industry via minister… Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-an-approximation-to-contemporary-art Lead by Marta Berrocal This course is addressed to infant and primary school teachers who have already worked, or intend to work, with the "ExpressArt: Portable Museum" project produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). Ob… Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-universal-archive-visits-cum-discussions Led by Enric Jardí, Elisenda Ardèvol, Josep Quetglas and Bernardo Riego Program of four visits-cum-discussions in which different guest speakers comment on particular aspects of the exhibition and enter into a dialog with the public. Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-subaltern-and-representation Symposium Open PEI with the participation of John Beverley and Benita Parry Beginning in the 1980s, the Subaltern Studies Group presented a series a questions that Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakravarty, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Walter Mignolo and m… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /universal-archive-the-condition-of-the-document-and-the-modern-photographic-utopia-1 Guided tour by the curator, Jorge Ribalta The building of a universal visual archive has long been the historic mission of photography. Does the abandonment of realism in current debates about digital photography or post-photography mean the liqui… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /after-neoliberalism-cities-and-systemic-chaos Symposium led and moderated by Neil Smith To use Habermas' felicitous phrase about modernism, we might begin to consider that neoliberalism today is "dead but dominant," and this has implications for how we understand urban change and process. Th… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /keywords-a-vocabulary-for-contemporary-artistic-culture Course in contemporary art and culture Each fall, the Museum offers a course in contemporary art and culture that sets out to give participants the conceptual tools necessary to debate the contemporary artistic practices encompassed in the Museum'… Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /new-urban-rights-social-movements-and-model-for-the-city Round table discussion related to the publication of Paris, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey With the participation of David Harvey, Professor at City University of New York (CUNY); Mauro Castro, participant in the collective called Exit, Expe… Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /politics-of-the-victim-the-poetics-of-documentary-cinema-in-the-1930s Film series This program offers an overview of the expansion of documentary practices in Europe and the United States during the crucial decade of the 1930s, with a special emphasis on the way in which the political tensions of the decade led to… Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-the-illusion-of-movement-photography-in-the-cinema Children's film series Little Histories of Cinema proposes an approach to cinema in terms of ideas or themes drawn from the medium of photography. The season includes pieces by pioneers like Marey or the Lumière Brothers, along with contemporary w… Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exploring-languages Guided tour–workshops for families The activity begins with a tour of the MACBA's Collection to see and talk about works by artists like Dieter Roth, Henri Michaux and Marcel Broodthaers, and to beginning connecting to the ways in which the langua… Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /lem-festival-at-macba-2 Concerts program Gràcia Territori Sonor and the MACBA renew their collaboration during the LEM International Festival with a series of three interventions that seek to trace out a cartography of experimental sound creation based upon the contribut… Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /agape-experimental-notations-the-social-act-of-reading-and-the-possibility-of-action Lecture - concert by Alex Waterman Agape was an exhibition that drew together poets, philosophers, writers, composers and musicians in an attempt to address the role of reading as a social act and set of actions. Whereas writing expresses a space… Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /presentatios-for-educators-2 Programs for educators Throughout the school year we will host a variety of sessions designed to present our workshops to teachers, but also to teach them what they need to know about the supporting materials before taking them out. Attending thes… Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT /art-workshops-during-the-merce-festivities Family workshops Every year the Museum takes part in the Mercè festivities program with an open-air art workshop to which all the family are welcome. First, a monitor from the Museum guides the group on a tour around the MACBA Collection, pointing… Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-2008-09 Project for early childhood and primary education students The MACBA extends an invitation to schools to participate in ongoing scheduled tours/workshops through the Museum exhibitions so that the visit becomes a cultural experience, not just more… Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT /open-door-day The MACBA continues with the "Nit vint-i-cinc" initiative as TV3 celebrates 25 years of history. The Museum will open its doors free of charge from 8 pm to 12 am and offer guided tours to the temporary exhibitions (8.30 pm) and to the permanent co… Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT /possibility-of-action-the-life-of-the-score-1 Guided tour by Barbara Held and Pilar Subirà, curators During the summer months the MACBA Documentation Centre presents an exhibition devoted to the exploration of musical notation, loosely understood as a support for both musical and visual trans… Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /musicactions Concert programme During the 1960's, music mixed with other emerging art forms like performance and the new poetic technologies. It was also imbued with new socio-political and genre meanings that were in sync with the revolutionary spirit of the… Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /speros-touch Lecture by Jon Bird, professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926, Nancy Spero is a pioneer of feminist art and a key figure in the New York protest scene in the 1960s and 70s. She can be placed amo… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /drawing-and-collage-workshop-organised-in-relation-to-the-nancy-spero-exhibition-dissidances Workshop for children A drawing and collage workshop organised in relation to the Nancy Spero exhibition "Dissidances" that experiments with key elements of the artist's work, such as movement, colour and collage, using the fragile nature of paper… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /nancy-spero-dissidances-1 Guided tour by Rosario Peiró, co-curator Spero (Cleveland, Ohio, 1926) is a pioneer of feminist art and a key figure in the New York protest scene in the 1960s and 70s. With a career as an artist and activist that spans more than 50 years, Spero c… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /sonar-2008 As every year, the museum will be opening its exhibitions to festival-goers and hosting the Sonarcomplex stage, among other activities. During the festival, entry into the museum will be limited exclusively to those holding Sonar tickets, and the Mus… Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /possibility-of-action-the-life-of-a-music-score Possibility of action: The life of a music score's related activities. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /molecular-museum-can-cultural-heritage-be-organized-through-non-territorial-networks-towards-a-new-kind-of-institutionality Laboratory The purpose of this laboratory is to open up a debate on the potential that discourses and practices such as open code, Copyleft and Creative Commons offer for a new institutional practice within cultural management and policy models. I… Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /musee-dart-ancien-departement-dart-moderne-rethinking-cultural-organizations-in-the-new-cultural-economy Seminar Directed by George Yúdice with the participation of Maurizio Lazzarato, Ana Carla Fonseca Reis, Gerardo Mosquera and Stephen Wright. Beginning with an analysis of the factors that make up the new "cultural economy," which is defined by… Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /silk-stockings-or-the-20th-century-didnt-happen Workshop with Francesc Torres Directed toward artists, advanced students of fine arts, humanities, art criticism, etc. The workshop will begin with a projection of La bella de Moscú, 1957, presented by Francesc Torres and open to the public. T… Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /nits-de-macba As is now customary on summer Thursdays and Fridays, the MACBA will be open every Thursday and Friday until midnight. In addition, the terrace bar on the first floor is opening and will remain open until 24th September. For the bar-terrace booki… Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /presentation-of-the-book-by-juan-vicente-aliaga-orden-falico-androcentrismo-y-violencia-de-genero-en-las-practicas-artisticas-del-siglo-xx Gender issues have been sidelined in the hegemonic history of art. Art scholars over the decades, basing themselves on visions and viewpoints that are apparently free of ideology, have ignored the visual culture in which femininity and masculinity ar… Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-presentation-of-judith-halberstams-book-female-masculinity Through a detailed historic study of gender deviant characters from literature and film, from the appearance of the butch-fem, drag king, and transsexual and transgender masculinity sub-cultures, Halberstam maps out ways of resisting the normalisatio… Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-museums-night On Saturday 17th May the MACBA will participate in the Night of the Museums and offer free admission from 7 pm to 1 am. There is a guided visit through the temporary exhibitions at 9 pm and one through the MACBA collection at 11 pm. At 10 pm ther… Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT /cities-territories-frontiers-aspects-of-cinema-by-amos-gitai Film series Amos Gitai, (Haifa, 1950), a filmmaker who lives between Israel, France and the United States, has produced more than 40 documentary and fiction films that reflect the strata of Middle Eastern history and the future of modern Israel… Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT /francesc-torres-da-capo-1 Guided tour by Francesc Torres and Bartomeu Marí, MACBA's director Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) is the author of a very vast and varied body of work that fundamentally runs in opposition to the humanist vision of society. His multimedia insta… Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-three-afternoons-at-the-opera Children's film series "Filming opera is quite an impossible task", wrote John Simon in 1975 in New York Magazine. As a double challenge to Simon's statement, Little Histories of Cinema offers a unique review of some of the most famous operas brou… Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT /at-opera-pace-animated-film-workshop-for-children Workshop for children This workshop will use some of the most well known opera classics to help children discover the relationship between music and movement. They will see how to create stories set to different notes by vivifying inanimate object… Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT /easter-workshop-tours-of-the-macba-collection-for-families-and-children Workshop for children ages 5 and up With the help of a guide, families will visit the Museum galleries to see some of the works on display and participate in different activities of identification, recognition, expression, experimentation and crea… Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /art-after-feminism-towards-a-post-feminist-historiography-of-contemporary-art Monographic course coordinated by Beatriz Preciado Contemporary feminist and queer theories have proposed a performative definition of identity which underlines the socially and politically constructed character of the sexes, genders and sexuality… Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-condition-of-the-document-and-the-modern-photographic-utopia Seminar This seminar offers a discussion of some of the key concepts which form the basis of the exhibition The Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia (MACBA, September 2008-January 2009) and continues… Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /facilities-and-resources Permanent teacher's aides The MACBA's educational program team offers aide throughout the schoolyear. Group services can address any questions about the use and purpose of these projects, or you can speak to your own Servicios educativos / Centros… Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-for-secondary-school-2007-08 Visits geared towards Jr High and High school students hope to make the works of art significant and intelligible, breaking with the preconceived idea that Museum visits are simply boring contemplation. They hope to stimulate the students to form the… Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-book-testo-yonqui-by-beatriz-preciado With the author, Carles Guerra and Itziar Ziga Text only available in Spanish Testo yonqui (Espasa-Calpe, 2008) surge de una doble premisa: el deseo de auto-administrarse testosterona y la voluntad de hacerlo fuera de un protocolo médico-jurídi… Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-macba-collection-through-the-expressart-project Based on one of the educational programs that MACBA offers to schools to work with early childhood and primary education students (Expressart Project), we offer you a very special visit focused on adults where you will be able to experience a new way… Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-for-early-childhood-and-primary-education-students-2007-08 The MACBA extends an invitation to schools to participate in ongoing scheduled tours/workshops through the Museum exhibitions so that the visit becomes a cultural experience, not just more work. These visits are lead by a guide and hope to stimula… Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-to-nomeda-gediminas-urbonas-devices-for-action Born in Lithuania and now living in Vilnius, these artists use the city as a catalyst and a starting point for their analysis of the various impacts caused by a new economic, social and political model on different sectors and generations in society. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-with-asier-mendizabal Workshop intended for artists, art critics and students in their final year of Fine Arts, Humanities, Film or Art Criticism studies. Workshop's design: Debate sessions based on readings of selected texts, viewing of film material and the practica… Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /goierri-konpeti-by-asier-mendizabal-and-inyaki-garmendia Screening Goierri Konpeti, by Asier Mendizabal and Iñaki Garmendia, suggests a classical anthropological study in narrative form: a group of humans, some young men who work in the factories of the area and don't speak much; specific cultural beh… Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /yvonne-rainer Film series Curated by Berta Sichel "My films have always been conceived to be somewhat disconcerting." If Yvonne Rainer defines her films as "disconcerting" (both in the sense of surprising and confusing), then watching her films would be… Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-between-lothar-baumgarten-and-kaira-cabanyas The son of an anthropologist, from the beginning of his career as a student of Joseph Beuys' at the Academy in Düsseldorf, Baumgarten became interested in ethnography through reading Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of whose main methodologies is the opposit… Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-origin-of-the-night-amazon-cosmos-by-lothar-baumgarten Video screening Video screening of Lothar Baumgarten's The Origin of the Night (Amazon Cosmos) (1973-77)… Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /photographic-culture-and-the-printed-page-in-20th-century-spain Monographic course The printed page has been the discursive public space par excellence of photography in modernity, and has created a new space for the image alongside models of the archive, on the one hand, and exhibition, on the other, qua domi… Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-with-alice-creischer Guided tour to the exhibition for the Osmotic Compensation Of The Pressure Of Wealth. Alice Creischer: Works and Collaborations with Alice Creischer. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tour-to-lothar-baumgarten-autofocus-retina By Bartomeu Marí This is the first retrospective exhibition in Spain by this German artist (Rheinsberg, 1944). The son of an anthropologist, Baumgarten lived for several years with an indigenous tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon region, and in the 19… Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-between-asier-mendizabal-and-peio-aguirre Asier Mendizabal's practice may be described as a critique of ideology on the basis of the mise en scène of the structures that shape it. To do this, he has no qualms about utilizing the languages and tools most suited to the occasion, be they sculpt… Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT /animated-beasts-animated-film-workshop Workshop for children In this workshop, children will be asked to make a short animated film using stop-motion animation, invented by Ladislaw Starewicz, the main focus of the upcoming Little Histories of Cinema film series. Using a variety of mat… Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-v-ladislaw-starewiczs-bestiary Children's film series Ladislaw Starewicz's (1882-1965) films, an unavoidable reference for stop-motion technology, are notable for their unique staging, usually done with sophisticated animals straddling the zoo and surrealist fantasy. An entomol… Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT /christmas-workshop-expressart-portable-museum Workshop for children ages 3 to 10 In this workshop, children will work with a large box filled with all kinds of materials that will allow them to manipulate objects and then see how artists use them in their work. They will also observe and anal… Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-with-rosalyn-deutsche Within the framework of the Political Imagination class, part of the MACBA's PEI program, professor Rosalyn Deutsche (Modern and Contemporary Art, Feminist, and Urban Theory at Barnard College), author of the book Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics,… Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-tours-of-the-macba-collection-for-families-and-children-2 With the help of a guide, families will visit the Museum galleries to see some of the works on display and participate in different activities of identification, recognition, expression, experimentation and creation, all facilitated by teaching mater… Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT /privatizing-culture Lecture by Chin-tao Wu, followed by a debate with Jordi Martí i Grau Chin-tao Wu's Privatizing Culture is an ambitious attempt at explaining the ways in which mercantile values and the free market's ethos have permeated the Visual Arts since the 1… Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT /contemporary-art-learning-generator Lead by Marta Berrocal This course is for teachers of young and elementary-aged children who participated in our Expressart. Portable Museum project, as well as those who will do so, or who are simply interested in the idea. Contemporary Art is no… Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT /its-the-bomb-the-cold-war-in-animated-film-2 Workshop for children Running at the same time of the Little Histories of Cinema film series, there is an animation workshop for children aged 6 to 12. Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT /its-the-bomb-the-cold-war-in-animated-film Children's film series Almost all of the movies included in the fourth cycle of Little Histories of Cinema were created during the Cold War as didactic tools for young children that taught them about the situation in their own country, be it the U… Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum-1 Expressart. Museo portátil project By Marta Berrocal, creator of the project. + info… Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT /art-workshops-during-the-merce-festival-1 Workshop for children As with every year, the Museum will participate in the Mercè Festival with an outdoors workshop for the entire family. First, a Museum guide will take the group on a tour of the MACBA Collection, focusing on special works… Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT /xi-internacional-lem-festival Concerts series Soon. Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT /be-bomb-panel-discussions-on-the-exhibition Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956 analyses the aesthetic quarrels of the period between 1946 and 1956, the time when New York replaced Paris as the nerve centre of modern art. Curated by the French historian Serge… Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT /be-bomb-the-transatlantic-war-of-images-and-all-that-jazz Film series directed by Serge Guilbaut By the late 1950s, Guy Debord made a radical avant garde film called Hurlement en Faveur de Sade in which a series of black screens, along with some commentary, announced the end of visual naivety. Debordís m… Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /invisible-miracles Workshop by Joan Jonas Invisible miracles was inspired by the films of Panleve. So in a very general way the workshop will be part a preparation for the performance which will alternate between solo and group. Basically I will develop a solo and i… Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /the-hand-reverts-to-its-own-movement Performance by Joan Jonas Joan Jonas' experiments and productions in the late sixties and early seventies were essential in the formulation of performance, video, conceptual art and contemporary theatre. Born in New York in 1936, she is regarded a… Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-and-guided-visit-to-the-exhibition-joan-jonas-timelines By the artist 'I will speak about the use of props in relation to the body in space and time. This can be spoken about in relation to sculpture with examples of my own props that are moved by or move bodies and or small props as objects used in th… Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /about-educational-programs-3 Presentation of the programs for the 2008-2009 school year The MACBA's educational programs reach beyond a merely static and aesthetic contemplation of a work of art: they show the student the artist's intention, encouraging reflection and extrapo… Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /expressart-portable-museum For early childhood and primary education students This project offers resources for work in the classroom, allowing time for an in-depth study and understanding of elements that were only touched on during the guided tour. By opening this up to s… Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /sonido-barcelona- Concert Series cooordinated by Aurelio Santos After WWII, Jazz emerged in North America as a major cultural force, conquering global hegemony and as the Art that truly represented the rupture of antiquated cultural divides between pop culture and… Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-a-theater-without-teather Workshop for children In conjunction with the exhibit A Theater without Theater (May 25-September 11, 2007), we have organized a workshop featuring teachers from the Forn de Teatre Pa'tothom. Our objective is to bring theater into the lives of chi… Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /music-and-contemporary-technology Concerts series The Phonos Foundation promotes the use of the most modern technological advancements, particularly computer-related, to make music. Thanks to their strict cooperation with the IUA (University Institute of Audiovisuals), they offer… Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /independent-studies-programme-pei-2008-2009 With the participation of Xavier Antich, Manuel Asensi, Marcelo Expósito, Jordana Mendelson, Beatriz Preciado, Suely Rolnik, Neil Smith, George Yúdice, José Luis Falcó, Brian Holmes, David Harvey, Linda Williams, Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Joan Roca, Mi… Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT /visits-and-debate-a-theater-without-a-theater-exhibition Several professionals related to the theater theme will comment an aspect of the exhibition, an artist or a piece, which will also suggest a conversation in the Museum galleries. Thursday 21 and 28 June and Thursday 12 and 19 July Time: at 8pm… Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT /keywords A vocabulary for Contemporary Artistic Culture Course/Conference series Each Autumn the Museum offers a course/conference series that will give participants the conceptual tools necessary to debate the contemporary artistic practices encompassed… Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT /macba-nights From May 25 through September 21, each Thursday and Friday the MACBA is extending its hours to 12 pm. After 8 pm ticket prices go down (3 €) and there are guided visits to all exhibitions (at 8.30 pm and 10 pm) MACBA now offers visitors an outdoo… Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT /sonar-2007 As every year, the museum will be opening its exhibitions to festival-goers and hosting the Sonarcomplex stage, among other activities. During the festival, entry into the museum will be limited exclusively to those holding Sonar tickets, and the Mus… Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT /element-water-liquid-deciphering-device Concert PreLEM2007 by Tom Zunk and Alessandro Olla Gràcia Territori Sonor presents a double concert with Tom Zunk (Germany) and Alessandro Olla (Sardinia) and one common nexus: the use of water as material and metaphorical medium for sound creatio… Sat, 12 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT /30-years-of-video-data-bank Videoart program On May 28, Video Data Bank, one of the most important Video Art distributors in the world, will present a compilation of fragments of works from the past 30 years in the MACBA Auditorium. This project, part of the LOOP Festival, c… Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT /x-temporada-avuimusica Concerts program Organized by Associació Catalana de Compositors The MACBA will host part of AvuiMúsica's 10th season, organized by the Catalonian Association of Composers. In this edition, AvuiMúsica stresses debuts, new musical tendencies… Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT /thinking-about-global-conceptualism Seminar The relationships between art and politics have been an endless source of material for the study of artistic behavior since 1960. The role of Totalitarian political regimes and the transition to Democracy undoubtedly marked the panorama of… Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT /judith-butler-unmaking-gender-identity-sexuality-and-secularism Conference, seminar, reading workshop and course By radicalizing theoretical instruments introduced by Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Beauvoir and Wittig, Judith Butler was able to, at the end of the 1980s, carry out one of the most incisive philosoph… Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT /rene-scherer-how-do-we-want-to-be-educated- Lecture and seminar Thirty-seven years after René Schérer's L'Émile Perverti The structure of this conference and seminar is based on the reactions that René Schérer's book L'Émile Perverti (1970 and 2006, translated into Spanish in 1984 under… Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT /nouvelle-vague-porn Conference In the late 1990s, a number of French porn actors and actresses began to make their own films and to think critically about their pornographic practice, giving rise to an unprecedented way of portraying sexuality which, to paraphrase… Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /the-rich-blackberry-collector Program for children aged six and up that combines narration with contemporary music. Concert based on the children's story by Dutchman Godfried Bomans in 1952. Part of the 10th International Season of Musical Influences, Música Fresca, Spring Fes… Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /art-theater-and-its-double Course-conference program Art, Theater and its Double is a course/conference program organized in conjunction with the exhibit A Theater without Theater (MACBA, May-September 2007) with the objective of exploring notions of theatricality used in 2… Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /10th-season-of-the-international-series-of-musical-influences-musica-fresca-spring-festival-2007 Concerts program International meeting of composers, performers and improvisers from different environs of contemporary, experimental, and electronic music, jazz, classical, Eastern music, flamenco, video animation, etc. Participants include Fr… Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /hollis-frampton Film series curated by George Stolz The MACBA presents, for the first time in Spain, a retrospective of the cinematographic work of Hollis Frampton's (Ohio 1936- New York 1984), filmmaker, photographer and pioneer in the digital arts. Frampton fir… Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /the-photographic-building-of-barcelona Course Directed by Jorge Ribalta and Joan Roca The purpose of the course is to consider the way in which Barcelona has been built by photography over the century. In an era when the city's image is a crucial element in economic, social and domestic… Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /helene-cixous-secret-cities Seminar Hélène Cixous is one of the best-known contemporary French writers and thinkers and has a huge influence within the world of postmodernism and gender studies. Born in Oran (Algiers) to a Sephardic Jewish family, she experienced the exclusi… Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /learning-from-norman-mclaren Animated film workshop This workshop, which will take place before the screening, encourages children to improvise a story in which they are the characters. It will then be filmed using the materials and techniques of professional animated film. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /machines Seminar A small informative, educational and exchange seminar with participants in political art groups, collaborative and cooperative art practices, creative political collectives from places on two continents. If there is something to be hi… Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /the-metropolis-in-the-photographic-era Seminar Photography is a product of the industrial era and is emblematic of modern visual culture. According to modernity, photography and vision are synonymous. Thanks to its explosion onto the printed page and its democratization, both of which… Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /city-management Master's program organized by the Foundation of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya The objective of this Master is to give students complementary study focused on action in hopes of orienting them with the changes in organization of urban pr… Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-norman-mclaren-and-animation-cinema Children's film series The third edition of Little Film Histories is dedicated to Scottsman Norman McLaren, known widely as «the poet of animation.» His singularity lies in his combining experimental film with the avant-garde. McLaren was born in… Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT /10-000-francs-reward-the-contemporary-art-museum-dead-or-alive Conference 10,000 francos de recompensa (A 10,000 franc reward) is the title of a 1974 interview given to Irmeline Lebeer by Marcel Broodthaers in which the Belgian artist criticised the fact that art was imprisoned by its own ghosts, used to embe… Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT /capitalism-work-forces-politics-antisystematic-movements Seminar This seminar forms part of the Political Imagination sub-section of the Museum’s 2006-2007 edition of the Program of Independent Studies (PEI). Its objective is to reflect on politics through studying the anti-systematic dynamics that have… Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT /gego-defying-structures-1 Family workshop The family workshop related to the Gego exhibition "Defying Structures" consists of a guided tour followed by a workshop where participants, using a variety of materials, are encouraged to construct their own creations. At the end… Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT /-display-of-discourse Conference This conference aims at establishing a framework for a discussion of the role and meaning of the exhibition as a specific mechanism of the public sphere and, beyond that, on the ideology and the consequences of the regimes of visibility i… Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema-ii Children's film series "Imagine an eye free of the laws of perspective created by Man, an eye not influenced by composed logic, an eye that does not respond to the names of things, but that understands each new object it discovers in life through… Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT /lem-festival-at-macba-1 Concerts program This year's LEM Festival activities will pass through the MACBA. Each night will be dynamically different but complimentary to the whole. The idea is to discover Sonorous Universes from different times and spaces: Sons of Bronson'… Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT /cinemavision-masterpieces-of-experimental-film-1956-2000 Film series curated by Juan Bufill The Cinemavision. Masterpieces of Experimental Film, 1956-2000 series sets out to describe and define exactly what conforms an appropriately specific vision of experimental cinema, distinct from the visions typic… Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT /hot-paint-for-cold-war-1946-1956 Lecture series, directed by Serge Guilbaut This series of lectures which is organized in preparation for the show Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956 will bring in Barcelona a group of internationally known schola… Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT /art-workshops-during-the-merce-festival Workshop for children As we have every year, the Museum will participate in the Mercè Festival activities with an open-air art workshop for the whole family. A Museum guide will accompany groups through the MACBA Collection, calling attention t… Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT /poetics-of-relation Lecture led by Édouard Glissant Due to Mr. Glissant health problems, this lecture has to be cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience Édouard Glissant is a fundamental reference in the discussion on “relationality” as an alternative to the predomi… Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT /about-educational-programs-2 Presentation of the programs for the 2006-2007 school year For children and young adults ages 3-18, the MACBA offers a permanent cycle of tours/workshops during the academic year, some of which include visits to temporary exhibitions (Pablo Palzu… Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT /project-for-early-childhood-and-primary-education-students-1 Expressart. The Portable Museum This project consists of a variety of ideas that are to be developed in the classroom, using the resources (3D objects, images and text) loaned out to the teacher by the Museum. These materials come in a wooden box… Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT /project-for-secondary-education-and-high-school-students-1 Visits- debate: Dilemmas and utopias. Using the MACBA Collection to map the 20th century The project is split into two sessions. The first will take place in the classroom. For the first session, a Museum guide will go to the school to lead the ac… Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT /presentatios-for-educators-1 Programs for educators Throughout the school year we will host a variety of sessions designed to present our workshops to teachers, but also to teach them what they need to know about the supporting materials before taking them out. Attending thes… Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT /amos-gitai-home-a-trilogy Film series and conference As part of the 8th Annual Festival of Young Barcelonese Filmmakers the MACBA will show Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai's (Haifa, 1950) most recent film entitled News from Home/News from House, which debuted at the 2006 Berl… Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT /guided-visit-to-george-brecht-events Julia Robinson, co-curator of this show, will hold a guided tour of the exhibition. It begins with Chance Paintings from 1957 and includes a series of participative works—the Event Objects—, various works that use language as the material prima (part… Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT /the-macba-will-be-open-every-thursday-until-midnight This summer June 29 through September 21, the MACBA is extending its hours to 12 pm. After 8 pm ticket prices go down (3 euros) and there are guided visits to all exhibitions (at 8:30 pm and 10 pm) Concerts, exhibitions and an outdoor café... insi… Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT /spinning-sounds-four-nights-of-sonic-exploration-with-turntables-and-other-instruments Concert series organized by Gràcia Territori Sonor In one of the remote territories of Galaxy Edison the images that envelope the medium which contains recorded music reflect the evolution of our visual culture. In another, even more remote region… Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT /vinyl-records-by-artists Family workshop Working from the exhibition Vinyl. Records and Covers by Artists, the Museum has organized a workshop geared towards families. It will take place on every Wednesday in June and July. The activity starts with a guided tour of the ex… Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT /design-and-new-expositive-formats-objects-products-and-heritage From the supermarket to the Museum. A critical approach Postgraduate program organized by the Escola Superior de Disseny Elisava and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) The MACBA's activities, just like knowledge today, are vari… Mon, 29 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT /institutional-criticism-and-mental-health-from-the-asylum-to-the-institution-of-medicine Debate series coordinated by Clara Bardón, Enric Berenguer, Guillem Homet and Montserrat Puig Antipsychiatry became part of a movement of institutional criticism that went beyond the specific framework of mental health. It was about fighting again… Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT /when-species-meet-feminism-after-cyborgs Conference and seminar with Donna Haraway Listen the lecture here. The 1990's saw a blooming of critical debate concerning the constructs of gender, sexuality and race. Donna Haraway, one of the most original and controversial figures in the… Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT /migrations-globalization-post-national-citizenship Book presentation, work session, and panel discussion The context of the years following the Cold War and the emergence of new transnational realities, which we simplify under the term ‘globalization,' entail a proper change in thinking regarding… Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT /joaquim-jorda-situational-cinema Film and debate series Curated by Carles Guerra Joaquim Jordà's most recent documentary films have become references for a public no longer satisfied with the merely cinematographic. Since 1979, when Jordà shot Numax presenta (Numax Presents), h… Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT /-on-poetry-in-incurable-times With John Beverley, Antonella Corsani, Marcelo Expósito, Brian Holmes, kpD, Maurizio Lazzarato, Suely Rolnik The first part of this conference (November 25 and 26, 2005) offered elements for debate from the point of view of aesthetic theory and th… Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT /of-another-theater-performing-arts-and-new-technologies-1 Lecture by Valentina Valentini Under this title, Valentina Valentini will give a conference as part of the Videoarte y aplicaciones a las artes del espectáculo (Video Art and its application to the stage) post-grad program, a dual collaborative ef… Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT /little-histories-of-cinema Modern Cinema for Children The concept of Little Histories of Cinema arose from the idea of fusing two "histories." In the 1930s Walter Benjamin wrote A Little History of Photography; a brief, written illumination of an era in which a true story… Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT /conceptualism-and-abjection-towards-other-genealogies-of-conceptual-art Debate around the Herbert Collection In his influential 1989 essay on conceptual art, From the Aesthetics of Administration to the Critique of Institutions, Benjamin Buchloh describes how, after its closure, conceptualism became a kind of unconsci… Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT /the-world-as-an-instrument Monographic course and concert series lead by Francisco López For more than fifty years, the "real world" (as opposed to the instrumental universe) has been a prime source for audio creation. Initially, this was a consequence of the technological… Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT /the-condition-of-the-museum-and-the-destiny-of-institutional-criticism Conference and seminar by Benjamin Buchloh In Benjamin Buchloh's influential essay on Conceptual Art "From the Aesthetics of Administration to the Critique of Institutions," he maintains that it became a form of unconsciousness for all artistic pr… Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT /decentered-other-accounts-of-conceptualism-argentina-and-latin-america Class given by Ana Longoni with the participation of Simón Marchán-Fiz and Marcelo Expósito This class will look at some of the Avant-Garde practices and ideas that took place in Argentina and other Latin American countries in the concussed 60s an… Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT /animated-film-workshop This day-long workshop will allow the participants, all children, to create a story with its own decorations and characters that they will then film using a variety of materials and professional techniques borrowed from animated film. Recommende… Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT /feminism-and-deconstruction Conference and seminar by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta, 1942) is known primarily as one of the principle voices of post-colonial theory. Both her conference and the seminar to follow it will focus on the axis of… Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT /another-relationality-rethinking-art-as-experience With Alexander Alberro, Leo Bersani, Claire Bishop, Bernard Blistène, Jesús Carrillo, Helmut Draxler, Kaja Silverman, Beatrice Von Bismark and WHW Relationality is a concept that permits us to controversially intervene in the debate about artistic… Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT /ways-of-being-cinema-aesthetics-subjectivity Leo Bersani seminar Interview to Leo Bersani. You can download the pdf version and read it complet. Question: In Caravaggio's Secrets you analyse the types of relationality implicit in Caravaggio's work. The process of perception appears as a c… Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT /to-make-the-image Directed by Javier Codesal The notion of the anomalous nature of the artist's psyche has remained strong throughout the modern era, making an imbalance in artistic expression seem possible. Within society at large, it is reflected in the existenc… Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT /lem-festival-at-macba Concerts program with Gabriele Hasler and Larry Karush The new auditorium of MACBA opened its doors the last days of 2004. During the first half of this year, the museum has consolidated a very solid programme of cinema and audiovisuals, understan… Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT /macba-workshops-contemporary-art-for-children As it does every year, the Museum is taking part in the Mercè festival celebrations with an activity for children. This year there are two types of workshop, depending on the age group. The youngest children can visit the exhibition rooms, and will t… Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-with-robert-whitman-at-the-macba Whitman (born New York, 1935) will be talking to Lynne Cooke (director of the Dia Art Foundation and the show's curator) about the projects being shown at the exhibition and his own personal experiences at a key moment in the redefining of 20th Centu… Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT /about-educational-programs-1 This academic year 2005-2006, the MACBA is pleased to announce an educational initiative directed towards students and teachers of both elementary and secondary schools. This initiative is aimed towards offering the resources necessary to work with… Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT /project-for-early-childhood-and-primary-education-students This project is directed towards elementary-aged students with the objective of working with the expressive aspects of Contemporary Art. The main idea is to make it clear that Art has infinite possibilities as a means of expression for ideas, feelin… Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT /project-for-secondary-education-and-high-school-students The project for secondary and high school students proposes that they be able to consider some of the issues posed by Contemporary Art by visiting the galleries and viewing part of the MACBA's collection. It is not easy to take on the topics often… Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT /coming-soon-on-this-screen Letterist Cinema, between discrepancy and revolt Film series put together by Eugeni Bonet and Eduard Escoffet Letterist is an art movement founded in Paris in 1945 by the Rumanian poet Isidore Isou. Letterist activity has covered poetry and novel… Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /independent-studies-programme-pei-2006-2007 With the participation of Xavier Antich, Manuel Asensi, Enric Berenguer, Miren Etxezarreta, Marcelo Expósito, Beatriz Preciado, Carlos Prieto and Joan Roca, among others. Check the Independent Studies Program (PEI) 2010-2011 MACBA's Program fo… Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /museum-history-and-collecting Heritage, Authorship, Nation, Modernity and Other Founding Myths of the Museum Course on Contemporary Art and Culture This class hopes to contribute to the reflection on the role of the Museum as an institution with the dual responsibility of con… Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /faktor-bossar Markus Breuss and Tsukiko Amakawa concert. Thursday July 21st 2005, 10 pm. This concert takes part of a series "Una mirada a tres músicas" in collaboration with Gràcia territori Sonor / LEM Festival. "Critics would always comment on the indeli… Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /other-barcelonas Film series Friday 15th and Saturday 16th of July, 2005 The MACBA is contributing to the Raval street festivals with this film series, Other Barcelonas, showing films by various different filmmakers which explore alternative identities of the cit… Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /urban-tours Workshop This summer MACBA presents the exhibitions of two artists: stanley brouwn and Francis Alÿs who, despite coming from different generations and contexts, share a particular interest in moving through the architectural surroundings taking th… Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /sonar-2005 As every year, the museum will be opening its exhibitions to festival-goers and hosting the Sonarcomplex stage, among other activities. During the festival, entry into the museum will be limited exclusively to those holding Sonar tickets. Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT /the-etcetera-collective-everyone-can-do-art Lecture led by Federico Zukerfeld and Loreto Garin Tuesday June 14th, 7:30 pm. The Etcétera collective started at the beginning of 1998, in Buenos Aires. Its members, artists dedicated to developing various different disciplines (poetry, theatr… Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT /video-art-and-its-applications-to-the-performing-arts Postgraduate Course Eugeni Bonet, Course Content Co-ordinator Carles Brià, Technical Co-ordinator The FCB-URL (Facultat de Ciències de la Comunicació de la Universitat Ramon Llull) and the MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) are joinin… Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT /cuando-la-fe-mueve-montanyas Guided visit and presentation of the book Cuando la fe mueve montañas (When Faith can Move Mountains), by Francis Alÿs and Cuauhtémoc Medina On April 11th, five hundred people were brought together to line up next to a 500 metre-diameter sand-dun… Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT /networks-modes-of-action-and-production-in-the-global-society Monographic course of lectures directed by Jesús Carrillo 12th, 13th, 19th and 20th of April, 2005. 7pm – 9pm. The course of lectures attempts an analysis of contemporary culture using as a starting point the reality of an expanding new paradig… Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT /the-brigades-of-light-the-artistic-and-poltical-avant-garde-in-spanish-cinema-1967-1981 Cinema programme directed by Julio Pérez Perucha Let us remember with ruthless clarity how, in October 1967 in Sitges, Catalonia, an assembly of (practising or potential) film-makers laid bare the imposed political, expressive and democratic short… Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /women-race-and-class Conference and Seminar with Angela Davis How is it possible, Angela Davis wonders, after nurturing American feminism as a movement and as political theory at the centre of the abolitionist and workers struggles of the end of the 19th Century, that… Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /new-cognitive-networks Day-long debates 26th and 27th of April at 7:00 pm. The Desacuerdos (Disagreements) project has researched and now presents questions connected with the change that Post-Fordism has caused within the cultural sphere, and with new modes of product… Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /the-factry-and-society-self-employment-and-the-feminization-of-the-production-cycle Debates During these debates, we will look at the modifications being made to the production cycle in which social subjects sell their labour, reproduce their forms of social existence, (re)construct strategies for the production of subjectivity,… Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /is-tucuman-still-burning- Looking at a radical experiment crossing art with politics Talk by Ana Longoni Monday April 4th, at 7:30pm The very rapid process of radicalisation which the Argentinean avant-garde underwent in 1968, culminated in the collective artistic-poli… Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /technologies-of-gender-post-identity-micropolitics Workshop and seminar directed by Beatriz Preciado This workshop occupies a place at the junction between the production of critical discourses about gender, sex and sexuality, attempting to build up activist strategies, and the creation of devices… Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /robert-frank-workshop-poetry-of-the-everyday Every Sunday morning at 11:00, children coming to the museum will be able to take part in our workshop based on the Robert Frank. Storrylines exhibition. Robert Frank (Zurich, 1924), is a modern artist whose personal view of daily life revolution… Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT /guided-tours-to-the-robert-frank-storylines-exhibition With Manolo Laguillo, Pepe Baeza, Joan Fontcuberta, Txema Salvans and David Balsells Wednesdays at 6 pm. to 7 pm. Coinciding with the Visitors' Day, the MACBA is offering a different kind of visit to the "Robert Frank. Storylines" exhibition. P… Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT /robert-frank-film-series Cinema program Every Wednesday at 7 pm. Auditori del MACBA A decision: I put my Leica in a cupboard. Enough of lying in wait, pursuing, sometimes catching the essence of the black and white, the knowledge of where God is. I make films. Now I spe… Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT /looking-east-debating-the-future-of-the-new-barcelona Debating the future of the new Barcelona Public Debates. February - March 2005. Mondays from 19 to 21 h MACBA-UPC (part of the UPC Master's Gestió de la ciutat. Programes i projectes Urban Management, Programs and Projects, directed by Jordi Borj… Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT /the-new-relationship-between-art-and-the-economy The mechanisms of mercantilism of the ‘80s: the role of ARCO Course directed by Alberto López Cuenca 7 to 10 February 2005, from 7 pm to 9 pm Optional practical session: Saturday 12 February at ARCO (Madrid) In Spain in the early ‘80s new in… Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT /grupo-de-arte-callejero-genocides-live-here Co-operation at the base and tools for change Tursday January 27, 2005 at 7.30 pm. Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC) was founded in 1997, made up of artists, photographers and designers. It was based on an extreme questioning of the artistic inst… Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT /architectural-events Lecture led by Vito Acconci Wednesday 26th January 2005, at 7.30 pm. In the early 1980s, Vito Acconci presented his first architectural proposals for public spaces, while in 1988 he founded Acconci Studio, a small collective consisting of archite… Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT /symptomart-discussion-forum Series of debates co-ordinated by Enric Berenguer and Francesc Puntí Tuesdays January 25, February 22, March 29,and May 31 at 7.30 pm These days, art brings together a whole series of debates and practices which go far beyond their most immedia… Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT /criticism-and-everyday-life-theory-of-discourse-and-art-criticism Workshop Directed by Manuel Asensi and Xavier Antich This Workshop is divided into three sections and will work at three distinct rhythms: one essentially theoretical, another practical – which will take the form of a workshop – and a third whic… Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT /allan-sekula-lottery-of-the-sea-2004 Saturday, November 6 at 18 pm. MACBA Auditorium (Plç dels Àngels, 1) Screening of the photographer Allan Sekula's most recent video. Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT /industrial-patrimony-beyond-architecture Third meeting of industrial legacy and innovation Can Ricart – Hangar Passatge del Marques de Santa Isabel, 40 Friday and Saturday, November 5 & 6, all day This meeting (organized by the Fórum Ribera of Besòs, the Associació de Veïns… Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT /work-precariousness-consumption Friday, November 5 at 5pm. FNAC Auditorium – Diagonal Mar (Av. Diagonal 1)… Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT /riscoprire-fellini The Italian Institute of Culture, following the line begun two years ago with the retrospectives of Toto and Zavattini, organizes the international conference RISCOPRIRE FELLINI, which is dedicated to the Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. Within… Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT /harun-farocki-close-reading This workshop will combine the screening of three films with their subsequent critical analysis. Proceeding scene-by-scene and by selecting particular stills, the workshop will experiment with new approaches and discourses—in between the critical ess… Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /harun-farocki-to-think-in-images The work of Harun Farocki, one of the most original, complex and sophisticated within modern German cinema, will be approached through various formats: a film program that will screen a selection of his works, a lecture given by the filmmaker, and a… Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /harun-farocki-subtext-and-subimage Inaugural session of the cinema program: Harun Farocki. To think in images Lecture given by Harun Farocki, filmmaker, and Roger M. Buergel, critic and independent curator and Director of Documenta XII (Kassel, 2007)… Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /presentatios-for-educators Coinciding with the inauguration of certain exhibitions, the Museum offers a special presentation exclusively for educators in early childhood through to high school education. However, if an educator has arranged for a guided tour and has not been a… Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /canto-con-mi-alma By Ines Doujak, Daniela Wick and the Grupo Play-Back Thursday, October 21 at 7:30pm Centre Cívic de La Mina (c/ Venus con c/Ponent) The Grupo Play-Back, from Casal de Gente Mayor de Sant Crist–Badalona, has existed for more than fourteen year… Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-politics-of-images This workshop continues and expands the discussion on the production of images that are politically significant and that Colectivo Situaciones has maintained, together with Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, within the context of the Ex-Argentina… Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-politics-of-images-1 Beginning of the workshop "The politics of images". This workshop continues and expands the discussion on the production of images that are politically significant and that Colectivo Situaciones has maintained, together with Alice Creischer and Andre… Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /other-geopolitical-aesthetics Aspects of contemporary art in the world system's peripheries Course on Contemporary Art and Culture The new installment of this course proposes an investigation of how modern art has been historically produced in non-orthodox ways, far from the… Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-polis Debate tours to the exhibition and the urban fabric in which it takes place. The tours are comprised of three acts (experiences, territories, expressions) and depend on the participation of individuals in the fields of art, urban studies and associat… Sun, 03 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /how-do-we-want-to-be-selfemployed- Given by sergio Bologna. Thursday, September 30 at 7:30pm. Institut Barri Besòs (c/ Pujades, 397) Reflexion on the post-Fordist mentalities of the middle classes, second-generation autonomous work and the role of education in capitalist restructu… Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-polis-at-school Debate tour to the exhibition in the Institut Besòs and the presentation of the "Parlament dels Joves del Besòs" project. Recommended for primary and secondary school educators with the possibility of programming subsequent visits for school groups. Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /capitalism-globalization-city The model of the city and its consequences Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Institut Barri Besòs (c/ Pujades 397) The objective of these debates is to present what form of social producing, living and organization the current model of the city being created… Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-education-and-power Roundtable discussion including Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Roger Buergel, Joan Roca, Joan Badia and Marina Subirats . This roundtable presents the exhibition "How do we want to be governed?" and proposes a debate on current methods of artistic practi… Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /home-is-what-you-make-of-it By Maja Bajevic. Presented on the occasion of the first opening of the exhibition "How do we want to be governed?" CENTRE CÍVIC DE LA MINA at 10 pm. c/ Venus s/n 08930 Sant Adrià del Besòs Telèfon: 93 462 00 20… Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-tours-for-early-childhood-and-primary-education-students-1 The main objective of the educational project for children in early childhood and primary education is to place students at the center of the tour in order to convert them into protagonists at various moments of the tour's trajectory through the muse… Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /dialogues-related-to-the-collection-1 In addition to the critical rethinking of the very concept of the museum supported MACBA, Dialogues Related to the Collection offers new models of mediation between the collection and the adolescents that regularly visit the Museum. Following the… Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-incoherent-arts-bohemia-and-avant-garde Lecture by Juan José Lahuerta, Professor of the History of Art at the School of Architecture Barcelona. This lecture forms part of the activities related to the exhibition "Art and Utopia: Limited Action," an exhibition that analyzes the effects o… Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /looking-at-the-macba-collection We will discover the museum's Collection with the help of didactic kits and by practicing with classmates and monitors. Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /sonar-2004 SonarMática 1st Universal Micronations Exhibition After having showcased the creative realities of Berlin, London and Helsinki, and following the celebration of its ten years of existence with an exhibition hosting the best electronic art of the… Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /diaporama04 Diaporama 04 is an activity that forms part of Photographic Spring 2004, bringing together a programme of projections devoted to issues such as the representation of mass events, the comparison of forms of circulation of image and sound, postpornogra… Sat, 05 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-mallarmean-effect The objective of this seminar is to provide an in depth consideration of the thesis of "Art and Utopia: Limited Action," an exhibition that analyzes the effects of Stephane Mallarme's (1842-1898) poetic on modern art, beginning in the first decade of… Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-utopia-limited-action Lecture by Jean-François Chevrier, curator of the exhibition. Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /hitchcocks-secret-agents-graphics Disguised as thrillers, Hitchcock's films are as subversive as the spies around which their plots often revolve. Tom Cohen's exploration of Hitchcock emphasizes the web of signatures and marking systems inscribed on and around his films. They are "se… Mon, 24 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-revolution-will-not-be-televised "You will not be able to stay at home, brother, because the revolution will not be televised: the revolution will be live." (Gill Scott Heron sings The Revolution will not be Televised, 1974) This symposium brings together a historical and polit… Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /adrift-through-the-circuits-of-feminine-precariousness "ADRIFT (through the circuits of feminine precariousness)" is a book made up of diaries, conversations, stories and theoretical notes on the making precarious of feminine existence and is accompanied by a video made of snapshots and collages. It is a… Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /antonin-artaud-thought-and-body This course takes as its point of departure the analysis of the correspondence between Antonin Artaud and Jacques Rivière, written when Artaud was a young unknown poet and while Rivière was the director of the prestigious literary journal Nouvelle Re… Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /historical-capitalism-general-intellect-constituent-power-communism Historical capitalism, general intellect, constituent power, communism This seminar by Antonio Negri will focus on the elaboration of a concept of the political that is suited for thinking the process of social constitution within the temporal ho… Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /free-licences-in-art-issues Produced by Arteleku-UNIA Arteypensamiento (Espai Obert, April 15-18). With the participation of Javier Gutierrez Vicen, General Director of Vegap in Madrid, and Jorge Cortell, Professor in the Facultad de Derecho at the Universidad de Valencia. M… Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /obscene-bodies-and-spectacular-specimens Lecture-performance by Del Lagrace Volcano related to the workshop Technologies of gender. Minority identities and their critical representations (MACBA, February-November 2004), directed by Beatriz Preciado. Del Lagrace Volcano is a photographer,… Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /symptomart-interdisciplinary-forum Coordinated by Enric Berenguer and Clara Garí Thursdays, March 25, April 29, May 27, at 7:30 pm. Art today initiates a series of debates and practices that go beyond what we might call its more immediate reality. The philosopher, thinker, thera… Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /air-war-on-memory Alexander Kluge's reconstruction of the public sphere Lecture held by Marcelo Expósito in the context of the cinema programme. Marcelo Expósito. Artist, writer and independent curator. Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-poetics-of-material Approximations to the work of Antoni Tàpies Directed by Manuel J. Borja Villel. This course offers a fresh critical reading of the work of Antoni Tàpies taking as its starting point a central element in his work, the material, its genesis and th… Mon, 08 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /material-texture-and-expression Starting with a visit to a selection of the exhibited works, the use Antoni Tàpies makes of different materials in his works will be examined, observing the way in which a process has developed which has slowly led him to incorporate materials such a… Sun, 07 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /2004-historical-capitalism-and-systemic-chaos The global situation in the face of the decline of American power Lecture by Immanuel Wallerstein Today the United States is a superpower lacking real power, a global leader that no one follows and few respect, and a nation dangerously drifting… Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /alexander-kluge This programme, organised in collaboration with the Goethe Institut in Barcelona and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, aims to give a vision of the cinematic production of Alexander Kluge (Halberstadt, Germany, 1932), film-maker, writer, writer and film cr… Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /leaving-the-paradoxes-of-life Alexander Kluge's pragmatic tales Lecture by Gertrud Köch in the context of the cinema programme. Gertrud Koch is professor of Film Studies at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin. She has taught in Europe and the USA and published on aesthetics, fem… Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /antoni-tapies-retrospective-1 Lecture led by Manuel J. Borja Villel. Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /body-writing This workshop sets out to establish parallelisms between two types of artistic language, dance and painting, in such a way that in the creative process of the workshop it becomes possible to develop communication based both on body movements (an elem… Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /antoni-tapies-paintings-materials Among Catalan artists, Antoni Tàpies is one who has thoroughly reflected on the pictorial support—a reflection through which he has developed a personal discourse centered on the material possibilities of the work of art. Materials, textures, signs,… Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /technologies-of-gender Minority sexualities and their critical representations The nineties represented a boom for critical discourses on the construction of gender, sexuality and race. Teresa de Lauretis and Donna Haraway, employing the Foucauldian notion of biopower,… Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /avant-garde-and-subculture-learning-from-lettrism In "The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War", Stewart Home outlines the subterranean history of mid-to-late 20th century avant-gardes in which artistic and political vanguardism emerge as indissociable. In a comprehensive… Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-criticism-in-the-post-political-era Directed by Manuel Asensi and Xavier Antich. Without taking any great risk, one might propose the following equation: to proclaim the death of grand metanarratives, pace Lyotard's well known diagnosis, is to prohibit the possibility of critiquing… Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT /from-prostitutes-to-sex-workers The people who charge for their sexual services have been called many things, from the most stigmatising, like ‘hookers', to the ones that provide a better self-image, such as ‘sex workers', by way of the more or less neutral term ‘prostitutes'. Soci… Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT /constructing-the-public This seminar will provide a critical analysis of the models for the tasks of education and mediation in museums, in particular the obligation to adopt marketing strategies to which the cultural institutions are subject today. In the debates the speak… Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /conversation Event in the context of Dias&Riedweg exhibition at MACBA. Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /visual-cultures-practices The aim of the debate is to present different multidisciplinary ways of working in the field of secondary education. The project is designed for teachers in secondary education and baccalaureate in a broad sense, i.e., not restricted to the field of… Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /internet-as-a-museal-space This event, to mark the launch of the new MACBA Web site, aims to initiate a public debate on the use of the Web by museums and on the specific nature of the medium as regards the way it is used by artists. The Internet and digital media have made… Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /four-steps-with-zavattini Cesare Zavattini (1902-1989) was the scriptwriter and film theoretician who inspired Italian Neorealism after the Second World War, in particular through his association with the director Vittorio de Sica. This programme is one of a series of events… Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /trinh-t-minh-ha Documentary is/not a name This film and video programme presents for the first time in the country the complete works of the Vietnamese film-maker Trinh T. Minh-ha. Born in Hanoi (1952), in 1970 she moved to the United States, where she studied mu… Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /dialogues-related-to-the-collection This project establishes ways to approach art works for the youth that visit the museum. Following the model of critical rethinking that MACBA offers in all of its projects, the point of departure for Dialogues related to the Collection is not to be… Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /speaking-images Adrian Piper presented her work in the context of her exhibition at MACBA. Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /the-shadow-line Part of the project Desacuerdos. On art, politics and the public sphere in Spain (a MACBA-Arteleku-UNIA-CASA collaboration). The course is planned to form a relatively chronological journey through some of the outstanding moments in the constitutio… Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /tactile-surfaces This workshop sets out to observe up close the epidermis of the works, their surface, that which remains in direct contact with the outside world, that which the eye can trace following the frame or looking at the unevennesses of its skin. Beyond thi… Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /collaborative-projects MACBA proposes that schools (from early childhood to high school education) and universities generate collaborative projects on specific themes related to contemporary art. In order to set a project in motion an educator should submit a proposal to t… Wed, 01 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /special-visits Occasionally MACBA offers tours to groups that, due to their specialization, require access to works, spaces and services that are not generally open to the public. These tours are restricted and are attended by the directors of the specific departme… Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT /about-educational-programs For the 2003-2004 school year MACBA's education programs for students and educators continues the line of inquiry initiated in previous years. Following the Museum's exhibition programming, the programs will work above all from the MACBA Collection a… Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT /workshop-tours-for-early-childhood-and-primary-education-students Every year the museum offers a project for students in early childhood and primary education that departs from the MACBA Collection and certain temporary exhibitions that take place during the same school year. The project aims to stimulate children… Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT /the-relaunching-of-criticism The book El nuevo espíritu del capitalismo (The new spirit of capitalism, Madrid: Akal, 2002), by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello, traces the outlines of the new spirit of capitalism from a new analysis of business management texts which have provide… Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT /postporn-marathon Pornography, postpornography: the aesthetics and politics of sexual representation Directed by BEATRIZ PRECIADO The Postporn Marathon is an intensive project which includes lectures, discussions, performances, showings and documents to ana… Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT /counter-power Crisis hit Argentina, there is no doubt about it. There has been a lot of information about it, and the faces victimised by barbarianism are well known for sure. It will be known too that there were victimisers, people that benefited from all this. T… Thu, 05 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT /the-territory-of-the-genial-republic The debate will provide a forum for discussion of Robert Filliou's work from a non-academic point of view, and a tribute to a historic but very little known figure. The symposium will provide elements of some of his less well-known areas of activity,… Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT /dreams-and-conflicts In this lecture, the director of the Venice Biennale, Francesco Bonami, will be presenting the project that structures the next number. It aims to take maximum advantage of the structure of the exhibition to compose an international panorama which, l… Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT /narration-autonomy-multitude The five Bolognese who make up Wu Ming belonged to the historic core of the people who adopted the multiple name Luther Blissett in 1994 to put into practice a communicative guerrilla and cultural sabotage project (Luther Blissett. Pánico en las rede… Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT /spaces-for-insurgence "As Benjamin pointed out when analysing the Parisian shopping arcades of the 19th century, the whole environment seemed designed to induce nirvana rather than critical awareness. And the purpose of many other cultural institutions –museums and cultur… Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT /living-with-pop Avantgarde art and mass culture in Europe in the 1960s Directed by Jesús Carrillo The aim of the course is to consider a redefinition of the borders between avantgarde art and mass culture in Europe in the sixties from different points of view. Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT /so-different-so-appealing Consumption, city life and popular culture in abundance capitalism Between the end of the Second World War and the crises of 68, the world lived through a historical period dominated by the tense geopolitical balance of the Cold War. Western Europ… Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT /- -… Fri, 07 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT /image-look-and-apperance Consequences on Lacanian Theory Lecture workshop Directed by Enric Berenguer… Mon, 03 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT /from-les-glories-to-besos Directed by Muntadas and Ramon Parramon In the context of the exhibition Muntadas On Translation: Museum (MACBA, November 2002 - February 2003) and as part of the master's degree in Design and Public Space at Elisava Higher School of Design. Part… Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT /broken-mirrors Photography as pseudodocumentary discourse Held by Joan Fontcuberta Photography was born both as a form of document and a form of entertainment. Throughout its history those two categories, which have often been opposed, have led to different so… Wed, 08 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT /a-global-art- This year, the course on contemporary art and culture analyses the conditions created by globalisation and, in particular, its impact on art and culture. The debate on cultural globalisation has usually been posed in terms of identity policies, as… Wed, 09 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT /fantastic-voyages A documentary series for television in seven parts, written and directed by Christoph Dreher and produced by Rotraut Pape for the German channel ZDF which reviews and analyses the history of the video clip from interviews with groups and professional… Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT /aesthetics-and-politics-a-bond-to-be-reconsidered A seminar held by Jacques Rancière, Philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the University París VII. Mon, 13 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT /clairhearness Clairhearness is a music workshop which is not designed only for musicians, but is also aimed at anyone wanting to develop their activity in the world of dance, audiovisuals, performance art, installation and all the arts of the time. And, of course,… Mon, 06 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT /a-reading-of-histoires-du-cinema-de-jean-luc-godard -… Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT /scream-with-your-hands-scream-with-your-eyes This course seeks to offer an up-to-date appreciation of the panorama of European painting in the years after the Second World War, a period generally subsumed under the generic concept of Informalism. In attempting to avoid taking that category for… Tue, 05 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT /good-vibes This programme bears witness to the histories of our musical cultures, with a special emphasis on their political and social aspects; in other words, taking into account not only artistic forms but also the new alternative life-styles and the context… Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT /refounding-criticism Co-ordinated by Martí Peran In terms of criticism, in that this is the first season of these Workshops, the guiding intention is to articulate a panoramic perspective of the various fronts which have a bearing on the exercise of art criticism. In… Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT /the-writings-of-art Among the major thematic strands running through this second cycle of workshops will be: writing as process and product, the notion of discourse, the notion of theory, the order and the disorder of discourse, deconstruction, hermeneutics, etc.... The… Tue, 08 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT /postmodern-conditions According to leading theoreticians of the postmodern such as David Harvey or Fredric Jameson, the sixties was the decade in which the historical conditions of posmodernity or late capitalism crystallized: post-Fordism, the Cold War and the culminatio… Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 GMT /sonar-2001 As happened in the 2000 edition, for the three days of Sónar the Capella dels Àngels became the festival's main focus for experiments with sound: Sónar de Día's most daring scenario, housing the most extreme and original ideas on the international ad… Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT /arte-etno-tecno A project by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. The MACBA, along with the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, presented a project by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Michelle Ceballos and Juan Ybarra, based on these art… Mon, 21 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT /from-politics-to-the-political Readings of texts by Jacques Rancière Directed by Xavier Antich The MACBA presents a new format of theory workshop geared towards advanced students and professionals in the different areas of cultural production, centred on the reading and grou… Mon, 07 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT /phantom-history-image-politics-history The seminar will debate and expand upon some of the themes that underline the Portabella exhibition: history after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the current condition of the relation between image and history, contemporary efforts to narrate memory an… Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT /plotless-stories-pere-portabellas-films It is a thematic series of viewings presented by critics, historians and directors. The programme is organised into double sessions, a kind of montage work based on films directed by Portabella and other films by Godard, Bergman, Straub/Huillet, Alex… Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT /art-madness-and-cure Cycle of debates co-ordinated by Enric Berenguer and Francesc Puntí Does art exist only for its own sake, or is there a more necessary art? There is an art of the cure and a cure for art. At times the formeris possible, at times it is not possible… Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT /of-direct-action-considered-as-one-of-the-fine-arts Co-ordinated by Jordi Claramonte (Fiambrera Obrera) The workshop will serve to open up a site of exchange and discussion, of a sharing of works. But fundamentally it will be made up of working groups that will develop projects and campaigns in the… Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT /thinking-art The second biennial Future Visions event proposes an international seminar of reflection on the diverse models and different concepts and projects that underlie the seemingly commonplace formula of the contemporary art biennial or thematic event, its… Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT /philippe-thomas-readymades-belong-to-everyone On the occasion of the exhibition Philippe Thomas - the readymade pertenecen a all, the MACBA, in collaboration with the Institut Français in Barcelona, has organized a cycle of films that have had an influence on the artist's work. Philippe Thomas'… Sun, 01 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT /modernities-1 This year, the main focus of the course is a reappraisal of the concept of modernity in the arts of the 20th century. Where does the concept of modernity as a central category of art since the 19th century come from and how is it generated? What impl… Sun, 01 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT /dance-days-2000 John & Van Gorp run a contemporary dance company. In their work they fuse elements of physical comedy with idiosyncratic and energetic dance. In this workshop they set out to work with young artists, dancers and actores interesed in the idea of the i… Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT /sonar-2000 The Sónar 2000 programme offers a whole variety of ways of approaching a similar idea with a marked tendency towards abstraction. The result is a scan of the present state of the sound art underground that goes beyond currents and tendencies to revea… Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT /force-fields-1 This programme comprises three types of film-making which, in their different ways, underpin the thesis explored in the exhibition. These include films that specifically engage in what we might describe as "cosmic speculation" and other key themes of… Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT /financial-capital-property-and-culture The purpose of this seminar is to construct an intellectual framework of reflection on the process of transformation of urban public spaces that is taking place in Western cities. In what way is the current transformation of the capitalist economies… Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-public-space Directed by Sergi Aguilar and Ramon Parramon This workshop sets out to articulate a debate on the changes of thinking in relation to the concept of public art, from the commemorative monument to the latest forms of intervention in the public space… Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:00:00 GMT /der-stand-der-dinge Screening of the film by Wim Wenders, with an introduction by Pep Agut, explaining the influence of the film on his work. In collaboration with the Goethe Institut… Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:00:00 GMT /michelangelo-pistoletto-1 Screening of documentary films on the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto. Mon, 07 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT /towards-a-high-popular-culture-2 This seminar, with a markedly multidisciplinary character, continues the debate initiated back in November on the so-called "high culture" and "popular culture", in which Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Greil Marcus, Andreas Huyssen and Alexander García Dü… Thu, 03 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT /towards-a-high-popular-culture-1 This seminar seeks to open up a debate between so-called "high culture" and "popular culture"; in other words, to consider the existence or not of these boundaries. The profound transformation of the production and the consumption of culture in conte… Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-society-the-last-fifty-years-1949-1999 The course on contemporary art and culture is envisaged as a permanent activity of the Museum, taking place each autumn. The course is planned as an introduction to contemporary art within the historico-temporal framework of the collection. During th… Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00:00 GMT /takahiko-iimura Lecture and presentation of videos by Takahiko Iimura (Tokyo, 1937), one of the artists who pioneered video art and avant-garde film in Japan. This presentation is conceived as a short anthology of Iimura's work, beginning in 1962 and evolving throug… Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT /vi-barcelona-festival-of-contemporary-musics -… Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT /cycle-of-soviet-avant-garde-film The exhibition El Lissitzky. Beyond abstraction. Photography, design and collaborations brings together some of the least-known work of this Soviet artist: his experiments in the field of photography, photo-montage and graphic and exhibition design,… Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT /festival-grec99 In the context of the Festival Grec: Caligula, by Albert Camus Adaptation by Jan Lauwers A production by Needcompany (Belgium) first presented at Documenta X (Kassel, Germany) in 1997, specially adapted for museum spaces. Fri, 09 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT /the-mexterminator Presentation of The Mexterminator, by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a Mexican artist living in the USA. This interactive performance takes the form of a ‘guided visit' that presents live specimens, a series of ethnographic monsters or ‘multicultural Frankens… Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT /images-painting-as-representation The seminar seeks to examine the concept of representation and image, and establish the relations between them, exploring the currently evanescent limits of painting as a discipline. The concept of image should be understood here in its broadest s… Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT /course-in-contemporary-painting The course analyses painting in the context of the various disciplines of contemporary art. In the final years of the century, painting has come to be configured more as a place than a praxis. Painting no longer only makes reference to what it contai… Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT /globalization-and-cultural-diferentiation Globalization and cultural differentiation is the first of a series of twice-yearly seminars organized by the CCCB and the MACBA. This seminar sets out to discuss various issues raised by the phenomenon of globalization, and more concretely to look a… Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT /grup-de-treball-1 -… Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT /drawing-workshop Directed by Ramon Guillén-Balmes As a complement to the Susana Solano and William Kentridge exhibitions, in which drawing has a central role, this workshop sets out to investigate the different ways of approaching and understanding the act of draw… Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT