
Activity
Blind Dates in Rita McBride’s 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 Oferta pública / Public Tender, MACBA has invited a series of artists to activate Arena every month for the four-month duration of the show, under the umbrella title Blind Dates. The programme is the latest addition to the long history of Arena, which has included many different activities instigated by the the host institutions or by McBride herself. A concurrent programme, TBA (To Be Announced) has been set aside for spontaneous activations of Arena. The first TBA session is scheduled to take place on 14, 15 and 16 June, during the Sónar festival.