The Keys to Video in the MACBA Collection. Let’s Visit The Act of Filming

Accompanied by Claudia Segura and Daniel Gasol, we explore three exhibitions that place video at the centre of the MACBA Collection.

The Act of Filming: Video in the MACBA Collection presents a new selection from the museum collection through three exhibitions dealing with the moving image from different perspectives and contexts. The tour allows video to be approached as a form of attention to reality, able to document, activate ways of seeing and give visibility to narratives that are often relegated to the fringes of official history.

The visit will feature Claudia Segura – Head of the MACBA Collection and curator of Ecos: Videos Donated by the Han Nefkens Foundation and Pere Portabella: The Committed Gaze – and Daniel Gasol – co-curator of Counter-Information: Video-Nou / Servei de Vídeo Comunitari. With their guidance, we will explore the keys to interpreting these exhibitions in order to better understand the place of video in the MACBA Collection, as well as its importance in the construction of contemporary artistic and political narratives.

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Daniel Gasol

Claudia Segura Campins

MACBA Thirty

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