From November 28, 2023 to April 1, 2024

The Algerian artist Lydia Ourahmane gives a voice to 108 artists and collectives in the MACBA Tower as part of a major participatory and radical work in which everything is open-ended. Actions, talks, screenings and performances waiting to interact with the visitors.

The installations, videos, sculptures and sound works of Lydia Ourahmane address contemporary issues such as migration, colonialism and geopolitics. Inhabiting, gathering, sharing, being permeable..., these are all qualities that infuse the site-specific project 108 Days by Lydia Ourahmane (Saïda, Algeria, 1992) in the Museum tower. The title refers both to the days the exhibition is open to the public and to the number of participants who have been invited by the artist to engage with the space during this period.

108 Days carries an extended city context into the Museum by foregrounding individuals or collectives who form part of its social landscape. These guests have been specifically chosen by Ourahmane, who has lived in Barcelona since 2021. The space is not occupied by any finished artwork, or objects, but by what each participant deems urgent and incisive, with the aim of promoting critical dialogue and exchange with the space, the institutional framework and whoever enters and spends time in it. With this work, the artist presents a significant alteration to the way the Museum normally operates, firstly by leaving this gallery space empty, aside from those elements necessary for the performance of any foreseeable task, and secondly by interpreting the Museum's commission to produce an artwork by inviting 108 participants. The trust between the artist, the institution, the guests and the audience is what lends significance to the work.

Ourahmane’s praxis poses the following questions: How can the institutional structures and parameters that define contemporary societies be defied? How can vigilance and the impositions of bureaucracy be overturned? How can artworks involve active and effective protests? Through these inquiries Ourahmane brings the personal into the political field and the domestic into the field of history.

Artist

Lydia Ourahmane

Curated by

Guim Camps, Hiuwai Chu

Programa

01.04.24

Exquisite Corpse

12:00 pm - 7:30 pm: For the finissage of 108 Days —a celebration of all the moments that have been shared in the tower and beyond with the community of people who have accompanied us on this meaningful journey. We invite you to join us for a toast and participate in a collective drawing.

31.03.24

Erich Weiss

Rosebud

A tribute performance to Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, scientist and co-inventor of frequency hopping. Original soundtrack in collaboration with Klaus Neumann and Maria Seltsova.

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Performance.

30.03.24

Sara Rahman

An open exercise

Sara Rahman presents new musical compositions and sketches of an upcoming project, combining field recordings, voice, electronics and an ensemble of three cellists. In the entrance of the tower, Sara will show a video installation of her recent work 'you go, once before' which collates footage from Palestinian and Lebanese films to form a visual essay commissioned by Sound and Music & British Music Collection.

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Open rehersal.

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Performance.

29.03.24

Penique Productions

Lila

10:00 am - 8:00 pm: When we were invited to exhibit at MACBA, we thought of having an open and massive party: inviting artists, friends and family to occupy the Institution, celebrate the meeting, claim the space and reclaim its social function. Then we thought that maybe not many people would come and we decided to make a poem, a flower.

28.03.24

Carmen

11 Placeta del Pi

12:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Carmen's voice, which resonates in the streets of the Gothic Quarter, is transported to the tower for a recital.

27.03.24

MACBALIFE

Art on Wheels

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: With its modern architecture and wide esplanades, MACBA has become a meeting place for both the local and international skateboarding community, attracting skaters from all over the world who come to challenge their skills at this iconic venue. Today we will literally bring the outside inside, with a day of skate and filming inside the museum.

25.03.2024

CANTDEFINE.ME

IRREGULAR

11:00 am- 7:20 pm: A photographic exhibition of an imaginary of a political party, where we will use satire to expose different perspectives of the diverse migrant community currently living in the surrounding neighbourhood. The topics to be presented will focus on borders, institutional racism and immigration laws.

24.03.2024

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memes

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: People live in Macba. The museum's name is a space which is both interior and exterior. On the exterior people find places to live, sleep and avoid the rain. Inside dies at night. Who cares for you? Who do you care about? A puzzle for kids and adults.

23.03.2024

Nicolas Regis Beliot (Mookie) & Nadia Otshudi & Ayman Ghali

An A/V Journey Through Decolonization

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm: In the dance of light and shadow, we unveil narratives etched in the collective memory of nations striving for emancipation. Our installation serves as a testament to the interconnectedness of struggles, a visual
poetry that transcends geographic boundaries to reveal the shared essence of human yearning for freedom.

22.03.2024

Sergi Ballesté

Barter: the pleasure of exchange

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: The Barter Market will give us the opportunity, so necessary these days, to look at each other, talk and seek connections through the small objects of desire that you will find. Come and see... Don't forget to bring something to exchange. Do we have a deal?

21.03.2024

Sara Brown

Words

1:30 pm - 6:45 pm: A long-durational (4h) meditation on the words that remain imprinted on a body. Using markers, wire, tape, and a needle, Sara Brown writes, cuts, and sews the words that have left marks on the top of their tights suit,
inviting visitors to participate in a ritual of reappropriation of trauma. Music by Terper.

5:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Skin removal ritual and exhibition.

20.03.2024

Igna

Niandra Lades

11:00 am - 7:20 pm: An installation that reconfigures the plastic values and formality of the reformed spaces.

18.03.2024

Robert Fox

ith

11:00 am- 19:00 pm: ‘ith’ is a whimsical video essay, choreographing words visually and audibly to postulate on questions that can be read as existential and profoundly significant yet at the same time devoid of meaning and incredibly vague. The work is made in collaboration with collage & animation artist Josh Quinton.

17.03.2024

Graziella Baravalle

Conversations with a psychoanalys

12:30 pm- 2:30 pm: A presentation on psychoanalysis that addresses how it works, what it can and cannot cure, as it reviews some of its fundamental concepts such as the unconscious, transference, dreams, symptoms, desire and anguish, or exposes its legacy in culture and the arts, followed by an open question and answer session.

16.03.2024

e.c.s

estancia caprichosa seriada

10:00 am - 8:00 pm: Eight ex-students and a ex-teacher will meet again for the activation of a graphic, whimsical and collective printing workshop. What relationships are constructed inside, outside and beyond the school and the institution?

15.03.2024

Ricardo Cárdenas & estudiants del Programa Espais C de l'Escola Ramon Llull

Island-Archipelago-Continent. A few many voices

Espais C is a non-traditional pedagogical experience of contemporary art in public schools in Barcelona. Based on the flexible concept of a Community Radio of the students, we propose an open studio of sound exercises and dialogue with the public; to think, do and reflect on the meaning of the individual, the group and the collective.

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Espais C from Ramon Llull School.

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Open microphone.

14.03.2024

Darko Morandini, Andrea Herrera & Marcos Oteiza

A body was given to the player

11:00 am - 7:20 pm: As in a video game, perceiving reality is an action that requires inhabiting and moving through it in order to interpret it and make sense of it. This piece is a dialogue between simulation, as the inhabited physical space, and stimulation, as its active perception that accompanies Darko Morandini's musical proposal to embody the sensation of exploration and learning through notes that seem to be discovered at the same time as they are played.

6:15 pm - 6:40 pm: Performance.

13.03.2024

Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido (ITS)

Cultural Chronodelinquency: Trial to MACBA

11:30 - 19:00 h: In culture we also suffer from chronodelinquency: the rhythms of projects faithfully follow the neoliberal mandate of acceleration and productivity. We propose to judge cultural institutions according to the penal code of the ITS: in this case, a popular trial to MACBA by its workers and visitors, halfway between collective performance and political critique.

11.03.2024

Dani Cantó

A memory of a copy of a memory

12:00 pm - 7:20 pm: Photographer Dani Cantó proposes a live intervention on his photographic archive: a disorderly memory of Barcelona's underground music. The instant, frozen in a memory, will be turned into a souvenir through a readymade factory that will build an exhibition with the participation of visitors.

10.03.2024

Mariana Giustina

To love without loving
To die without dying

10:00 am - 2:00 pm: Mariana Giustina shares with the public her professional experience as a dancer, choreographer and dance educator through images, reflections and a dance performance by the students of the Professional Dance Conservatory of the Barcelona Theater Institute, of which she is the artistic director.

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Presentation and performance.

09.03..2024

Playlist Curada

Whisper, find, listen

10:00 am - 8:00 pm: Whisper in the ear those songs that have taken us to childhood memories or to the hollow of heartbreak. A meeting to share those sounds that pass through us or move us in other ways.

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Workshop.

08.03.2024

Centre de Documentació Ca la Dona

11:00 am - 7:20 pm: A selection from Ca la Dona Documentation Center's archive of posters for March 8, International Women's Day.

07.03.2024

Jordi Mir Garcia

Will the Gioconda solve the ecological and civilisational crisis?

As the United Nations says, we live in times of global boiling, with emissions causing climate change that must be stopped. Based on the mobilisation actions in museums, we will reflect on what has been effective throughout history and what can be effective today for the changes that are considered necessary to achieve.

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm: Ask a researcher. Conversation with Jordi Mir.

5:30 pm - 7:20 pm: Debate.

06.03.2024

Bani Brusadin

Synthetic Minds

11:00 am - 7:20 pm: Bani will play his Synthetic Minds podcast (Medialab Matadero, 2023-2024) and discuss about it with the occasional visitors over a drink. The podcast consists of 5 conversations with contemporary artists about the infrastructure of intelligence at a planetary scale: Infrastructural Horror, Technocapital Singularities, Statistical Truths, Toy Worlds and Model Failures.

4:00 p,m - 7:00 pm: Shared listening session and debate.

04.03.2024

Xavier Moron

Ritual of the Mediterranean Triad

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: A reproposal of the triad formed by bread, wine and olive oil, fundamental products of Western civilisation that transcended their significance as mere food to be placed alongside divinity in different Mediterranean cultures.

6:30 pm: Ritual

03.03.2024

Sejal Parekh

(Belong Nowhere)

10:30 am - 2:30 pm: The artist invites you to co-create a flag, using the same ancestral and domestic materials as her (Belong Nowhere) series, in order to render a communal topography that helps us to consider self sovereignty. The intervention will be accompanied by readings and will conclude by hanging the flag.

02.03.2024

Lisa Paul

Pupal

10:00 am - 8:00 pm: Isolation has become prevalent over community in the XXI century human experience. Pupal portrays the yearn for real connection in a fictional oneiric world through music, live action, and animation. With the intent of demystifying the creative practice, the installation is an open film shooting displaying the current state of the project.

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Performance I

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Performance II

01.03.2024

Marta Bassols

Dreams Never End

12:00 pm - 7:20 pm: I have always dreamed of having a band and doing concerts. But my voice is average and I don't know how to play instruments. Sometimes I catch myself assuming that I'm not going to do it anymore. Now I am left in a museum, looking for musicians to put together a band for one day.

19:00 pm: Concert.

29.02.2024

Jonah Kawri Ramírez Sturzenegger

Happy autodeathand(re)birth day!

2:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Celebration of the 4 year anniversary of the first time I took testosterone on the 29th of February 2020. Simultaneously, there is an altar composed of all the testosterone bottles I have consumed so far intertwined with candles, insinuating a simil between the two elements.

28.02.2024

Ferran Valdés Torrella

The environment is you

11:00 am - 7:20 pm: (To make visible) the environment and external influences as the foundation of inspiration over the ego and the individual.

26.02.2024

Fer Boyd

The world we are making must also seem inevitable

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: Etel Adnan says: 'A simple question can raise reality’s temperature'. This installation considers the narrative of ‘no going back now’, and how to re-weaponise the feeling of inevitability away from malign forces..

25.02.2024

Virginia Expósito

Shelter in shelter

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: An installation that presents a personal, hidden and safe space separating us from the outside in a simple and reflexive way. Basic architectural needs are materialised, combined with mental needs on an individual level. What is the only thing you would take to Shelter if you had to face and survive in a situation of vulnerability?

24.02.2024

Sin Sync

Sin Sync and the need for non-mixed spaces within education

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Talk in which Niña Jacarandá tells the story of the feminist and anti-colonial DJ school Sin Sync; what needs motivate this project and what it has been like to maintain it for 5 years.

23.02.2024

Sindicato Otras

Ask a Whore. We are more than our profession

A small exhibition of the artistic talent of some sex workers, presentations on online sex work and street sex work, and a discussion with the public, which will be able to approach them and ask, out of respect, whatever they want to know.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Online sex work.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Street prostitution: The whole truth about the Camp Nou.

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Ask a Whore.

22.02.2024

Helena Matamala

Ceremony and Systemic Ritual for the healing of the patriarchal wound

Recovering ancestral technologies - Ritual space for healing collective of the patriarchal wound through systemic movements. The sacred space will remain open throughout the day to receive individual and collective healing and guidance from your spirits.

11:00 am - 6:00 pm: Opening of the sacred space.

6:00 pm - 7:20 pm: Collective healing ritual ceremony.

21.02.2024

Metzineres

IMAGINING A POSSIBLE RAVAL

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: We are women and people of diverse gender regardless of socially accepted standards. Our voices and gazes, historically silenced and ignored, today become 12 works of art. Through them we imagine a utopian Raval in which our existences are not systematically violated and violated.

19.02.2024

Open Cultural Center

Beyond Borders: Voices Reclaiming the Refugee Narrative

1:30 pm - 7:00 pm: If we ask you to describe a refugee, what would you say? At Open Cultural Center, we want to redefine the refugee narrative and with this exhibition, we invite you to explore the artwork, testimonies, and photos of people within our community, showcasing stories that go beyond narrow stereotypes.

18.02.2024

Diego Blas, Andreu Font-Ribera, Lluís Galbany, Eduard Massó, Clara Murgui & Oriol Pujolàs

Have a coffee with a cosmologist

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: Cosmology is the science that studies the evolution of the universe. Cosmologists have answered many questions, but there are still many open problems. If you are curious about these topics, you are welcome to have a coffee while talking to Diego Blas, Andreu Font-Ribera, Lluís Galbany, Eduard Massó, Clara Murgui and Oriol Pujolàs. These physicists work at the Institute of High Energy Physics, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and at the Institute of Space Sciences.

17.02.2024

16.02.2024

Escuela Camino4

The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff and the Art of Sacred Dance

2-day session that presents the Gurdjieff's Teachings; an opportunity to discover new ways of self-knowledge and creative expression in order to awaken Consciousness and connect with the Divine.

11:00 am - 2:00 pm: Meditative practice - Piano Solo - Reading - Presentation of Gurdjieff's Sacred Dances - Open class of Sacred Dances.

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Enneagram in movement.

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Piano solo - Presentation of Gurdjieff's Sacred Dances – Excerpts from the play The Struggle of the Magicians.

15.02.2024

Søren Evinson & Infinite Cooking Pot students

Inifinite Cooking Pot // Vanity Poverty Revenge

11:00 am - 1:30 pm: Infinite Cooking Pot, an independent alternative education and performance practice program that meets weekly for training, development and analysis of the practices developed, will occupy the room.

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Vanity Poverty Revenge, a new work under investigation, will activate some of its materials.

14.02.2024

Yehia Kandeel & Ahmad Hammoud

MOT

12:00 pm- 7:20 pm: Inspired by the practices of Maraṇasati (Mindfulness of Death), "MOT" is an installation prompting visitors to question the basic values of life when contemplating death becomes a privilege.

12.02.2024

Elvira Dyangani Ose

Panafricanism as an institution

MACBA Director, Elvira Dyangani Ose, proposes a temporary library, a space of knowledge sharing and collective screenings and readings through which to explore together exhibition material for "Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica". A MACBA collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and KANAL in Brussels that is set to arrive in Barcelona in 2025.

6:00 pm: As part of the project Lydia Ourahmane. 108 Days, on the 66th, there will be a poetic exchange between Agnès Agboton and Elvira Dyangani Ose in the agora of the exhibition called Song for Many Movements. Scenarios of Collective Creation on floor 0 of the museum. Agnès Agboton is a writer and storyteller. Together with the director of MACBA, Elvira Dyangani Ose, they will exchange poems and have a conversation around notions such as the Pan-African anthology, the poetics of the diaspora, and poetry as an element of resistance.

11.02.2024

Anna STOrtiz

What is life for you?

11:00 am - 2:30 pm: 10 years later, I have the opportunity to ask the same questions I asked myself when I was 20 years old. What are you doing here? What do you want to achieve in life? How do you feel about your own existence? Questions that are scary, but that have a place in this space for selfreflection, where understanding, active listening and the exchange of ideas are welcome.

10.02.2024

Pangsen 胖森在欧洲

Chinese streaming on Alibaba Taobao

1:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Chinese streaming of interaction with the public.

09.02.2024

Claudia Dyboski

البرد من راحة لا

No respite from the cold

11:00 am - 7:30 pm : 1.9 million people in Gaza have begun 2024 in a state of displacement. The UN estimates that at lest 500.000 Palestinians - almost a quarter of Gaza’s population - no longer have a home to return to. Nearly 1.4 million IDPs are sheltering in 155 UNRWA facilities across the Gaza strip. Most of them have clustered around official shelters in Rafah, forced to live in makeshift tents like this one.

08.02.2024

Mujer Diáspora

From the Heart: Poetic Memory of immigrant and refugee women in Barcelona

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (Action): Women in the diaspora from countries in war and violence, position themselves as builders of peace. They use poetry to express their experiences and analysis about the situation of migrants and refugees in Catalonia.

07.02.2024

Guariota

Take away my fear of being alone

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: "Take away my fear of being alone" is a window to shared intimacy, an affective invitation to cross the white walls of the museum and look at the simplicity, the strength of the solitudes of black bodies, migrant bodies that take refuge in self-made spaces to breathe, rest, flee in dreams and "fall like the soft and terrible night".

05.02.2024

Criticaldías

Classic, Gold, Premium. (It's difficult to be baroque, more difficult to be opaque)

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: This installation-action points to the role of Catalunya and Spain in the invention of racial labeling in science and medicine. It combines archival documents with dream maps, URLs and animation to weave a circular, oneiric narrative that imagines what other forms of social reproduction are possible.

04.02.2024

Rebelión Científica

La academia en un mundo en llamas

11:00 am - 1:00 pm: A conversation about the challenges and alternatives within and beyond the academy, to achieve a useful academy in the face of the profound environmental crisis in which we find ourselves. In addition, there will be a dynamic to connect people with similar concerns. The event is aimed at researchers, but open to everyone. Moderated by Javier de la Casa and Justyna Swidrak. Participa Anabel Sánchez, Oficina d’Impacte CREAF; Lucía Muñoz Sueiro: member of Research & Degrowth; Carmen Tanaka, member of Akasha Hub; Marta Moreno Muñoz, La Cultura Declara la Emergencia

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm: Conectando historias: Speed-Dating: Active listening exercise that aims to connect people with similar interests to create a community of researchers with a critical point of view. Moderated by Javier de la Casa & Justyna Swidrak.

03.02.2024

Rebel·lió o Extinció - XR Barcelona

Activismo climático

Different activities to train, activate, get out of eco-anxiety and debate how we can face the climate crisis in an appropriate way.
10:00 am - 1:00 pm: Empathy Café + The Work that Reconnects: Active listening dynamics based on the methodology of Joanna Macy's "Work that Reconnects." How do we accompany each other in the face of crises? Transforming and channeling emotions such as eco-anxiety into active hope. Feeling part of nature, defending itself. It is recommended to pre-register: rebel [at] xrbarcelona [dot] org (and it is better to come at 10am). Facilitated by Llorenç Witty, Neus Crous-Costa, Dani Parera and Daniel Turon.
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Nonviolent direct action NVDA workshop.
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Welcome to Extinction Rebellion: Olga Pradas & Tom Johson, Comissió d’Acollida i Difusió XR BCN.
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Round table: “Citizens' Climate Assemblies under debate”. Debate about Climate Citizen Assemblies with the participation of Extinction Rebellion activists and experts on participatory democracy and ecosocial transition. Moderated by Ariadna Trillas, journalist of Alternativas Económicas. Participates Itziar González, social architect and expert in citizen cooperation; Àlex Guillamón, member of XR Barcelona and Entrepobles; Gisela Torrents, technician in Climate Justice and Environmental Rights; Observatori DESCA; Eva Vilaseca, Xarxa d'Economia Solidària.
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Screening of The Walk by Marta Moreno Muñoz + Q&A.

02.02.2024

iki yos piña narváez funes

i will go to

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: This installation is a decree of blessing. An epistemic-spiritual manifestation. They are living residues of protective prayers, for the lives that flee. It is an arrest of time and an opening of other temporal chronosophies to think who are and who are not, to feel who lives and who dies.

01.02.2024

Ramón Ayala

Cold mountain: compassion, contemplation and silence

11:00 am - 2:00 pm (Action): It is urgent to be silent, to silence everything and to turn to intimacy. The urgency that grips the world cannot be resolved if it is not in each one of us. Different monastic traditions agree on a few tools: silence, emptying, meditation, presence and contemplation. From the bodhisattvas and Buddhist masters to the Castilian mystics such as San Juan de la Cruz or the quietist Miguel de Molinos. The space of the tower is transformed for a few hours into a place of retreat, ritual and abandonment.

31.01.2024

Madeleine Stack

The State Archive of Love Letters

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: An archive in progress, collecting relationship documents sent to immigration departments around the world, transforming intimate records into bureaucratic evidence in order to ‘prove love’.

29.01.2024

Paola Idrontino

Breathing Waves

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: Breathing Waves presents our oceans through a series of costumes. The audience is invited to experience the enchanting beauty hidden beneath the waves. A glimpse into the devastating effects of coral bleaching caused by climate change. When we see ourselves as part of nature, we understand that saving nature is really about saving ourselves.

6:30 pm: Dance activation by Sara Brown.

28.01.2024

Sunny Graves

The Persistence of Resistance

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: A reflection on the persistence and endurance of protest, struggle and resistance via the continuous percussing of a series of protest rhythms, exploring both the resonance of the space and the resonance that occurs between bodies in the space, opening up the possibility for collective action. An act of sonic resistance, solidarity and collective healing.

27.01.2024

Vera Martín Zelich

22.10.2023 - ...

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: On October 22, I began saving and reviewing articles, videos and interviews about the genocide in Palestine. Over the days I realized that many of these materials also deal with the agency contained in language and images.

11:00 am - 5:00 pm: Radio Alhara.

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Activatión.

26.01.2024

Marta Echaves

Dame veneno

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: Opening of the research process in which I question myself about the relationship between drug consumption/pharmaceuticals, our working conditions and the imaginaries of our discomfort. An open conversation to elaborate a collective survey that makes it possible to politicise the existential precariousness that organises our lives.

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Collective survey.

25.01.2024

Fembloc

Disconnect from your ex. Learn how to protect your devices, accounts and data when you are separating

12:00 pm- 7:00 pm: Fembloc will offer a space to share strategies and tools for digital feminist self-defence, especially in the context of a separation. We will present the recently developed guide "Disconnect from your ex" which is designed to create or improve digital safety strategies for people facing a separation process, either from someone with whom they have had some kind of sexual or romantic relationship, or from a family relationship.

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Workshop "Disconnect from your ex".

24.01.2024

pantea

Who cleaned this place?

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: Inspired by Françoise Vergès’s call to ask ourselves when we occupy a space: “who cleaned this place?”, pantea invites the audience to clean the Museum tower that has remained uncleaned for one day. She joins the cleaning staff for the day, live broadcasting the labour into the tower.

22.01.2024

Nina Emocional & Teo Ruffini

Spectral Resonator

11:00 am- 7:00 pm: Bring me a sound with your voice, with any part of your body, with any object or element. This is an open process and call to explore the ways an artistic process contaminates the museum. How solitude transforms into community, and how intimacy is reflected inside a music producer’s craft. Unmediated, without censorship. While this happens, Enobio (an EEG system) is reading the electrical activity of Nina’s brain. Brain wave data is collected, processed and transformed into emotional data.

21.01.2024

Lucía Egaña Rojas

The rubbing

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: A small exploration of somatic writing. In this action I seek to focus attention on the production processes with the body and its listening.

20.01.2024

Mark Cunningham

Resonance

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm / 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm / 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm: A collective action open to anyone who wishes to participate, an exploration of the acoustic resonance in the tower space and how we resonate with it, using instruments provided by the artist or one's own voice. It's about sound more than music and silence as much as sound, about listening and intuitive response.

19.01.2024

Isabel Valli & Francesca Albanese

Invocation

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm. MACBA Auditorium: Invoking international law: a conversation with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories.

18.01.2024

MANS O

Live polyrhythms through the speakers of appearing phones v1

3:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Multitrack sound live performance reproduced through the visitor's phones.

17.01.2024

R♾️

G♾️D

Exploring Divinity through Mathematical Logic and the Infinite.

11:00 am - 2:30 pm: Performance.

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Conversation.

15.01.2024

Mancebía Postigo

A prison regime. To eat or not to eat in the prisons of the transition period

6:00 pm - 7:20 pm (Action): We will read about experiences that made eating a political practice in Spanish prisons. We will also cook in a space (the museum) where, as in prisons, it is forbidden to do so. Reading, eating and remembering in order to think and act about the present and the future.

14.01.2024

Leancy Fernández

Women and chess

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: "Every time I train more I see how much I know nothing." A meeting to play chess, a sport where you learn to control your mind and thoughts, or that everything you do has consequences, where a child can beat an adult.

13.01.2024

Alba Guerrero

Flamenco singing - Didactics. Artistic research

3:00 pm - 8:00 pm (7:00 pm - 7:50 pm. Flamenco vocal improvisation): We will see live what an online flamenco singing class is like. The Alba Guerrero Method is a pioneering system for learning and perfecting flamenco singing through the study of the phrasing of the genre. In a progressive way, the main aspects of flamenco singing are studied and mastered, improving the voice in all the flamenco palos or forms.

12.01.2024

Las Huecas

The Rehearsal

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm: How do you assay a show that you have already done? How do you assemble those materials that are part of a work that has been finished? In any performance piece it is easy to return to the materials to give them another time, another space, another possibility of cohabiting with the spectator.

11.01.2024

Estefanie Rodriguez Corleone

Lights, camera, action

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: Light bath.

10.01.2024

Sofía Montenegro

Cycle change

16:00 pm - 7:30 pm: This will not be a closure but a chaining to what is coming, accompanied by a sunset that takes place that day at 5:41 p.m. As in any digestion process, we will transform what remains in order to leave behind what is no longer useful.

08.01.2024

Jordi

Privacy and hygiene on the internet

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: Spontaneous and personal talk about the revaluation of the word "privacy" on the Internet and its consequences. A personal hygiene kit will be offered for internet connection.

07.01.2024

Gregori Civera

An indeterminate number of portraits

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: A simple photography studio with the necessary elements to take portraits of visitors who wish to do so. Digital files will be processed on site and delivered to participants instantly.

06.01.2024

Abduo Diaw

Displacement unit

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: The announcement of a journey.

05.01.2024

Guim Camps

A real job

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: A theatrical play being performed in an online videogame GTA V server by their creators, Colombian roleplay gamers. Roleplaying gamers create and reenact the lives of their characters. The play explores the challenges faced by young people and gamers in the digital age.

04.01.2024

Esther Fernandes

Winter sun

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: Music for a liturgy that celebrates the cyclical nature of the seasons, a songbook to delve into the dark hours of winter. A collection of songs that seems to harbor a secret, scattered among polyphonies, ancestral choirs and cante jondo, mythographies, arpeggiated melodies and the popular knowledge of folklore. An invitation to descend into the underworld to return to the light.

03.01.2024

Sophia Al Maria

DAD LORE (en vivo)

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm: A memoirist and the memoirist’s father sit together in the tower. Sophia Al-Maria transcribes the aural history of Mohamed Al-Marri. Rāwī is an Arabic term, meaning "to bear by memory, to transmit or recite”. Rawi may have been a profession or semi-profession, though it was often occupied by a relative of a poet.

31.12.2023

Lydia Ourahmane

what to end again

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: A gathering, end of year 'burning' ritual.

30.12.2023

Noela Covelo Velasco

next round of the lighthouse

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Vocal participation.

29.12.2023

Jari Malta

Entelequies of heat

1:00 pm - 6:30 pm: This event follows the logic set by 108 days, extending Lydia Ourahmane’s invitation by bringing in other voices. Putting together a series of texts chosen (and occasionally written) by his friends who have a shared experience of migration. The activation consists of a reading, a simple ritual made of borrowed self-portraits.

28.12.2023

Samira Badran

Memory of the Land, 2017

3:00 pm - 7:30 pm: A 13 minute video animation on the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

27.12.2023

Zumzeig Cinecooperativa

11:00 am - 7:30 pm:Zumzeig presenta: veCINES, de Laboratorio ReversibleZumzeig Cinecooperativa programmes the winning short film of the first edition of CO-, the festival promoted by the cinema to showcase films whose production and methodology are declaredly collective and collaborative.

26.12.2023

Beer Weed Food Las Vegas

11:00 am - 3:00 pm: Beer Weed Food Las Vegas

24.12.2023

Álex Alonso Viola

The expression of the world

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: Sculptures on hardship.

23.12.2023

Huw Lemmey

action

11:00 am - 8:00 pm:A display of flags.

22.12.2023

Antonio Centeno

Mi cuerpo somos todas
How to build an idea of intimacy, subjectivity and freedom when your hands are those of others?

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Activation of the exhibition.

21.12.2023

Arash Fayez

Raval soundtrack

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: Raval soundtrack compiles songs listened by the Muslim community of the Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona. The music session will play inside the tower throughout the day leading up to the longest night of the year. With thanks to all those who generously contributed to this compilation.

20.12.2023

Irene Mattarolo

emdr

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: Artistic installation engaging a collective elaboration of multiple contemporary traumas in a setting of composite temporality.

18.12.2023

Juaki Pesudo + ASIA

love theme II

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: ...playing until the body can hold.

17.12.2023

ASIA + Juaki Pesudo

love theme I

11:00 am - 3:00 pm: The music and paintings revolve around love. A piece that lasts two days and that swells and grows...

16.12.2023

Maria Riot

Archivo Puta

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: Photographs of sex workers, clients and their world, that are part of an infinite, artistic and political project seeking to make visible the beauty and the resistance necessary to fight against stigma, criminalization and violence that those who practice sex work suffer daily worldwide.

15.12.2023

Hiuwai Chu

Ask a curator

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: I’ll be working from the Tower this day and will be happy to answer any questions about the museum, discuss work, or simply engage in conversation.

14.12.2023

Toni Junyent

Always crashing on the same car
Davant el que ell anomena la impossibilitat de l'escriptura, Toni Junyent es proposa passar unes hores davant del foli en blanc, en viu des de la torre del MACBA, per després explicar-nos, en clau de monòleg desendreçat, qui és, d'on prové i per què no ha acabat encara aquest llibre en què sempre diu estar treballant.

6:00 pm: Monologue.

13.12.2023

Marta Moreno Muñoz, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion, La Cultura Declara la Emergencia, Futuro Vegetal, End Fossil, Lillo Gutiérrez & Neus Crous-Costa

11:00 am - 2:00 pm: Screening of The Walk by Marta Moreno Muñoz. 35 min.

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Open discussion about civil resistance and non violent direct action in the face of the climate, ecological and civilization crisis.

5:00 pm - 6:50 pm: Launching of the new platform of cultural climate activism La Cultura Declara la Emergencia. Round table: 2020: The Walk + La Cultura Declara la Emergencia + Debate with Marta Moreno Muñoz, Mayte Lillo Gutiérrez and Neus Crous-Costa (XR / RC / La Cultura Declara la Emergencia).

6:50 pm - 7:30 pm: Film screening: The Walk (2023, 35m).

11.12.2023

Fernando Ramirez Abella & Gianmarco Alegria

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Experimental percussion from Peru and Uruguay.

10.12.2023

Isabel Arance Santalucía

Tarot Sol

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: A dialogue with the Tarot cards through the mediation of Isabel, who takes her consultation to the museum tower.

09.12.2023

David Bustos

Day off

11:00 am - 7:30 pm: Today I will not be working for this museum. Today I will be working for myself. I will inhabit a space in which I consume my time and energy in an (un)productive way.

08.12.2023

Joan Anton Maragall & Garikoitz Cuevas

Behind the artwork, who lives there?

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Joan Anton Maragall and Garikoitz Cuevas have known each other for more than 20 years. Gallerist and artist talk about the challenges of an artistic career once the emerging stage is over.

07.12.2023

Sindillar / Sindihogar

Stitches of rebellion and memory

11:00 am - 7:00 pm: The Sindirebels were born as a result of the subversion of the established, in the face of the multiple oppressions that affect us. Over the years they have been transformed, allowing them to create new dynamics for the construction of knowledge and collective support.

06.12.2023

Dacosta N'fally

4 years

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: For the last four years, the street has been Dacosta's workplace and the trolley his main tool.

04.12.2023

Óscar Soriano

Inspiración en el museo
The flamenco guitarist takes his recording studio to the museum to experience live the processes of musical creation through improvisation. Two hours of research open to the public.

11:30 am - 1:30 pm: Live session

1:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Playback of the session

03.12.2023

Antics orfes de la casa de la Caritat

Lunch as every Thursday at Bar Victoria

11:00 am - 2:00 pm: An audio recording of the former orphans of La Casa de la Caritat in their weekly lunch meeting at Bar Victoria, Raval.

02.12.2023

Victor Ruiz Colomer

Lucid date

4:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Can we talk of space making as a practice? Can we talk about it under specific methodologies? If there is a method, will potentiality have a measure, a performance?

01.12.2023

Juan Villegas Antequera

Una noche en Manila

1:00 pm | 4:00 pm | 6:30 pm: A sentimental cabaret memoir narrated by Manila Montiel, a resident of Chinatown. Immerse yourself in the chronicle of her steps, struggles and exploits as an artist, cross-dresser, star and former glory of the off-Parallel between the years 1977 and 1980.

30.11.2023

Bayan Abu Nahle

يوميات تحت العدوان. بيان ابو نحله Diaries under attack

11:00 am - 5:00 pm: A young artist from Gaza captures the harshness of daily life through her drawings, writings, and photographs. October - November 2023.

29.11.2023

Samira Badran, Comunitat Palestina a Catalunya, Raya Ziadeh & Hala Marsood

We are not numbers

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm: An on-going performance.

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm: A panel discussion addressing the issue of Palestine under occupation and settler colonialism that wants to foster meaningful discussions and in-depth analysis of the ongoing situation in Gaza and throughout Palestine.

28.11.2023