Museum of the Commons
Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem
This is the fourth cooperative project (2023-2026) led by L’Internationale, focusing on the themes of climate, translocal cooperation, and artistic strategies of healing and repair. ‘Museum of the Commons’ weaves together three transversal thematic threads corresponding to key challenges contemporary societies are facing:
Climate tackles issues of the current planetary climate crisis, the sustainability of institutional, artistic and cultural practices and processes, and the urgency of ecologically transforming our politics, societies, cultures and ways of life.
Situated Organizations queries the role of museums and art organizations as actors in complex social networks and ecosystems, in order to seek new ways of democratizing institutions and render them more open, inclusive and useful.
Past in the Present, the final thread, focuses on the crucial roles our local and shared histories hold in constituting contemporary identities, politics, societies and cultures, investigating the persistence and long-lasting impact of historical and current environmental and colonial violence.
These content threads unfold through different activities – schools, seminars, residencies, public programmes and exhibitions. Assemblies for each of the strands meet online once every two months. In addition, there is an editorial board that decides on content and direction for L’Internationale Online and a Visibility Group that formulates and implements a communication plan for the network.
Climate tackles issues of the current planetary climate crisis, the sustainability of institutional, artistic and cultural practices and processes, and the urgency of ecologically transforming our politics, societies, cultures and ways of life.
Situated Organizations queries the role of museums and art organizations as actors in complex social networks and ecosystems, in order to seek new ways of democratizing institutions and render them more open, inclusive and useful.
Past in the Present, the final thread, focuses on the crucial roles our local and shared histories hold in constituting contemporary identities, politics, societies and cultures, investigating the persistence and long-lasting impact of historical and current environmental and colonial violence.
These content threads unfold through different activities – schools, seminars, residencies, public programmes and exhibitions. Assemblies for each of the strands meet online once every two months. In addition, there is an editorial board that decides on content and direction for L’Internationale Online and a Visibility Group that formulates and implements a communication plan for the network.
Programme of activities and exhibitions organised as part of the “Museums of the Commons” project at MACBA:
Exhibitions and Activities
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Before We Go Down in History (We Have to Make a Living) II
“The future has arrived – it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” [contra]panorama
Activity
Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10, April 2025
Spiral of Time – Plaça dels Àngels – MACBA
“The future has arrived – it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” [contra]panorama
A site-specific work, created and developed by the Dutch artist, composer, and researcher Edwin van der Heide, that explores sound and its relationship with space and time.
The Open Kitchen with Marina Monsonís, the Cabanyal cooking, Resistencia Migrante Disidente and Assemblea Catalana per la Transició Ecosocial
Food networks in an emergency situation
Activity
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
The Open Kitchen with Marina Monsonís, Paisanaje and Ruralitzem
Map of edible tensions
Activity
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Before We Go Down in History (we have to make a living) I. Class Composition
[contra]panorama
Activity
Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 July, 2024
Invocations (Prelude)
Open Kitchen with Llorenç Barber and Marina Monsonís
Activity
Wednesday June 26, 2024
Open Kitchen with Marina Monsonís, Ana Luisa Islas and Susana Isunza
Decolonial healing ritual: decolonising our food and our minds
Activity
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Song for Many Movements: Scenes of Collective Creation
An ephemeral experiment in which the ground floor of the museum becomes a stage for encounters, conversations and shared listening
Exhibition
From February 10, to April 1, 2024
Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro: Chrysalises
Open PEI
Activity
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Vijay Prashad: The Cultural Struggle in a Planet Between Decay and Hope
Open PEI seminar
Activity
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Nancy Garín: From the River to the Sea, the Songs We Must Hear
Open PEI seminar with Mohamad Bitari, Nadia Jabr, Samira Badran, Lina Meruane, Hache Mau and co-conspirators
Activity
Friday, March 1, 2024
Marwa Arsanios: Towards Relations of Usership
Open PEI seminar
Activity
Friday, February 23, 2024
Emily Jacir: Translational localities. The politics of land, food, planting and community
Open PEI seminar
Activity
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Tania Safura Adam: Black Solidarity Communities
Open PEI seminar
Activity
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Where are the Oases?
PEI OBERT seminar
Activity
April 12, 13 and 14, 2023
Anti-imperialism in the 20th century and anti-imperialism today: similarities and differences
Lecture by Ramón Grosfoguel
Activity
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Ràdio Web MACBA
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