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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 special guided visits to discover the secrets of the conservation of the works, the architecture of the building and the world of performance. In addition, there will be an extra guided tour of the current exhibitions at 7.30 pm.
Discover Saturday evenings at MACBA!

With de support of:
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SATURDAYS AT MACBA: YOU CAN’T IMAGINE

Programme

From December 1 to Autum / Winter 2013
December program: Saturdays 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 2012

THE SECRETS OF CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Saturday 1 December, at 7 pm

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 some of the lesser-known aspects of works from the MACBA Collection.
The tour is not intended to provide exhaustive information on all the artworks on display, but to show a selection that shed light on some of the particularities and problems that the conservation and restoration team face. We will discover that there are professionals who specialise in works on paper or canvas, and others who work with objects, media art or installations, and that they strive to prevent the deterioration of the works and pieces through the use of new electronic and digital technologies.

PERFORMATIVE TOUR BY THE ARTIST JORDI FERREIRO
Saturday 8 December, at 7 pm

The performative visits are a way of approaching contemporary art in a playful and transgressive manner, and of finding answers to the questions it prompts in a participatory and collective way.

Through a series of actions organised in the Museum galleries with the help of the artist-educator Jordi Ferreiro, the participants will actively explore different key concepts in contemporary art practices, thus becoming at once participants and creators in a unique and unrepeatable event.

BRODAS BROS PRESENT THEIR CONCERT CONCIERTO CONCEPTO (CONCEPT CONCERT)
Saturday 15 December, at 7 pm

A concert with dancers: this is how Brodas Bros, the charismatic hip hop Catalan company, define their new show, Concierto Concepto, in which the company's energy, technique and positivism are expressed through dance and music. Thanks to a collaboration with Mercat de les Flors, the company presents a sample of the show at MACBA. For more information: http://mercatflors.cat/espectacle/concierto-concepto/

CEREMONY IN HONOUR OF THE GOD ORULA
Saturday 22 December, at 6 pm

Coinciding with the exhibition Critical Episodes (1957–2011). MACBA Collection we present Santa Comida (1984–89), a large format installation in which Miralda reflects on multicultural flux and survival. Starting with a basic activity such as eating and the imaginary it unleashes, the work re-enacts African rituals in Caribbean culture and their incorporation into popular Latin American culture. With a kitsch and baroque iconography, Miralda introduces a language that celebrates the senses, the fiesta, games and life.

On 22 December, Miralda's work, Santa Comida (Holy Food), will be the setting for the Yoruba community in Barcelona to pay tribute to the god Oruba through music, singing and drum playing.

Orula or Orunmila is the god of wisdom and prophecy in the pantheon of the Yoruba religion. It also represents Love, Patience, Humility, Impartiality, Tolerance, Justice, Prudence and Purity, among other virtues. Together with Olodumare, Orula is a deity that can change men's destinies on Earth when they are in danger of dying.

The ceremony's protagonists are the Batá, a family of three drums – Iyá, Itótele and Okónkolo – played simultaneously to create polyrhythmic compositions, and the Aberinkula, profane, unconsecrated drums, but of equal value during the ceremony.

HYBRIDISATIONS. ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Saturday 29 December, at 7 pm

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 the Museum's DNA and reflects on the importance of architecture in relation to exhibitions.

The tour highlights the constant interplay between artists who interact with the architecture, and the architecture’s efforts to adapt to the technical requirements of some recent arts practices.