Get hands-on playing with the interactive table while you find out all about the Arts Santa Mònica programme and contents.

Get hands-on playing with the interactive table while you find out all about the Arts Santa Mònica programme and contents.

La Terra de l’Estrany (The Land of the Stranger) is a very personal documentary about going back — my going back to my hometown of Cervera — after a long absence. It consists of a compilation of different moments, people and landscapes that I encountered in the course of a five-month stay.
I shot almost all of the footage myself. An HD camera, a tripod and a couple of microphones was all the equipment I had. The modus operandi of filming was basically instinctive: I led myself be guided by the emotional impact made on me by the encounters I had during the period of making the film.
The whole thing was marked by the emotional duality of someone who feels deeply connected to their native soil yet at the same time sees that there is a part that of them no longer belongs, and essentially poses the question whether it is really possible to return.
I spent my childhood in Cervera, and it is therefore the home of my first memories. The factor of ‘time’ in every sense of the word became a central element of the project as it gradually developed. The place itself ended up revealing itself as a pool of time in which I saw reflected both my own image and the unfolding of life in a broader sense.

La Terra de l’Estrany (The Land of the Stranger) is a very personal documentary about going back — my going back to my hometown of Cervera — after a long absence. It consists of a compilation of different moments, people and landscapes that I encountered in the course of a five-month stay.
I shot almost all of the footage myself. An HD camera, a tripod and a couple of microphones was all the equipment I had. The modus operandi of filming was basically instinctive: I led myself be guided by the emotional impact made on me by the encounters I had during the period of making the film.
The whole thing was marked by the emotional duality of someone who feels deeply connected to their native soil yet at the same time sees that there is a part that of them no longer belongs, and essentially poses the question whether it is really possible to return.
I spent my childhood in Cervera, and it is therefore the home of my first memories. The factor of ‘time’ in every sense of the word became a central element of the project as it gradually developed. The place itself ended up revealing itself as a pool of time in which I saw reflected both my own image and the unfolding of life in a broader sense.

From Tuesday to Friday at 07:00pm
Lenght: 1h

Free guided visits that include a bitter taste test and a jam and wine sweet as honey tasting

From Tuesday to Friday at 07:00pm
Lenght: 1h

Free guided visits that include a bitter taste test and a jam and wine sweet as honey tasting

Arts Santa Mònica offers you the chance to get involved in creating PORTRAITS WITH A TV SET, which will form part of the exhibition TV/ARTS/TV from 15 October to 8 December 2010.

This interactive piece compares and contrasts family photos where the TV set plays a major role in terms of the position, time or event in question.

Send us your TV portrait to: retrats@tvarts.net

info at http://retrats.tvarts.net/

Arts Santa Mònica offers you the chance to get involved in creating PORTRAITS WITH A TV SET, which will form part of the exhibition TV/ARTS/TV from 15 October to 8 December 2010.

This interactive piece compares and contrasts family photos where the TV set plays a major role in terms of the position, time or event in question.

Send us your TV portrait to: retrats@tvarts.net

info at http://retrats.tvarts.net/

Free guided visits service,  Saturday  and Sunday at 01:00pm and  07:00pm

CONDENSED MATTER. COCKING SCIENCE
Exhibition | Laboratory |  8 July  - 1 November, 2010

PAT ANDREA AND ALICE
Exhibition | Ring | 8 July - 26 September, 2010

BARCELÓ BEFORE BARCELÓ 1973-1982
Exhibition | Cloister | 15 July - 26 September, 2010

THE LONDON PUNK TAPES
Exhibition | Archieve | 15 July - 26 September, 2010

Free guided visits service,  Saturday  and Sunday at 01:00pm and  07:00pm

CONDENSED MATTER. COCKING SCIENCE
Exhibition | Laboratory |  8 July  - 1 November, 2010

PAT ANDREA AND ALICE
Exhibition | Ring | 8 July - 26 September, 2010

BARCELÓ BEFORE BARCELÓ 1973-1982
Exhibition | Cloister | 15 July - 26 September, 2010

THE LONDON PUNK TAPES
Exhibition | Archieve | 15 July - 26 September, 2010

Summer Nest is the intervention on the façade of Arts Santa Mònicabeing carried out by the Emiliana Design Studio. These soft cells —places to meet in, rest in, chill out in — are conceived as arelational and mediating object: a point of encounter.

poetry reading SESSIONS Sundays in September. At 7.00 p.m.
LYMPHATIC WORKSHOP [1980s Catalan poetry from the Balearic Islands]
Sessions organized by the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
CARLES REBASSA reads BLAI BONET and BIEL MESQUIDA

SUNDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER
PAU VADELL I VALLBONA reads ANDREU VIDAL and JOSEP ALBERTÍ

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
MARIA ANTÒNIA MASSANET reads NICOLE D'AMONVILLE and MIQUEL BAUÇÀ

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
JAUME C. PONS ALORDA reads ÀNGEL TERRON and JOAN PALOU

Summer Nest is the intervention on the façade of Arts Santa Mònicabeing carried out by the Emiliana Design Studio. These soft cells —places to meet in, rest in, chill out in — are conceived as arelational and mediating object: a point of encounter.

poetry reading SESSIONS Sundays in September. At 7.00 p.m.
LYMPHATIC WORKSHOP [1980s Catalan poetry from the Balearic Islands]
Sessions organized by the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
CARLES REBASSA reads BLAI BONET and BIEL MESQUIDA

SUNDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER
PAU VADELL I VALLBONA reads ANDREU VIDAL and JOSEP ALBERTÍ

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
MARIA ANTÒNIA MASSANET reads NICOLE D'AMONVILLE and MIQUEL BAUÇÀ

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
JAUME C. PONS ALORDA reads ÀNGEL TERRON and JOAN PALOU

Presentation of the monograph catalogue La mirada poètica. Assumpció Mateu.
Taking part will be Pep Admetlla, president of the Fundació Atrium Artis, the painter Assumpció Mateu.
The catalogue is published by Galeria No Art 3:14 and the Fundació Artis Atrium

Presentation of the monograph catalogue La mirada poètica. Assumpció Mateu.
Taking part will be Pep Admetlla, president of the Fundació Atrium Artis, the painter Assumpció Mateu.
The catalogue is published by Galeria No Art 3:14 and the Fundació Artis Atrium

La Muga Caula is an international encounter of performance and action poetry which takes place in September at Boadella i les Escaules, in Catalonia’s Alt Empordà region. Behind the founding of this annual get-together is a historic event: the 40th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s 1965 visit to the Caula waterfall at Les Escaules. Duchamp, one of the outstanding figures of twentieth-century art and the godfather of Conceptual Art, visited the spot in 1965, as surviving documentary evidence shows, and had probably been there before, seeking inspiration for his great final artwork, Etant Donnés. The international encounter which takes Duchamp’s visit as its origin is thus dedicated to the ephemeral roots of Conceptual Art, and specifically action poetry and performance.

Each year we produce a special video documenting the get-together, which is then shown at other festivals and art spaces, universities and art schools. La Muga Caula de Marcel Duchamp a Esther Ferrer by the young filmmaker Nelson Hausman bears witness to the performances presented and to the exceptional atmosphere and the human contacts at such an intensely experiential art event.
The artists documented are:
Clemente Padín, Yolanda Perez Herreras, Malgosia Butterwick, Carlos Llavata, Xavier Canals, Pep Aymerich, Pietro Pellini, Willem Wilhelmus, Jordi Cerdà, Isabel León, Esther Ferrer, Boris Nieslony, Elvira Santamaría, Nelo Vilar, Koke Vega, Gustavo Vega, Eva Pérez, Andrea Saemann, Tomaso Binga and Àngel Rodríguez.
Length: 60 mins.

There will also be a screening of La Chute de Pedro Sousa (1 min.), an animation by Pedro Sousa of a visual poem which he created for the occasion.

. . .

Nelson Hausman has a degree in Audio-visual Communication specializing in documentary film. In 2009 he won the Audience and the Jury prizes at the Barcelona VisualSound Festival for young audio-visual artists.

Pedro Sousa has taken part in several editions of La Muga Caula and designed the poster is the first encounter in 2005.

La Muga Caula is an international encounter of performance and action poetry which takes place in September at Boadella i les Escaules, in Catalonia’s Alt Empordà region. Behind the founding of this annual get-together is a historic event: the 40th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s 1965 visit to the Caula waterfall at Les Escaules. Duchamp, one of the outstanding figures of twentieth-century art and the godfather of Conceptual Art, visited the spot in 1965, as surviving documentary evidence shows, and had probably been there before, seeking inspiration for his great final artwork, Etant Donnés. The international encounter which takes Duchamp’s visit as its origin is thus dedicated to the ephemeral roots of Conceptual Art, and specifically action poetry and performance.

Each year we produce a special video documenting the get-together, which is then shown at other festivals and art spaces, universities and art schools. La Muga Caula de Marcel Duchamp a Esther Ferrer by the young filmmaker Nelson Hausman bears witness to the performances presented and to the exceptional atmosphere and the human contacts at such an intensely experiential art event.
The artists documented are:
Clemente Padín, Yolanda Perez Herreras, Malgosia Butterwick, Carlos Llavata, Xavier Canals, Pep Aymerich, Pietro Pellini, Willem Wilhelmus, Jordi Cerdà, Isabel León, Esther Ferrer, Boris Nieslony, Elvira Santamaría, Nelo Vilar, Koke Vega, Gustavo Vega, Eva Pérez, Andrea Saemann, Tomaso Binga and Àngel Rodríguez.
Length: 60 mins.

There will also be a screening of La Chute de Pedro Sousa (1 min.), an animation by Pedro Sousa of a visual poem which he created for the occasion.

. . .

Nelson Hausman has a degree in Audio-visual Communication specializing in documentary film. In 2009 he won the Audience and the Jury prizes at the Barcelona VisualSound Festival for young audio-visual artists.

Pedro Sousa has taken part in several editions of La Muga Caula and designed the poster is the first encounter in 2005.

Presentation by the author ELOY FERNÁNDEZ PORTA of the Anagrama essay prize-winning EROS: La superproducción de los afectos, and other unpublished texts, in a special spoken-word session with music and videos. This is the third event in this format following Afterpop and Homo Sample.

Presentation by the author ELOY FERNÁNDEZ PORTA of the Anagrama essay prize-winning EROS: La superproducción de los afectos, and other unpublished texts, in a special spoken-word session with music and videos. This is the third event in this format following Afterpop and Homo Sample.

Sessions: 10:00a.m and 11:30a.m.

Can you mix oil and water? Would you like to turn fruit juice into a gel? Do you dare to make pea caviar or yogurt ravioli?
Experience at first hand the culinary techniques that make impossible combinations possible, transform liquids into soft solids and unite solids and liquids in the same food.

Dossier

Sessions: 10:00a.m and 11:30a.m.

Can you mix oil and water? Would you like to turn fruit juice into a gel? Do you dare to make pea caviar or yogurt ravioli?
Experience at first hand the culinary techniques that make impossible combinations possible, transform liquids into soft solids and unite solids and liquids in the same food.

Dossier

Miquel Barceló’s African notebooks are a very significant example of the literature and art of travel. The lecture by Jordi Carrión, will explore the history of the artist’s travel notebook in the modern era, from Gauguin to Barceló, and put the latter’s experience of Africa in context, comparing it with that of other contemporary artists such as the photographer artist and writer Peter Beard and the writer J.M.G. Le Clézio.
There will be a slide projection of the most significant works by these artists.

Miquel Barceló’s African notebooks are a very significant example of the literature and art of travel. The lecture by Jordi Carrión, will explore the history of the artist’s travel notebook in the modern era, from Gauguin to Barceló, and put the latter’s experience of Africa in context, comparing it with that of other contemporary artists such as the photographer artist and writer Peter Beard and the writer J.M.G. Le Clézio.
There will be a slide projection of the most significant works by these artists.

Travel is a key element in the work of Isaki Lacuesta. After an introduction which will present the poetic crossroads at which he coincided with Miquel Barceló there will be a screening of parts of the project which took them both to Mali and a conversation between Lacuesta and Jordi Carrión about travel, the Mali project and Lacuesta’s work as a whole.

. . . .

Jordi Carrión (Tarragona, 1976) is a traveller, writer and cultural critic. He has a PhD in Humanities from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he currently teaches contemporary literature and creative writing. Of note among his published works are the novel Los muertos (Mondadori, 2010), the essay Viaje contra espacio. Juan Goytisolo y W. G. Sebald (Iberoamericana, 2009) and the travel book Australia (Berenice, 2008).

Travel is a key element in the work of Isaki Lacuesta. After an introduction which will present the poetic crossroads at which he coincided with Miquel Barceló there will be a screening of parts of the project which took them both to Mali and a conversation between Lacuesta and Jordi Carrión about travel, the Mali project and Lacuesta’s work as a whole.

. . . .

Jordi Carrión (Tarragona, 1976) is a traveller, writer and cultural critic. He has a PhD in Humanities from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he currently teaches contemporary literature and creative writing. Of note among his published works are the novel Los muertos (Mondadori, 2010), the essay Viaje contra espacio. Juan Goytisolo y W. G. Sebald (Iberoamericana, 2009) and the travel book Australia (Berenice, 2008).

‘By way of a reading of poems by Paul Celan and Velimir Khlebnikov from our present perspective, this combative book looks at how the enemies of poetry nest within poetry itself. The hatching of their eggs may be accompanied by erudite speeches, political revolutions or jazz music. The troubadours of today also turn tropes. They uncover all of this. Things have not changed much since Arnaut Danièl’s time. He never tired of practicing the hard art of harvesting the wind of a stormy day, hunting the hare with the ox and swimming against the tide.
‘If Karl Kraus, before Benjamin and Adorno, shrewdly observed that a culture ends when the barbarians break out of it, we are now in a position to say that poetry vanishes when its obstinate sentinels are no more. This process begins from the moment when culture is transformed into objects of worship, or closed empty boxes. A lineage of the abolished.’

‘By way of a reading of poems by Paul Celan and Velimir Khlebnikov from our present perspective, this combative book looks at how the enemies of poetry nest within poetry itself. The hatching of their eggs may be accompanied by erudite speeches, political revolutions or jazz music. The troubadours of today also turn tropes. They uncover all of this. Things have not changed much since Arnaut Danièl’s time. He never tired of practicing the hard art of harvesting the wind of a stormy day, hunting the hare with the ox and swimming against the tide.
‘If Karl Kraus, before Benjamin and Adorno, shrewdly observed that a culture ends when the barbarians break out of it, we are now in a position to say that poetry vanishes when its obstinate sentinels are no more. This process begins from the moment when culture is transformed into objects of worship, or closed empty boxes. A lineage of the abolished.’

Can you mix oil and water? Would you like to turn fruit juice into a gel? Do you dare to make pea caviar or yogurt ravioli?
Experience at first hand the culinary techniques that make impossible combinations possible, transform liquids into soft solids and unite solids and liquids in the same food.

Length: 1 hr. 30 mins.

Can you mix oil and water? Would you like to turn fruit juice into a gel? Do you dare to make pea caviar or yogurt ravioli?
Experience at first hand the culinary techniques that make impossible combinations possible, transform liquids into soft solids and unite solids and liquids in the same food.

Length: 1 hr. 30 mins.

This series of three screenings of documentaries and forums focusing oncurrent problems in relation to spaces of audio-visual resistance willaddress such issues as: What strategies can audio-visual artists and activists adopt to resist the prevailing tendency to hegemony and homogenization and open up spaces for participation? How can the production and dissemination of audio-visual expression in this scenario be financed and disseminated?

Presentation:
A new wave of video production is occupying the spaces dominated by themass media. Webdocumentaries, fanfiction, videologs and videogames areamong the genres being developed in the context of digital convergence.The new audio-visual productions have their own languages, tools and channels of dissemination, created out of an ongoing dialogue between different cultures.

DISPLAYis a showcase for cyberfilms made in a transmedia setting. In these three audio-visual screening and debate sessions the focus ofdiscussion is the videocratic society and its dimensions and effects.

-Session 1: Media and Control. Tuesday 18 May 2010
-Session 2: Self-representation and Identity. Tuesday 20 July 2010
-Session 3: Multi-protagonism and Diversity. Tuesday 21 September 2010

This series of three screenings of documentaries and forums focusing oncurrent problems in relation to spaces of audio-visual resistance willaddress such issues as: What strategies can audio-visual artists and activists adopt to resist the prevailing tendency to hegemony and homogenization and open up spaces for participation? How can the production and dissemination of audio-visual expression in this scenario be financed and disseminated?

Presentation:
A new wave of video production is occupying the spaces dominated by themass media. Webdocumentaries, fanfiction, videologs and videogames areamong the genres being developed in the context of digital convergence.The new audio-visual productions have their own languages, tools and channels of dissemination, created out of an ongoing dialogue between different cultures.

DISPLAYis a showcase for cyberfilms made in a transmedia setting. In these three audio-visual screening and debate sessions the focus ofdiscussion is the videocratic society and its dimensions and effects.

-Session 1: Media and Control. Tuesday 18 May 2010
-Session 2: Self-representation and Identity. Tuesday 20 July 2010
-Session 3: Multi-protagonism and Diversity. Tuesday 21 September 2010

About Divercult:
Divercult is an independent initiative whose aim is to promote diversity and the exercise of cultural cooperation. Its three lines ofaction are: research into projects, methods, initiatives, policies, programmes and people that contribute to dialogue between cultures; articulating connections between the agents responsible for these initiatives in order to create a participatory public network forcultural diversity, and the dissemination of practices and contents that promote diversity, such as news, articles, publications, images, events, competitions and so on.

The Desire to be Somewhere Else is first and foremost a reflection on that moment in one’s youth when doubt is the great creative force: a moment with such a density of expression that it seems to contain within it all that will come after. A reflection on desire and tenacity, put forward by Eulàlia Bosch.

The Desire to be Somewhere Else is first and foremost a reflection on that moment in one’s youth when doubt is the great creative force: a moment with such a density of expression that it seems to contain within it all that will come after. A reflection on desire and tenacity, put forward by Eulàlia Bosch.

In this its eighth year Encounters will bring together a group of leading local and international figures from the fields of science and the humanities to address a specific theme from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This year’s Encounters sets out to rethink the concept of matter from a range of cultures and areas of knowledge, embracing aspects of physics, biology, chemistry and new technologies, not forgetting cooking and nutrition. The key characteristic of soft matter is its ability to drastically change its state — between liquid gas and solid — and its physico-chemical properties, with relatively weak external tensions.

The Encounters and the reflection on ductile, transformable materials seek to build bridges of dialogue between disciplines on the basis of workshops, lectures and performances. There will be a presentation of the book Simulated Certainty, a compendium of the 2009 edition of the Encounters.
 
Participants include Oron Catts (SymbioticA), Victoria Vesna (UCLA Art|Sci Center), Amy Rowat (Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group, Harvard University), Marcel·lí Antúnez, Gulalab and Ruben Garcia, among others.

In this its eighth year Encounters will bring together a group of leading local and international figures from the fields of science and the humanities to address a specific theme from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This year’s Encounters sets out to rethink the concept of matter from a range of cultures and areas of knowledge, embracing aspects of physics, biology, chemistry and new technologies, not forgetting cooking and nutrition. The key characteristic of soft matter is its ability to drastically change its state — between liquid gas and solid — and its physico-chemical properties, with relatively weak external tensions.

The Encounters and the reflection on ductile, transformable materials seek to build bridges of dialogue between disciplines on the basis of workshops, lectures and performances. There will be a presentation of the book Simulated Certainty, a compendium of the 2009 edition of the Encounters.
 
Participants include Oron Catts (SymbioticA), Victoria Vesna (UCLA Art|Sci Center), Amy Rowat (Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group, Harvard University), Marcel·lí Antúnez, Gulalab and Ruben Garcia, among others.