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From a quote from Jane Bowles, this video-poem presents a collage of some aspects of contemporary life, people moving around, traces of inhumanity. Music by Brian Eno. Kalin's short video works, which use literary quotations as starting points, function both as visual poems and as alternative music videos. With their astute conjunctions of image, music and text, these tapes respond to issues of sexuality and human interaction in the 1990s, more than a decade into the AIDS crisis. 2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
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Research project dedicated to critical examination of contemporary culture and society through video. Founded in 1993 in post-Olympic Barcelona, it emerged from La 12 Visual, an independent video association created by filmmakers including Nuria Canal, Joan Leandre, and Toni Serra. Since 1996 it has organized thematic research projects and video screenings at the CCCB and MACBA. In 2004 its archives received the National Cultural Heritage Award from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Resident archive and research project at MACBA.
Non-place ? Other Space is a compilation video work based on my many years of visual ethnography whereby I walked the city and collected images as a personal video diary. This work compiles fragments of the city space in Hong Kong and Macao (1991-2008) to assert the possibility of many spaces and temporal sheets in one single framed discourse. It attempts the states between disappearance and emerging, visible and concealed. “Walking through” is a precarious experience. One penetrates, dives into, emerges and immerses in... In one moment, I see, therefore the video camera records for me; in another moment, the camera sees and retains, then I discover. Automatism leads. Virtual sounds I barely grasp in my mind, and fragments of a voice I have long forgotten, all blended into the placeless other space of non-place. Places and lived moments of disappearance return as the in-between, neither monumental, nor illusionary.
ECOSYSTEMIC MEMORIES OF THE CITY
NON-SUBMISSIVE LANDSCAPES
ECOSYSTEMIC MEMORIES OF THE CITY
Collaboration with Bornlab (El Borne CCM) for a collective approach to the contemporary imaginary of natural resources and territory, based on the sharing of current geopolitical issues that have an echo in the city of Barcelona.
This edition of the community studies group "Ecosystemic memories of the city" proposes a series of sessions in which we collectively approach the contemporary imaginary of natural resources and territory, based on the sharing of some current geopolitical issues that have an echo in the city of Barcelona.
Natural resources and the territory, based on the sharing of some current geopolitical issues that have an echo in the city of Barcelona. Through the contributions of various entities and people who connect us with critical archives, social actions and cultural initiatives in the city, we will address the recovery of community forms of agricultural social organization in contemporary pedagogies, images and slogans of movements for the protection of the land, as well as the reflection, from various worldviews, on cultural heritage and in connection with environmental issues that affect different international contexts.
The programme is organised in a participatory methodology that includes working groups where knowledge is pooled and perspectives are shared between guests and participants. In the different meetings, cultural proposals are discussed to explore the relationship between memory, community and ecology through collaborative experimentation and public action, which are included in the fanzine that is distributed in the closing session.
The Community Studies Group is a proposal of Bornlab, the community mediation programme of Borne CCM with the support of community mediation programme of Borne CCM in collaboration with Coalició Prou Complicitat amb Israel, La Colectiva de Chilenas de Barcelona, Comunitat Palestina de Barcelona, Laboratorio Móvil, OVNI (observatori de Vídeo No identificat) , Ruangrupa i docents i investigadores de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia, el Col·legi de Psicòlegs de Barcelona, l’Escola Massana and la Universitat de Barcelona.
Further information and registration: elbornculturaimemoria
NON-SUBMISSIVE LANDSCAPES
Thursday 8.2.24 from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Through the audiovisual archive, we will reflect on movements led by communities in Chiapas, Palestine and Ecuador who are
Chiapas, Palestine and Ecuador who are organising themselves against the deterioration of their ecosystems and claiming the right to use and protect their land.
1_ Land and traditions
A musical excerpt from the film Asoo Billa, starring a woman enslaved by a male chauvinist husband who is rescued by a group of mystic dervishes.