- Venue
- MACBA, Barcelona
Scientific, artistic and cultural agents from Barcelona reflected on the intersections between art, science and technology, culminating in a publication that compiles their insight
Within the Collide collaboration framework between Arts at CERN and the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Science and Universities convened a heterogeneous group of people involved in one form or another in the various hybridization programs between the arts and sciences at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA).
The purpose of the meeting was to establish an articulated dialogue that would allow a common diagnosis and to identify the main challenges currently presented by these hybridization programs between the arts and the sciences. The people taking part were: Pau Alsina, Alex Argemí, Susana Arias, Pau Artigues, Laura Benítez, Andrea Blanco, Carolina Ciuti, Antònia Folguera, Andy Gracie, Sebastian Grinschpun, Joana Hurtado, Carolina Jiménez, Tatiana Kourochkina, Xavier Luri, Amanda de Pablo, Rosa Pera, Mónica Rikic, Mireia C. Saladrigas, Silvia Tognetti and Irma Vilà.
The dialogue was articulated in four different working round tables, which debated the concepts of exploration, collaboration, research and production. Each table had a rapporteur, who accompanied, listened and then reported, a role carried out, respectively, by Ona Balló, Ana Prendes, Blanca Pujals and Jara Rocha.
The results of that working group were collected in the publication Art-science collisions: Notes from a choral dialogue in Barcelona. following is the full text of the four reports, corresponding to the four discussion tables, and at the end, as an epilogue, a brief summary of the cross-cutting issues that were raised simultaneously in various tables and which may be proposed as lines of continuity for future reflections.
The day was motivated by the residency of Black Quantum Futurism at Hangar, Centre for Artistic Production and Research (Barcelona) as the winners of the 2020 Collide Award. The artists presented their ongoing research and held a performance at a public event.
