SPECIALS
The Specials programs focus on projects by artists and curators who have some kind of connection to the Museum's programming and the MACBA Collection. As a means of documenting the MACBA Collection, the FONS AUDIO series contextualises works in the Collection through conversations with the artists. At the same time, "Taking to the Streets. An audiotour through Barcelona's underground scene of the 1970s" takes up one of the projects produced as part of the Research Workshop within the MACBA Independent Studies Program (PEI).
This section also features an in-depth interview with John Baldessari, two musical selections by Armando Andrade Tudela, two Specials related to the work of John Cage, a long, humorous look at certain of modernity's "guilty pleasures" by Kenneth Goldsmith, the radio works of Juan Muñoz, a monograph on the Tropicália movement and collaborations with Asier Mendizabal, and Serge Guilbaut.
This audiotour will take us to some of the key places where people gathered, discussed and engaged in independent, collective production during the seventies.
Narkevičius explores the perception of history and the mechanisms that transform it through utopias or ideologies. He focuses on the personal and individual, often structuring his work around forgotten or repressed testimonies and stories.
"Ombres del progrés" (Shadows of Progress) presents a selection of music that played an important role in Armando Andrade Tudela's journey to Marcahuasi, where he made a film named after this strange place.
"Ombres del progrés" (Shadows of Progress) presents a selection of music that played an important role in Armando Andrade Tudela's journey to Marcahuasi, where he made a film named after this strange place.
In his work, Armando Andrade Tudela (1975, Lima, Peru) explores concepts relating to modernity and the feeling for history.
John Baldessari reviews some key aspects of his approach to art. A look at his relationship to film, language and linguistics, and how the development of photographic reproduction techniques has affected his work.
The oeuvre of Esther Ferrer (San Sebastián, 1937) is characterized by a methodic minimalism, in which quotidian objects and her own body become the main elements in her work.
To complement the exhibition "The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art" and "Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return", this programme documents the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists which emerged in New York in the early 1960s.
This program is an audio companion to the exhibition "The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination" that presents a pleasurable, humorous and fun version of modernism.
This program surveys the work and career of John Cage in order to explore and learn more about his special relationship to radio, either as an instrument or as a means of communicating his ideas and transmitting his work.
Often reduced to a kind of "psychedelia Made in Brazil", Tropicália was actually a reinvention of Brazilian popular music, which was able to encompass elements from the local scene and beyond, modern styles and traditional music, with all the contradictions that this implies. Curated by Raül G. Pratginestós.
Muñoz went back to patents he had found during the days he'd spent reading at the New York Public Library. The texts of the patents talk about materials and construction techniques and forms that can prevent echo inside built spaces.
Of all the works produced by Muñoz, "Will it Be a Likeness" is probably the most theatrical and less musical.
This program deals with card tricks, which are old favorites on magicians’ repertoires but also used on the streets.
In "Building for Music", Juan Muñoz, in collaboration with Alberto Iglesias, examines the ways in which architecture influences music and composition.
This project by Asier Mendizabal runs through hymns, marches, choirs and "charanga", revealing unexpected results and relationships.
A program directed and conducted by serge Guilbaut in relation with the exhibition "Be bomb" with the Be-Bop, the swing and the jazz.
A program directed and conducted by serge Guilbaut in relation with the exhibition "Be bomb" with the Be-Bop, el swing and the jazz.
A program directed and conducted by serge Guilbaut in relation with the exhibition "Be bomb" with the Be-Bop, el swing and the jazz.
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