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Fact sheet

  • Commissioner/s
    Martí Peran, Filippo Poli, Giovanni La Varra, Federico Zanfi

Credits

  • Coproduction
    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
    Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. Generalitat de Catalunya
  • With the support of
    Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX)
    Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación
  • Sponsorship
    El Periódico
  • With the collaboration of
    Associació per la Cultura i l'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
    Can Xalant

From 13 March 2008 to 25 May 2008


Opening hours

From Tuesday to Sunday: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thusday 11 a.m. at 10 p.m.
Closed: Non-holiday Mondays

 


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Books and catalogues
The exhibition catalogues
Post it. Occasional Urbanities
Text Josep Ramoneda
View Catalog’s prologue
Post-it city. Occasional Urbanities

Exhibition

Post-it City. Occasional urbanities

Post-it City. Occasional urbanities

Photo: Alternative uses of the mobile phone in the D.R.Congo. / Photo Authors: SMAQ (Sabine Müller, Andreas Quednau)
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The project looks at different overlapping uses of urban territory, focusing on the viewpoints offered by architecture, town planning and the visual arts. "Post-it Cities" seeks to explore the phenomenon by means of the ephemeral cities that infect the everyday city with uncoded, temporary, anonymous uses, with an implicitly critical approach.



"Post-it Cities" aims to explore the many differing variations of the phenomenon as a basis for documentation and reflection: an industrial estate that becomes an illegal race circuit at weekends, the use of the building-site city for the adventures of explorer nerds, variants of the squatter phenomenon, the use of different wastelands for occasional meetings (nomad camp, rave), the conversion of a daytime campus into an night-time area of sexual transactions, etc.

This project brings together a series of parameters that provide particularly interesting themes for contemporary culture: the need to create available spaces, the versatility of the recycling concept, the emergence of new forms of subjectivity, etc.

This exhibition forms part of the project of the same name organized jointly with the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica and directed by Martí Perán.


3.13.08


Debate
POST-IT CITY.


4.3.08, 4.9.08


Friends of the CCCB


4.8.08


Presentation
Post-it City. Occasional Urbanities
Project Presentation


4.15.08


Presentation
Post-it City. Project presentation
Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials


4.22.08


Presentation
Post-it City. Project presentation
by Franco La Cecla, Barcelona


4.29.08


Presentation
Post-it City. Project presentation
Storefront/Year 1 by Joseph Grima, New York