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A museum “in-between”

Susana Arias

Notes for a mediation programme which places the emphasis on openness and listening, participation, the creation of networks and proximity.

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Virginie Despentes, Alana S. Portero and Berta Gómez Santo Tomás

Despite everything

Two of the most vigorous representatives of contemporary feminism, the writers Virginie Despentes and Alana S. Portero talk with journalist Berta Gómez Santo Tomás about love, identity, the culture of cancellation and how to move forward despite everything.

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CCCB Interviews

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Alana Portero: “Cynicism is reactionary”

Lea Ypi: “My idea of freedom is a moral idea”

Francisco J. Doblas Reyes: “Limiting the impacts of global warming is in our hands”

Cas Mudde: “The far right is normalised”

Tania Bruguera: “We are being cut off from the possibility of thinking about what has not yet happened”

Colson Whitehead: “There’s this whole secret city that’s being built when everyone else is asleep”

Anna Starobinets: “The authors and readers of dystopias are like canaries in a coal mine”

Cristina Rivera Garza: “To write is to create empty space”

Pankaj Mishra: “Modernisation is offered as a liberation, and yet it comes with many psychic costs”

Silvia Fehrmann: “Faced with the rise of fascism, generating networks and communities is more important than ever”

Anil Seth: “Reality is a controlled hallucination”

Mar Santamaria: “The city is the artifact and the strategy that will enable collective survival”

Judit Carrera: “The purpose of cultural centres is to generate connections”

Interview with Mathieu Potte-Bonneville and Judit Carrera

Samanta Schweblin: “The Latin American women authors of my generation feel the joy of having arrived at a party in full swing”

Kyle Chayka: “The platform connects us but also homogenizes our tastes”

Judith Schalansky: “Our planet is also an island in the known universe”

Boris Lehman: “For me, life and film are indivisible”

William Kentridge: “There are fault lines that come from the colonial period throughout the world”

Rimini Protokoll: “There’s not such a big difference between us and the audience”

Cassandra Khaw: “It’s just a question of time before video games are accepted as culture”

Meditations on fury

IX Marçalianes 2023

From the text Meditacions sobre la fúria, different writers and artists celebrate the legacy of Maria-Mercè Marçal in an event dedicated to explore the influence of fury in the work and thought of the writer.

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