Biennial of Thought 2024
The Day After It All
Herta Müller, Wajdi Mouawad, Clara Serra, Zadie Smith, Oyèrónké Oyewùmí, Georgi Gospodinov, Corine Pelluchon, Eliane Brum, Audrey Diwan and Tarta Relena are some of the outstanding speakers to visit the CCCB during the festival of thought, from 8 to 13 October.
Siegfried Zielinski and Anthony Moore
Performative lecture, “Dancing Philosophy”
Pioneers of what is known as the expanded lecture, composer and experimental musician Anthony Moore and media archaeologist Siegfried Zielinski offer an alternative view of European philosophy i which thought takes the forms of sound, rhythm, melody, and image.
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir and Núria Bendicho Giró
5,600 trees to safeguard language
In this conversation with the writer Núria Bendicho Giró, Icelandic author Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir discusses the relationship between the collapse of the planet and extinction of minority languages when exploring the links between environment, language, and identity.
Eliane Brum and Gabi Martínez
The Amazon, centre of the world
The Amazon is not only the world’s largest tropical forest, but it is also a symbol of a radical transformation of ways of thinking about and inhabiting the world. In this conversation with the writer Gabi Martínez, the journalist and climate activist Eliane Brum argues that the ...
Corine Pelluchon and Marta Segarra
Preserving life—a new Enlightenment for a shared planet
With the threat of a possible eco-social collapse, trust in progress rooted in Enlightenment thought seems to be contrary to the mood of modern times. Corine Pelluchon and Marta Segarra invite us to revisit the legacy of the Enlightenment, rethink it critically, and build a new humanism.
Gueorgui Gospodínov and Miquel Cabal
Control over the past, control over the future
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, Gueorgui Gospodínov warns of the dangers of nostalgia and exalting a supposed glorious past. In a conversation with translator Miquel Cabal, Gospodínov suggests looking reality straight in the eye to see a place where authoritarianism ...
Dagmawi Woubshet and Ada Klein Fortuny
Verses for collective mourning
Amid experiences and verses, the researcher Dagmawi Woubshet questions with writer Ada Klein Fortuny illnesses which, beyond pain, carry stigma, silence, and a lack of social understanding, and together they ponder the invisible ties that unite community and grief. Martí Sales, writer, ...
Audrey Diwan and Carla Simón
Successors of Varda
In this conversation moderated by film critic Mariona Borrull, filmmakers Audrey Diwan and Carla Simón defend the audacity, boldness, and tenacity of the Varda spirit as compasses that have guided their cinematic exploration.
Africa: Decolonizing Knowledge
A morning with Oyèrónké Oyewùmí
Sociologist Oyèrónké Oyewùmí highlights the need to deuniversalize the way we understand the world and the role of Africa as a producer of knowledge. The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) so that the students can work on the contents ...
Africa and the Afrodiaspora Faced with Gender Worlds
Seminar with Oyèrónké Oyewùmí
In this project of revising gender theories, Professor Oyèrónké Oyewùmí considers the theses presented in her book The Invention of Women with this seminar led by the researcher and Doctor of Philosophy, Esther (Mayoko) Ortega.
The Seduction of Lies
A morning with Zadie Smith
Writer Zadie Smith talks about the weight of imposture and the effects of false beliefs in our society after the publication of her book The Fraud (2023). The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) so that the students can work on the contents beforehand ...
The wild sounds of Catalonia. Natural parks and sound ecology
Wild Rumours and Sound Art. Seminar on the installation “Bestiari”
Biologists, natural scientists, and activists exchange knowledge about the current conditions of fauna in Catalonia’s Natural Parks and discuss how sound recordings can be a way to create closer ties with natural diversity.
Bestiari. Tradition, nature, technology, and sound art
Wild Rumours and Sound Art. Seminar on the installation “Bestiari”
Technology can help us create new ways of understanding nature. Specialists in the crossroads between art and science, Carlos Casas and Pol Capdevila will discuss the possibilities sound art offers to open our perception to new languages with musician, writer, curator, and sound artist David Toop.
Clara Serra and Elena Martín
Insubordinate desire
In this conversation moderated by the journalist Anna Pazos, the philosopher Clara Serra and filmmaker Elena Martín, contrast the tensions and ambivalences of desire faced with attempts to regulate it.
Zadie Smith and Míriam Cano
Worn cloth and stolen truths
The acclaimed British writer Zadie Smith speaks with the translator Míriam Cano about the ways in which lies and imposture influence the functioning of society.
Wajdi Mouawad and Oriol Broggi
Flying with wounded wings
In this session moderated by cultural journalist Laura Serra, the playwright Wajdi Mouawad and director Oriol Broggi speak about theatre as an experience of healing and emancipation in a society where violence is present every day.
Herta Müller and Cecilia Dreymüller
Freeing the word
Nobel Literature laureate Herta Müller and translator Cecilia Dreymüller speak about Europe’s present and how to place the word at the heart of things in order to keep making possible a future of freedom and peace.