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Bivac

A group to create and programme a festival of young people’s thinking

A group of 10 young people aged between 18 and 25, with different interests and training, meets weekly at the CCCB to design and materialize a cultural thinking programme that incorporates their ways of doing things, their references and their concerns.

Egotrip: me, me and I

With Ontologías Feministas and Júlia Barbany

Social networks and hyper-exposure have created a distorted ego living in a digital reality with egocentric and fragmented tendencies. Creating avatars, constant reception of information, the possibility of an infinite exchange of emotions, and aesthetic saturation… How do these converge ...

Freeze. An open assembly of failures

Mariona Pagès, Clara Sans, María Barrier and Leo Espluga

Why do we find it so hard to jump into action? What is it that holds us back? Freezing is an instinctive nervous system response to the threat of danger that results in complete inaction. Failure, or the fear of failure, can activate this response, leaving us paralysed and stuck in a state ...

Emotrip: confessional of sadness

With Iñaki Mur, Mayte Gómez-Molina, Joan Porcel, Júlia Amor, and Eudald Espluga

Contemporaneity has put expressing emotions into crisis. We are sad and we do not know why. Different voices from different disciplines try to convey our unhappiness with the aim of understanding what is happening regarding sadness, exploring the resistance put up and possibilities arising ...

Fawn. Submission à la carte

Carmen Salas, Alaaddine Azzouzi, Marta III-Raiga (Tenants’ Syndicate), Anna Pacheco, Jamila Pereira and Núñez García (Don’t Hit a la Negrx) and L’Última Merda.

What fawning depths have we reached for love, to get a job or to rent an apartment? Starting with these questions, and with a strategic use of servility, irony and humour, six young people and collectives share their stories of submission in epistolary format. Each letter will reveal a story ...

Exotrip: My body hurts

With Leto Ybarra, Kristina Petković and Mar Valyra

Estrangement from corporeality, distortion of what is supposed to be natural, living in the digital cloud, far from the body. I do not know who the person I see in my home’s reflective surfaces is. Do I need a body to exist? Like an exoskeleton, the body is also a prosthesis that props ...

Flight. Huida performática

Jordi Latorre, Mariona Moranta and Nara is Neus

The filmmaker Jordi Latorre, together with the music producer Nara is Neus and the dancer and choreographer Mariona Moranta, will guide us through an immersive journey where sound, body and technology merge together to offer us a way out. Through a performative artefact, ...

Flight. Huida performática

Júlia Nueno, IsaTofu and Anna Enguix

It is in times of crisis that new strategies of collective struggle and resistance often emerge. The researcher and computational designer Júlia Nueno, the communicator Isa Tofu and the art historian Anna Enguix propose innovative ways of confronting the social ...

Erotrip: The Banquet

With Marta Echaves, blanca arias and Berta Prieto

As far back as the 12th century, Bernat de Ventadorn wrote: "Other than love, nothing attracts me". Today, nine centuries later, the troubadour's words resound with the same intensity. What makes love a subject that never ceases to attract us? Why do we still have things to say about love? ...

Concert. The failures’ closing party

Irieix

Is failure the end? We don’t want to celebrate the end of the festival, but we do want to turn around the way we experience failure. Because in order to overcome failure, perhaps we need to collectively recognise ourselves as failures. Through the music provided by Irieix, we will ...

End trip: Safe space

With Meritxell de Soto

Every journey must come to an end, every experience must stop, but it should not do so in any old way. The artist Meritxell de Soto provide us with the space to return to collectivity, while escorting us to the festival's departure gate with a performance somewhere between a sound test and ...

How was Bivac 2023? A summary

Bivac is a festival of thought and creation curated by a group of young people between 18 and 25 years old. In the months running up to the festival, the group meets once a week at the CCCB to bring to life a cultural programme of thought that incorporates their way of doing things, their references ...