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The sense of culture

Soy Cámara #36. What is the purpose of culture?

The CCCB’s Programme

'Culture' is a concept with multiple definitions that is difficult to grasp in its complexity. In response to the question posed in the title, the programme traces a route from the conception of culture as a set of tools for relating to the world to the political dimension of culture as a space ...

CCCB

Marina Garcés: “Culture is an ongoing process of transformation and crisis”

Interviews with Marina Garcés, Eduard Escoffet, Emili Manzano, Francesc-Marc Álvaro, Isona Passola, Rosa Pera, Simona Levi, Han Nefkens, Xavier Marcé, Jordi Oliveras, Toni Casares, Ricard Robles, Marta Clari and Vicenç Altaió

In 2013, the CCCB hosted a debate titled “The Meaning of Culture”. This video is a compilation of the opinions expressed by some of the participants in the panel discussion of that debate. Is culture in crisis? What culture? Is it true that audiences for cultural activities ...

The sense of culture. Presentation

Presentation by Antonio Monegal

Does culture matter? What use is it? What do we understand by culture? For whom should it be important? And, above all, why? Although these questions are rarely formulated in such an elementary way, they invariably lurk in the background of present-day debate about public and private support of the cultural sector.

Lucia Calvo