Biennial of Thought
Biennial of Thought 2022
The CCCB will take part in the Third Biennial of Thought, a festival of ideas sponsored by the Barcelona City Council with the participation of entities and agents from all over the city.
In this year’s Biennial, the CCCB presents a programme which, combining languages and disciplines, offers a critical gaze on some of the crucial aspects of our present. In a year marked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, thinking about war, violence, and the future of Europe, and also the growing presence of various types of authoritarianism everywhere, is a core feature of the programme. Moreover, it will make the most of the fact that the Biennial coincides with 12 October (Columbus Day) by inquiring deeply into the legacy of colonialism today and how its imprint is critically reinterpreted in different parts of the world. Since science has an essential role to play when we are thinking about the world, and as the exhibition “Brain(s)" is currently being shown at the CCCB, this year we also explore neuroscience and the mysteries of the human mind.
The Biennial of Thought 2022 also has a very special focus on young people. Besides lectures for secondary school students that will be taking place throughout the week in collaboration with dozens of institutions around the city, the CCCB will also present the first Bivac festival, which has been designed by and for young people as a means of giving centre stage to the perspectives and voices of the new generations.
As on other occasions, the Biennial is a week full of words, music, and poetry as ways of thinking about the world and the different futures opening up before us. This year’s Biennial will include for the first time the cities of Valencia and Palma, thus extending its scope and reach. Moreover, the programme has the support of a large network of collaborating institutions and entities, amongst which we would like to highlight the artistic manifestation, Encuentros de Pamplona 72-22, with which the CCCB is sharing some of the Biennial’s participants.
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The artist and activist Nzé Ramón Esono Ebalé presents an artistic intervention in which he engages with personal memories and that of his birthplace, Equatorial Guinea, in order to construct his critical reflections on the colonial past and its legacy today.
Anne Waldman
"Star at Midnight", poetry recital
The poet, a living legend of American poetry and an international reference in oral poetry, performs with local artists in a single session that sets out to claim poetry as a tool for conveying ideas and for new ways of acting.
