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Biennial of Thought

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.

In this fourth outing of the Biennial of Thought, once again the CCCB is one of the main venues of an event that turns Barcelona into a great public forum to discuss, on the street, the big philosophical issues of the moment.

Under the umbrella of “The Day After It All”, the 2024 Biennial of Thought fills the streets and cultural spaces of the city with talks, lectures, live podcasts and theatrical activities to address themes such as democracy, memory, feminisms, post-colonialisms, technological and climate changes, and the big cultural debates.

 

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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.

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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.

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Previous activities

THEBADWEEDS: The Musical About Weeds

By Rocío Berenguer

Siegfried Zielinski and Anthony Moore

Performative lecture, “Dancing Philosophy”

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir and Núria Bendicho Giró

5,600 trees to safeguard language

“How Do You Remember Thirst?” with Nona Fernández

A dramatised reading on the power of literature in historic memory

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Fitting In

Collective memories of Asian diasporas

Gueorgui Gospodínov and Miquel Cabal

Control over the past, control over the future

“Ancestral Invocations”, with Tania Adam and Adeline Flaun

A proposal of staging the recovery of the Black Files

Corine Pelluchon and Marta Segarra

Preserving life—a new Enlightenment for a shared planet

Eliane Brum and Gabi Martínez

The Amazon, centre of the world

THEBADWEEDS: Electropop for a Trans-species Future

By Rocío Berenguer

Africa: Decolonizing Knowledge

A morning with Oyèrónké Oyewùmí

Audrey Diwan and Carla Simón

Successors of Varda

Dagmawi Woubshet and Ada Klein Fortuny

Verses for collective mourning

The Seduction of Lies

A morning with Zadie Smith

Africa and the Afrodiaspora Faced with Gender Worlds

Seminar with Oyèrónké Oyewùmí

Wild Rumours and Sound Art

Seminar on the installation “Bestiari”

Unarchiving Memory

A morning with Nona Fernández

Clara Serra and Elena Martín

Insubordinate desire

Zadie Smith and Míriam Cano

Worn cloth and stolen truths

Sirens and Robots

On siren songs in a time of climate narratives

Wajdi Mouawad and Oriol Broggi

Flying with wounded wings

Song, sea, and destiny

Concert by Tarta Relena

Herta Müller and Cecilia Dreymüller

Freeing the word

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