La veu en xancletes
Participants: Latitudes (Mariana Cánepa, Max Andrews), Anna Manubens, Eulàlia Rovira, Alexander Arilla, La Trama (Andrea Corachán), Martí Sales and L’Afluent
Curate by Alexandra Laudo, Anna Dot, Andrea Valdés, Caterina Almirall, Fito Conesa, Joan Burdeus and Òscar Holloway
La veu en xancletes (The Voice in Flip-Flops) is a radio programme with artists, curators and researchers that will be broadcast from the Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona as part of the Quasi Veu project. With the collaboration of Ràdio Fabra, we will take the radio studio to the streets, from where Episode 8 will be broadcast.
We will retrieve projects that have recently passed through the art centre that, from different perspectives, approach questions regarding “the voice”. We will talk to artists and curators who participated and we will also invite artists who are currently working on projects that focus specifically on the history and surroundings of the old Sant Andreu textile factory. This episode is the close of the Quasi Veu project and we also want it to be a moment of celebration. The programme is structured in four different sections:
- Conversation with curators: we will talk to Latitudes, curators of Things Things Say and Anna Manubens, curator of tone, tongue, mouth, an exhibition by Wendelien van Oldenborgh.
- Interventions by artists: we will look back at the piece A Knot Which Is Not by artist Eulàlia Rovira, created as part of the exhibition Things Things Say, as well as at a fragment of the project Capture the Voice/Capture the City by La Trama (Andrea Corachán) in collaboration with students from the Adult Education Centre Pegaso, which was created based on Van Oldenborgh’s exhibition.
Current resident artist at the factory, Alexander Arilla, will present the project he has been working on Homage to Your Voice.
- Round table: for the close of Quasi Veu, the development of the project and the seven previous episodes will be discussed, with the presence of all the members of the research group, in a conversation moderated by Martí Sales.
- Musical Minutes, curated by L’Afluent: L’Afluent will complete the programme with a series of musical pieces by some of the groups and artists who were programmed to appear last year but who couldn’t take part due to the health crisis restrictions.
La veu en xancletes is the Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona’s proposal for the Quasi Veu project, an initiative by the Generalitat de Catalunya’s Department for Culture and the Network of Visual Arts Centres of Catalonia, organised in the context that the COVID-19 pandemic generated in the cultural sector. The project was designed to be a platform for reflection and debate, developed online and in person. It brings together artistic, research and mediation practices, including the dialogue with players from other fields and different regions.
The group behind Quasi Veu is a team of researchers and curators formed by: Caterina Almirall, Joan Burdeus, Fito Conesa, Anna Dot, Òscar Holloway, Alexandra Laudo and Andrea Valdés. Regular collaborators who are also part of the team include Xavi Rodríguez Martín, responsible for the edition and sound production; Priscila Clementti, graphic image designer, Emiliana Larraguíbel, communications manager of the project on social media, and Ester Martínez, project coordinator.
It is rolled out in three formats: a radio programme in the form of podcasts, face-to-face artistic interventions at each art centre and a website. It also includes a mediation project. It will take place between April and June 2021 in eight centres that comprise the network: Lo Pati Centre d’Art de les Terres de l’Ebre, in Amposta; CA Tarragona Centre d’Art, in Tarragona; the Art Centre of la Panera, in Lleida; Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona; Tecla Sala Centre d’Art, in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat; ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, in Vic; Mataró Art Contemporani (M|A|C), in Mataró, and Bòlit. Centre d’Art Contemporani, in Girona.
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