Exhibition

Living in-between [Institutional Developments / Artistic Practices / Collective Processes]

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A project by Idensitat, La Fundició, Sinapsis and Transductores

Living in-between is proposed as a plan designed to activate the Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Centre as a creator and catalyst for interaction between artistic practices and social spaces. It aims to offer the means to collate and respond to emerging new approaches to how cultural institutions should be reconceived and reinvented, viewing artistic practices and collective processes as essential tools to activate strategies of change that influence both the cultural ecosystem and the social context.

The Living in-between project sees mediation as a critical, transformative process for cultural institutions, relations and ecosystems. In this respect, the proposal aims to set up different types of production, circulation and representation that combine artistic practice, mediation and education as an active part of the social system but with its own mode of cultural production and of collective research that generates knowledge.

The Living in-between project is managed jointly by a working group made up of four collectives: Idensitat, LaFundició, Sinapsis and Transductores whose activities are organised via a single programming board.

Interweaving, Transcendent Culture, In Transition and Antenna are the four programme areas developed over the art centre’s three floors.

Interweaving
In the Interweaving programme the creative collection processes used by artists with local initiatives and networks are activated and socialised. This programme tries out different elements for analysis and joint creation with neighbourhood organisations and local initiatives in order to generate crossovers and overlaps between local social and cultural practices and those of contemporary art, based on the differing dimensions of culture and community-based work.

Transcendent Culture
The programme is based on the belief that a set of cultural initiatives and practices exist that have transcended the classic frameworks for the production and reception of culture by proposing institutional practices developed through cooperation, networking and hybridisation. These practices have been designed to include critical mediation, with such mediation being seen as a form of investigating, exploring and generating knowledge, culture and citizenship experimentally.

In Transition – City
In Transition has been developed as a programme in its first phase, focusing on city space. The first form presents several examples of the contemporary transition taking place in modes of production and active participation of citizens in the configuration of public space and the contemporary construction of the city. Some of them share the common aim of generating social space, incorporating or activating creative strategies in their processes, while in some other cases art and culture work on the margins of institutional centrality in order to seek modi operandi that link cultural production and its connection with the city context.

Antenna
The actions and activities proposed by the Antenna programme aim to favour a global and cross-disciplinary interpretation of the Living in-between project while also providing a relational interface between the centre and its proposals as a whole, helping to address different contexts and formats for involvement beyond those arising from the work or activities promoted specifically within the framework of each programme.

Guest Room
​This is a proposal to allocate space on Floor 3 to connect the Living in-between project with other art and culture projects. Granting space to guest projects provides an opportunity to work together and hold joint dialogue to create networks and other forms of occupying the centre within diverse contexts, based on their temporary residence on this floor.