Our aim is to explore the hidden corners and memories of a reality that is no longer to be found or seen in the city of Barcelona, and we want to do this using the recollections of people close and very dear to us who are losing their memory. The aim is to apprehend their memories and pay tribute to that city of Barcelona that no longer exists, or is barely visible; to the valuable people who have lived in this city, who have given it their spirit and their personality.
A recovery project that would like to bring to light those dark holes that appear in memory due to the passage of time, reproducing the fading and disintegration using evocative and experimental music, sound environments, images and videos to narrate a dreamlike and sensorial story that moves between beauty, nostalgia and unease. Is it possible to stop time and recover what can no longer be seen or remembered? Is this Barcelona better than the one from before?
KIKE BELA, Barcelona, 1976. Kike is an indefatigable artist of the Barcelona underground network, whether as musician in bands linked to alternative sounds such as Blood Quartet, TemaZzcal – with Aldo Aranda and Mark Cunningham, Murnau B., Le Fou, Tystnaden – with members of Standstil l, JSXC, NosiEscapists – with Llapispanc, as the coordinator for creation venues (exdirector of La Escocesa), as conceiver and producer of multidisciplinary shows (Exploding Fest, FiM_Fira de Vila-seca, Seismes, 10 Atlàntides…), or as a composer, primarily for audiovisual projects by well-known names, among which can be highlighted the documentaries of Antonio Pérez Molero, La Flota de Indias, Lacroix – Dalí, Quiero lo Eterno by Miguel Ángel Blanca, with Blood Quartet, or Fin de Siglo by director Álex Casanovas. His work has been released by record labels Amên Discos, Gandula and La Nada Colectiva.
NEUS MARTÍNEZ FARRAN, Barcelona, 1996. She graduated in Art and Design from Escola Massana (UAB), and spent a year at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018-19). She founded Col·lectiu Pirulís (2018, Barcelona), at the Ateneu del Clot, and is a resident at Fabra i Coats-Fàbrica de Creació. She is currently doing a course in Sound Art at Massana Permanent.
Although a multidisciplinary artist, she mainly works with public spaces as a platform for artistic creation, action, research and dissemination, in support of art that is public and accessible to all. She has taken part in and organised group projects at Fabra i Coats, Espora Fest and Seismes. She has shown her work at FAB Casa del Mig, at Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània (Valencia), La Virreina (Barcelona), Antiga Massana (Barcelona) and El Corralito CCA (Terrassa). Her recent most notable work includes The Posttraumatic and the graphics for the correspondence process between CIO (Centre for Occupational Initiatives) and the various bodies in the neighbourhood of Fabra i Coats.
LAURA B CAMPOS, Barcelona. With a degree in Art and Design (Escuela Massana, UAB) and a Masters in Comparative Literature, Art and Philosophy (UPF), this artist has been resident at Raro Madrid (InkDelicious, La Tabacalera de Lavapiés (CSA) and PárpadoStudio), at Fabra i Coats-Fàbrica de Creació, Barcelona, and at Cal Gras thanks to the ProCrea grant.
Her works have been shown at various venues in Spain and Argentina, including Munar Arte, Fabra i Coats, PárpadoStudio, FASE (as part of Loop 2019), Zumzeig, Eneagrama Experimental Cinema Festival and Estructuras 3000. She is also a member of the LOW HAZE collective, with whom she has performed at MACBA, at Hangar and at Fabra i Coats-Fàbrica de Creació. She is also engaged in audiovisual direction projects through which she has worked with artists such as Tr3str3inta, Blood Quartet, Queralt Lahoz and Las Meninas: Centre d’estètica.
HABITUAL VIDEO TEAM is a non-profit association formed by Lis Costa and Josep M. Jordana, that has as its main objective the promotion of activities related to the visual arts, specifically, video art: www.habitualvideoteam.org.
A fundamental area of their work is the organisation of festivals, cycles and video shows, such as the FLUX Video Auteur Festival: www.fluxfestival.org, and the INFLUX Audiovisual Performing Arts Festival: www.influxfestival.org.
Another area of Habitual Video Team’s activity is video documentation of cultural events mainly related to experimental music and poetry performances. In 2012 they launched the SUMMA project in order to convert this audiovisual heritage (more than 1000 recordings) into a non-profit online video archive: www.summa-hvt.org.
