'EIX CULTURAL' INTRODUCTION
Graner is a cultural centre that engages with its vicinity, that hosts experimentation with non-standardized languages as an everyday practice, and connects the artists of the centre to the local community of our neighbourhood: La Marina.
We must have a lively culture that makes us think and allows us to continue creating new forms of culture; a culture that does not only offer finished products ready to be consumed by a passive audience, but instead makes us all take part in such products; a culture that entitles us to use its symbols and resignify them, to revisit traditions and create new imaginaries that let us build, remix, think and live culture in a lively and heterogeneous, non-normative and non-hegemonic, manner.
“Eix Cultural” has four cornerstones, four key values:
+ Awareness of the context
+ Participation
+ Creative resignification
+ Humanity
It includes such artistic actions as:
- Collective authoring processes
- Processes of collaboration between artists and neighbours
- Generic proposals addressed to the citizens
- Particular proposals addressed to specific collectives
- Long-term processes (6 months to a year)
- Brief and eventual actions
The implied organisations and professionals are:
- Illa Educativa Project: EBM Collserola, Escola Bàrkeno and Espacio Familiar La Casa dels Colors + EBM El Niu (Can Clos) + Graner’s team.
- Sant Pere Claver Fundació Sanitària + Consulta Jove: Sant Pere Claver Fundació Sanitària and Consulta Jove + Graner’s team.
- Vulnus Action: Vulnus, Red sin gravedad
- ASPROSEAT and ARTtransforma Action: ASPROSEAT and ARTtransforma
- IMAGINA’T Action
- El Cos Respira Project: Mercedes Boronat
- Action at Festes Majors de la Marina: the festivity committees of the 9 quarters that form La Marina neighbourhood + Graner’s team
- Actions within Festival SÂLMON<: Fabra i Coats – Fàbrica de Creació, IES Moisés Broggi, IES Montjuïc, IES Josep Comas i Solà, NyamNyam, Jorge Dutor y Guillem Mont de Palol, Anna Pantinat, Big Bouncers, En Resdiència, Cris Celada, Tomás Castro, Beatriz Sánchez, Agost Produccions, L’Afluent.
