As a result of the need to familiarize citizens with the idiosyncrasies of all the centers that inhabit Montjuïc, the directors of these institutions decided to carry out a joint cultural action aimed at promoting the regular programming of the different facilities and, at the same time, fostering bonds and synergies among them, reconstructing paths (both physical and intangible), proposing collaborations, and joining efforts, with the aim of incorporating improvements to Montjuïc Park and reclaiming the spirit of the 1929 Universal Exhibition. The first edition of Viu Montjuïc was planned for 2020 but was canceled due to COVID-19. At the end of 2020, the proposal resumed, this time with the collaboration of the Sants-Montjuïc District, the Barcelona Institute of Culture, and the Fourth Tenancy of Economy, Finance, Economic Promotion, and Tourism. The number of participating facilities was expanded to 22 institutions, and the celebration was scheduled for the weekend of October 16th and 17th, 2021.
Graner participated in Viu Montjuïc 2021 with:
- Saturday, October 16th, at 18:45: Stone & Silk by Paloma Muñoz/Cia.Siberia at Montjuïc Castle. Free entry.
The lightness of a body in all its solidity, the solidity of a memory despite its lightness, the solidity of matter that can become light, the lightness of memory that can weigh like stone. Space, its materiality, its smell, its sound, its memory. Bodies like scratches, like echoes bouncing off the stone, bodies that disturb the air, that transmute into buzzing.
- Sunday, October 17th, at 16:30, 17:30, and 18:30: Reflex #1 by Raquel Klein at Caixa Forum Barcelona. Free entry.
Reflex #1 is a site-specific choreographic research proposal about time and its perception, which seeks to incorporate architecture as a means of amplifying the landscape possibilities of the body. It is an invitation to explore together the intersection between the scenic event and the installation, to reflect and blur the boundaries between action and observation by inhabiting, strolling, thus transforming the white courtyard of Arata Isozaki. Through pictorial composition and corporeal states, we will build spaces that include the “observer” as part of a landscape of permeable and durational sensitivity.
