The third edition of Viu Montjuïc (October 7th and 8th, 2023), a celebration where, throughout a weekend, about forty cultural facilities inhabiting Montjuïc offer their own and joint activities in co-creation.
In 2023, as a result of collaboration with the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, choreographer and dancer Manuel Rodríguez, resident of Graner 2023, presented the dance solo 41°22′14″N 2°09′00″E. An intervention in dialogue with Oscar Abraham Pabón’s work “Psychoarchitecture”, which consists of a large ceramic wall arranged over the water that becomes the starting point of the dance proposed by Manuel Rodríguez. A reflection on one’s own identity, resistance, and the emotions that have conditioned him at different vital moments. A wall that protests and exhibits itself, but also hides and guards: “The coordinates 41°22′14″N 2°09′00″E are those of the Mies Van der Rohe pavilion and also give title to the artistic intervention I am going to make, on another intervention, the work Psychoarchitecture by Oscar Abraham Pavón, a work that in turn intervenes on the Mies Van Der Rohe pavilion, which constitutes at the same time another intervention, that of the building itself on the space where it was built. A building that was built in 1929 and which was dismantled and rebuilt in 1986.”
Additionally, during the two days of Viu Montjuïc, Relatos del cemento enfermo (Tales of Sick Cement) at Montjuïc Castle, an interactive installation designed by Urati Laboratori, could be seen. It collects the memories of social struggles from the neighborhoods of the city. The artifact is designed as a confessional, an intimate space to evoke one’s own memories and add them to those left by other people previously and which we can also listen to. Thus, in each space where it is installed, the sounds, voices, and memories that the confessional has already recorded are mixed and dialogued with new sounds, creating a multilayered archive that captures the singularities of each person who enters and the universality of shared struggles.
