The ART i PART program for community artistic creation in the neighborhoods was an initiative of the Barcelona City Council, managed through the Institute of Culture of Barcelona, and falls under the framework of the Barcelona District Cultural program.
The creation and evolution of the La Marina neighborhood were closely linked to the realities associated with labor, and this fact greatly influenced the ART i PART project in the La Marina district. The eviction of the factories, which had traditionally been the backbone of the neighborhood’s social life and identity, had symbolic consequences that affected the identity of the people and the neighborhood on the map of the city of Barcelona, as well as daily consequences, since it was the neighborhood with the highest unemployment rate in the city. A project focused on historical memory was initiated, mainly around this labor issue. Various projects and discussion spaces were developed that, through citizen initiatives and gradually linking with institutional structures, sought to recover the value of the neighborhood’s identity and provide solutions to current situations.
Two Atlas processes were proposed: one in which the neighborhood included the city in the SÂLMON< Festival in February 2018, and the second, Vida Laboral, which was exclusively linked to the neighborhood in July 2018.
Graner coordinated the projects through the Historical Memory axis of the Pla de Barris (PdB), and the participating entities in the cultural axis project of Graner within the Pla de Barris, in collaboration with the Memorial Democràtic de la Seat, the Historical Archive of La Marina, the Group of Former Philips Workers, Pla de Barris, the District of Sants-Montjuïc, Vulnus, ART-transforma, the Sant Pere Claver Hospital Foundation, IES Montjuïc, Bàrkeno School, and Mamis de La Marina.
- ATLAS: A performance by Anna Borralho and João Galante that, as its name suggests, aimed to represent the human diversity of the city, creating a landscape of the complexity of the social and urban fabric. The performance brought together 100 people from different backgrounds, languages, ages, genders, abilities, professions, and professional situations on stage. With this work, an atlas of human social organization was created, presenting human beings based on their function in society, reclaiming their occupations both individually and collectively. ATLAS was the opening performance of the 6th edition of the SÂLMON< Festival in February 2018, organized by Graner and the Mercat de les Flors. To create it, an open call was made for 100 participants from Barcelona, coming from all walks of life and origins, in order to better represent the diversity of the city’s population.
- VIDA LABORAL: A performance created after two weeks of collective work at the Graner with creator Claudia Faci and a group of 25 neighbors from the neighborhood and the city around the concept of “working life.” It was presented within the framework of the Graner BooMBeta artistic actions cycle and under the umbrella of the Grec Festival of Barcelona in July 2018.
A project of ART I PART La Marina, Barcelona Districte Cultural, organized and curated by Graner-Mercat de les Flors, with the collaboration of Pla de Barris.
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