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Rieres / Rambles

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A project by Osservatorio Nomade/Barcelona
(Domènec, Pau Faus, Giulia Fiocca, Pere Grimau, Paolo Nadalin, Elvira Pujol, Anna Recasens, Lorenzo Romito, Glòria Safont-Tria, Jordina Sangrà, Laia Solé, Joan Vila-Puig, Debora Zanette)
2007

A production of Can Xalant, CCCB and ACM, with the collaboration of Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny Deià, ELISAVA.

Routes around the Barcelona urban area
Rieres/Rambles is a territorial research project promoted by Stalker, and organised by the OSSERVATORIO NOMADE/BARCELONA. It is part of a series of similar projects undertaken previously, such as Campagna Romana (Rome, 2006) and Barilonga (Bari, 2006). The project aims to find incidences of new models for interpreting territory in the Greater Barcelona Area based on direct, collective and transdisciplinary experiences that have the practice of roaming as their basis. Two phases of work: «Roaming» and «Variable Distances and Multiple Identities».
«Roaming»: A three-day group walk (12th-14th April 2007) with five different departure points and five areas of simultaneous research: Sitges and the Garraf; Olesa de Montserrat and the Baix Llobregat; Viladecavalls and the Vallès Occidental; Llinars del Vallès and the Vallès Oriental; and Sant Andreu de Llavaneres and the Maresme.
«Variable Distances and Multiple Identities» (2007-2009): This involved the creation of workshops and working groups in order to carry out research into, reflect on and promote new models for interpreting territory in the Greater Barcelona Area.
The exploration of the Greater Barcelona Area on foot as the basis for territorial research, involves adopting a position outside the guidelines that construct the standardised experience of everyday life. By observing and listening to the erratic roaming line we have been able to experience a reality that eschews superficial categorisations and offers multiple possibilities for research far removed from media simplifications.

Presentation of the first issue of the Roulotte magazine

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VISIBLE / INVISIBLE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE MEDIA. Can Xalant, Mataró.
(June 2006)

The meeting held by artists known as Visible/Invisible. Contemporary Art and the Media aimed to reflect on the various relations of creativity, dialogue and conflicts existing between art, society and the media. This meeting brought together artists and creators with various styles of art, and also art critics, journalists and representatives from several cultural, art and political institutions.

Presentation of the first issue of the Roulotte magazine (published by ACM), by Domènec and Xavier Arenós

A project by de KRTU i Can Xalant.

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Roulotte:01
Nowadays it is no longer effective to differentiate between places where teaching, production, exhibitions and documentation can be carried out. All these possibilities are no longer different moments in the sequence of contemporary culture but, rather, overlap into just one complex situation where the circulation of data and the joining of agents and materials prevail. Roulotte is a space where this type of exercise can be carried out. It compiles information on specific projects, reformats it to make it more understandable and expansive, combines it with other materials which to date have been associated with it and, above all, allows one to begin an experience with dialogues among those taking part in each issue.

Roulotte is not so much a magazine but rather a project which turns the traditional concept of exhibition into a mobile experience. In the same publication diverse works come together which, since they are made portable, become material for a permanent ungovernable circulation.

Each issue of Roulotte includes material concerning initiatives, works or projects regardless of their real degree of execution. Nowadays it is not only effective that which has been sanctioned by a conventional circuit, but that which actively participates in a reflection on the present. So as to promote access to a range of contributions of this nature and in contrast to the constant invitation to immediate consumption, Roulotte gives priority to its interest in works committed to the contexts where they have been made and provides detailed information.

This first issue contains projects with very different registers by Osservatorio Nomade, Dennis Adams, Josep M. Martín, Michal Heiman and Boris Mitic. On the other hand, Jens Haaning has salvaged a work from the first issue of Baggage Roulotte, the supplement which will accompany each issue of this travelling artifact.