Crisis

Debate at CCCB

The shock of the economic crisis has rudely awakened us from the dream of well-being in which we slumbered. With almost no period of transition we have gone from a life free of concerns about what lay ahead of us to flock in despair towards an uncertain future about which pronouncements are taking the form of a constant flow of dark forebodings. Although the economy is the spearhead of the crisis, the feeling that everything is running down, that this is the end of an era, is similarly affecting other aspects of the present: the political power game, aesthetic judgement,! the basic ethics of shared existence, our corners of intimacy, our relationship with the planet and our ability to imagine possible worlds. Yet are not crises also times of great agitation and creativity?

From 17 January to 21 March, at 7.30 p.m.

Monday 17 January
«Crises and fables»
Soledad Puértolas, writer

Tuesday 18 January
«Territory, authority, rights»
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University

Being Immigrant in Catalonia

Presentation of the book

The Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona and Edicions 62 are pleased to invite you to the launch of Ser Immigrant a Catalunya (Being Immigrant in Catalonia).

This book, commissioned by the CCCB, is fruit of a project of research and documentation on the social and cultural capital offered by immigrants from impoverished countries along with the main mechanisms and forms of their integration or exclusion

WIKILEAKS/WIKIREBELS. ¿La Glasnost de nuestra época?

19 January, at 7 p.m.

Free admission

Xcèntric. The CCCB's cinema

13 January, at 8 p.m.
Family Album

16 January, at 6.30 p.m.
Time after time. Anri Sala

20 January, at 8 p.m.
The Black & Light Series: Naoyuki Tsuji

FILA ZERO: Elisa K (Judith Colell and Jordi Cadena, 2010, 7')

18 January, at 8 p.m.

The screening of the film Elisa K (Judith Colell Jordi Cadena, 2010, 7') will be followed by a talk with the audience.

Free admission

Exhibition THE BAROQUE (D)EF(F)ECT. Politics of the Hispanic Image

To 27 February

The Hispanic phenomenon symbolizes the homogeneous framework shared by Spain and Latin America. But who built this myth and what strategies have been generated to keep it going down through the centuries, through many different regimes, ideologies and governments?

This exhibition is a meticulous examination of the relation between the Hispanic myth and its principal survival strategy: the baroque.