Group portrait of the construction workers of the Universal Exposition, 1917 Lucien Roisin Besnard
Next week, from July 8 to 11, we will be at the Fundació Joan Miró and surrounding areas, as we are organizing a workshop there with Oriol Fontdevila that aims to address the forms of memory surrounding a phenomenon such as the informal shantytown settlements in Barcelona and more specifically on the mountain of Montjuïc, where the Fundació itself is currently located.
The workshop is part of a “summer school” linked to the exhibition cycle Preventive archeology and is part of an international symposium entitled
Amnesia
Col·lectiva. This symposium is a proposal by Oriol Fontdevila and aims to create a space for reflection on the intersections that currently occur between historiographical and artistic practice regarding collective forms of commemoration and oblivion. Hence, our workshop revolves around a phenomenon such as shantytowns, which official accounts of the city’s history have sought to forget, but which arose precisely from the construction of that showcase that was and is the Montjuïc mountain, a double movement whereby the official narrative and memory are built on the forgetting of subaltern narratives, which we can apply in many cases to the entire city of Barcelona.
Already during the inauguration of
Espai 14-15
, the project with which we participated in the Preventive Archeology cycle of the Espai 13 of the Fundació Joan Miró, we made a first approach to the theme of shantytowns during the walk we organized from Montjuïc to Bellvitge, and whose sound recording you can listen to, summarized, here.
In the workshop we will have the collaboration of, among others, Centre d’Estudis de Montjuïc, Lúa Coderch, Antonio Gagliano, Valeria Giacomoni, Can Clos pel Canvi, Emili Suárez, Oriol Granados, Imma Jansana, Lola Lasurt, Taller de ficció or Mercè Tatjer.
The international symposium, in which we also participate as speakers on July 9, includes
Enzo Traverso
,
Miriam Basilio
,
María Ruido
,
Azul Blaseotto
(member of
La Dársena
),
Octavi Rofes
and Joan Roca (director of the Museu d’Història de Barcelona); you can see the complete program here on the Arqueologia preventiva blog. Both the workshop and the conferences are free and you only need to register in advance as places are limited by sending a message to: confirmacions@fundaciomiro-bcn.org