The undersigned individuals, groups, and entities, generally linked to the cultural sphere, feel the need to voice our opinion in the controversy between the MACBA and the CAP Raval Nord project in relation to the Misericòrdia chapel, to express our support for the residents who are demanding that the CAP be located there.
We are uncomfortable with the problem being presented as a slight to culture and the people who work in it. We also love culture, we think it needs public support and that sometimes it is not given the value it deserves, but we also think that all this has little to do with the MACBA expansion proposal. In the debate to which we refer, we understand the reasons given in relation to the CAP much better than those related to the expansion.
In fact, one of the issues that makes us take sides is the lack of clarity and justification regarding the needs of the new cultural space, a lack that at the same time resonates with previous debates on the management of the MACBA itself. What is the collection that is to be shown, and in what unprecedented way is it intended to be exhibited? Are there studies that explain the public interest it has? And, above all, who does this collection belong to? How are the problems—already exposed even by previous museum directors or by organizations such as the CONCA—addressed in relation to the meaning of a public investment for a collection that is to a high percentage privately owned?
Public cultural initiatives cannot be developed in confrontation with the needs expressed by the people who are located in the territory. The role of the large cultural institutions in the Raval has already generated enough controversy about the urban and economic consequences that end up making life more difficult for the people of the neighborhood, without a widespread perception of the benefits for the cultural life of the environment.
Therefore, we want to express our support as cultural agents for the location of the CAP, we reject any solution in the name of a sacralizing vision of culture, and, in this logic, we identify with the declaration that the social and cultural movements of the Raval neighborhood have been promoting for days in the “Manifesto for the future of CAP Nord Raval”.
You can sign the manifesto in the form you will find at the end of the following link.
We sign it:
- Ateneu Popular 9Barris
- Quesoni Cooperativa
- Promoting group of the Indigestió cooperative
- Col·lectiu Dones i Cultura
- La Fundició, SCCL.
- La Hidra Cooperativa
- Teatre Arnau
- Ovidi4
- La Ciutat Invisible, SCCL
- Coop57 Catalunya
- Associació Panorama 180 – BccN
- L’Afluent, cooperative of cultural services
- Teleduca.Educom
- Desastrosus Cirkus
- Coordinadora Entitats SAP Muntanya
- Metromuster SCCL, audiovisual producer
- Say It Loud, music festival
- Observatori de la Vida Quotidiana (OVQ)
- Colectivo Laboratorio Reversible
- La Tremenda Comunicació Cultural
- Ione Hermosa, manager of La Central del Circ
- Lali Álvarez Garriga, theater director and author.
- Isabel Banal Xifré, artist and art professor
- Mireia Calafell Obiol, poet
- Xavier Cervantes, journalist
- Julià de Jòdar, writer
- Helena Febrés Fraylich, cultural worker
- Rafa Milán, cultural manager
- Oriol de Balanzó, screenwriter
- Martí Sales, musician and writer
- Pau Faus visual artist and filmmaker
- Eduard Arderiu, sociologist and cultural manager
- Mireia Mora, cultural communicator
- Sergi López, actor
- Andrea Soto Calderón, professor of aesthetics and art theory UAB
- Montserrat Moliner, visual artist and cultural manager
- Antonio Alcántara, social educator
- Carolina Olivares, producer, cultural agitator
- Jordi Oliveras, cultural worker
- Xapo Ortega, filmmaker
- Roger Bernat, playwright
- Toni Llotge Millet
- Elena Fraj Herranz
- Jordi Colomer, artist
- Mònica Bertran Romaní, social educator and dynamizer Punt Òmnia Figueres
- Anna Melià Zarroca
- Carles Monclús Garriga, professor
- Adrià Garcia i Mateu, designer
- Rosa Birulés Pons, retired
- Coque Freedonia Cultural Manager
- Anna Cerdà i Callís, cultural manager
- Jordi Foix Robert, social educator
- Fabiola Romera, designer
- Sem Pons Puig Cultural Manager
- Joan Sebastià Colomer Singer
- Xavi Campos, manager and social educator
- Oriana Eliçabe, photographer
