On Friday 6th we will celebrate the launch of the first semester of Eina/Idea programming.
There will be beers, intangible slides; posters, collectible printed materials; a manifesto; edible and slightly psychotropic ink. We will also take the opportunity to present the graphic identity that is being carried out by Arauna and Gemma Villegas studios.
- Friday, March 6th at 7:00 pm
- EINA Barra de Ferro Arts Centre (Barra de Ferro, 2, Barcelona)
- Free entrance
On Friday 6th we will celebrate the launch of the first semester of Eina/Idea programming.
There will be beers, intangible slides; posters, collectible printed materials; a manifesto; edible and slightly psychotropic ink. We will also take the opportunity to present the graphic identity that is being carried out by Arauna and Gemma Villegas studios.
Come if you can ;-)
Eina/Idea is a project initiated by Fundació EINA to bring art and design education beyond its known academic and commercial comfort zones. Eina/Idea is conceived as a critical supplement, a machine for aesthetic reflection in permanent exhibition drive, a programming platform, a cognitive accelerator.
In close collaboration with EINA University School of Design and Art of Barcelona and its partner the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, but also outside of academia, Eina/Idea operates through research cells called cabinets: conceptually unique work spaces with tactical objectives defined according to their guest agents.
Eina, in Catalan, is the instrument, and Eina/Idea is a two-sided object, an instru/mental, material and concept, poietic and poetic make-think as opposed to over-designed claustro-f*ck. Something sounding like eina, in Arabic أين, is the questioning for direction, where-wherever-wheresoever-no matter where. Every direction is two directions, every path is two-sided. Eima or εἷμα, in ancient Greek, is the garment, the fabric—an allegory taking us from textile to text and back, from collective to individual; or, the school as fabric of intensities. εἷμα/εἶδος, an interlacing of mental threads so thick that they form a blanket. Eina as what, how, and where? In the traditional organization of space, there are four cardinal points plus above and below. The seventh direction is the other of these six, the ubiquitous oblique, all directions in between the six complete and exceed the whole. This impossible addition at the end of an associative chain could be instrumentalized as a model for applied speculative thinking, an eina/idea.
Eina/Idea