The projects of Xavier Acarin, professor of the Bachelor of Design, and María Alcaide, former student of the University Master's Degree in Research in Art and Design (MURAD), have been selected in the Barcelona Producció programme, promoted by the art space La Capella with the aim of encouraging artists, curators, researchers and other arts professionals to develop their practice.
Xavier Acarín will develop ‘Els Tres Pallars’, a collaboration with the Historical Archive of Poblenou. In 1916 Cebrià Montoliu organised the exhibition Construcció Cívica i Habitació Popular at the Museu Social de Barcelona with the aim of explaining the evolution of the city from organic urbanism. One of the projects he included was a garden city on an island in the Provençals neighbourhood of Poblenou, which was never realised. With the collaboration of the Poblenou Historical Archive, the project follows the material and social history of this island and its surroundings to explain the process of gentrification in Barcelona today.
Photo: Habitatges a punt d'enderrocar a la zona dels Tres Pallars, Josep Maria Huertas Clavería, Historical Archive of Poblenou, 2004.
‘La romería de los cornudos' is María Alcaide's project, a plastic investigation based on the homonymous ballet by García Lorca and Rivas Cherif (1933) to make a heterodox reading of the Pilgrimage of El Rocío and the environment of Doñana through video, dance, music and the creation of costumes. All this from a hydro-feminist perspective that focuses on the uses of the territory. This project is an updating of the story that focuses on the uses of the territory, as well as on the productive and reproductive dynamics of the agents that pass through it.
