21st June and 6th July 2010

Openning Programme of Inland - Campo Adentro: about art, agriculture and the countryside

*Discussion: Culture from and within the remaining 80% : 21st July
*Presentation of the event and Inland-Campo Adentro press conference : 6th july
*Plataforma Rural Art and Countryside Committee meeting : 21st June
The following public events have been organised to celebrate the launch of the Inland - Campo Adentro project. These events are driven by a coordinated cultural and political effort that for the first time in Spain serves as the basis for social debate about the countryside and the problems it is currently facing. The aim is to establish a new relationship between the countryside and the city, bringing together artists, rural organisations (Plataforma Rural), government representatives (Ministry of Culture, Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs and local and regional governments), art centres ( Museo Reina Sofía,CDAN amongst others), academics (from five Spanish universities) and other European cultural organisations. A different event reflecting each season will take place over the next three years and the presentation of the project this summer will introduce the International Inland-Campo Adentro Conference, which is due to take place this autumn in October 2010. This reencounter of city and countryside and keeping a rural world alive can be a key factor for a transition towards sustainability as well as success factor for economic and cultural regeneration.
+ info: www.campoadentro.es

21 June: Discussion: Culture from and within the remaining 80% - art, agriculture and countryside
Conversation about the Inland - Campo Adentro initiative

Round table discussion with: 

- Jesús Carrillo, Director of Cultural Events, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
- Isaias Griñolo, Sobre Capital y Territorio, Programa Arte y Pensamiento [Capital and Territory, Art and Thought Program]. Univ. Internacional de Andalucía.
- Ramon Parramon, Director of Idensitat_Calaf-Barcelona
- Adam Shuterland, Director of Grizedale Arts, United Kingdom
- Fernando García-Dory, artist, Inland - Campo Adentro Project
This will include a written contribution from the Project Team Manager of Toda Práctica es Local / MUSAC, Castile and León

Parking 01. Portable Museums
Research project and documentation space

Included in the project Ceci n'est pas une voiture. Ceci n'est pas une voiture.

Openning Saturday 29th of May 5pm
Exhibition opens to the 10th of July


with the collaboration of Màster d'Estudis Avançats d'Història de l'Art de l'UB

Can Xalant presents from 29th of May to 10th July 2010 Parking 01. Museus Portàtils, a research and documentation project organized by the class of the Màster en Estudis Avançats en Història de l'Art, under the supervision of Martí Peran, professor and curator.

Parking 01. Museus Portàtils is part of the project Ceci n’est pas une voiture, proposed, as an exercise of documentation and reflection on the construction of mobile artifacts as elements of a wider conception of a museum or, as an alternative to it. WIth this objective the project has 3 phases: Parking 01. Museus Portàtils (documentation space); Parking 02 (Exhibition); Parking 03 (Seminar and publication). The project Ceci n'est pas une voiture is a collaboration among Can Xalant, Idensitat i ACVic. Centre d'Arts Contemporànies .

Parking 01. Museus Portàtils intends to investigate,  reflect and  rethink the practice of the exhibition and to bring new knowledge about the institutions, the system and the strategies of socialisation of the arts. Therefore, it has as a goal to put together different autonomous and portable artifacts, which are created to directly intervene in  urban space or to become an infrastructure to carry out activities, promoting alternative institutions, promoting open and collective creative processes .

Some projects will be presented during the opening:

Rosa Pera (Ambulantes.Cultura portátil)
Domènec (Motocarro)
Pablo Rojas Schwartz (GaleríaCallejera)
Lluc Mayol (Fanzinoteca Ambulant)
Antimuseo (Centro Portátil de Arte Contemporáneo)
Tom Lavin (Museo de la Defensa de Madrid)


From Monday to Friday 10am to 1pm - 4 to 8pm/ Entry free

[+] Informació: http://museusportatilsparking01.blogspot.com/

Landscape ?

Nico Baumgarten, Clara Boj & Diego Díaz, Alfonso Borragán & Lluís Sabadell i Artiga

From 7th May to 29th August 2010. (Opening 6th May 19.30h at Bòlit-LaRambla).

What is, in the final analysis, the landscape? Does it exist by itself in nature, or does it seem to be a construct of the viewer? Does it reflect only a vision or can it correlate with experience and  emotion?

Landscape? is presented as a kick-start to  these and other questions, within proposals rooted in territory, that through their learning experiences try to clarify whether  the landscape is evoked, revealed or constructed, and if the destruction of the landscape is the common element. It could be precisely that this ambivalence generates every landscape.

Through experience of, and prospecting for,  spatial and phenomenological categories that place the landscape in a natural, urban and emotional gradient, in Landscape? aspects like  progress, identity or the public realm are approached, but also from their affirmation and their negation , with a discourse exploring antagonistic possibilities.

Since construction and destruction are two faces of the same coin, to what extend do they impact upon and relate to social, economic and political transformations, within the countryside and vice-versa? How much must one belong to a territory to participate in the creation or destruction of its landscape?

Curated by Rosa Pera