Own Rooms 1. Art Centres Under Debate

Place: Floor 0

Participants: Ferran Barenblit (MACBA), Judit Font (Ateneu Popular 9 Barris) and Aida Sánchez de Serdio (MNCARS).

A three-way conversation to explore and imagine the role and the functions of art centres.

The ways of constructing, using and inhabiting culture display a wide variety of forms and manners of directing and managing cultural institutions. From informal, emerging, base or self-managed spaces to major city or national facilities and institutions. Within the context of the Living in-between project currently running at the Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, the centre has programmed a series of inter-crossing conversations between people who, either independently or linked to institutions, can offer diverse viewpoints, experiences and knowledge.

With the title Own Rooms – in tribute to the book A Room of One’s Own , by Virginia Woolf – we aim to open up spaces for debate, conversation, crossovers and distances between different ways of thinking about our own rooms in culture: how they relate to each other, what it is advocated that they should contain, or who can inhabit them and for what uses.

The series is presented on a regular basis once a month, with brief interventions by the guests and a debate open to all those attending.