Barcelona , livre ebook

i Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power

ii Series Editors Professor David George (Swansea University) Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)
Editorial Board David Frier (University of Leeds) Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool) Gareth Walters (Swansea University) Rob Stone (Swansea University) David Gies (University of Virginia) Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham) Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)
Other titles in the series
From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage: The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film Stuart Nishan Green
Gald s s Torquemada Novels: Waste and Profit in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain Teresa Fuentes Peris
Killing Carmens: Women s Crime Fiction from Spain Shelley Godsland
Modern Argentine Poetry: Exile, Displacement, Migration Ben Bollig
Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy Kathryn Crameri
Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain Roger Bartra
The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado s Proverbios y Cantares Nicolas Fernandez-Medina
Shakespeare in Catalan: Translating Imperialism Helena Buffery
The Novels of Jos Saramago: Echoes from the Past, Pathways into the Future David G. Frier
Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Social Identity in Spain, 1850 - 1960 Richard Cleminson & Francisco V zquez Garcia
Los Invisibles: A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940 Richard Cleminson & Francisco V zquez Garcia
Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction Lloyd Hughes Davies
Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture Yaw Agawu-Kakraba
Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain: Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform Alison Sinclair
Western Sahara: The Refugee Nation Pablo San Mart n
Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities Eli Bartra
The Films of El as Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes Tom Whittaker


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Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power
Edited by HELENA BUFFERY AND CARLOTA CAULFIELD

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
CARDIFF
2012

The contributors, 2012
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Contents
Series Editors Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction: Butterflying Barcelona Helena Buffery and Carlota Caulfield
Part I: Avant-Garde Histories and Catalonia
Chapter 1: Breaking Boundaries: A Journey through the Catalan Avant-Garde Carlota Caulfield
Chapter 2: On the Starfish Road: Surrealism and the Paris-Barcelona Connection Stephen Forcer
Chapter 3: The Lyrical Taboos of Guillem Viladot P. Louise Johnson
Chapter 4: Caf Central: a groundbreaking independent publishing house in Barcelona. Interview with Antoni Clap s Carlota Caulfield
Part II: Butterflying Barcelona: The Environment
Chapter 5: The Case for Obsolescence: Thinking Time and Space in Joaquim Jord s Numax presenta Maria Paz Balibrea
Chapter 6: Whose Vanguardist City? The Barcelona Urban Model as Seen from the Periphery in Jos Luis Guer n s En construcci n Natalia Nu ez
vi Chapter 7: The Raval on Stage: Limits and Borders in Juan Mayorga s Hamelin Elisenda Marcer
Chapter 8: Translating the Enigma: Temporality and Subjectivity in Ventura Pons s Barcelona: un mapa Josep-Anton Fern ndez
Chapter 9: Empowerment by Visualization: Experiences from Barcelona Lidewij Tummers
Part III: Performing Barcelona
Chapter 10: Tracing the City through the URBS Project Helena Buffery and ngels Margarit
Chapter 11: Performing Barcelona: Cultural Tourism, Geography and Identity Maria M. Delgado
Chapter 12: Absent Bodies and Objects Cariad Astles
Chapter 13: A Broken Mirror? Global-Local Images of Barcelona Anna Wilson
Chapter 14: Talking about Visual Poetry: Interviews with J. M. Calleja, Gustavo Vega and Xavier Canals Carlota Caulfield et al.
Works Cited


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Series Editors Foreword
Over recent decades the traditional languages and literatures model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superceded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and area studies approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds - categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa.
In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curricu lum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of cultural production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions. viii


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Acknowledgements
The editors wish to extend their thanks to the editorial team of the University of Wales Press, and especially to Richard Thomson, Sarah Lewis and Si n Chapman for their help preparing this book for publication. Generous grants from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences of University College Cork, Ireland, and Mills College, California, USA, underpinned its production. Many thanks are also due to the contributors to this volume for their knowledge and forbearance. We have very much enjoyed entering into dialogue with them. We are grateful to the College of Arts and Law of the University of Birmingham, UK, the Coffin Fund at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (IGRS) in London, the British Library, Institut Ramon Llull and the Instituto Cervantes for supporting the participation of visual artists and performers from Catalonia in the two-day symposium which initiated collaboration on this volume in March 2008. These artists and performers have very kindly given permission to repro duce images of their work, which we hope will contribute to the generation of further interdisciplinary dialogue in the future. We must also thank each of them individually for the time they gave in answering our questions, responding to emails and engaging in interviews: Gustavo Vega, J. M. Calleja, Xavier Canals, Toni Clap s, ngels Margarit and everyone at Mudances - many thanks to all of you. Finally, we would like to thank all our friends, family and colleagues for their support over the years, especially Dr. Margaret Andrews, former lecturer at the IGRS, for her immense enthusi asm about the project. x


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List of Illustrations
Introduction
Figure 0.1. Xavier Canals during action poem Butterflying Barcelona , 15 March 2008. Photograph by Teresa Hereu.
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1. Electrographic Poem by Xavier Canals, for the Festival de Poesia Visual dels Pa sos Catalans, 15-28 February 1979.
Figure 1.2. Voyeur by J. M. Calleja, 1978.
Figure 1.3. Tarot cards by J. M. Calleja, Xavier Canals and Gustavo Vega. Image used for exhibition on A Fish Pierced the Moon: Visual Poetry from Catalonia , Mills College Center for the Book, 28 May 2010.
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1. The Dal brand used as part of a Turespa a campaign - Spain Marks . Courtesy of TURESPA A.
Chapter 3
Figure 3.1. Object poem from the collection SELF , by Guillem Viladot. Courtesy of Fundaci Lo Pardal.
Figure 3.2. Figure 2. Object poem by Guillem Viladot, later entitled El principi del plaer . Courtesy of Fundaci Lo Pardal.
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1. Celebrating the end of the Numax experience of self-management . Still from Numax presenta , 1980. Courtesy of Mar a Antonia Madro ero Rom n.
Figure 5.2. The space of work re-signified as lived space . Still from Numax presenta , 1980. Courtesy of Mar a Antonia Madro ero Rom n.
Figure 5.3. Vacated space of work . Still from Numax presenta , 1980. Courtesy of Mar a Antonia Madro ero Rom n.
xii Chapter 6
Figure 6.1. Barcelona s industrial chimneys transformed . Still from En construcci n . Courtesy of TV Ovideo.
Figure 6.2. Juani and Ivan s hands . Still from En construcci n . Courtesy of TV Ovideo.
Figure 6.3. Barcelona s shadows . Still from En construcci n . Courtesy of TV Ovideo.
Chapter 7
Figure 7.1. The Romea Theatre in Carrer de l Hospital, Barcelona. Courtesy of Animalario.
Figure 7.2. Press photograph from Animalario production of Juan Mayorga s Hamelin . Courtesy of Animalario.
Chapter 8
Figure 8.1. Poster for Ventura Pons s Barcelona (un mapa) . Courtesy of Ventura Pons.
Figure 8.2. Characters screaming in front of Sagrada Fam lia. Still from Barcelona (un mapa) . Courtesy of Ventura Pons.
Chapter 9
Figure 9.1. Women being trained as workshop moderators by the Institut Catal de les Dones, 2004.
Figure 9.2. Visualizing the city as a comfortable place fo