Barcelona
La Llacuna del Poblenou

Silences at Llacuna del Poblenou school was a week-long project with 6 exhibitions, 2 performances, 2 installations, 8 master classes, outings and citizen actions by 20 professionals and artists.

The school was closed, the classes were stopped and the children were offered five different visions of silence based on visual, sound, performative, philosophical and architectural arts.

We wanted to try to convey the idea that everyone has their own silences and that we wanted them to find their own. Every day 20 artists and professionals from various fields came to the school and offered the children a new perspective. The project was structured by days, areas and ages. Each small daily action was rethought from a new artistic point of view and shook their realities.
We had to make them look differently!

Slowly, we managed to make silence part of their daily life in a different way, we got them to listen to it, to appreciate it and to share it. And after five days we all went out together to ask for silence in the city: the 482 pupils of the LLacuna del Poblenou school spent 7.12 minutes hand in hand, forming a column of silences that stretched from the school towards the sea at Rambla de Poblenou on an autumn afternoon and they were, as always, our greatest inspiration.

Visual Arts

4 Lolo & Sosaku | Artists

A duo of artists who meet and discover a mutual interest in an experimental way of exploiting the arts and creating new art forms. From 2005 they start to concentrate on an intense research and start inventing and sculpting their first instruments to create a new kind of music.

www.loloysosaku.com

5 Sons Barcelona | Anthropologists

The Phonos project is an initiative of the Music Technology Research Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in collaboration with the Phonos Foundation. This project aims to promote cultural activities related to research in music technology. Contributing to make the results of research in this field have a direct impact on the cultural and artistic world, encouraging innovation and the confluence between music and technology.

www.barcelona.freesound.org/
www.phonos.upf.edu/tallerssonors/sonsdebarcelona

6 Cia. Manolo Alcántara | Circus

RUDO is about people who have lived with rudeness, physical exertion and personal challenges taken to the point of absurdity.

At the show, a man creates towers and figures out of heavy wooden boxes. The fragility of the constructions on which he strings himself to make precarious balances are the fruit of desire and illusion.

The music acts as a lyrical counterbalance to the titanic effort of the character, who grunts, sweats and does not falter in his delirium.

In Rudo, the spectator finds himself trapped in an intimate space, in a tier that seems as if it has to fall (like the protagonist with his balances). This proximity to the track invites us to share the dangers and longings of life.

Intimate, silent, precarious, risky and tender.

www.ciamanoloalcantara.com

7 Cia. Mercè Framis | Shadows Theatre

Puppeteer and art therapist. Specialist in shadow theatre. She trained as a puppeteer at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. Within this theatrical field, she has been part of different companies. He works in different areas: creation and performance of shows; puppet and prop construction; puppet animation and dubbing for television and teaching for theatre and education professionals.

www.merceframis.com

Ioga

10 Susana Castro | Dancer

Graduated in contemporary dance and choreography [Escola superior de música i dansa de l'Institut del Teatre de Barcelona], qualified teacher in the Iyengar® method by Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (Pune) India.Co-director and performer of the Erre que Erre dance company since its origins until 7 years ago. She is a member of the Erre space, where she has her own space dedicated to the teaching of Iyengar® Ioga.

www.errequeerredanza.net

Performance

12 Sonia Gómez | Performer

Dancer, performer and choreographer. She worked as a dancer and performer for various artists until 2004 when she began to create her own shows. She has presented her projects at the Teatre de les Flors, CCCB, MACBA, SónarKids'11 and Sónar'14 Festival, TNT Terrassa, among others. He has also received several awards such as the FAD Sebastià Guasch Paratheatrical Arts Award and the award for the most innovative show on the '09 tour.

www.soniagomez.com

9 Helena Lizari | Dancer

Dancer and choreographer, movement and psychomotor teacher and graduate in movement theory and analysis, dance studies and performance. She has a long career in contemporary dance, both as a creator and teacher.

www.helenalizari.com

11 Ana Labrador | Actress

Actress, dancer and performer.

She works as an actress with the company Suissa "Jours Tranquilles" and collaborates with the "Chantier Panafricain d'écriture de femmes" in West Africa. As a performer, she collaborates with AADK in Berlin, Portugal, Barcelona and Murcia. She is the founder of the company "Agüita" in Barcelona and of the company "Desmelene" in Paris. For one year she was part of the artistic team of "Spain Mura" in Japan.

She has been practising Iyengar yoga for 12 years with the teacher Susana Castro, qualified in the Iyengar® method and teaches yoga classes in different theatre companies.

13 Rocío Manzano | Actress

Actress and director. She was born in La Mancha and after studying Tourism in Granada she moved to Barcelona where she trained in acting, dance and other techniques. She is the creator of the cooperative NusTeatre where she coordinates, produces and performs all the shows or the social theatre area

www.nusteatre.com

Manifesto

17 Jorge Larrosa | Philosopher and writer

Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Barcelona (Spain). He has a degree in Pedagogy and Philosophy, a PhD in Pedagogy, and postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Education of the University of London and at the Michel Foucault Centre of the Sorbonne in Paris. His books have been published in Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, France and Brazil. He has been a guest lecturer and has given courses and conferences in various European and Latin American universities.

His works, with a clear essayistic vocation, are situated on the borderline between philosophy, literature, cinema and education. His main themes are the relationship between experience, language, subjectivity and education, as well as the materiality of artistic, cultural and educational devices. She has worked with artists, both in the performing and visual arts, and with all kinds of cultural mediators.

Installations

18 Octavi Serra | Artist

Industrial designer and artist. His artistic work is based on making interventions in the public space to transform reality and established logic. Most of which are approached from a poetic/philosophical perspective to make everyday elements challenge us all over again.

www.ooss.eu

19 Dadà. | Curators

DadàBarcelona is a small company that was born as a response to a social void in children's leisure, understood as a tool for growth and not for entertainment. It is born from the own experience of a mother who wants other views for her children, and wants to be a risky proposal for small and young people but with great aspirations. It is the firm will to leave children a better world and to give them tools, information and space so that they can face new challenges and be freer.

www.dadabarcelona.com