Writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga defends the power of storytelling and imagination as means to self-knowledge and emancipation, and defends the importance of a literature that reflects the voices and the experiences of the people who are often sidelined. This conversation takes places within the framework of Resident CCCB, an international residency program of the CCCB in collaboration with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and supported by Fundació Privada MIR-PUIG. ...
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Conversations about books and writing
Nariné Abgarian and Marta Nin
Writing Inland
Ottessa Moshfegh and Lucia Lijtmaer
The art of introspection
Eva Baltasar, Sara Mesa, Eider Rodríguez and Andrea Gumes
Family Lexicons
Virginie Despentes, Alana S. Portero and Berta Gómez Santo Tomás
Despite everything
Miquel Missé, Clara Aguilar, Marina Garcés and Pol Guasch
Plotting friendship
Mariana Enriquez and Olga Merino
Living in a Time of Loss
Carme Riera and Gemma Ruiz
Of Women and Literature
Ali Smith
Making political writing into an art
Amélie Nothomb and Sergi Pàmies
The thirst for writing
Margaret Atwood
Looking at the future
Colson Whitehead
Harlem resonances
Eva Baltasar
Lonely hunter's instinct
Colm Tóibín and Jordi Puntí
The Secret Life of Writers
Maria Stepanova
In memory of memory
Ludmila Ulitskaya and Vladimir Sorokin
History, novel, print
Seven Nobel Laureates in Literature at CCCB
Han Kang and Jorge Carrión
Fiction as a Scalpel
Herta Müller and Cecilia Dreymüller
Freeing the word
J. M. Coetzee and Valerie Miles
Europe and the world outside
Olga Tokarczuk
Literature, the Oldest of Continents
Svetlana Alexievich
The Voices of Europe
Svetlana Alexievich
The Voices of History
Herta Müller
Language as Homeland
Orhan Pamuk
The Future of the Museum and of the Novel
Gao Xingjian
After the Deluge
Mario Vargas Llosa
Wars at the 21st century
RADAR #8 | Clara Aguilar
Composer and producer Clara Aguilar reflects on sound exploration and the dialogue between music, space and stage. She discusses the creative process that led her to conceive and direct the microopera “The Skies Won’t Keep Their Secret”, in collaboration with Pol Guasch (libretto) ...
Wi-Fi in the Amazonia: The Dilemma of Connectivity
Ferran Esteve
The Interaction Between Humans and Fire in a Changing World
Andrea Duane | Francisco Lloret
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Alexandre Surrallés, Karen Shiratori and Gemma Orobitg
Transversal Connections: Resonances of Perspectivism
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski
The End as a Beginning: Worlds That Are to Come
Raki Ap
Guardians of the Forest
Davi Kopenawa and Ana Maria Machado
The Impact of the Encounter and the Ethnographic Pact
Listening to the Rainforest: Words of a Yanomami Wise Man
A Morning with Davi Kopenawa
Davi Kopenawa
Holding up the Sky: Words of Ancestral Wisdom
Daiara Tukano and Laura Pérez Gil
Indigenous Art and Women in the Visual Arts: Visions of an Ancestral Present-Future
Designing With Ancestrality
Andreu Belsunces
Writings of the Wild
Artistic Gestures in the Face of Climate Crisis
Ancestral Future
Bernardo Gutiérrez
Paula Bruna and Gisela Torrents
Shelter
Roser Vernet and Júlia Viejobueno
We Too Are Land. Knowledge for Inhabiting the Place
Presences
Conversation with Juan Francisco Valdez and Priscila Tapajowara
Nukuri kahtiro turi: the plant world
Talk with João Paulo Lima Barreto and Karen Shiratori
A Piece of Land: The Beginnings and The End
Júlia Viejobueno Cavallé
Claudi Carreras and Andrés Cardona advocate for a deeper understanding of Amazonian culture
As part of the exhibition “Amazons. The Ancestral Future”
Claudi Carreras, the exhibition’s curator, and Andrés Cardona, a photographer from Caquetá, Colombia, have undertaken extensive research and audiovisual documentation on the Amazonian region, which is now on display at the CCCB’s exhibition. In this conversation, they ...
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