- Year: 2016 > 2017
Spider web drawings under the influence of various psychoactive drugs by the common house spider (Araneus diadematus).
Related to the history of the construction of the former tobacco factory in the city, now remodelled as the International Centre for Contemporary Culture, the project Stimulants: circulation and euphoria takes up as astarting point stimulants such as such as tobacco, coffee, sugar and cocoa,
in an attempt to explore contemporary culture and thought.
These goods occupy a prominent place in our societies since the deployment of long-distance transatlantic trade routes. The conquest of these products leads to both the possibility of accelerating the human body (increasing the labour force) and generating new leisure derived from its recreational uses. Thus, the study of modern stimulants allows us to weave a plot in which the search for the exotic and food diets is related to the rise of industrial labour and the exploitation of natural resources, or colonialism and the birth of new theories of awareness in the modern world.
Stimulants: circulation and euphoria will launch into the public space these and other issues through various programmes that will run until the end of 2017 and will include talks, public debates, seminars, exhibitions, concerts and publications.
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Smoke politics
Section that comprises a series of conferences from different dead authors, that will be pronounced, commented, set in stage, by different guest authors.
Activities
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Proyecciones09-02-2019
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Conferencias y seminarios09-02-2019
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Performances y representaciones08-02-2019
Knots
A space to propose to diverse professionals of the visual arts, the cinema and the literature, the selection of five documents and/or objects that form a part of the funds of Tabakalera's creation library. The guests will plan a tour between different materials selected in the funds of the institution.
Activities
Out of sync (Louder, faster, stronger). 2. Act
In the second act of the Out of Sync programme, we will have the chance to immerse ourselves in the relationships and paradoxes between music and speed, tempo and time. Proposals by: Ras, Agnes Pé, Miguel Álvarez Fernández and the recently passed away Tony Conrad.
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Proyecciones19-11-2016
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Conferencias y seminarios19-11-2016
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Conciertos18-11-2016
The Three Circulations: Active Substance
The seminar titled The three Circulations is an encounter to analyse three planes or dimensions of circulation set around the “active substances”.
Activities
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Conferencias y seminarios01-10-2016
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Conferencias y seminarios01-10-2016
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Conferencias y seminarios Performances y representaciones30-09-2016
Out of sync (music and revolutions). 1st act
A programme of concerts, lectures and auditions, framed in the biennial project Stimulants: Circulation and Euphoria.
Activities
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Conciertos07-07-2016
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Conferencias y seminarios06-07-2016
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Conferencias y seminarios06-07-2016
Stimulants, colonialism and the crossroads of routes between Equatorial Guinea and the Basque Country
The purpose of these seminars is to provide information and food for thought on the crossover of two kinds of relationship between Equatorial Guinea, Spain and the Basque Country.
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Conferencias y seminarios17-06-2016
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Conferencias y seminarios17-06-2016
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Conferencias y seminarios17-06-2016
Café Complot
Two-fold choral reflection on coffee: on the one hand, as a substance that often serves as an escape at work time and, on the other, «the café», as the embryonic environment of the so-called 'public sphere', a meeting place.
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The Great Conversation
The The Big Conversation congress is the prelude to the project Stimulants: traffic and euphoria which will be held at Tabakalera during 2016-2017.