Learning from Barcelona: the Olympic city
Learning from Barcelona: Art, Real Estate and the Olympic City
The Department of Iberian and Latin American studies at Birkbeck, University of London, is hosting a two day workshop to consider the political, cultural and social lessons that London can learn from Barcelona about hosting an Olympic Games.
The workshop will take place in Stratford, home to the 2012 London Olympics, on 28-29 January 2011.
Academics, social activists and artists from Barcelona and London will be discussing how the Olympic Games have a capacity to influence the production of political art and how, in turn, this political art is of use to, and intervenes in, social debates. The project has as its cultural horizon the 2012 Olympic Games and the discussions around the phenomenal impact that winning a bid to host the Games has on the built environment, heritage and conditions of living for the city dwellers, but also on the artistic production by and of the city. It looks particularly at how local artists and activists have joined forces to call attention to, and help transform the way in which, local lives are being affected by these big events.
This workshop is co-organised by the Birkbeck Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies and art organisation Gasworks.
For more information click here and to book a place at the workshop contact Mari Paz Balibrea at m.balibrea@bbk.ac.uk.