OPEN CALL WINTER 2018 & LAST AVAILABILITIES FALL 2017 Open call to all artists and professionals (social scientists and researches are welcome) who create and reflect on urban space, and whose work uses the city as a material of inspiration or investigation. Jiwar Creation and Society is a residency based in Barcelona. Its basic philosophy...
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Open Call Residency April – December 2017
Open call for artists and researchers April – December 2017 Jiwar Creation and Society is a residency based in Barcelona, in the heart of the Gracia district. Its basic philosophy concentrates on the right to intercultural mobility and its various aspects. Jiwar, meaning neighbourhood in Arabic, promotes the idea of interculturalism through a set of...
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Kubra & pas de vianants II. Performance by Kubra Khademi
Kubra & pederastian sigh II Kubra Khademi, is an artist who had an scholarship from Jiwar during the summer of 2015 and is currently is in Paris as a political refugee. She reflects on the apparent neutrality of the pictograms used in the traffic lights that, by default, are male. Kubra physically assumes the persona...
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Collaborative painting in The Inverter Square with Alter Krapp
Collaborative painting in The Inverter Square with Alter Krapp The visual artist Alter Krapp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laxfaAmpuDc) has been invited from Jiwar to perform around La plaza invertida; the project developed by the artist Camille Rajotte, from Québec. Krapp will ask passersby and neighbours to get involved using the installation structure as a huge stage...
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The Inverted Square
The inverted Square, in Plaça del Diamant Installed from the 8th until the 25th of April Camille Rajotte spent her first residence in Jiwar in July 2014. During this stay she produced a sketch for her project The Inverted Square. More recently, she has finally had the chance to turn the sketch into a concrete sculpture, placed in Plaça...
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Remembering Catia Massa’s mural art in Tres Xemeneies (Paral·lel)
Catia Massa, artist in residence, mural art On last January week-end, Catia Massa, Italian artist in residence supported by Meccanica CT Group, painted a nice mural in a well-known Barcelona park. She worked hard on it and we were really pleased to see the results. The Barcelona City Council programm Murs Lliures (Free walls)...
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Cris Franchevich
CRIS FRANCHEVICH Architect. Visual artist. Artist in residence in Jiwar June 2015. Throughout her life, Cris Franchevich lived in countries that influenced and re-defined her cultural identity. Moving from South America to North America, she was exposed to variations of light, texture, color, and tremendous cultural, social, and political differences. She uses these experiences to...
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One last availability in JULY
LAST OPORTUNITY GENTIL STUDIO IN JULY After several changes, Gentil studio is free in July. Please, do not hesitate to write us to know the application conditions to join us in one of the most dynamics months in our city of Barcelona. Unfortunately, we can’t finance the residence but we can offer better conditions because...
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Poetry workshop with Sharon Dolin
“Writing about art in Barcelona” For second year, the NY poet Sharon Dolin will organise the poetry workshop “Writing about art” in Jiwar. We are very glad to host again poets involved to write about art in our city of Barcelona. To know more about: http://www.sharondolin.com/barcelona-workshops/
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