26 novembre - 20 dicembre 2007, Barcelona
Faithful to its compromise with emerging and transgressive art, BAC!, the Contemporary Art Festival of Barcelona, dedicates its eighth edition to the great contemporary city of Babylonia. Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paolo, Hong Kong, Miami- In this world of globalization, countries are identified by their cities as settings of the daily confluence of millions of people. Phenomena such as global migration, socio-cultural interaction, art, fashion, new technologies, gastronomy, alongside with a growing loneliness and depersonalization, have -fed- a new urban model based on an exhausting rhythm of life. Various spaces in and outside Barcelona will become fields of multidisciplinary artistic proposals. Through murals, photographs, videos and installations, the artists will present their statements on the central theme of this edition, establishing a parallelism between the great variety of cultures that emerged in ancient Babylon and the chameleonic character of the contemporary city. As always, the central statement of the Festival (BAC!CENTER) will take place at the Centre of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB). In this edition, the show draws special emphasis to photography, mural and graffiti -the last two artistic disciplines born and raised in the streets. […] Info: tel +34 933064100 fax +34 933064101 e-mail: global@cccb.org; www.cccb.org - www.bacfestival.com