Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index
Intoduction: 'Butterflying Barcelona' / Helena Buffery and Carlota Caulfield -- Pt.I: Avant-Garde Histories and Catalonia. 1. Breaking boundaries: A journey through the Catalan Avant-Garde ; 2. On the Starfish Road: Surrealism and the Paris-Barcelona Connection ; 3. The lyrical taboos of Guillem Viladot ; 4. Cafe Central: a groundbreaking independent publishing house in Barcelona. Interview with Antoni Clapes -- Pt.II: Butterflying Barcelona: the Environment. 5. The case for obsolescence: thinking time and space in Joaquim Jorda's 'Numax presenta' ; 6. Whose vanguardist city? The Barcelona urban model as seen from the periphery in Jose Luis Guerin's 'En construccion' ; 7. The raval on stage: limits and borders in Juan Mayorga's 'Hamelin' ; 8. Translating the Enigma: Temporality and subjectivity in Ventura Pons's 'Barcelona: un mapa' ; 9. Empowement by Visualization: Experiences from Barcelona -- Pt.III: Performing Barcelona. 10. Tracing the city through the URBS project ; 11. Performing Barcelona: cultural toursim, geography and identity ; 12. Absent bodies and objects ; 13. A broken mirror? Global-local images of Barcelona ; 14. Talking about visual poetry: interviews with J.M. Calleja, Gustavo Vega and Xavier Canals
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The volume brings together researchers and practitioners from the UK, Catalonia, Europe and the US to explore groundbreaking countercultural artists and movements and their relationship to a particular environment, Barcelona, setting them alongside more commercialised, global images of the city and its culture. The book explores the relationship between space and performance, theory and practice, production and institutionalisation, through an encounter between academic research and aesthetic practice, showcasing contemporary Catalan visual and performance work by artists, poets, dramatists, dancers and choreographers, puppeteers and film-makers