The Library of Islands

→ Thursday 31.05.2018, 18:30h

Abaton is one of the cities mentioned in the Dictionary of Imaginary Places, by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi, and in the book many of the other collected cities are islands. In the framework of "Abaton" and taking advantage of some thematic coincidences with the curatorial project "The Possibility of an Island", an exhibition programme curated by Alexandra Laudo at Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, which explores some of the symbolic and sociocultural meanings the islands have had over time through the projects of five artists, the Blueproject Foundation and the Fundació Joan Miró organize a session of The Library of Islands.

The Library of Islands is an activity of reading and discussion of texts related to the theme of the exhibition programme at Espai 13. On this occasion, it will be precisely one particular island, the Concret Island, by J. G. Ballard, which will articulate the literary meeting presented by Víctor García Tur, specialist in the work of Ballard, and chaired by Alexandra Laudo. Besides this book, it is also recommended the reading of Terminal Beach, by the same author, which can be read here.

The activity is free. It is recommended to confirm the assistance through the e-mail info@blueprojectfoundation.org or by phone 93 182 4371. It is not indispensable, but it is highly recommended to read the proposed titles before attending the activity.

Check the complete programme of Abaton. 

Víctor García Tur is graphic designer and writer. He received the Documenta Prize with a collection of short stories, Twistanschauung (Empúries, 2009), and with the novel Els ocells (Empúries, 2016) received the Marian Vayreda Award 2015. Some of his other short stories have been included in Veus de la nova narrativa catalana (Empúries, 2010), Black Pulp Box (Aristas Martínez, 2012), Els caus secrets (Editorial Moll, 2013) or Riplay (Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2015). In collaboration with Emily McBride he has published Misanderstunding (New Niu Press, 2014) and Afterword (2015).

Alexandra Laudo is an independent curator and art critic. During the season 2017-18 is curating the exhibition programme The Possibility of an Island at Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), preparing a project for the art centre Collective (Edinburgh) and an exhibition for CaixaForum, which will take place in June. In 2015-16 she took part at CuratorLab, a curatorial research program at Konstfack University (Stockholm), in which she generated the performative conference An Intellectual History of the Clock, presented in different European cities. Laudo has curated several projects independently and mentored different platform and art spaces. She writes regularly about contemporary culture for B-guided and the platform A-Desk, has published different texts in exhibition catalogues and art books, and has been the editor in some publications.