Observacions Situades: pensar a peu de carrer

The Spaces Guild, with Manuel Delgado, starting from the idea of the saturation of images that we are currently experiencing, proposes to talk about the ethnographies resulting from the Situated Observations, carried out by the guild during its residency held from September 2022 to July 2023 in Santa Mònica.

 Based on the experiments carried out by the Spaces Guild with the Situated Observations device, a talk is proposed with the participation of Manuel Delgado, anthropologist and lecturer at the University of Barcelona, to think about ethnographic studies in the era of image saturation.

By situating the recording of the podcast in the Mòniques Space and using it as a radio booth and showcase of the Ramblas, the action of a situated observation will be activated, led by Anna Solanilla and Pedro Bennaton with the participation of Manuel Delgado.

The focus of this radio session, the situated observation, will revolve around the experimentation that the members of the guild in residence are developing together. Based on situated observation and involving the pedestrians of the Ramblas, we want to make an ethnographic podcast in real time. 

To make this podcast, microphones will be installed in the Mòniques Space and loudspeakers on the terrace so that pedestrians can listen to what is being recorded.

The Spaces Guild is interested in focusing, delicately, on the formal aspects, on the spatial layout of the recording of the podcast. That is, how to influence the dramaturgy of the podcast from the space and share their research on strategies for urban observation and perception.

Episode by the Spaces Guild 

With the participation of Manuel Delgado

Manuel Delgado Ruiz (Barcelona, 1956) is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and holds a degree in Art History and a diploma in Social Psychology from the same university. He studied at the Section de Sciences Religieuses de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, at the Sorbonne in Paris. Since 1986 he has been a lecturer in religious anthropology and urban anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona (UB). He won the Anagrama Essay Prize in 1999. He is a speaker on the Study Commission on immigration in the Parliament of Catalonia. He has worked especially on religious and ritual violence, social appropriations of public space and the construction of collective identities in urban contexts, subjects on which he has published several books and articles in national and international journals.

Language: spanish and catalan

Santa Mònica Ràdio is a radio project that investigates the potential of sound and oral narrative linked to an arts centre. The programming is nourished both by the different resident artists' guilds and by external collaborating voices.

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