Entreacte
(Homenatge a Pompeu Fabra)
Els mots corren a canviar-se de vestit.
Baixen els telons, i les bambolines
vénen de nou damunt els bastidors.
Els subjectes, els verbs i els adverbis,
ja vestits d'altra manera, tornen a escena.
Resta un grup d'adjectius mirant pel forat del teló.
El poema següent ara començarà.

(Joan Brossa, Els ulls i les orelles del poeta, 1961).

During the month of February, the Spaces Guild proposes a programme of experimental actions and activations during the period between exhibitions, which it has identified as "EntreActe" (interact).
The proposals investigate what lies between the outside and the inside of the centre, between the dismantling of an exhibition and the setting up of a new one. An invitation to enter this space of change, to stay and experience what was and what can be.

EntreJam#1 / 09.02.24 / 18h / Exhibition spaces
Improvisation session with a guitarist, two cantaors (singers), two dancers and an audiovisual installation in the exhibition spaces under construction, with the aim of listening to it, listening to each other and creating a horizontal and minimal show between flamenco, contemporary, physical and virtual.

EntreActes: studies about a door / 13–16.02.24 / from 13h onwards
Sound installation at the door of the Santa Mònica.

Essay on presences / 13–28.02.24
Analogue-digital device capable of capturing what is happening in real time and projecting it.

Balda Mushiboshi / 14.02.24 / 11 h / Outside the Santa Mònica
Seasonal transition ceremony in La Rambla of the books that make up the Santa Mònica consultation space. A proposal by the Edition Guild.

Queue Theatre / 20.02.24 / 16:30 h
Participative performance in front of the Santa Mònica's door

Caminacte / 28.02.24 / 16 h / Start at the entrance of the Santa Mònica
Random group walk to attend to time and space in Barcelona.

"In theatre, the interact is defined in a dramatic performance as an intermission, an interruption between parts of a play. Specifically in the old dramatic performances, the interact (the dance, the comedy numbers, sainete, etc.) had to be a different action from the one being performed on stage, both aesthetically and relationally, and especially without any technical and spatial necessity, because the stage was being prepared for the next act. This meant that the interact took place in a secondary space (so to speak). This is interesting to us in that, in a way, the relationship of expression and listening between artist and space becomes more horizontal.

"This change of perspective of EntreActe interests us because it brings us closer to a more empathetic and horizontal organisation, where all the inhabitants of a space are committed to expressing and listening to each other on equal terms, encouraging the active listening of the spectators and increasing the listening and empathy of the artist.

"This line of artistic research is linked to the prototypes that we at the Spaces Guild have been working on at Santa Mònica in the past: Observacions Situades, El Salt de la Fera or Ascensor Social". - Spaces Guild.

Project promoted by the Spaces Guild (Anna Roselló, Cris Candela, Pedro Bennaton)

With the participation of the Spaces Guild and the Edition Guildn

Pedro Bennaton: resident and worker in Barcelona since 2018, born in London, PhD in Theatre, co-founder of ERRO Grupo in 2001, in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Bennaton is a director, researcher, playwright and actor, with experience in Arts and Theatre, and a focus on Urban Intervention and Performance, working mainly on the following themes: street theatre, urban space, participation, invasion, observation, invisibility and displacement. Since 2021, Bennaton has been a guest lecturer at the Jornades d'Investigació Artística de la Universitat de Fontys, and since 2022 he has been artist-in-residence at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona.

Cristina Candela: dancer, audiovisual creator, performer and Mònica. Born in Madrid, she has developed her career as a dancer in Barcelona where she has worked in tablaos such as Tarantos, el palacio del flamenco or el patio andaluz. In her facet as a video-creator, her works have been selected in festivals such as Miami Screendance Fest, CineDanza Festival in the city of Mòdena or seismes in Barcelona. As a performer she will premiere her piece NANA in November 2021 in Barcelona.

Anna Solanilla: Visual artist and stage designer. She has carried out different projects and exhibitions in the field of visual and performing arts. Her current projects are focused on experimentation with digital arts applied to the stage and on installation devices. He teaches at the Escola Superior d'Art Dramàtic (ESAD) about analogue and digital projects and representation systems. She has also been assistant director and head of master's degrees. PhD in the history of scenography from the University of Barcelona. Graduate in Fine Arts and Dramatic Art, specialising in Scenography (Institut del Teatre). Since 2022 she is artist-in-residence at the centre of arts Santa Mònica.