Pau Catà is an artist, curator and researcher based in Barcelona. He is the initiator of CeRCCa – Center for Research and Creativity Casamarles and Platform Harakat.
His artistic and research practice centers on epistemic diversity, inventive methodologies, nomadology, chronodiversity and the power to challenge hegemony through semi-fictional narratives. His practice, often collaborating amongst groups and networks (such as Tandem Shaml, SouthMed CV and Reshape), seeks connections between vernacular and intelectual histories focusing on mediterranean socio-cultural lanscapes. His work has been part of several exhibitions in London, Barcelona, Marrakech, Istambul and Alexandria and published in peer-reviewd journals such as Artnodes, re-visiones as well as Station to station, SCCA and TCE.
He has recently been awarded a practice led PhD in Art by the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral research is structured in two parts: the disertation ‘Moving knowledge(s): Towards an Speculative Arab Art Residency Proto-history’ and the visual mediascape ‘An event without its poem is an event that never happened’.
His artistic and research practice centers on epistemic diversity, inventive methodologies, nomadology, chronodiversity and the power to challenge hegemony through semi-fictional narratives. His practice, often collaborating amongst groups and networks (such as Tandem Shaml, SouthMed CV and Reshape), seeks connections between vernacular and intelectual histories focusing on mediterranean socio-cultural lanscapes. His work has been part of several exhibitions in London, Barcelona, Marrakech, Istambul and Alexandria and published in peer-reviewd journals such as Artnodes, re-visiones as well as Station to station, SCCA and TCE.
He has recently been awarded a practice led PhD in Art by the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral research is structured in two parts: the disertation ‘Moving knowledge(s): Towards an Speculative Arab Art Residency Proto-history’ and the visual mediascape ‘An event without its poem is an event that never happened’.
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Platform HARAKAT / The Art of Getting Lost
‘The art of getting lost in Alexandria and Barcelona’ is a project reflecting upon urban experiences of migration, nomadism and detouring from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. ...‘The art of getting lost in Alexandria and Barcelona’ is a project reflecting upon urban experiences of migration, nomadism and detouring from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. In the aftermath of branded cities, our societies are... -
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Platform HARAKAT / Beyond Qafila Thania
‘The impossibility of perception is a perception in itself’ Ibn Arabi, The Secrets of Voyaging / Kitab Al-Isfar 'an Nata 'Ij Al-Asfar Beyond Qafila Thania brought together researchers from Su...‘The impossibility of perception is a perception in itself’ Ibn Arabi, The Secrets of Voyaging / Kitab Al-Isfar 'an Nata 'Ij Al-Asfar Beyond Qafila Thania brought together researchers from Sudan, Morocco, Spain, Catalonia, Italy and the Nethe... -
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Pau Catà / Coming back from the north
While participating in several conferences, meetings and workshops I usually feel the need to document my hyper-mobile condition through short visual essays. This is done using iphone and imovie as...While participating in several conferences, meetings and workshops I usually feel the need to document my hyper-mobile condition through short visual essays. This is done using iphone and imovie as recording and editing tools. The creative and editin... -
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Interartive _Walking Art Walking Aesthetics / Beyond Qafila Thania: Walking as immediate and preterit empathy
Placed in between a decaying nomadic culture and its exploitation as the ultimate tourist destination, the Saharan desert continues to be a space heavily connoted with stereotypical imaginary. Sel...Placed in between a decaying nomadic culture and its exploitation as the ultimate tourist destination, the Saharan desert continues to be a space heavily connoted with stereotypical imaginary. Self-consciously located at the borders of this juncture...