Muntadas: proyectos urbanos 2002-2005... hacia Sevilla 2008. Entrevista con Antoni Muntadas y Valentín Roma.

Resumen

Antoni Muntadas, National Arts Award (Premio Nacional de las Artes) winner for 2005, presents "Urban projects 2002 -2005…towards Sevilla 2008" at the Centro de Arte de Sevilla, where he shows how he is working on the city and public spaces, researching information channels and how they are used to censor or promote ideas. During a conversation with Valentín Roma and Marta Pelegrín, he describes how his proposals are developed in different contexts. Through these proposals he invites different audiences to ask themselves about the transformations that given cultural events, urbanistic decisions or spectacular proposals have generated in each city and its inhabitants. An intense analysis, documentation and work process with different agents and interlocutors generates the presentation of "Urban projects 2002-2005" which, while indicating the conflict without increasing the level of conflictivity, show their attitude of always questioning -in a measured and propositional manner- cities such as Sao Paulo, Barcelona, Lille, Graz, Bremen, San Juan de Puerto Rico and Venice. Muntadas is currently working on a project he calls "...hacia Sevilla 2008", where he ponders the cultural spectacularisation processes, and stresses the configuration of urban space (its architecture, communication systems and representation) in Andalusian capital.