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Dear all, (apologies for cross-posting)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I'm happy to
announce <b>16/2017</b>, a new project that forces "Centre d’Arts
Santa Mònica", a major art center in Barcelona, to cut its
energy use by 50% during 4 months. Or in other words: to radically
limit the use of air conditioning, lights and flights among other
variables. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">16/2017 is named
after a law approved by the government of Catalonia in 2017,
which,
among other things, obliges the government to work with carbon
budgets in order to halve its Co2 emissions by 2030, as stated in
the
Paris Agreement. Unfortunately, the Catalan government is
substantially delaying the application of these measures, or in
other
words, the law is currently not being applied. Therefore, the
artist
has proposed to the Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica to reduce its
energy expenditure by 50% during the four months-long exhibition
"Exposar · No exposar-se · Exposar-se · No exposar" . Thus, the
museum will have to define a self-energy regulation
mechanism to avoid exceeding the budget during the length of the
exhibition. Or in other words, all the actors involved in the
exhibition project will have to negotiate new methods of social
interaction to stick to the energy budget. </p>
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To achieve
this goal, we have set up weekly meetings to negotiate and define
the
energy budget of the exhibition, and correct its possible
deviations.
These meetings are open to the public, the members of the
management
team of the museum, and all those agents involved with the
exhibition. The piece is also built around a mural graph that will
be
filled in according to the weekly meetings and their agreements.
This
graph will indicate the energy expenditure agreed during the
weekly
negotiations, such as how many hours the building’s air
conditioning will work or the number of hours that the exhibition
lights will be turned on, among other variables. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">In a context of
climate emergency, where the scarcity of resources will intensify
in
the coming decades, elaborating proposals capable of articulating
human activities around limited energy resources, is a necessary
exercise to favor new cultural rituals which are more consistent
with
our contemporary climatic conditions.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Full PR here:
<a href="https://janavirgin.com/PR/16_2017_premsa_en.pdf">https://janavirgin.com/PR/16_2017_premsa_en.pdf</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Exhibition site:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://artssantamonica.gencat.cat/en/detall/Exposar-No-exposar-se-Exposar-se-No-exposar">https://artssantamonica.gencat.cat/en/detall/Exposar-No-exposar-se-Exposar-se-No-exposar</a>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Best wishes,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Joana Moll</p>
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