Pau Catà i Marlès

C/ Magalhaes 63 B1, 08004 Barcelona, Catalunya.
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Education

• From 2016: Art Research PhD at University of Edinburgh (Scotland).
• 2008 - 2010: MA Critical Arts Management and Media Cultural Studies at London South Bank University (London – UK).
• Dissertation: “Theory as practice: A creative practitioner based research on CeRCCa’s local context’ and experimental video documentary ‘A Winter Ritual’. Mark: Distinction and Course Director Prize for Outstanding Achievement.
• 2006 - 2007: Diploma in Arts Management at Birkbeck College-University of London.
• 2006 - 2007: Creative Curating as a Critical Practice at Birkbeck College-University of London.
• 2005 - 2006: Introduction to Curating at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London.
• 1995 - 2003: Degree in History by Universitat de Barcelona.
• Erasmus Scholarship at Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy), Experimental Anthropology Democrit University (Greece).

Work Experience

• 2018: Tutor at PEI Program of Independent Studies at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
• From 2017: Co-Coordinator KIBRIT and Platform HARAKAT.
• From 2016: Coordinator NACMM_North Africa Cultural Mobility Map.
• From 2009: Director of CeRCCa_Centre de Recerca i Creació Casamarès.
• 2013 - 2015: Didactic Tours for Itinera Plus and Riosta, Barcelona.
• 2007 - 2009: Audience Developer and Information Manager at White Cube Gallery, London.
• 2005 - 2007: Audience Developer at The British Museum, London.
• 2002 - 2004: Development and delivery of art and culture tours in the main museums of Barcelona and Catalunya for Bloc Serveis Culturals, Barcelona.

Publications

• Beyond Qafila Thania at Interartive (due in dec 18).
• Towards de post-digital in the Digital Humanities. Artnodes and TCE (due in dec18).
• The Art of Getting Lost _ Tandem Shaml Project publication.
• NACMM and KIBRIT and interview at Marratat SouthMed CV Publication.
• Rethinking decolonial dualism in Re_visiones. Dec 2017.
• NACMM at ‘Building the Future: Pathways to Cultural Diversity – Practices and Projects from around the MENA Region’ by the German Commission for UNESCO.
• 5th Anniversary Publication CeRCCa 2009-2014
• Nomadism and Commodification: New challenges and proposals for an alternative conception of AIR networks at On AIR Trans Artists publication.
• Interdisciplinary Activism': Naz Cuguoğlu in conversation with Pau Cata’ published in ArtSouthAfrica Magazine.
• Publication of the research paper ‘Theory as Practice’ at SCCA World of Art Series Ljubljana.
• Art review at the WhiteHot Contemporary Art Magazine (Canada).

Presentations and conferences

2018:

• NACMM Round table ‘Performing Mobilities’ with invited speakers Le18, Space Darja and Hammana Artist House as part of Fira B in Palma de Mallorca.
• Curatorial School V18 ‘Social Practices in Curating and Contemporary Art’ in Valletta (Malta).
• Presentation of Beyond Qafila Thania a Trading Places? Empathy in Material Culture and Critical Methodologies at SOAS, London.
• Presentation of Platform HARAKAT and KIBRIt at Es Baluard Centre d’Art Modern Contemporani de Palma.
• Presentation of NACMM at the Transcultural Exchange Conference in Quebec City.

2017:

• Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Summer School in UAB in Barcelona.
• SouthMed CV Meeting in Tunis (Tunisia)
• Tandem Meetings in Marseille (France), Beirut (Lebanon) and Odessa (Ukraine).

2016:

• AGI I International Research Seminar organized between AGI and Goldsmith College at Tapies Foundation.
• Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles and Liberation Theologies Summer School in Granada, June 2016.
• Tandem Meeting in Amman (Jordan).
• Presentation of NACMM as part of "Fronteras y movilidad. Artistas en el Mediterráneo" as part of Mostra Viva in Valencia.
• Presentation of NACMM at of Focus Maghreb SWAB Barcelona International Art Fair.
• Presentation of NACMM at Trans Cultural Exchange 2016. International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Expanding Worlds. Boston University. USA.
• Presentation of NACMM at Kawkaw fil-kawkawa talks at Le18, Marrakech, Morocco.

2014 - 2015:

• Participation at the conference and workshop ‘AIR ARRAY: Meeting of AIR Programs and Mobility Workshop for Artists’ organized by Art Motile in Madrid.
• Participation at the conference and workshop ‘Artistic Networking in the Mediterranean’ organized by Jizer Reflexions Mediterraneas and the Goethe Institut in Barcelona.
• Participation at the DAWRAK Workshop and Conference in Alexandria (Egypt).

2012 - 2013:

• Youth in times of Crises conference in Sousse, Tunisia. ALF Egypt National Network Meeting in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt.
• Presentation CeRCCa at the ‘Art and Landscape Congress’ in Vilafranca del Penedes.
• Publications of the research paper ‘The Hypermobile Icarus’ as part of the Project On-AIR/Transartist.

2011:

• Presentation of the research paper ‘Nomadism and commodification: New challenges and proposals for an alternative conception of Artists Residency Networks. The Transitory Network as study case‘ at the Res Artis Regional Meeting in Debrecen (Hungary).
• Member of the ZVONO Jury 2011 Award for the Young Visual Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina organized by Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Arts (Bosnia-Herzegovina) together with Foundation for Civil Society and Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York (U.S).
• Lecture on Res Artis at Factoria Cultural Aviles (Spain)

2010:

• Participation at the 5th International Summer Seminars for Art Curators ‘Aesthetic Communities and Contextual Translation of Communal Art’ in Yerevan and Ijevan, Armenia.
• Participation at the Anna Lindh Foundation Forum ‘ Euro-Mediterranean strategies for multicultural understanding and cooperation’ in Barcelona.

2009:

• Presentation of CeRCCa and Furnish Me! Workshops at ‘en passant’ Gallery in Berlin.
• Presentation of Nomadic Projects curatorial partnership at in/flux Project Space in London.
• Participation at the International conference ‘Global Modernities’ and ‘TATE Encounters’ TATE Britain. London.

2008:

• Participation at the ‘Res Artis General Meeting: Artists in dialogue, transforming communities’ Amsterdam.
• Participation at Mundos Locais, Shared Worlds Seminar ‘Collaborative and Participatory art’ curated by Lucia Marques and Paula Roush. Lagos, Portugal.

Artistic and Research Residencies

• Research visits at Glycines (Algiers).
• Research visit at the CCSD - Cultural Center of Documentation of the Sahara (Ghardaia).
• Research visit at Art Rue (Tunis).
• Research Residency at Le18 (Marrakech).
• Research Residency at Maumau (Istanbul).
• Research Residency at MoTa Museum of Transient Art (Ljubljana).

Grants

2018:

• OSIC Projectes de caràcter professional en l'àmbit de les arts visuals.
• Roberto Cimetta Fund travel grant.
• University of Edinburgh College Research Award.

2017:

• OSIC Projectes de caràcter professional en l'àmbit de les arts visuals.
• South Med CV Project Grant for KIBRIT.
• University of Edinburgh College Research Award.
• University of Edinburgh Student Development Fund.

2016:

• TANDEM Shaml.
• SGSAH Student Development Fund.
• Study Visit Home or Overseas – AHRC Fund.
• Anna Lindh Foundation Project Grant for NACMM.
• University of Edinburgh College Research Award.

2014 - 2015:

• OSIC Beques per a la formació i el perfeccionament.
• DAWRAK Citizen Exchange Program funded by Anna Lindh Foundation.
• British Council Grant for Syrian Artists living in Egypt.
• ALF Grant DAWRAK Workshop and Conference in Alexandria (Egypt).

2012 - 2013:

• DAWRAK Citizen Exchange Program funded by Anna Lindh Foundation.
• CoNCA Projectes de caràcter professional en l'àmbit de les arts visuals.
• Step Beyond Award by European Cultural Foundation.
• Roberto Cimetta Fund Travel Grant.

2010 - 2011:

• Erasmus Young Entrepreneurs Program with MoTA _ Ljubljana, CoNCa Research Grant.
• Step Beyond Mobility Fund by European Cultural Foundation.

2008 - 2009:

• Ajuts per a la Formació. Fons de Creacio i Pensament Contemporani CoNCa 09.
• Ayudas para la Formación de Jóvenes Profesionales de la Cultura by MUC 09.
• Ajuts per a la Formació. Fons de Creació i Pensament Contemporani CoNCa 08.
• Ayudas para la formación de Jóvenes Profesionales de la Cultura by MUC 08.

Curating experience

• Final event of the Transformer network in Malta.
• Platform HARAKAT and KIBRIT at Platform HARAKAT and KIBRIT at Es baluard Centre d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma.
• Beyond Qafila Thania at In Between Wells _ Reloaded at Le18, Marrakech.
• Barcelona International Art Fair SWAB 2017 Focus Mediterrania: KIBRIT and Platform HARAKAT.
• Kibrit_NACMM Final event in Jiser, Barcelona.
• Barcelona International Art Fair SWAB 2016 Focus Maghrib: NACMM
• As Coordinator and Curator of CeRCCa AIR I have curated more than 15 exhibitions. The documentation of all this work can be found at CeRCCa 5th Anniversary Publication 2009-2014 funded by the OSIC.
• The Museum of Hackney Wick at Hackney Wicked Festival 09. London.

Languages

• Catalan and Spanish: Mother tongues.
• English : 100/120 TOEFL December 2015
• Arabic: Intensive courses in Les Glycines (Algiers) and Barcelona.

Webs

• www.nacmm.org
• www.kibrit.com
• www.platformharakat.com