The Kitchen School with Lucía Egaña and Daniel Granados | Activity
We open the first session of The Kitchen School with a meeting of two experiences that set out to change institutional structures from within. We invite Lucía Egaña and Daniel Granados to share knowledge, tools and questions about cultural output, decision-making and redistribution of resources.
Lucía Egaña will be presenting her research and the book Culture is not a highway, museums could be gardens [Culture Is Not a Highway, Museums Could Be Gardens] (tictac Ediciones, 2024; co-edited with Giuliana Racco), critical research into the mechanisms that sustain cultural and artistic output. Her work analyzes how the axes of discrimination – race, gender, sexual orientation and (dis)ability – work within cultural institutions, and proposes we think up other forms of organization based on care, access – a concept the author questions in her book – and shared responsibility. From this standpoint, museums cease to be linear infrastructures to become living, porous, cultivable spaces.
This narrative will be in dialogue with the experience of Daniel Granadosbehind the Barcelona Declaration on Cultural Rightswhich posits culture as a fundamental right and stresses its transversal dimension: health, education, ancestral knowledge, diversity and a fair environmental transition. The conceptual framework of cultural rights extends the reach of cultural policy beyond the arts, seeing them as key tools to build social equity and democracy.
The aim of The MACBA Kitchen is to start sketching out scenarios for real change in public facilities and cultural institutions, such as museums: where power, budgets and decision-making spaces are distributed. We’ll do this through a group activity, sharing the table and an afternoon snack which we see as a political, relational space for collective learning.
The MACBA Kitchen is a learning space led by artist Marina Monsonís.
