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The A.M.A x BAU collaboration introduces this year a new production and learning line within the framework of Art Meets Apolo, developed together with the Master’s Degree in Art and Technology at BAU Centre Universitari d’Arts i Disseny de Barcelona, curated by artist Mónica Rikić. This partnership brings the real context of Apolo into the learning process, where students develop a site-specific installation, connecting research, technological prototyping and artistic practice within an active club environment.
The selected project, OCIO EN TIEMPO BÉLICO, by Cristina Planas in collaboration with Martina Tegeiro, draws from the cultural memory of Paral·lel and Apolo as spaces where—even in times of war, crisis or repression—leisure, music and gathering functioned as forms of collective resistance. The installation brings this idea into the present, marked by ongoing conflicts and pervasive violence, reclaiming enjoyment, play and dance as gestures capable of symbolically disrupting systems of fear and control.
Inspired by the former amusement park that once occupied Apolo, the piece presents a system of missiles moving through an endless circuit until they become absurd and exhausted, turning the logic of war into a loop without authority. The work frames art as a space where violence loses its solemnity, and where sharing laughter, music and movement becomes a small, uncomfortable and deeply radical act.
Art Meets Apolo, a living bridge between art and clubbing
The installation is part of Art Meets Apolo, a multidisciplinary exhibition project that connects art and clubbing through the perspective of Barcelona-based and resident artists. Previous works in the series include Pedro Torres, Mónica Rikić and Jordi Gispert Pi, Alba Rihe, Sejal Parekh, Milica Lukic, Miroslav Perković and Andrei Warren, Antoni Miralda and Anna Carreras.
The project is the result of a collaboration with LAB36 and Galeria Senda, building connections between two worlds that share audiences, working methods and experiences, with a clear common goal: to strengthen and give visibility to local culture.