{"id":5730,"date":"2018-10-19T20:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/pau-cata-marles\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T20:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:30:43","slug":"pau-cata-marles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/pau-cata-marles\/","title":{"rendered":"Pau Cat\u00e0 Marl\u00e8s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8422 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pau-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pau-copy-1.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pau-copy-2.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pau-copy-3.jpg 315w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Pau-copy-4.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>To explore the ambiguous relationships between knowledge and love is the process in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paucata.cat\/\">Pau Cat&agrave;<\/a> blends his artistic, curatorial and research practices. Scaling them down into everydayness, he intertwines an interest in epistemology with an inclination towards amateurship. Due to a tendency to hypermobility and to play devil&rsquo;s advocate, he often falls in dislocation, a condition that is translated into&nbsp;<strong>visual essays<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>creative prose<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sharing and working with others is an important component in his curatorial practice. To work collaboratively has been the aim behind the foundation in 2009 of CeRCCa_Center for Research and Creativity Casamarles, a space that has hosted more than 100 artists, thinkers and activist knitting a net of fruitful&nbsp;<strong>complicities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite current discourses, accademia has enhanced experimentation and engagement in his work. Combined with a disposition to test his learnings, this intellectual framework has been fundamental to challenge and reflect upon a practice that encompasses grassroots creative activism,&nbsp;<strong>academic texts<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>conversations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pau Cata is the initiator of CeRCCa and co-coordinator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacmm.org\/en\/\">NACMM &ndash; North Africa Cultural Mobility Map<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kibrit.org\/\">KIBRIT<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platformharakat.com\/\">Platform HARAKAT<\/a>. He is also a PhD researcher at the Edinburgh College of Art. The provisional title of his thesis is:&nbsp;<em>Rilke and the pilgrims<\/em><em>: A minor curating approach to cartography and epistemology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The book mentioned in the interview is <em>The Invention of Africa<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/libcom.org\/files\/zz_v._y._mudimbe_the_invention_of_africa_gnosis_pbook4you_1.pdf\">full text here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8421 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cercca_intro2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cercca_intro2-1.jpg 960w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cercca_intro2-2.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cercca_intro2-3.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cercca_intro2-4.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cercca_intro2-5.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">cercca_intro2: AIR at CeRCCa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8423 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/thumb_NACMM_Jiwar_1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/thumb_NACMM_Jiwar_1024-1.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/thumb_NACMM_Jiwar_1024-2.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/thumb_NACMM_Jiwar_1024-3.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/thumb_NACMM_Jiwar_1024-4.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/thumb_NACMM_Jiwar_1024-5.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First NACMM meeting at Jiwar Barcelona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To explore the ambiguous relationships between knowledge and love is the process in which Pau Cat&agrave; blends his artistic, curatorial and research practices. Scaling them down into everydayness, he intertwines an interest in epistemology with an inclination towards amateurship. Due to a tendency to hypermobility and to play devil&rsquo;s advocate, he often falls in dislocation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5750,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions\/5750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}