— Focus #3 Isaac Julien

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What does GRAF offer

— Shared calendar
Access to the internal organization tool for GRAF’s spaces. It gathers the information of all the activities planned for the future or in the process of being programmed. The aim of the calendar is to share this information in the mid and long term, in order to generate valuable knowledge and enable the strategic planning of new activities. The advantage of this is the optimization of resources. GRAF provides direct contact with the rest of GRAF’s spaces.

— Public agenda
Bring to light and spread the programme of the spaces in the public access agenda. The agenda offers a quick consultation site of GRAF spaces’ programme, proposals from different fields of contemporary art and from all over the Catalan geography. The aim of the agenda is to make the programme of institutional and independent spaces/projects more accessible and to contribute in the development of new audiences, facilitating the transfer between different disciplines.

— Search engine
Access to all the information related to the spaces and their programmes published in GRAF, both present and past. GRAF generates an archive of the events that have taken place in the context of Barcelona and Catalonia, as well as of the spaces that have been part of them. Thus, GRAF contributes to the collective memory, visibilizes the reality of the context and offers a free access point to check this information.

— Personalized support
Support to the spaces for the publication of its programme in the calendar. The online tool is based on a personalized relationship with each one of the spaces in order to detect their specific needs and to periodically facilitate the entering of your data.

— GRAF meetings
Periodic meetings with the spaces to share their programme, evaluate GRAF and program activities of interest for the spaces and the specialized audience. GRAF is constantly evolving in dialogue with the needs of the spaces.

— Social networks
Support for the visibility of the spaces and the activities that they programme through GRAF’s social networks.

— Monthly newsletter
Information channel, via email, with the monthly programme of GRAF’s spaces. Preview of the spaces’s programme, which is then expanded in detail in the weekly agenda. The Newsletter helps reaching the final user with the information of the spaces

— GRAF Routes
Periodic articles made by external collaborators and/or people linked to GRAF’s spaces. GRAF’s Routes generate a virtual tour of the local cultural scene, including some of GRAF space’s programmes.

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Do you want more? GRAF special services

— Highlighted space in the agenda
GRAF provides highlighted spaces on the agenda, in the form of banners, to announce special events. The banner is composed of an image and/or a text, in horizontal or vertical format. It works as a link to an external web page and it is visible for as long as you need on the main page of GRAF.net, accompanied by all the programme of the weekly agenda.

— We publish your programme in GRAF
GRAF offers a data entry service for spaces with a high-volume programme. You periodically send us your schedule for the future and we publish it on GRAF’s calendar in order to save time and assure you share your updated and long-term information with the rest of the spaces and with the audience.

— Communication campaign
GRAF designs specific communication campaigns for the spaces. We think about how you can support your special programme with all the facilities of GRAF’s platform.

For more information write to info@graf.cat.

In its third edition, Focus turns to the cinematic work of Isaac Julien, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of his film Looking for Langston (1989). Julien played a leading role in the new wave of independent black cinema that appeared in the United Kingdom in the 1980s under the government of Margaret Thatcher, and which was strongly influenced by the debates around post-colonialism promoted by theorists such as Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall.

From his first films, Julien’s work has been characterised by experimental ways of constructing narrative that result from the mixing of genres, as well as a careful formal resolution that restores political force to the beauty of the image. Briefly, one could say that Julien’s cinema addresses issues of race and representations of masculinity. But his films are also concerned with the construction of history, gender, capital and political struggle. Love, reverie and desire run through much of his productions and challenge – through their temporalities, narrative constructions and aesthetic forms – the conventions of white heterosexual cinema. From the recovery of foundational figures such as Langston Hughes, Frantz Fanon and Derek Jarman, Julien pays tribute to key activists in the field of anti-racist and anti-AIDS struggles, and thereby claims a discourse in which the figure of the black queer is doubly marginalised: devoid of a history and, with it, its referents.

GRAF is a tool to improve the communication and coordination between the spaces of contemporary art in Catalonia. The agenda of those who share their agendas.

Services and fees

What does GRAF offer

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Do you want more? GRAF special services

Focus #3 Isaac Julien

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