Pau Cata
Networking, Collaboration, Hospitality & Cultural Exchange: Remodelling North African Artist-in-Residency Programmes
Pau Catà
"Moving Knowledges: Towards a Speculative Arab Art Residency Proto-History"
"An Event Without its Poem is an Event that Never Happened." (portfolio)
Academic History:
2016 - 2021: Doctor in Art. University of Edinburgh (Scotland) funded by AHRC, UoE and ECA. Thesis: Moving Knowledges: Towards a speculative Arab art residency proto-history and An event without its poem is an event that never happened (portfolio) 2008 - 2010: MA Media Arts at the London South Bank University (UK) funded by OSIC and MUC. 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. 1995 - 2003: Degree in History by Universitat de Barcelona. Erasmus Scholarships at Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy) and Democritus University (Greece).
Supervisors:
Professor Neil Mulholland and Edward Hollis
Research Interests:
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Relationships between theory & practice
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Everyday life theories
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Epistemologies of the south
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Archaeology of globalization
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Anthropology of art
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Critical Muslim studies
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Artists in residencies & artistic mobility
Previous Research Projects:
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Theory as Practice. A practitioner based research on CeRCCa local context.
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CeRCCa - Center for Research and Creativity Casamarles
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NACMM - North Africa Cultural Mobility Map
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Platform HARAKAT
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Reshape Network - Archetypes for a Journey
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Pyrene and the Cretins: Historiographical Derivees in the High Pyrenees.
Scholarships:
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NETIAS - Network of Institutes of Advanced Studies, CAT - Constructive Advanced Thinking Grant for the project ‘A Transformation Framework for Artist Residencies, based on Internal Critiques, Alternative Histories, and Emerging Practices’ (2023-2025)
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Grant for research and innovation OSIC 2022 for the project Pyrene and the Cretins. Historiographic derivees in the High Pyrenees
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Grant for research and innovation OSIC 2021 for the project Residencies artístiques: El Temps i la Pandemia.
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Darat al Funun Shoman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Amman, Jordan (2019-2020)
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Selection to be part of RESHAPE Network’s expert team (2019-2021)
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Erasmus Mundus exchange program UoE - UOC (2019)
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South Med CV Project Grant for the development of NACMM and KIBRIT (2017)
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TANDEM Shaml for the development of The art of getting lost (2015-2016)
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Anna Lindh Foundation Project Grant for the development of NACMM (2015)
Awards:
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Step Beyond Award by European Cultural Foundation.
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MA Course Director Prize for Outstanding Achievement LSBU.
Publications:
Peer-reviewed journals and book chapters
- Catà Marlès, P. (2018) “Towards the post-Digital in the Humanities? NACMM and Platform HARAKAT as case studies” iIn: Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega (coord.). “Digital Humanities: societies, politicies and knowledge”. Published at the peer-reviewed journal Artnodes. No. 22: 25-35. UOC. [online] Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i22.3219
- Catà Marlès, P. (2018) “Towards the post-Digital in the Humanities? NACMM and Platform HARAKAT as case studies” in: International Opportunities in the Arts. Mary Sherman (Ed.) Published by Vernon Press [online] Available at: https://vernonpress.com/book/471
- Catà Marlès, P. (2017) “Rethinking de-colonial dualism”. In: Maria Iñigo (coord.). “¿Es posible descolonizar las metodologías occidentales? El Sur como motor”. Published by #Re-visiones No. 7. UOC. [online] Available at: https://re.public.polimi.it/retrieve/handle/11311/1039705/247093/Re-visiones.pdf
- Catà Marlès, P. (forthcoming) “Art Residencies’ unforeseen stories” In: Irmeli Kokko (ed.) Residencies Reflected. Locked - Unlocked - Unforeseen funded by KONE Foundation. Published by Archive Books.
Other
- Catà Marlès, P. (2022) Los viajes icaros in Big Sur Series 2. Ed Hojas de Hierba.
- Catà Marlès, P. (2022) Interview at Station to Station #3 “Living on the edge”. Transartis [online] available at: https://www.transartists.org/sites/default/files/station2station/3/
- Catà Marlès, P.. and VVAA (2021)Trans and post-national artistic practices. RESHAPE Final publication. Creative Europe.
- Catà Marlès, P. (2019) Mediterranean alternatives. Towards a speculative art residency proto-history at IDEES - Center for Studies of Contemporary Issues. [online] available at: https://revistaidees.cat/en/alternatives-mediterranies/
- Catà Marlès, P.. (2019) Exhibition catalog Resistances by the Sea. Published by MAMT - Modern Art Museum of Tarragona. [online] available at: https://www.dipta.cat/mamt/sites/mamt/files/cataleg_ro_caminal.pdf
- Catà Marlès, P. and Massoero, F. (2018) NACMM and Interview in ‘MAHATHAT SouthMed CV – Communities of Practice for the Public Value of Culture in the Southern Mediterranean’ published by SouthMed CV.
- Catà Marlès, P.(2018) The Lonely Flaneur in ‘Detours’ (VVAA) as the final outcome of Platform HARAKAT project The Art of Getting Lost funded by Tandem Shaml. - Catà Marlès, P.(2018) ‘Beyond Qafila Thania: Walking as immediate and preterit empathy’ (VVAA) in Walking Art / Walking Aesthetics. Interartive issue 100 [online] Available at: https://walkingart.interartive.org/2018/12/Beyond-Qafila-Thania
- Catà Marlès, P.(2018) As part of ‘Building the Future’ (2018) NACMM was selected as one of the projects that had an impact on cultural transformation in the MENA region in the period spanning 2011 to 2017. The online publication was a joint production of the German Commission for UNESCO, European Cultural Foundation, Racines and Ettijahat – Independent Culture.
- Catà Marlès, P. (2017) Interdisciplinary Activism: Naz Cuguoğlu in conversation with Pau Catà published at Art South Africa Magazine. - Catà Marlès, P. (2015) CeRCCa 2009-201. Publication funded by OSIC. - Catà Marlès, P.. (2015) The Hypermobile Icarus. On-AIR. Reflecting on the mobility of artists in Europe. Transartist [online] available at: https://www.transartists.org/sites/default/files/attachments/ON-AIR_Publication_2012_full. pdf
- Catà Marlès, P. (2015) Theory as Practice. SCCA World of Art Series. Ljubljana.
Contact details:
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