{"id":11,"date":"2025-10-06T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extra-ordinari.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:37:01","slug":"activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extra-ordinari.com\/en\/activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Still life class. 1942. Dorothea Lange <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaa.si.edu\/blog\/2019\/09\/one-spot-of-normalcy-chiura-obatas-art-schools\" target=\"_blank\">[SOURCE]<\/a><\/div>\n<div>The project <b>Extra-Ordinari<\/b> will take place over the course of the 2025-26 season at <b>La Virreina \u2013 Centre de la Imatge.<\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div>Following is the provisional calendar of activities:\n <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3> 1st session<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Presentation of the project with a lecture by Jeffrey Swartz on various aspects of the subject, &#8220;Things Are the Way They Are for a Reason&#8221;, followed by an open discussion on teaching in university arts education.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: <strong>5 February<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time: <strong>7pm<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Place: <strong>Auditori LAB, Palau de la Virreina<\/strong>, Rambla 99, Barcelona<\/li>\n<li><strong>Free Entry<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ajuntament.barcelona.cat\/lavirreina\/en\/activities\/things-are-way-they-are-reason\/1020\">+ Info<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3> 2nd session<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><b>Creative contractures: Writing in the Face of Bureaucratic Reason<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A conversation on precarious labour and other social conditions of institutional academic and cultural work, focusing on the world of literature.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the writer <strong>Sara Mesa<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Moderated by Professor <strong>Albert Jornet Somoza<\/strong>, Universitat de Barcelona<\/li>\n<li>Date: <strong>3 March<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time: <strong>7pm<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Place: <strong>Espai 4, Palau de la Virreina<\/strong>, Rambla 99, Barcelona<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ajuntament.barcelona.cat\/lavirreina\/en\/activities\/creative-contractures-writing-face-bureaucratic-reason\/1026\">+ Info<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3> 3rd session<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>For reasons outside the control of the project, the presentation by Terra Poirier of <i>Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design<\/i>, has been cancelled, as well as the previously-programmed participative workshop.<\/p>\n<p>If an alternative activity can be programmed, we will inform you here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/extra-ordinari-activities_1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>Still life class. 1942. 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