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Themed route ‘Lost objects and people’, with Gloria G. Durán

Themed route ‘Lost objects and people’, with Gloria G. Durán

A*DESK and GRAF present themed routes that focus on critical thinking based on contents of the repository of A*DESK magazine, lead by the interpretation of a specialist (historian, artist, curator or critic) and relating it with the field. The routes, which are done in person, include both spaces belonging to the GRAF community and other types of places, both cultural and not, public and private, which also strengthens the discourse and artistic proposal, and makes the most out of this opportunity to learn about certain places that are normally closed or difficult to access.

«Lost objects and people» is a route created and lead by the researcher and artist Gloria G. Durán.
November 22, 2025. 11h
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About the route: This route recovers people from variety shows in constant transformation, clairvoyant and mediums who weave in plain sight, prohibited museums and restricted areas, weird crowd management, protests, demolished urinals, eliminated cruisings…

The route proposes going to a handful of localizations and spaces of Ciutat Vella to follow the trail left by what is no longer there, of what was lost in the memories and how we can bring it back with the help of nowadays artistic practices. Perhaps we can find barely perceptible footprints of past radical actions.

A route that is put together and dissembles, appears and disappears, with the artist and researcher Gloria G. Durán.

This route goes through some of GRAF venues in the Born and it is inspired by A*DESK themes: «Bodies of evidence» and «Disobeying the possible».

🗓️ November 22, at 11 am
📍 Meeting place: (To be determined)
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About Gloria G. Durán

Gloria G. Durán is a researcher, teacher, cultural producer and artist. Her professional career has been shaped by public matters and urbanism from a gender perspective. Among her publications we can find Baronesa Dandy, Reina Dadá, 2013; Dandys Extrafinos, 2012; Dandysmo y Contregénero, 2010; a monograph about public art in the city of Madrid: Agentes críticos. Prácticas colectivas y arte público, 2017 and Sicalipticas. El gran libro del cuplé y la sicalipsis, La Felguera 2021.

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