Contrainformació: Video-nou / Servei de vídeo comunitari

In the context of the so-called Spanish Transition, a group of young people creates a working platform that understands video as an experimental tool of political intervention and a social weapon of counter-information. This exhibition proposes a journey through the experiences of the collective Video-Nou and its subsequent transformation into the Servei de Vídeo Comunitari. Active in Catalonia between 1977 and 1983, the group challenged official narratives during a period when media apparatuses continued to operate under structures inherited from Francoism. The transformation into the Servei de Vídeo Comunitari consolidates the proposal: video as a service of communication and on-site social intervention, in which images are not an end in themselves but part of a process that includes their constant return and ongoing discussion within the community. You can find more information about the exhibition "Contrainformació: Video-nou / Servei de vídeo comunitari" on the website of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).