Abstract

This paper wants to show a neighbourhood with an important heritage and peculiar identity where has created different artistic projects close to artistic intervention and social action. However Cabanyal has a distinctive feature, the neighbourhood is threatened with destruction by local govern­ment since 1998. To that porpuse, we will analyse several projects developed in Cabanyal, like Caban­yal Portes Obertes, Cabanyal Archivo Vivo, ID#Sport-PL[US] Cabanyal (connected to Idensitat) and Left Hand Rotation’s urban action. This paper present a little cartography about different strategies developed in the same place and with a similar porpuse. These artistic practises are characteristics of social empowerment and opposite of the idea about culture like merchandise.

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