Pedro Azara (Bois-Colombes, 1955) holds a PhD in architecture (1986) and has been a Professor of Aesthetics at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-ETSAB) since 1987. He is a member of, and advisor to, numerous councils of cultural institutions, both public and private, including the Architecture Commission of Barcelona City Council, IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art), the international archaeological mission (Franco-Italian-Spanish) in Tell Massaïkh (Syria) and in Qasr Shamamok (Erbil, Iraq). Pedro Azara has curated several contemporary art exhibitions, bringing together archaeology, aesthetics, semiotic ideas and sociology. These include The Last Look, at MACBA, 1997; Mirage Town Baghdad, from Wright to Venturi at COAC, Casa Árabe, COAMI, Center for Architecture, Society of Architects, Riwad Biennale, Barcelona, Madrid, Murcia, Boston, New York and Ramallah, 2008–- 2011; Mediterranean. From Myth to Reason, CaixaForum Barcelona and Madrid, 2014; From Ancient to Modern. Archaeology and Aesthetics, SAW, New York, 2015; and Sumeria and the Modern Paradigm, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2017.
Marcel Borràs (Olot, 1989). Actor, director and playwright. As an actor he has worked in theatre with the directors Lluís Pascual, Álex Rigola, Lluís Homar, Georges Lavaudant, Roger Bernat and Carol López, among others. In film and television he has worked under the direction of Agustí Villaronga, Mar Coll and Pau Freixas, among others. As a theatre director he has created nine pieces since 2007 alongside Nao Albet. His most recent ones were Falsestuff. The Death of the Muses, which premiered at the National Theatre of Catalonia during the 2018 Grec Festival, and Mammón which played at the Teatre Lliure of Barcelona and more recently as the Canal Theatres in Madrid. Along with Nao Albert he received the RNE Ojo Critico award in theatre in 2016 for the risks taken in their work and their commitment to contemporary language.
Albert García-Alzórriz (Barcelona, 1992) graduated in Fine Arts and Architecture. He was a teaching assistant in the Department of Architectural Projects at the ETSAB (2014-2017), as well as assistant to the artist Jordi Colomer during the realisation of the Spanish Pavilion for the 57th Art Biennale of Venice (2017). He was a finalist in the second edition of the CCCB's International Award for Cultural Innovation for his collective project ‹3 EARTH (Barcelona, 2017). Amongst his recent work the following projects stand out: the architectural project for the creation, research and artistic production laboratory, La Infinita, in Hospitalet; the scenography for the play, Here (Sala Beckett, Barcelona/Volksbühne, Berlin); and the documentary, Tras los Eucaliptos (2018). Amongst other places, his work as been shown at the Valencia Institute of Modern Art, at the Alcances 50th Festival of Documentary Film, and at ROVER, a project by Víctor Ruíz-Colomer and Joe Highton for Manifesta 12 in Palermo.
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