Barrio Gótico in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain — Southwestern Europe (Iberian Peninsula)
Ocaña
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 24, 2022
1. Ocaña Marker
En aquesta casa va viuré el pintor Ocaña (1972-1982)
In this house lived the painter Ocaña (1972-1982)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Arts, Letters, Music. A significant historical date for this entry is March 24, 1947.
Location. 41° 22.802′ N, 2° 10.55′ E. Marker is in Barcelona, Cataluña (Catalonia). It is in Barrio Gótico. Marker can be reached from Plaça Reial. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Plaça Reial 12, Barcelona, Cataluña 08002, Spain. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Pere Pruna (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); Frederic Chopin (about 90 meters away); Sociedad de Atracción de Forasteros (about 120 meters away); Tablao Flamenco Cordobes (about 120 meters away); Hans Christian Andersen (about 150 meters away); El Call: Els Quatre Cantons del Call (about 210 meters away); Gustau A. Muñoz (about 210 meters away); fotògrafs Napoleon (about 240 meters away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Barcelona.
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Also see . . .
1. José Pérez Ocaña (Wikipedia, in Spanish).
Excerpt: "José Pérez Ocaña (Cantillana, Seville, Andalusia, March 24, 1947 - Ibidem September 18, 1983), better known as Ocaña, was an Andalusian performer, artist, anarchist and activist.(Submitted on May 11, 2022.)
Ocaña, who was an icon of resistance to the Franco dictatorship during the Spanish transition, is one of the key figures forgotten by the historiography of Spanish art. His various performances and actions, contemporary with the birth of the punk movement and the early protest movements foreshadowed the practices of sexual and gender disobedience that would begin to be grouped under the name of 'queer activism' in the early 1980s."
2. The Ocaña We Deserve (Stedeljik Studies). Seemingly the only English-language internet-available article on the artist, this article explores in depth the question of how Ocaña and his work is interpreted.
A description of Ocaña’s "campceptualism": "Ocaña’s practices of performative disobedience comprise a series of strategies(Submitted on May 11, 2022.)(actions, acts of voicing, public dances, rituals, and interventions) through which politico-sexual minorities seek to intervene in the process of producing social meaning by misquoting the sexual and gender codes of National Catholicism, distorting and displacing them through flawed imitation or satire. Ocañian practices show how the sexual underclass can have access to the production of social meaning and political representation. Gender parody, glamorization of shame and sorrow, praise of bad taste, consecration of copies: these are re-signifying operations through which the subordinate intervene in the dominant codes and displace their hegemonic meaning."Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 24, 20222. Ocaña Marker - wide view
Credits. This page was last revised on February 3, 2023. It was originally submitted on May 11, 2022, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 76 times since then and 9 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 11, 2022, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
