The Feedback 2026 cycle at Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació kicks off this Wednesday, February 4th, with Glòria Ribera and her project 'Bomba Va'. Every Wednesday until March 11th (at 7 PM, free admission), the factory will open its doors to showcase creative processes in residence: twelve artists, two per session, will share fragments of their work, followed by a dialogue facilitated by journalists and reported by students from the Master's in Cultural Production and Communication at Ramon Llull University.
Feedback, born from a demand by residents through the Programming Commission, integrates public interaction as an essential part of the creative process. This year, with over 100 projects in residence, the cycle offers a privileged window into ongoing work
'Bomba va', the starting gun for Feedback 2026
Glòria Ribera, who recently received the 2025 Research, Creation, and Thought Award from the Institut del Teatre for "La cançó catalana ultramoderna" (Ultramodern Catalan Song), presents 'Bomba Va' as the third chapter of her trilogy of contemporary, queer, and experimental revision of the Catalan cuplé. "It's the third part of a project that began with my final degree work and continued with Parné," explains the artist. "With Bomba Va, we focus on wars, violence, and inflation in a declining Europe."
Ribera places celebration and war at the center of a genre she considers ideal for discussing conflicts from the realm of celebration: "The cuplé adapts very well to it, even though it's from 100 years ago." With acid humor and humanitarian criticism, the artist decides to transform the body into a trench: "I like being able to make humor out of things that are serious or tragic without trivializing them." Precisely, the project dialogues with the current moment and does not escape her intrinsic reality as a creator: "I am the first to talk about my own contradictions or doubts."
The Update of the Catalan Cabaret Song
Ribera's eclectic training (lyric singing, cello, clowning, theatre) led her to the cuplé through her discovery of the Paral·lel and the figure of stars like Raquel Meller. "I gradually began to discover everything that was the Paral·lel." The cuplé, forgotten and marginalized, offered her fertile ground to update: "I found that the cuplé was very attractive [...] and, if we add more modern rhythms, melodies, sounds, or sonority, we can also attract and interest very young generations."In this regard, it should be highlighted that "Bomba Va" features live music (drums, electric guitar, and snare drum) and modern, electric instrumentation by Gerard Valverde (musical production). "I couldn't do it alone," Ribera admits regarding the production. For this reason, her personal commitment was to start working with a large team to make the mix of party and critique coherent.
Artists in Residence at the Creation Factory
In this entire creative process, Ribera admits that the residency at Fabra i Coats has been key: "I've been a resident since 2024 and here we created a first presentation for the Festa Major de la Mercè." At Feedback on February 4th, she will show the first 20 minutes of her already completed project. A little taste to invite the public to want more. "We will show 20 minutes," she reveals. "It will be something very intimate where artists and the public will chat; it will be a beautiful way to discover new people and their points of view."It will be in this dialogue that Ribera will champion the cuplé from a dissident perspective: "It's an ideal genre for questioning gender, historically so associated with the figure of the female star." At a time of repertoire decolonization and the recovery of marginalized memories, her work is inserted into this conversation: "Every time I start a project, I discover more cuplés on the subject that interests me."
The rest of the sessions
It should be noted that the February 4th session will also include a preview of artist Carmela Muñoz's project, who will present “Invocaciones boleras o la danza de las desposeídas” (Bolero Invocations or the Dance of the Dispossessed), an investigation into the collision space between the bolero school, the contemporary dance body, and the concept of invocation.The following weeks will bring diverse proposals: Maria Pipla and Raquel Klein (February 11), Pilar Talavera, Clara Cortés, Rober Martínez and Anna Pantinat with Shoeg and Lluís Vintró (February 18), PSIRC and Sergi Casero (February 25), Àngel Duran and Clara Poch (March 4), Clara Cortés Soler and laSADCUM (March 11). Each session, moderated by journalists such as Oriol Puig Taulé, Clara Narvión, Orio Rosell, Nil Martín, Jofre Font or Mariona Borrull, will invite reflection on ongoing creative processes
