Becatalaiotica concluded its sixth edition today, 11 December, with an event held at the Torralba d’en Salort site, during which Miquel López was declared the winner of the €2,000 study grant, the prize awarded in this competition organised by the Associació d’Amics del Museu de Menorca with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs of Menorca's Consell Insular. From tomorrow, 12 December, candidates for Becatalaiotica 2023 can submit their entries.
Miquel López García (born in Mataró, 1998), a student on the Archaeology undergraduate course at Barcelona University and a musician, presented us with a new way of telling the story of a stone which has lived in silence throughout the years.
With an installation conceptualising time, he gave us an insight into twelve moments in the history of Talatí de Dalt, twelve soundtracks accompanied by different instruments. A "biography" of the site which served as the curtain-raiser for the Becatalaiotica 2022 events.
This year saw highly innovative and original entries, as well as the winning effort: the performance by Adela Lafuente; the reading and analysis of an ancient poem which could decipher the origin of the first inhabitants of Menorca, courtesy of Carlos Martínez, and two artistic interventions in the landscape by Maria Riera and Ariana Ruíz, which all made their mark.
The audience cast their votes for each of these concepts, guided by the opinion and comments of a committee of Menorcan cultural experts comprising: Anna Gornés, cultural administrator; Martí Andreu, landscape architect; Carmen Lara, archaeologist; Cecilia Ligero, restorer; Quim Pons, archaeologist, and Maria Cardona, tour guide.
Entries open for Becatalaiotica 2023
All those so wishing can register for the next edition of the competition by using the form to be published tomorrow, 12 December, on the Becatalaiotica social media profiles (
@becatalaiotica, on Instagram and Facebook) and on the
Talayotic Menorca website.
A committee of cultural experts will select 10 of the entries received. The 10 shortlisted candidates will meet the organising team to create an event/activity of their choosing at a Talayotic Menorca site. From among these proposals, 5 will be chosen, to be staged in the months of
May and June 2023.
Becatalaiotica is an original cultural project organised by the Associació d’Amics del Museu de Menorca, in which five people aged between 18 and 28 present a proposal for an alternative and original event or activity at different archaeological sites in Menorca.
The only condition placed on the entrants is that they use Talayotic Menorca as the background and source of inspiration for their work. The winner receives a €2,000 study grant funded by the Consell Insular and Fundació Illes Balears.