Art, politics and counterculture in the transatlantic axis from the Cold War to contemporaneity
Decentralized Modernities is an international research platform that brings together researchers from different centres in Europe, South and North America. In its current configuration, it develops two main lines of work. The first focuses on a comparative analysis of centres of the Atlantic axis, emphasising the forms of mediation, negotiation and resistance to the ideological, aesthetic and cultural schism of the Cold War. The second studies the impact that (social, cultural and political) forms from this historical period still have today, both on the configuration of the realities of our present time and on current artistic practices.
The idea is to highlight the links between the artistic/cultural world and social and labour, as well as national liberation and counter-cultural movements that conveyed dissident responses to the Cold War’s geopolitical order, contributing to decentralize the normative, western and colonial modernity.
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Worlds and Hi/Stories to Come: Echoes of Visual Culture and Art History
The seminar”Worlds and Hi/Stories to Come: Echoes of Visual Culture and Art History” (Saint Louis University, OCtober 22-23. 2026)provides a space for collective reflection on new ways of envisioning political and cultural futures from decentralized, transnational, and critical perspectives, with a particular focus on the role of images, archives, artistic practices, and contemporary social movements.
Release of the book – Política de imprenta
The book “Política de imprenta. Equipo Comunicación, una alternativa cultural para la transición a la democracia”, edited by Juan Albarrán and Rosa Benéitez, brings together fifteen studies with the aim of recovering, examining, and contextualizing the activity of Equipo Comunicación.
Visual Logics and New Aesthetics of Protest: Transnational Reverberations and Confluences between Zapatismo and Alter-Globalization (1994–2021)
The conference “Visual Logics and New Aesthetics of Protest: Transnational Reverberations and Confluences between Zapatismo and Alter-Globalization (1994–2021)” (UGA / Le Magasin, 22-24 April 2026) seeks to explore the power of images and performative practices within social movements resisting globalization, examining their role from a dialogical and transnational perspective that foregrounds Zapatismo and the struggles of the Global South.
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