Doctoral seminar MoDe(s)
Expanded histories: Ways of narrating in the cultural Cold War
Wednesday 19 April 2017, 9h30-20h00.
Sala de Juntas (ground floor, entrance by c/Ramalleres)
Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universitat de Barcelona
This doctoral seminar proposes to reflect on the practices of narration developped through the arts during the Cold War period (1947-1991) or in relation to it.
Taking as a starting point the act of narrating or telling stories (storytelling) as a way of activating individual positions on history and take distance from an event in order to illuminate its meaning, as political philosopher Hannah Arendt[1] pointed out, the seminar aims, on the one hand, to examine those forms and processes of narration that were articulated through cultural practices in the context of the Cold War and, on the other hand, to discuss the role of narration as a methodological tool for historiography, which allow to question dominant accounts of this period produced by, and for, the structures of power.
Gathering contributions from the fields of visual arts, literature, documentary and fiction, art criticism, exhibitions, the seminar seeks to confront different ways of thinking, constructing and communicating stories, analyzing their impact on those subjects and objects that carried them out, as well as on critical, curatorial and historiographic readings that incorporated them afterwards.
How is this narrative dimension reflected in Cold War’s artistic production and cultural means? To what extent have these stories disrupted or interrupted official histories? How, from the history of art, can we take these displacements into account and articulate narratives that delve into the complexity of their experience? Are there narrative resources enabling us to address today, from both art and historiography, individual trajectories and their relationships with their social, cultural and political environment?
The seminar is intended as a space of presentation and discussion on ongoing doctoral researches, mainly in the field of art history, however, proposals from other disciplines related to the seminar’s topic subject are welcome.
Conferences and communications will be delivered in Spanish language.
[1] Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998 (1a ed. 1958), 192.
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Program
9.30-10.00: Welcome and introduction Paula Barreiro López (Universitat de Barcelona) and Juliane Debeusscher (Universitat de Barcelona).
Session 1 – Relatar entre los márgenes: cuerpos, género y memorias en resistencia, chair Juliane Debeusscher (Universitat de Barcelona).
10.00-11.00: Conference by Olga Glondys (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Max Aub, Czeslaw Milosz y las narrativas alternativas de la Guerra Fría.
11.00-13.00: Communications and debate.
– Marcin Franciszek Rynkowski (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Desde otro lado del Telón de Acero: el protofeminismo polaco con el rostro de Natalia LL.
– Víctor Ramírez Tur (Universitat de Barcelona), Conflictos historiográficos en torno a la performance de la “Europa del Este”.
Coffee break
– Adriana Peña Mejía (Sciences Po, París), Mujeres vanguardistas y revolucionarias: Arte Colombiano Contemporáneo, 1958-1977.
13.00 -14.00: Conferencia by María Ruido (Artista visual – Universitat de Barcelona), Las moscas encuentran la muerte en la dulce miel (proverbio vietnamita).
14.00 – 16.00: Lunch break
Session 2. Ejercicios de imaginación: narrar a través del prisma expositivo, literario y cinematográfico, chair Paula Barreiro López (Universitat de Barcelona)
16.00-17.00: Conferencia by Fina Birulés (Universitat de Barcelona – Centre de Recerca ADHUC-Teoria Gènere, Sexualitat (UB)), Hannah Arendt o la parcialitat vigilant.
17.00 – 19.00: Communications and debate
– Juliane Debeusscher (Universitat de Barcelona), Mas allá del relato de la disidencia: Propuestas expositivas en torno al arte del este europeo de los años 1970.
– David Aguilera Ferragut (Universitat de Barcelona), Béla Tarr y Lázsló Krasznahorkai: de una mala sociabilidad a otra peor.
Coffee break
– Pablo Santa Olalla (Universitat de Barcelona), ¿Puede un testimonio escapar de la historia? Luis Utrilla y sus Cròniques de l’era conceptual (1980).
19.00 – 20.00: Conferencia by Teresa Grandas (Chief conservator, MACBA), Gelatina dura. Historias escamoteadas de los ochenta.
Download the program (in Spanish) Abstracts (in Spanish)Photo gallery
photos: Júlia Azunce.
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Direction and coordination: Paula Barreiro López (Universitat de Barcelona) and Juliane Debeusscher (Universitat de Barcelona).
Seminar organized in the framework of the research project Modernidad(es) Descentralizada(s): arte, política y contracultura en el eje transatlántico durante la Guerra Fría (HAR2014-53834-P).
With the support of the Departament d’Història de l’Art de la Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona.
*image: Maria Ruido, from the video documentary Lo que no puede ser visto debe ser mostrado.