On December 7 and 8, 2021, “Triptych women and stories of struggle in Latin America / From Zapatista Mexico to rebellious Chile: an interpreted history” will take place at the Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation (Université Grenoble Alpes). This research-creation activity, articulated in a performance and a graphic workshop, will delve into the traces and archives of feminist collectives in Latin America.
Workshops
Challenging the centers: counter-historiographies of abstraction in Puerto Rico.
“Challenging the centers: counter-historiographies of abstraction in Puerto Rico” will take place on 22 October 2021. Based on the curatorial project of the exhibition […]ENTREFORMAS and critical essays (Carla Acevedo, Dialitza Colón Pérez and Nelson Rivera), this workshop proposes to discuss aspects concerning the Puerto Rican historiographic narrative with the intention of critically exploring its discursive margins and limitations.
Critical concepts and semantic turns from neoliberalism to the Cold War
This research workshop is proposed as a space of working and dialogue between the members of the MoDe(s)2 project. Throughout the workshop, we will discuss concepts that will allow us to understand the cultural tensions that are present in the Cold War and that continue to reverberate in the contemporary world.
Partisan genealogies: counter-visualities since WWII
This international workshop is the second part of Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images which took place in March virtually due to the Covid-19. Following with our research on the complex role of the oral, written and visual productions as agents for a culture of resistance, this workshop seeks to … Continue reading Partisan genealogies: counter-visualities since WWII
Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images
Since the Spanish Civil War the antifascist resistance configured models of struggle and collective organization. After the liberation the battle for freedom of the antifascist movement continued in the following decades as part of the struggles for decolonization, anti-imperialism, civil rights and anti-capitalism, especially in radical left movements, in which similar models of resistance … Continue reading Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images
Meeting with… Isabel Plante
The cycle of encounters Meeting with… proposes to establish a dialogue between the public and a guest (researcher, artist, curator …) who will share his/her lines of research and professional trajectory. The objective is to generate a discussion around issues of common interest. The sessions consist of a brief presentation of the guest, followed by comments and … Continue reading Meeting with… Isabel Plante
Critical imaginaries and expanded semantic fields from the Cold War to contemporaneity #2
This research workshop continues the workshop organized in July 2018, conceived as a space for work and dialogue among the members of the MoDe(s)2 project. MoDe(s)2 seeks to deepen four axes of transversal analysis. They delve into the role that culture and art have had in the multiple conflicts and frictions for the configuration of … Continue reading Critical imaginaries and expanded semantic fields from the Cold War to contemporaneity #2
Workshop MoDe(s) 2 – Critical imaginaries and expanded semantic fields from the Cold War to contemporaneity
This research workshop marks the beginning of the second phase of the project, MoDe(s) 2, with the participation of new team members and the deepening of their initial approaches through new lines of research.
Questioning the great divide(s) during the Cold War: a tool box for a transnational history of art
Taking place in Barcelona on March 6th and 7th, this workshop proposes to share and discuss methodological and theoretical resources related to the study of cultural and intellectual practices carried out during the Cold War. It is conceived as a join working session including presentations, discussions and shared readings.
