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.
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Seminar: the Paris Biennial on both sides of the Iron Curtain
In the framework of the seminar “1959-1985, au prisme de la Biennale de Paris”, this session aims to discuss the symbolic, cultural and political value of the Paris Biennale from the 1950s to the 1970s, and its reception in two totalitarian contexts on both sides of the Iron Curtain: Spain and Poland.
Seminar in La Plata, Argentina. 6-7 April
The seminar Transatlantic Episodes (1950-1977): Crossings between art, politics and culture during the Cold War in Spain and Latin America will be given by Paula Barreiro López at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
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.
News from the Multimedia section
Check out the latest entries in our Multimedia section! Audio and video archives on art and activism in 1970s Spain, and the participation of Eastern European artists in the Paris Biennial.
Upcoming: REG|AC on “Networks and Circulations in the Cold War”
Issue 5 of REG|AC journal on “Cold War networks and circulations: Cross-cultural Dialogues and Practices throughout the Global South (1957-1991)”, will be published in spring-summer 2018. Here is a preview of the authors and topics addressed in this special issue.
Comrades in Arms against Dictatorship – Research seminar in Edinburgh
On January 25th, Paula Barreiro López’s conference at the Edinburgh College of Art will address the processes of negotiation amongst art critics, artists and cultural agents during Late Francoism (1959–1975), highlighting questionings raised by the link between art and (left-wing( ideology.
Le défi de Caliban – Encounters and debate at ENS Paris
[:en]On 18 and 19 January 2018, Artl@s project in collaboration with other organizations, organizes the encounter “Le defi de Caliban” (Caliban’s challenge) at the ENS Paris. Addressing artistic and literary debates on “the South”, this encounter will raise the question of its definitions through the lens of creation, examining the challenges and limits of such discourses.[:]
A Thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity
Until March 4th, the exhibition curated by Olga Fernández López at CAAC Sevilla presents artists who try to visibilize some of the silences, misunderstandings or undeveloped possibilities of writings from the past, opening a reflection on exhibitions of the 20th century as devices for producing subjectivities, experiences and discourses.
