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.
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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.
Through, from, to Latin America: Networks, circulations and artistic transits from the 1960s to the present
This 2-days conference in Lisbon (27-28 November 2017) aims at opening a critical space of debate to discuss the role of different forms of dislocation – such as artistic migrations, exiles, networking, circulations of ideas and theoretical articulations, artworks and exhibitions – in the shaping of contemporary art in and beyond Latin America.[:]
Reinventing art’s faculties : dissident art and and political militancy in the seventies
On November 7th at the Fine Arts Faculty of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, this seminar will address the crossings between artistic experiments and political commitment during the late Francoism and the first transition in Spain.[:]
50th Congress of the AICA in Paris
In the framework of the 50th Congress of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) in Paris, Paula Barreiro López will take part in the panel “Paradigmatic shifts in the AICA’s history” with a lecture about Spanish art criticism in the 1960s.
Symposium “Mexican/US art and artists crossing borders” at the Smithsonian
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez will participate in the symposium “A line that birds cannot see”: Mexican/US Art and Artists Crossing Borders in the 20th Century, organized at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on November 3rd, 2017 with the lecture “Between Figuration and Abstraction: The Cultural Cold War and Tamayo’s Art in the 1950s.”[:]
Symposium Transatlantic Paths: the Cold War between fields of action and critical nodes
MoDe(s) organizes the conference “Transatlantic paths: the Cold War between fields of action and critical nodes”, on July 10th and 11th at Saint Louis University Madrid.
CFP International conference “Through, From, To Latin America”. Lisbon, 27-28 November 2017
Don’t hesitate to read, share and answer to the Call for Papers for the project “Through, From, To Latin America: Networks, circulations and artistic transits from the 1960s to the present”, conceived as an international conference and a set of workshops in the field of curating, artistic practice and art history.