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
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Conference of the Memory Studies Association in Madrid, 25-28 June
The annual conference of the Memory Studies Association is taking place at the Complutense University of Madrid, from 25 to 28 June 2019. The session “Texturas del arte y la memoria en la España contemporánea” includes the participation of María Ruido.
Soon: Symposium Transnational solidarity and visual culture, 24 & 25 June 2019 in Grenoble
This international conference aims to open up an innovative field of research on transnational solidarity movements at the crossroads of cultural history and visual culture. It seeks to show how some networks have shaped a transnational visual culture of resistance, while adapting to local contexts and political struggles.
International conference Visual Semantics-Visualizing Global Networks, Circulations, and Patterns
On June 13th and 14th at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, this international conference will discuss the potential of digital technology in renewing our understanding of artistic circulations and in the deployment of alternative narratives.
Presentation of the book Atlántico Frío in Madrid
The book Cold Atlantic will be presented at La Central library, at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, on 10 May at 7 p.m. Edited by Paula Barreiro López, this volume proposes a renewed reading on artistic practices, aesthetic discourses and models of resistance in the transatlantic axis from 1948 to the present day.
Report on the seminar “Spectres of others ’68” (Barcelona, January 2019)
Anita Orzes and Pablo Santa Olalla revisit the various contributions to the seminar, between a historical review of the revolts and social transformations that occurred around 1968, and an expansion of their geographies and genealogies.
Release of the book Disputas sobre lo contemporáneo by Juan Albarrán
The book Disputas sobre lo contemporáneo. Arte español entre el antifranquismo y la postmodernidad by Juan Albarrán has just been released! It will be presented by the author at the Central in Museo Reina Sofía on 21 March, 2019.
Release of the book Atlántico Frío (Brumaria Editions)
The volume edited by Paula Barreiro López is the result of a collective research work developed over the last three years within the framework of MoDe(s) project. It brings together fifteen texts based on case studies and documentary sources so far unpublished that address forms of mediation, dissent and resistance to the Cold War’s ideological and aesthetic schism.
Multimedia updates: Spectres of others ’68
The sound recording of the international seminar “Spectres of others ’68: Aesthetic Genealogies and Global Activism” (Universitat de Barcelona, 9-10 January 2019 November 2019) are now available in our multimedia section.