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 It brings together fifteen texts based on case studies and documentary sources so far unpublished that address forms of mediation, dissent and resistance to the Cold War’s ideological and aesthetic schism.
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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.
Report on the seminar Scenarios, representations and transformations of work in the global world
Seminar Scenarios, representations and transformations of work in the global world 23 November 2018 MACBA, Convent dels Angels. Barcelona Report by Juliane Debeusscher The seminar Scenarios, Representations and Transformations of Work in the Global World, organised within the framework of the MoDe(s)2 project, took place on 28 November in Barcelona. It counted with the participation of … Continue reading Report on the seminar Scenarios, representations and transformations of work in the global world
Spectres of others ’68: Aesthetic Genealogies and Global Activism. January 9-10th, 2019 in Barcelona
Decentralizing the accounts of 1968, both chronologically and geographically, this seminar proposes to explore the role of ‘the other’ in the configuration of the movements of revolt of the 1960s, tracing the political genealogies and utopian horizons that were conceived and are still visible (and claimed) in contemporary times. While Kristin Ross denounced the depoliticization of … Continue reading Spectres of others ’68: Aesthetic Genealogies and Global Activism. January 9-10th, 2019 in Barcelona
Publication of REG|AC issue on Cold War networks and circulations: Cross-cultural Dialogues and Practices throughout the Global South (1957-1991)
The latest issue of REG|AC, Revista de Estudios Globales & Arte Contemporáneo, edited by Paula Barreiro López and Juliane Debeusscher, is available. It maps some of the cultural networks of the Cold War (1957-1991) developed through, or in contact with, the transantlantic south and the Pacific.
CFP – Transnational solidarity and visual culture: resistance and revolutionary memories from WWII to the Cold War. Grenoble, 24-25 June 2019
This international symposium will seek to explore the role of visual culture as a transnational vehicle for collective dissent and consciousness, and its agency in shaping social movements through international networks of resistance. Check the CFP, deadline 20 January, 2019!
Multimedia updates: Scenarios, representations and transformations of work in the global world
The sound recording of the seminar “Scenarios, representations and transformations of work in the global world” (MACBA, 28 November 2019) are now available in our multimedia section.
Seminar Scenarios, representations and transformations of labour in the global world – November 28th in Barcelona
This seminar questions the variable geographies of the new composition of labour, opening up debates and questions that tackle the transformations in the composition of the force of labour, in the dynamics of capitalist valorisation, in the lines of conflict and in the processes of constitution of subjectivities.
Report on the seminar Contemporaneity and transition: perspectives from the South of Europe
The seminar organised last 17 October in Madrid served as a set of pertinent updates on visual forms and aesthetic proposals at the cutting edge of the political processes of regime changes in the different national scenarios of the southern European environment. Report by Álvaro Giménez Ibáñez (UAM).
