Seminars archivos - Modernidade(s) Descentralizadas Art, politics and counterculture on the transatlantic axis during the Cold War Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:26:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 The Commons of Resistance: Realities of Struggle and Critical Visuality https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/the-commons-of-resistance-realities-of-struggle-and-critical-visuality/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:28:17 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=8277 The symposium "The Commons of Resistance: Realities of Struggle and Critical Visuality" (Casa de Francia, 30 July 2025) seeks to undertake a transnational inquiry into the formation and implementation of collective community organizations, with a particular focus on interrogating their spatial, cultural, and visual productions.

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]]> Aesthetics of resistance: other journeys for life https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/aesthetics-of-resistance-other-journeys-for-life/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:01:15 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=8142 Starting with the Zapatistas' journey for life in Europe in 2021,, the seminar "Aesthetics of resistance: other journeys for life" (Les Abattoirs, 20 march 2025) will seek to analyse the structuring role of images in the constitution of models of resistance to extractivist and neoliberal logics, in order to create spaces for solidarity and sharing.

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]]> Equipo Comunicación, in Context: Anti-Francoism, Publishing, and Cultural Criticism https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/equipo-comunicacion-in-context-anti-francoism-publishing-and-cultural-critique/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:37:56 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=8011 The seminar "Equipo Comunicación, in Context: Anti-Francoism, Publishing, and Cultural Critique" (Madrid, 6-8 November 2024) aims to recover and contextualize the work of Equipo Comunicación, revisiting the collective as a crucial agent in shaping an anti-Francoist and proto-democratic cultural sphere.

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]]> Creative and collaborative practices in the making of the commons: politics, discourse and performativity https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/creative-practices-in-the-making-of-the-common-politics-discourse-and-performativity/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:09:27 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7394 The seminar "Creative and collaborative practices in the making of the commons: politics, discourse and performativity" (Les Abattoirs, 7 April 2023) proposes a transnational study of the configuration and implementation of collective community organizations and aims to interrogate their spaces and their cultural and visual productions (visual and performing arts, graphic production, posters, photography, cinema and videos) as well as their contribution to the configuration of new practices and collective consciousness (gender, class, race) throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

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]]> Beyond the Exhibition: a Transnational and Polyphonic Approach to their Histories from the Cold War to our Time https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/beyond-the-exhibition-a-transnational-and-polyphonic-approach-to-their-histories-from-the-cold-war-to-contemporaneity/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:59:21 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=7175 The seminar "Beyond the Exhibition: a Transnational and Polyphonic Approach to their Histories from the Cold War to our Time" (9 September 2022, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) seeks to discuss the potentialities and limitations of exhibitions, understanding them both as a tool to destabilize the Eurocentric narrative and the hegemonic exhibition format, and as a space traversed by geopolitical issues and tensions

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]]> Collectivization and artistic activism in the South https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/collectivization-and-artistic-activism-in-the-south/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:07:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6919 The seminar"Collectivizations and artistic activism in the South" (April 26, 2022, Grenoble and via zoom) will examine the responses that, through the creative gesture, aim to "repair what has been broken". Among the speakers will be Ana Longoni, Julia Ramírez Blanco, Andrew Martin and Raquel Schefer. The seminar will conclude with the presentation and projection of the film-essay "La revolución (es) probable" [The revolution (is) possible] (2021).

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]]> Visual spaces as constellation: images and imaginaries of violence in Latin America https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/visual-spaces-as-constellation-images-and-imaginaries-of-violence-in-latin-america/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:35:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6873 The seminar "Visual spaces as constellation: images and imaginaries of violence in Latin America" (26 November) proposes to trace and discuss a critical cartography of the artistic practices and visual artifacts that have dealt with and visualized political violence in Latin America since the second half of the 20th century.

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]]> Crossed stories: collecting(s) and cultural institutionalism at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Cuba https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/crossed-stories-collectings-and-cultural-institutionalism-at-the-museo-de-bellas-artes-de-cuba/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:55:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6865 The seminar "Crossed stories: collectionism(s) and cultural institutionality at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Cuba" (November 5, 2021) aims to bring together a set of reflections on the past and recent history of the institution and its collections as well as to provide a historical-critical overview of the Cuban visual arts and the Iberian Peninsula.

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]]> Partisan Cultures: Weapons of Mass Creation https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/actividad/partisan-cultures-weapons-of-mass-creation/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:16:00 +0000 https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/?post_type=actividad&p=6813 Partisan Cultures: Weapons of Mass Creation1 – 2 October 2021Volkstheater Wien This seminar revisits various inspiring experiences—political, artistic, and pedagogical—of partisan struggles of the long twentieth century. Expanding the traditional scope of research on partisan movements to look beyond the antifascist and national liberation struggles of the Second War World, we propose an understanding of … Continue reading Partisan Cultures: Weapons of Mass Creation

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