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Art, politics and counterculture in the transatlantic axis from the Cold War to contemporaneity

Decentralized Modernities is an international research platform that brings together researchers from different centres in Europe, South and North America. In its current configuration, it develops two main lines of work. The first focuses on a comparative analysis of centres of the Atlantic axis, emphasising the forms of mediation, negotiation and resistance to the ideological, aesthetic and cultural schism of the Cold War. The second studies the impact that (social, cultural and political) forms from this historical period still have today, both on the configuration of the realities of our present time and on current artistic practices.

The idea is to highlight the links between the artistic/cultural world and social and labour, as well as national liberation and counter-cultural movements that conveyed dissident responses to the Cold War’s geopolitical order, contributing to decentralize the normative, western and colonial modernity.

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3 April, 2025

Learning from the journey of the Zapatistas (Viaje por la vida) through Europe. Images, words and representations for an urgent anti-colonialism.

Based on the visual productions and protest actions carried out in Madrid during the Journey for Life, the seminar “Learning from the journey of the Zapatistas (Viaje por la vida) through Europe. Images, words and representations for an urgent anti-colonialism (Centro Social Tres Peces Tres – Madrid, 22 April 2025) addresses the production and use of images and counterfactual narratives incited by Zapatista travelers, as well as their limits and challenges.

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28 February, 2025

Aesthetics of resistance: other journeys for life

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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Project I+D HAR2017-82755-PMinistry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain

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