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.
Solidarity
Participation in the residency “Estéticas para después del fin” (Casa Giap, San Cristóbal de las Casas, July 14–25, 2025)
Paula Barreiro López, Tobias Locker and Sonia Kerfa, members of MoDe(s), will take part in the residency “Estéticas para después del fin”, to be held at Casa Giap (San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas) from July 14 to 25, 2025.
CFP – Archival Fever in the Exhibition: Critical Intertextualities, Politics and Display Practices from the Cold War to Global Contemporaneity
The call for papers for the symposium “Archival Fever in the Exhibition: Critical Intertextualities, Politics and Display Practices from the Cold War to Global Contemporaneity” (Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès) is open until July 6, 2025.
On Solidarity – The Dilemma of State-Sponsored Exhibitions and Contemporary Questions
On April 25, 2023, the panel discussion “On Solidarity – The Dilemma of State-Sponsored Exhibitions and Contemporary Questions” will take place. This panel will count with the participation of Amin Alsaden, Yazid Anani, Naeem Mohaiemen and Eszter Szakács, who will talk about their research and work on solidarity, and the moderation of Paula Barreiro López.
Contra vientos y mareas: Venezia & Veniceland
Taking as a starting point the exemplary case of Venice, this seminar aims to analyze the genesis and development of the touristification and commercialization of the city, as well as the role of artists, curatorial projects and its residents in the regeneration of the social and urban context and in claiming the right to the city.
Report – Partisan genealogies: counter-visualities since WWII
The workshop “Partisan genealogies: counter-visualities since WWII” allowed to debate a broad imagery connected to the partisan struggle, the notion of the partisan itself, assessing the heterogeneity of its status, the multiple ways and manners of claiming rights and the places of partisanship.
Report – Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images
The International Workshop “Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images” sought to deepen the complex role of oral, written and visual productions as elements of a culture of resistance that links the Western world, socialist countries and the Third World.
Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images
Since the Spanish Civil War the antifascist resistance configured models of struggle and collective organization. After the liberation the battle for freedom of the antifascist movement continued in the following decades as part of the struggles for decolonization, anti-imperialism, civil rights and anti-capitalism, especially in radical left movements, in which similar models of resistance … Continue reading Partisan Resistance(s): a tool box for analyzing transnational concepts and images
International Workshop – Partisan Resistance(s)
This international workshop aims to analyze how the oral, written and visual productions can be considered as elements of a culture of resistance that links the Western world, socialist countries and the Third World.