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The Commons of Resistance: Realities of Struggle and Critical Visuality

MoDe(s) — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:28:17 +0000

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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Participation in the residency “Estéticas para después del fin” (Casa Giap, San Cristóbal de las Casas, July 14–25, 2025)

MoDe(s) — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:46:59 +0000

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.

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Aesthetics of resistance: other journeys for life

MoDe(s) — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:01:15 +0000

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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Powers, Challenges and Potentialities of Images: Theoretical and Practical Approaches in Art History and Visual Culture

MoDe(s) — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:21:31 +0000

The doctoral seminar "Powers, challenges and potentialities of images: theoretical and practical approaches in art history and visual culture" will take place on 17 and 18 January 2024 at the Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès. Understanding the image as a tool, this seminar aims to reflect on its powers, challenges and potentialities from the perspective of the history of art and visual culture.

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Beyond the Exhibition: a Transnational and Polyphonic Approach to their Histories from the Cold War to our Time

MoDe(s) — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:59:21 +0000

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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Arts and Rebel Writing. Dissident Images and Linguistic Resistance

MoDe(s) — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:32:15 +0000

This seminar proposes to analyze the current reconfigurations of resistance in the arts and writings, and thus to study in what way the emergence of new epistemologies have been able to profoundly modify them by bringing certain practices into the field of knowledge.

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Release of the book – Terrorism and the Arts edited by Jonathan Harris

MoDe(s) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:24:30 +0000

"Terrorism and the Arts. Practices and Critiques in Contemporary Cultural Production", edited by Jonathan Harris, assesses the key definitions, forms, contexts and impacts of terrorist activity on the arts in the modern era, using historical and contemporary perspectives.

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Le Musée de la Solidarité Salvador Allende, de l’Unité Populaire au retour d’exil (1971-1991)

MoDe(s) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:26:31 +0000

On October 8, 2020 Élodie Lebeau (Université de Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès / Instituto de Historia de La Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) will participate in the seminar "Cultures Visuelles Militantes" of the University Grenoble Alpes with the lecture "Le Musée de la Solidarité Salvador Allende, de l'Unité Populaire au retour d'exil (1971-1991)".

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Report – Partisan genealogies: counter-visualities since WWII

MoDe(s) — Mon, 18 May 2020 09:44:00 +0000

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.

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