http://macba.cat MACBA's RSS en Tue, 21 May 2013 17:33:01 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://macba.cat/css/img/logo_macba.png http://macba.cat OMA Technologies webmaster@macba.es (Webmaster Macba) info@omatech.cat Arts Society & Culture http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Este RSS está pensado para ser usado con un programa que gestione podcasts. Más información en Podcastellano.com y en Podcast-es.org /seminar-art-language The Philippe Méaille Collection of Art & Language works comprehends the most variegated categories of art: writing notes, typescripts, documents, essays, photostats, periodicals, publications of all sorts, books, drawings and paintings, and last but… Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /activity-critical-cartography-of-art The seminar, whose programme includes two days of interventions, will be held at the Aula Magna of the UB (Universitat de Barcelona) and at MACBA's Auditorium. The speakers include Oliver Grau, Jonathan P. Harris, Angela Dimitraki and T.J. Demos, amo… Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /course-art-complex Specialists invited to participate in this course must have a didactic commitment to impart basic lessons that will bring us nearer to what will be called the art complex from now on. The exhibitions of the MACBA Collection are designed as an open te… Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-african-postcolonial-imaginaries INFORMATION ON THE FILMS AND THEIR DIRECTORS Spectres (2011) by Sven Augustijnen. Vvideo, colour, 16:9, French spokensoundtrack, BE, 2011, 104' Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo,… Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-occupy-overflow-cooperate The word 'crisis' has gained widespread popularity as a new semantic fetish. Our ability to grasp the situation in its present and historical complexity is obstructed by the short memories of the mass media serving private interests and of the politi… Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-conflict-and-documentary-practices Coinciding with the exhibition dedicated to the photographer Ahlam Shibli (Palestine 1970), MACBA is organising a seminar to debate the critical function of documentary practices. The articulation of specific visual policies in the context of conflic… Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-tropicamp Directed by Beatriz Preciado with the participation of Aimar Arriola, Alex Brahim, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, R. Marcos Mota, Alicia Navarro, Fernanda Nogueira, Miguel A. López, and Marc Siegel. The term 'Open PEI' refers to the specific activities… Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-international-experimental-poetry-conference In the framework of the university-funded project 'Catalan Experimental Poetry between 1959 and 2004' (FFI2010-18880 FILO sub-programme), the research group Poció Poesia i educació is organising the International Experimental Poetry Conference: Poeti… Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-political-practice-art-and-the-clinic This year, a constellation of anniversaries allows us to see the outline of a complex map of ideas and practices that have come into alignment. The commemoration of one hundred years since the birth of the revolutionary Catalan psychiatrist Francesc… Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-towards-a-political-economy-of-free-culture This conference brings together different perspectives in relation to the sustainability and development of free networks, focusing on issues such as the emergence of the Internet, open protocols, and free telecommunications infrastructures. It also… Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /course-six-conflicts Depending on the points of departure or arrival, these six sessions will take us on a reflective journey that will help us establish brief tales on contemporary creation, necessarily open and always in relation to the political, economic and ideologi… Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-alenka-zupancic-joan-copjec The main aim of this conference is to create a space for pluralist, diverse dialogue based on a female perspective that is linked to the experience – and especially the representation of the experience – generated in and through the body in relation… Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-whatever-happened-theory-ii During the 1980s, ideas surrounding art within an Anglo-American context were profoundly transformed by the influence of French, and to a lesser extent, German philosophy and critical theory. The reception of these ideas was accompanied by a deep ren… Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-whatever-happened-theory During the 1980s, ideas surrounding art within an Anglo-American context were profoundly transformed by the influence of French, and to a lesser extent, German philosophy and critical theory. The reception of these ideas was accompanied by a deep ren… Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /course-overview-live-art The term "live art" is often used to refer to a series of artistic practices that have processed a huge range of influences, from performance art to theatre, dance, visual arts, activism, digital technologies and different kinds of multimedia practic… Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:30:00 GMT /seminar-brief-narratives-contemporary-art Five Questions for the Alleged End of Art The series Brief Narratives of Contemporary Art is intended to offer an insight into recent artistic practices, based on the understanding that they are in a constant process of feedback with the socioecon… Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-credit-self-esteem-and-sharing According to the founding fathers of liberal theory – from David Hume and Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill –, human beings are wanting but resourceful: though their desires are both insatiable and inconstant, they gradually learn to optimize their sati… Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:00:00 GMT /kafca-knowledge-against-financial-capitalism Open PEI seminar organised by Francesco Berardi The accumulated effect of thirty years of application of neoliberal ideology has caused a collapse of economic life and is destroying the social fabric of European countries. Over the last three de… Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT /body--memory-and-representation Seminar This two-day conference includes presentations by Judith Butler, a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley, and Adriana Cavarero, professor of Political Philosophy at the U… Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT /course-jacques-derrida Open PEI Summer Course by Manuel Asensi Although the words that give this course its title are Gayatri Spivak's, they could easily have been Derrida's. The term Deconstruction has been assimilated into film language, politics and even gastronom… Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT /igor-zabel-award-for-culture-and-theory-iza-2010-writing-art-history-dialogues-in-the-present-continuous Seminar The biannual Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory was created in 2008 by Mateja Kos Zabel, Bojan Zabel and the ERSTE Foundation to honour the memory of Slovenian curator, critic and writer Igor Zabel (1958 - 2005). It aims to contribute… Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT /art-accessible-1 Workshop on accessibility in museums This seminar is organised by Articket (www.articketbcn.org). Articket brings together the seven best museums of Barcelona (Museu Picasso, La Pedrera, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, MACBA, CCCB, MNAC and Fundació… Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /of-animals-and-monsters Open PEI seminar organised by Xavier Antich and Manuel Asensi Gilles Deleuze already suggested that the question of the animal could offer a strategic base from which to develop a theory of the anomalous. He believed that humanity is beholden to t… Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /sick-80s-the-aids-crisis-art-and-counter-biopolitical-guerrilla Open PEI seminar organised by Beatriz Preciado The eighties are often seen as the end of the revolutionary period that had rocked the Western world since May 1968: the decline of the social emancipation movements had given way to a neoliberal demo… Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /the-history-of-exhibitions-beyond-the-ideology-of-the-white-cube-part-two Course in art and contemporary culture With this course, the MACBA continues the rereading of contemporary art history that it began in Autumn 2009, through an analysis of exhibition dispositifs focusing on alternatives to the «white cube» theoriz… Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /from-words-to-images-visual-poetry-as-an-alternative-poetic-discourse Monographic course by Enric Bou This course offers tools for understanding the relationships between a literature based on traditional text and one in which images hold a privileged place from a historical view of visual poetry’s role in the avant… Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT /course-the-philosophic-gesture-of-gilles-deleuze Open PEI Summer Course In spite of its complexity, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze has shown its ability to penetrate all kinds of discourses – including the discourse of art, of course – and a potential for metaphoric contagion that sets him apa… Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /on-artistic-research Thinking and teaching art: between practice and theoretical speculation Seminar Over the last decade, use of the concept of "artistic research" has gained cohesion for referring not only to the nature of the artistic process but also to a new dis… Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT /between-production-and-facts-the-reinvention-of-artistic-activism Seminar PEI Open Program Moderated by Marcelo Expósito The debate around the articulations between art, politics, activism and communication has gained prominence and legitimacy in recent years. From the mid 1990's, the activities that traditio… Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /guattari-wont-stop-proliferating Seminar PEI Open Program Right from the start of the jointly produced output of Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, and up until quite recently, there has been a marked tendency to erase the former from the scene that was created inseparably by bot… Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /fernand-deligny-permit-draw-see-1 Seminar MACBA seeks to make the work of Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) better known to the general Spanish public by publishing a selection of his texts, entitled Fernand Deligny. Permit, Draw, See and organising a seminar and film season devoted to… Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /art-accessible Workshop on accessibility in museums This seminar is organised by Articket (www.articketbcn.org) and Caixa Catalunya's Social Projects. Articket brings together the seven best museums of Barcelona (Museu Picasso, La Pedrera, Fundació Antoni T… Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-history-of-exhibitions-beyond-the-ideology-of-the-white-cube-part-one Course in art and contemporary culture Though the history of art has been largely built on an analysis of individual works, another way of writing that history could involve an analysis of exhibitions. Discourse on contemporary art is mainly furth… Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /visual-histories-feminist-queer-and-trans-narratives-versus-the-historiography-of-art Seminar PEI Open Program With the participation of Marina Grzinic, Catherine Lord, Richard Meyer, Juan Antonio Suárez, Frank Wagner and Tim Stüttgen among others. Presenter: Beatriz Preciado. In recent years the relationship between art, femini… Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /john-cage Monographic course curated by Carmen Pardo This course, organised in connection with the exhibition The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art, which will open at the MACBA in Autumn 2009, will trace a course through the career of John… Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /absorption-and-resistance-identity-rethorics-and-marks-of-visibility Seminar. Outcome of the Art After Feminism Throughout the two-year duration of each biennial Independent Studies Program (PEI), students participate in a monographic workshop that articulates the continuity of the whole syllabus in a practical man… Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-new-productivisms Seminar The revolutionary Soviet art produced between the 1910s and the 1930s still has a significant input into many aspects of our cultural model. However, the predominant means of evoking it have historically fluctuated between fetishising its… Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT /transdykequeer-micropolitics-deviant-activism-before-and-after-aids Seminar. Outcome of the Art After Feminism Throughout the two-year duration of each biennial Independent Studies Program (PEI), students participate in a monographic workshop that articulates the continuity of the whole syllabus in a practical man… Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /poetics-and-politics-of-deconstruction-with-regard-to-jacques-derrida Seminar This seminar seeks to address the poetic-political dimension of deconstruction. Firstly, by analysing the creative potential of deconstructive strategies on the basis of viewing and discussing Safaa Fathy's film with Derrida (D'ailleurs,… Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /peut-etre-un-tour-inopportune-thinking-in-michel-foucault Monographic course led by Miguel Morey The aim of the course is to undertake a general presentation of the ideas of Michel Foucault, by considering how the use of an inopportune point of view of sorts orientates and drives his theoretical decision… Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /obama-the-world-and-the-construction-of-another-possible-world … Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT /where-the-political-was-or-went-astray Seminar. Outcome of the Art After Feminism Throughout the two-year duration of each biennial Independent Studies Program (PEI), students participate in a monographic workshop that articulates the continuity of the whole syllabus in a practical man… Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-image-of-spain-photography-and-tourism-1951-77 Monographic course led by Carmelo Vega After the Second World War Spain began to shape up as a privileged tourist destination. In the mid-1940s the creation of the State Tourist Office set out to generate an authentic tourist industry via minister… Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-subaltern-and-representation Symposium Open PEI with the participation of John Beverley and Benita Parry Beginning in the 1980s, the Subaltern Studies Group presented a series a questions that Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakravarty, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Walter Mignolo and m… Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /after-neoliberalism-cities-and-systemic-chaos Symposium led and moderated by Neil Smith To use Habermas' felicitous phrase about modernism, we might begin to consider that neoliberalism today is "dead but dominant," and this has implications for how we understand urban change and process. Th… Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /keywords-a-vocabulary-for-contemporary-artistic-culture Course in contemporary art and culture Each fall, the Museum offers a course in contemporary art and culture that sets out to give participants the conceptual tools necessary to debate the contemporary artistic practices encompassed in the Museum'… Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /musee-dart-ancien-departement-dart-moderne-rethinking-cultural-organizations-in-the-new-cultural-economy Seminar Directed by George Yúdice with the participation of Maurizio Lazzarato, Ana Carla Fonseca Reis, Gerardo Mosquera and Stephen Wright. Beginning with an analysis of the factors that make up the new "cultural economy," which is defined by… Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /art-after-feminism-towards-a-post-feminist-historiography-of-contemporary-art Monographic course coordinated by Beatriz Preciado Contemporary feminist and queer theories have proposed a performative definition of identity which underlines the socially and politically constructed character of the sexes, genders and sexuality… Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-condition-of-the-document-and-the-modern-photographic-utopia Seminar This seminar offers a discussion of some of the key concepts which form the basis of the exhibition The Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia (MACBA, September 2008-January 2009) and continues… Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /photographic-culture-and-the-printed-page-in-20th-century-spain Monographic course The printed page has been the discursive public space par excellence of photography in modernity, and has created a new space for the image alongside models of the archive, on the one hand, and exhibition, on the other, qua domi… Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /seminar-with-rosalyn-deutsche Within the framework of the Political Imagination class, part of the MACBA's PEI program, professor Rosalyn Deutsche (Modern and Contemporary Art, Feminist, and Urban Theory at Barnard College), author of the book Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics,… Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT /independent-studies-programme-pei-2008-2009 With the participation of Xavier Antich, Manuel Asensi, Marcelo Expósito, Jordana Mendelson, Beatriz Preciado, Suely Rolnik, Neil Smith, George Yúdice, José Luis Falcó, Brian Holmes, David Harvey, Linda Williams, Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Joan Roca, Mi… Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT /keywords A vocabulary for Contemporary Artistic Culture Course/Conference series Each Autumn the Museum offers a course/conference series that will give participants the conceptual tools necessary to debate the contemporary artistic practices encompassed… Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT /thinking-about-global-conceptualism Seminar The relationships between art and politics have been an endless source of material for the study of artistic behavior since 1960. The role of Totalitarian political regimes and the transition to Democracy undoubtedly marked the panorama of… Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT /judith-butler-unmaking-gender-identity-sexuality-and-secularism Conference, seminar, reading workshop and course By radicalizing theoretical instruments introduced by Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Beauvoir and Wittig, Judith Butler was able to, at the end of the 1980s, carry out one of the most incisive philosoph… Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT /rene-scherer-how-do-we-want-to-be-educated- Lecture and seminar Thirty-seven years after René Schérer's L'Émile Perverti The structure of this conference and seminar is based on the reactions that René Schérer's book L'Émile Perverti (1970 and 2006, translated into Spanish in 1984 under… Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT /nouvelle-vague-porn Conference In the late 1990s, a number of French porn actors and actresses began to make their own films and to think critically about their pornographic practice, giving rise to an unprecedented way of portraying sexuality which, to paraphrase… Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /art-theater-and-its-double Course-conference program Art, Theater and its Double is a course/conference program organized in conjunction with the exhibit A Theater without Theater (MACBA, May-September 2007) with the objective of exploring notions of theatricality used in 2… Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /the-photographic-building-of-barcelona Course Directed by Jorge Ribalta and Joan Roca The purpose of the course is to consider the way in which Barcelona has been built by photography over the century. In an era when the city's image is a crucial element in economic, social and domestic… Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /helene-cixous-secret-cities Seminar Hélène Cixous is one of the best-known contemporary French writers and thinkers and has a huge influence within the world of postmodernism and gender studies. Born in Oran (Algiers) to a Sephardic Jewish family, she experienced the exclusi… Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /machines Seminar A small informative, educational and exchange seminar with participants in political art groups, collaborative and cooperative art practices, creative political collectives from places on two continents. If there is something to be hi… Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /the-metropolis-in-the-photographic-era Seminar Photography is a product of the industrial era and is emblematic of modern visual culture. According to modernity, photography and vision are synonymous. Thanks to its explosion onto the printed page and its democratization, both of which… Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /city-management Master's program organized by the Foundation of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya The objective of this Master is to give students complementary study focused on action in hopes of orienting them with the changes in organization of urban pr… Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT /10-000-francs-reward-the-contemporary-art-museum-dead-or-alive Conference 10,000 francos de recompensa (A 10,000 franc reward) is the title of a 1974 interview given to Irmeline Lebeer by Marcel Broodthaers in which the Belgian artist criticised the fact that art was imprisoned by its own ghosts, used to embe… Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT /capitalism-work-forces-politics-antisystematic-movements Seminar This seminar forms part of the Political Imagination sub-section of the Museum’s 2006-2007 edition of the Program of Independent Studies (PEI). Its objective is to reflect on politics through studying the anti-systematic dynamics that have… Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT /-display-of-discourse Conference This conference aims at establishing a framework for a discussion of the role and meaning of the exhibition as a specific mechanism of the public sphere and, beyond that, on the ideology and the consequences of the regimes of visibility i… Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT /hot-paint-for-cold-war-1946-1956 Lecture series, directed by Serge Guilbaut This series of lectures which is organized in preparation for the show Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956 will bring in Barcelona a group of internationally known schola… Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT /design-and-new-expositive-formats-objects-products-and-heritage From the supermarket to the Museum. A critical approach Postgraduate program organized by the Escola Superior de Disseny Elisava and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) The MACBA's activities, just like knowledge today, are vari… Mon, 29 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT /when-species-meet-feminism-after-cyborgs Conference and seminar with Donna Haraway Listen the lecture here. The 1990's saw a blooming of critical debate concerning the constructs of gender, sexuality and race. Donna Haraway, one of the most original and controversial figures in the… Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT /-on-poetry-in-incurable-times With John Beverley, Antonella Corsani, Marcelo Expósito, Brian Holmes, kpD, Maurizio Lazzarato, Suely Rolnik The first part of this conference (November 25 and 26, 2005) offered elements for debate from the point of view of aesthetic theory and th… Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT /the-world-as-an-instrument Monographic course and concert series lead by Francisco López For more than fifty years, the "real world" (as opposed to the instrumental universe) has been a prime source for audio creation. Initially, this was a consequence of the technological… Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT /the-condition-of-the-museum-and-the-destiny-of-institutional-criticism Conference and seminar by Benjamin Buchloh In Benjamin Buchloh's influential essay on Conceptual Art "From the Aesthetics of Administration to the Critique of Institutions," he maintains that it became a form of unconsciousness for all artistic pr… Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT /decentered-other-accounts-of-conceptualism-argentina-and-latin-america Class given by Ana Longoni with the participation of Simón Marchán-Fiz and Marcelo Expósito This class will look at some of the Avant-Garde practices and ideas that took place in Argentina and other Latin American countries in the concussed 60s an… Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT /feminism-and-deconstruction Conference and seminar by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta, 1942) is known primarily as one of the principle voices of post-colonial theory. Both her conference and the seminar to follow it will focus on the axis of… Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT /another-relationality-rethinking-art-as-experience With Alexander Alberro, Leo Bersani, Claire Bishop, Bernard Blistène, Jesús Carrillo, Helmut Draxler, Kaja Silverman, Beatrice Von Bismark and WHW Relationality is a concept that permits us to controversially intervene in the debate about artistic… Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT /ways-of-being-cinema-aesthetics-subjectivity Leo Bersani seminar Interview to Leo Bersani. You can download the pdf version and read it complet. Question: In Caravaggio's Secrets you analyse the types of relationality implicit in Caravaggio's work. The process of perception appears as a c… Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT /museum-history-and-collecting Heritage, Authorship, Nation, Modernity and Other Founding Myths of the Museum Course on Contemporary Art and Culture This class hopes to contribute to the reflection on the role of the Museum as an institution with the dual responsibility of con… Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /independent-studies-programme-pei-2006-2007 With the participation of Xavier Antich, Manuel Asensi, Enric Berenguer, Miren Etxezarreta, Marcelo Expósito, Beatriz Preciado, Carlos Prieto and Joan Roca, among others. Check the Independent Studies Program (PEI) 2010-2011 MACBA's Program fo… Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /video-art-and-its-applications-to-the-performing-arts Postgraduate Course Eugeni Bonet, Course Content Co-ordinator Carles Brià, Technical Co-ordinator The FCB-URL (Facultat de Ciències de la Comunicació de la Universitat Ramon Llull) and the MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) are joinin… Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT /networks-modes-of-action-and-production-in-the-global-society Monographic course of lectures directed by Jesús Carrillo 12th, 13th, 19th and 20th of April, 2005. 7pm – 9pm. The course of lectures attempts an analysis of contemporary culture using as a starting point the reality of an expanding new paradig… Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT /the-new-relationship-between-art-and-the-economy The mechanisms of mercantilism of the ‘80s: the role of ARCO Course directed by Alberto López Cuenca 7 to 10 February 2005, from 7 pm to 9 pm Optional practical session: Saturday 12 February at ARCO (Madrid) In Spain in the early ‘80s new in… Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT /other-geopolitical-aesthetics Aspects of contemporary art in the world system's peripheries Course on Contemporary Art and Culture The new installment of this course proposes an investigation of how modern art has been historically produced in non-orthodox ways, far from the… Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-mallarmean-effect The objective of this seminar is to provide an in depth consideration of the thesis of "Art and Utopia: Limited Action," an exhibition that analyzes the effects of Stephane Mallarme's (1842-1898) poetic on modern art, beginning in the first decade of… Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /antonin-artaud-thought-and-body This course takes as its point of departure the analysis of the correspondence between Antonin Artaud and Jacques Rivière, written when Artaud was a young unknown poet and while Rivière was the director of the prestigious literary journal Nouvelle Re… Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /historical-capitalism-general-intellect-constituent-power-communism Historical capitalism, general intellect, constituent power, communism This seminar by Antonio Negri will focus on the elaboration of a concept of the political that is suited for thinking the process of social constitution within the temporal ho… Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-poetics-of-material Approximations to the work of Antoni Tàpies Directed by Manuel J. Borja Villel. This course offers a fresh critical reading of the work of Antoni Tàpies taking as its starting point a central element in his work, the material, its genesis and th… Mon, 08 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /constructing-the-public This seminar will provide a critical analysis of the models for the tasks of education and mediation in museums, in particular the obligation to adopt marketing strategies to which the cultural institutions are subject today. In the debates the speak… Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /the-shadow-line Part of the project Desacuerdos. On art, politics and the public sphere in Spain (a MACBA-Arteleku-UNIA-CASA collaboration). The course is planned to form a relatively chronological journey through some of the outstanding moments in the constitutio… Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /postporn-marathon Pornography, postpornography: the aesthetics and politics of sexual representation Directed by BEATRIZ PRECIADO The Postporn Marathon is an intensive project which includes lectures, discussions, performances, showings and documents to ana… Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT /living-with-pop Avantgarde art and mass culture in Europe in the 1960s Directed by Jesús Carrillo The aim of the course is to consider a redefinition of the borders between avantgarde art and mass culture in Europe in the sixties from different points of view. Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT /- -… Fri, 07 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT /broken-mirrors Photography as pseudodocumentary discourse Held by Joan Fontcuberta Photography was born both as a form of document and a form of entertainment. Throughout its history those two categories, which have often been opposed, have led to different so… Wed, 08 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT /a-global-art- This year, the course on contemporary art and culture analyses the conditions created by globalisation and, in particular, its impact on art and culture. The debate on cultural globalisation has usually been posed in terms of identity policies, as… Wed, 09 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT /aesthetics-and-politics-a-bond-to-be-reconsidered A seminar held by Jacques Rancière, Philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the University París VII. Mon, 13 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT /a-reading-of-histoires-du-cinema-de-jean-luc-godard -… Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT /scream-with-your-hands-scream-with-your-eyes This course seeks to offer an up-to-date appreciation of the panorama of European painting in the years after the Second World War, a period generally subsumed under the generic concept of Informalism. In attempting to avoid taking that category for… Tue, 05 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT /postmodern-conditions According to leading theoreticians of the postmodern such as David Harvey or Fredric Jameson, the sixties was the decade in which the historical conditions of posmodernity or late capitalism crystallized: post-Fordism, the Cold War and the culminatio… Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 GMT /phantom-history-image-politics-history The seminar will debate and expand upon some of the themes that underline the Portabella exhibition: history after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the current condition of the relation between image and history, contemporary efforts to narrate memory an… Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT /thinking-art The second biennial Future Visions event proposes an international seminar of reflection on the diverse models and different concepts and projects that underlie the seemingly commonplace formula of the contemporary art biennial or thematic event, its… Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT /modernities-1 This year, the main focus of the course is a reappraisal of the concept of modernity in the arts of the 20th century. Where does the concept of modernity as a central category of art since the 19th century come from and how is it generated? What impl… Sun, 01 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT /financial-capital-property-and-culture The purpose of this seminar is to construct an intellectual framework of reflection on the process of transformation of urban public spaces that is taking place in Western cities. In what way is the current transformation of the capitalist economies… Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT /towards-a-high-popular-culture-2 This seminar, with a markedly multidisciplinary character, continues the debate initiated back in November on the so-called "high culture" and "popular culture", in which Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Greil Marcus, Andreas Huyssen and Alexander García Dü… Thu, 03 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT /towards-a-high-popular-culture-1 This seminar seeks to open up a debate between so-called "high culture" and "popular culture"; in other words, to consider the existence or not of these boundaries. The profound transformation of the production and the consumption of culture in conte… Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-society-the-last-fifty-years-1949-1999 The course on contemporary art and culture is envisaged as a permanent activity of the Museum, taking place each autumn. The course is planned as an introduction to contemporary art within the historico-temporal framework of the collection. During th… Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00:00 GMT /images-painting-as-representation The seminar seeks to examine the concept of representation and image, and establish the relations between them, exploring the currently evanescent limits of painting as a discipline. The concept of image should be understood here in its broadest s… Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT /course-in-contemporary-painting The course analyses painting in the context of the various disciplines of contemporary art. In the final years of the century, painting has come to be configured more as a place than a praxis. Painting no longer only makes reference to what it contai… Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT /globalization-and-cultural-diferentiation Globalization and cultural differentiation is the first of a series of twice-yearly seminars organized by the CCCB and the MACBA. This seminar sets out to discuss various issues raised by the phenomenon of globalization, and more concretely to look a… Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT