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The culture of art… Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-longoni-estrategies Lecture held by Ana Longoni as part of Open PEI The creative strategies of the human rights movement during the last dictatorships in Argentina (1976–83) and in Chile (1973–90) may be recognised and contrasted by two great matrixes of visual repre… Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-all-in-front-of-a-puppet-show Eulàlia Grau's work makes for uncomfortable reading for the society around it, being a form of political intervention on the context and ideological framework that supports it: one that exposes both the tricks and contradictions. Coinciding with the… Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-opencurating This event is part of Latitudes' ongoing #OpenCurating research, which explores the implications of Web 2.0 and the expectations of participation and transparency in regard to contemporary art production and programming. The core of #OpenCurating is… Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /ask-a-curator-eulalia-grau The second session of this new programme in which MACBA sets up informal conversations between MACBA or independent curators and the general public. On this occasion, the conversation focuses on Eulàlia Grau. I Have Never Painted Golden Angels, wi… Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /experience-macba-ask-a-curator We are introducing a new programme of informal discussions between the MACBA curators or independent curators, and the public. On this occasion the discussion is with Soledad Gutiérrez, curator of the exhibition Seep. Every Saturday MACBA will… Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-aura-and-temporality This lecture will begin by presenting a critique of the aesthetics of the "anarchive", which seems to be based on a misunderstanding of the concept of the archival. There is nothing "anarchic" about the digital world, in which every action is based o… Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /rick-prelinger-lost-landscapes Archives and libraries are currently overcome with anxiety about protocols, rules and regulations, but it might be better to focus on linking to what people (not institutions) need to celebrate and remember, and understand archival and library work a… Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:00:00 GMT /round-table-eivissa-1971 In 1971, during the final years of Franco's dictatorship, the International Council of the Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) held its 7th Congress in Eivissa. On the island that year, what had previously been an eminently professional event beca… Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:00 GMT /education-debates-david-istance MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /round-table-officebaroque During the summer of 1977, Gordon Matta-Clark completed his last bulding cuts in the city of Antwerp, an intervention in an abandoned office block with the title Office Baroque. This kind of interventions was meant to disappear as the building in que… Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /screening-electroclass-maria-ruido ElectroClass is a film about the imaginary of labour made by a regional television broadcasting channel in Spain starting from the 80s. Taking the archives of ETB (Basque Country broadcasting channel) as source material and the city of Bilbao as a sp… Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /round-table-what-about-production This roundtable opens the professional symposium What About Production? organised by Screen from Barcelona in parallel with the LOOP Fair. The symposium gathers in Barcelona key professionals with diverse and complementary experiences in the audiovis… Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-silvia-federici Silvia Federici is a writer, teacher and feminist activist. She has written numerous books and articles on feminist theory and philosophy, women’s history, education and culture, and more recently on international struggles against capitalist globali… Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-rita-mcbride-bartomeu-mari Oferta pública /Public Tender is certainly a major monographic exhibition by Rita McBride, but it is also a complex project involving several interrelated features and multiple agents throughout the process: from the selection of pieces and the produ… Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /education-debates-eric-debarbieux MACBA collaborates with the organization of the Debates on Education, an initiative of the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, geared to the promotion of social debate on the future of education. Further information h… Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /global-audiences-in-culture A conference organised by articketBCN group that will explore issues relating to audiences for culture. The conference will focus on the role of the tourist appeal of our cities, and the needs and requirements of local audiences in regards to the cul… Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /acerca-de-jacinto-esteva- Manuel Delgado – whose essay 'El arte de danzar sobre el abismo' ('The art of dancing on the abyss') remains a key resource for understanding the films of Jacinto Esteva – is the ideal companion with whom to approach the work of this singular Catalan… Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMT /lecture-aleksandr-sokurov Barcelona-based filmmaker and producer Albert Serra is one of the most unique and exciting figures to emerge on the recent European scene. His films include Honor de cavalleria (Honour of the Knights), 2006; El cant dels ocells (Birdsong), 2008; and… Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /round-table-historicization-seventies Round table The idea of this panel is to review and question some of the dominant elements that keep recurring in the historicization of the Spanish transition to democracy, in particular the magazine Nueva Lente, the normalisation of a particular… Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-art-system-spain The art system in Spain tentatively began to take shape in the eighties, during the early days of the transition to democracy. A decade later it had put down roots, with the opening and promotion of new museums and contemporary art centres throughout… Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:30:00 GMT /conversation-muntadas-benichou-bartomeu 'I conceived this work as a whole, whole as a project and in its presentation to the public. This project is the result of a process of ten years of work, a reflection on the system of art, a system that has been created by a (capitalist) society in… Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:30:00 GMT /lecture-vasco-araujo Vasco Araújo (Lisbon, 1975) is one of the most acclaimed artists of the Portuguese contemporary art scene. His work has consistently explored the nature of established codes of communication – including those that are conveyed through gestures and mo… Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /why-and-how-do-i-do-what-i-do Soledad Gutierrez, temporary exhibitions curator at the MACBA, talks to Sadr Haghighian about her project De paso, conceived and produced specifically for Capella MACBA. This conversation is part of the series Why and How Do I Do what I Do? Artists… Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /conferencia-a-cargo-de-abigail-solomon-godeau Lecture Abigail Solomon-Godeau is a professor in the History of Art and Architecture department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She will talk about the artistic context of the 1970s in the United States, and its relationship to the… Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT /the-alternative-collectivisms Round table A round table to coincide with the opening of the Museum of Parallel Narratives exhibition, with the participation of artists and collectives whose work is included in the exhibition, and moderated by its curator, Zdenka Badovinac. Mir… Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /beneath-the-open-sky-activations-of-the-sensitive-inventions-of-sense-a-non-produced-curatorial-proposal-for-the-30th-sao-paulo-biennial PEI Obert Lecture by Suely Rolnik Beneath the Open Sky, the place/concept that Suely Rolnik submitted as a curatorial concept for the 30th São Paulo Biennial, leads us into a semantic field with numerous resonances. In this project, these resonanc… Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT /why-and-how-do-i-do-what-i-do-artists-speak-2 Conversation between Pep Duran, Jordi Puntí and Toni Cumella The writer Jordi Puntí (Manlleu, 1967), whose books include the short story collections Pell d'armadillo (1998) and Animals tristos (2002) and the novel Maletes perdudes (2010), will tal… Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /anjalika-sagar-and-kodwo-eshun-the-otolith-group-in-conversation-with-chus-martinez Conversation The two founding members of The Otolith Group will discuss the works in the Thoughtform exhibition and the processes behind their work. They will also talk about their future projects, including the new trilogy Hydra Decapita, a co-pr… Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT /the-traffic-in-photographs Open PEI Lecture by Allan Sekula Allan Sekula is a North American artist, writer and critic. His books include Photography Against the Grain (1984), Fish Story (1995), Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes (1997), Dismal Science (1999) and The Traffic… Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT /are-you-ready-to- Talks and screenings Program of talks and screenings based on case studies from the exhibiton. This project has several extensions: a website, a Twitter account, a publication, a Vimeo video channel, the e ducational project Zero TV. Follow t… Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT /the-mediterranean-to-come-shore-to-shore-dialogues-on-art-economy-and-society Lectures and conversations In collaboration with the Birbeck Institute for the Humanities (London), the MACBA embarks on a series of lectures and conversations with artists, researchers, writers and cultural managers from countries that make un th… Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT /why-and-how-do-i-do-what-i-do-artists-speak-1 Conversation between Latifa Echakhch and Soledad Gutiérrez The project Why and How Do I Do what I Do? Artists Speak aims to bring transparency to the process of creating an exhibition and to make it more understandable to the general public. To th… Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /documentation-and-conservation-of-media-arts-the-daniel-langlois-foundations-centre-for-research-and-documentation-crd Lecture by Alain Depocas Since 1999, the Daniel Langlois Foundation's CR+D developed a large collection of documents about art practices using technologies. This important collection has been used by many researchers and the CR+D published many of… Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /televised-art-jef-cornelis-talks-to-marta-garcia-about-his-extensive-work-for-television During his more than 25 years working at Flemish television network VRT, Jef Cornelis (1941) produced and directed films on architecture, art, theatre and literature. Cornelis is a beacon and a pioneering legend of new formulas for creating and commu… Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /konrad-fischer-a-context-an-attitude Lecture programme This lecture series, organised in collaboration with the Goethe Institut of Barcelona, aims not only to offer a deeper look into the figure of Konrad Fischer (1939-1996), artist, gallery owner and exhibition curator, but also to… Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /post-urban-architectures-scenarios-for-the-future-of-the-city Open PEI Lecture Programme At present the city reveals, with increasing clarity, how a diffuse and complex whole acquires its real dimension from the territory of encounter and exchange between the general trends of globalisation and the pre-exis… Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /why-and-how-do-i-do-what-i-do-artists-speak Conversation between Armando Andrade Tudela, Gabriel Acevedo and Chus Martínez The project Why and How do I Do what I Do? Artists Speak aims to open a direct line of communication between artists and audiences, and to make the creation process mor… Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-by-lynne-cooke-on-the-exhibition-rodney-graham-through-the-forest Lecture by Lynne Cooke on the exhibition Rodney Graham. Through the Forest Lynne Cooke is deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS) in Madrid. In 1991 she began working as a curator at the Dia Art Foundation (New Yo… Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /conversation-between-john-baldessari-and-bartomeu-mari Conversation between John Baldessari and Bartomeu Marí To mark the opening of the retrospective John Baldessari. Pure Beauty, the artist and MACBA director, Bartomeu Marí, will discuss some of the ideas that emerge from his work. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /but-wheres-the-coast-rodney-graham-and-art-in-vancouver Lecture by Grant Arnold on the exhibition Rodney Graham. Through the Forest * "But Where's the Coast?" is a line from Rodney Graham's songs titled "Man, I Really Miss the Coast" [Author's Note] Grant Arnold is Audain Curator of British Columbia… Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /discussion-with-stuart-bailey Discussion with Stuart Bailey Stuart Bailey is an artist and, along with David Reinfurt, the co-editor of the magazine Dot Dot Dot. Together they founded the Dexter Sinister bookshop and print shop in 2006. Bailey also co-authored Appendix Appendi… Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT /discussion-with-will-holder-and-alexander-waterman Discussion with Will Holder and Alexander Waterman Will Holder (London, 1969) is a publisher, writer and artist who explores graphic form. By transforming stories into posters, giving performances that bring written texts to life or applying editi… Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT /conference-debate-every-letter-i-write-is-not-a-love-letter-inventing-sociality-with-ray-johnsons-postal-system Ina Blom (Universitetet i Oslo), author of The Postal Performance of Ray Johnson (MIT Press, 2003) will talk about the artist and lead a debate in which exhibition curator, Alex Sainsbury (director of the Raven Row Gallery, London), will participate. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /those-who-are-involved Irit Rogoff lecture To coincide with her visit to Barcelona as a guest of the Department of Art History, Barcelona University, Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths (London University) will give a lecture on participation in cult… Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /why-is-modernity-so-unique-and-attractive-for-visual-artists-today- Round tables In the past few years, the reference to the visual symbols of modernity, the reappropriation of geometric abstraction and the recycling of popular culture and its materials have become common resources in artistic practice. Contempora… Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-by-michael-snow Linked with the American avant-garde in his beginnings, Michael Snow has had a personal, multidisciplinary career that has made him a referential figure within the visual arts and a pioneer in video art. Michael Snow's work aims to challenge our a… Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /the-deleuze-connections Lecture by John Rajchman John Rajchman is Professor and Director of the Modern Art M.A. Programs in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Among his books are Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy (1985); Le Sav… Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-between-thomas-bayrle-and-lars-bang-larsen-theorist-and-curator Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937) is considered one of the leading representatives of the reception of the Pop movement in Germany. Active since the late sixties, his work explores how the process of production, repetition and reading of an image is linke… Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-between-joan-rabascall-and-writer-jordi-coca Rabascall's work may be situated in the setting of a 'perverse', steely vision of criticism of the object and the consumption unfolding in Europe, in contrast to the fascination for the industrial product of American Pop. An expert in British and Fre… Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT /new-urban-rights-social-movements-and-model-for-the-city Round table discussion related to the publication of Paris, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey With the participation of David Harvey, Professor at City University of New York (CUNY); Mauro Castro, participant in the collective called Exit, Expe… Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /agape-experimental-notations-the-social-act-of-reading-and-the-possibility-of-action Lecture - concert by Alex Waterman Agape was an exhibition that drew together poets, philosophers, writers, composers and musicians in an attempt to address the role of reading as a social act and set of actions. Whereas writing expresses a space… Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /speros-touch Lecture by Jon Bird, professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926, Nancy Spero is a pioneer of feminist art and a key figure in the New York protest scene in the 1960s and 70s. She can be placed amo… Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-presentation-of-judith-halberstams-book-female-masculinity Through a detailed historic study of gender deviant characters from literature and film, from the appearance of the butch-fem, drag king, and transsexual and transgender masculinity sub-cultures, Halberstam maps out ways of resisting the normalisatio… Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT /the-book-testo-yonqui-by-beatriz-preciado With the author, Carles Guerra and Itziar Ziga Text only available in Spanish Testo yonqui (Espasa-Calpe, 2008) surge de una doble premisa: el deseo de auto-administrarse testosterona y la voluntad de hacerlo fuera de un protocolo médico-jurídi… Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-between-lothar-baumgarten-and-kaira-cabanyas The son of an anthropologist, from the beginning of his career as a student of Joseph Beuys' at the Academy in Düsseldorf, Baumgarten became interested in ethnography through reading Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of whose main methodologies is the opposit… Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-between-asier-mendizabal-and-peio-aguirre Asier Mendizabal's practice may be described as a critique of ideology on the basis of the mise en scène of the structures that shape it. To do this, he has no qualms about utilizing the languages and tools most suited to the occasion, be they sculpt… Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT /privatizing-culture Lecture by Chin-tao Wu, followed by a debate with Jordi Martí i Grau Chin-tao Wu's Privatizing Culture is an ambitious attempt at explaining the ways in which mercantile values and the free market's ethos have permeated the Visual Arts since the 1… Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT /be-bomb-panel-discussions-on-the-exhibition Be-Bomb: the Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz. 1946-1956 analyses the aesthetic quarrels of the period between 1946 and 1956, the time when New York replaced Paris as the nerve centre of modern art. Curated by the French historian Serge… Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT /lecture-and-guided-visit-to-the-exhibition-joan-jonas-timelines By the artist 'I will speak about the use of props in relation to the body in space and time. This can be spoken about in relation to sculpture with examples of my own props that are moved by or move bodies and or small props as objects used in th… Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT /poetics-of-relation Lecture led by Édouard Glissant Due to Mr. Glissant health problems, this lecture has to be cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience Édouard Glissant is a fundamental reference in the discussion on “relationality” as an alternative to the predomi… Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT /institutional-criticism-and-mental-health-from-the-asylum-to-the-institution-of-medicine Debate series coordinated by Clara Bardón, Enric Berenguer, Guillem Homet and Montserrat Puig Antipsychiatry became part of a movement of institutional criticism that went beyond the specific framework of mental health. It was about fighting again… Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT /migrations-globalization-post-national-citizenship Book presentation, work session, and panel discussion The context of the years following the Cold War and the emergence of new transnational realities, which we simplify under the term ‘globalization,' entail a proper change in thinking regarding… Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT /of-another-theater-performing-arts-and-new-technologies-1 Lecture by Valentina Valentini Under this title, Valentina Valentini will give a conference as part of the Videoarte y aplicaciones a las artes del espectáculo (Video Art and its application to the stage) post-grad program, a dual collaborative ef… Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT /conceptualism-and-abjection-towards-other-genealogies-of-conceptual-art Debate around the Herbert Collection In his influential 1989 essay on conceptual art, From the Aesthetics of Administration to the Critique of Institutions, Benjamin Buchloh describes how, after its closure, conceptualism became a kind of unconsci… Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT /a-conversation-with-robert-whitman-at-the-macba Whitman (born New York, 1935) will be talking to Lynne Cooke (director of the Dia Art Foundation and the show's curator) about the projects being shown at the exhibition and his own personal experiences at a key moment in the redefining of 20th Centu… Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT /the-etcetera-collective-everyone-can-do-art Lecture led by Federico Zukerfeld and Loreto Garin Tuesday June 14th, 7:30 pm. The Etcétera collective started at the beginning of 1998, in Buenos Aires. Its members, artists dedicated to developing various different disciplines (poetry, theatr… Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT /cuando-la-fe-mueve-montanyas Guided visit and presentation of the book Cuando la fe mueve montañas (When Faith can Move Mountains), by Francis Alÿs and Cuauhtémoc Medina On April 11th, five hundred people were brought together to line up next to a 500 metre-diameter sand-dun… Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT /women-race-and-class Conference and Seminar with Angela Davis How is it possible, Angela Davis wonders, after nurturing American feminism as a movement and as political theory at the centre of the abolitionist and workers struggles of the end of the 19th Century, that… Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /new-cognitive-networks Day-long debates 26th and 27th of April at 7:00 pm. The Desacuerdos (Disagreements) project has researched and now presents questions connected with the change that Post-Fordism has caused within the cultural sphere, and with new modes of product… Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /the-factry-and-society-self-employment-and-the-feminization-of-the-production-cycle Debates During these debates, we will look at the modifications being made to the production cycle in which social subjects sell their labour, reproduce their forms of social existence, (re)construct strategies for the production of subjectivity,… Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /is-tucuman-still-burning- Looking at a radical experiment crossing art with politics Talk by Ana Longoni Monday April 4th, at 7:30pm The very rapid process of radicalisation which the Argentinean avant-garde underwent in 1968, culminated in the collective artistic-poli… Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /looking-east-debating-the-future-of-the-new-barcelona Debating the future of the new Barcelona Public Debates. February - March 2005. Mondays from 19 to 21 h MACBA-UPC (part of the UPC Master's Gestió de la ciutat. Programes i projectes Urban Management, Programs and Projects, directed by Jordi Borj… Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT /grupo-de-arte-callejero-genocides-live-here Co-operation at the base and tools for change Tursday January 27, 2005 at 7.30 pm. Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC) was founded in 1997, made up of artists, photographers and designers. It was based on an extreme questioning of the artistic inst… Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT /architectural-events Lecture led by Vito Acconci Wednesday 26th January 2005, at 7.30 pm. In the early 1980s, Vito Acconci presented his first architectural proposals for public spaces, while in 1988 he founded Acconci Studio, a small collective consisting of archite… Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT /symptomart-discussion-forum Series of debates co-ordinated by Enric Berenguer and Francesc Puntí Tuesdays January 25, February 22, March 29,and May 31 at 7.30 pm These days, art brings together a whole series of debates and practices which go far beyond their most immedia… Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT /industrial-patrimony-beyond-architecture Third meeting of industrial legacy and innovation Can Ricart – Hangar Passatge del Marques de Santa Isabel, 40 Friday and Saturday, November 5 & 6, all day This meeting (organized by the Fórum Ribera of Besòs, the Associació de Veïns… Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT /harun-farocki-subtext-and-subimage Inaugural session of the cinema program: Harun Farocki. To think in images Lecture given by Harun Farocki, filmmaker, and Roger M. Buergel, critic and independent curator and Director of Documenta XII (Kassel, 2007)… Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-politics-of-images-1 Beginning of the workshop "The politics of images". This workshop continues and expands the discussion on the production of images that are politically significant and that Colectivo Situaciones has maintained, together with Alice Creischer and Andre… Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-polis Debate tours to the exhibition and the urban fabric in which it takes place. The tours are comprised of three acts (experiences, territories, expressions) and depend on the participation of individuals in the fields of art, urban studies and associat… Sun, 03 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /how-do-we-want-to-be-selfemployed- Given by sergio Bologna. Thursday, September 30 at 7:30pm. Institut Barri Besòs (c/ Pujades, 397) Reflexion on the post-Fordist mentalities of the middle classes, second-generation autonomous work and the role of education in capitalist restructu… Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /capitalism-globalization-city The model of the city and its consequences Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Institut Barri Besòs (c/ Pujades 397) The objective of these debates is to present what form of social producing, living and organization the current model of the city being created… Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-education-and-power Roundtable discussion including Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Roger Buergel, Joan Roca, Joan Badia and Marina Subirats . This roundtable presents the exhibition "How do we want to be governed?" and proposes a debate on current methods of artistic practi… Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-incoherent-arts-bohemia-and-avant-garde Lecture by Juan José Lahuerta, Professor of the History of Art at the School of Architecture Barcelona. This lecture forms part of the activities related to the exhibition "Art and Utopia: Limited Action," an exhibition that analyzes the effects o… Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /art-and-utopia-limited-action Lecture by Jean-François Chevrier, curator of the exhibition. Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /hitchcocks-secret-agents-graphics Disguised as thrillers, Hitchcock's films are as subversive as the spies around which their plots often revolve. Tom Cohen's exploration of Hitchcock emphasizes the web of signatures and marking systems inscribed on and around his films. They are "se… Mon, 24 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT /the-revolution-will-not-be-televised "You will not be able to stay at home, brother, because the revolution will not be televised: the revolution will be live." (Gill Scott Heron sings The Revolution will not be Televised, 1974) This symposium brings together a historical and polit… Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /adrift-through-the-circuits-of-feminine-precariousness "ADRIFT (through the circuits of feminine precariousness)" is a book made up of diaries, conversations, stories and theoretical notes on the making precarious of feminine existence and is accompanied by a video made of snapshots and collages. It is a… Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /free-licences-in-art-issues Produced by Arteleku-UNIA Arteypensamiento (Espai Obert, April 15-18). With the participation of Javier Gutierrez Vicen, General Director of Vegap in Madrid, and Jorge Cortell, Professor in the Facultad de Derecho at the Universidad de Valencia. M… Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT /symptomart-interdisciplinary-forum Coordinated by Enric Berenguer and Clara Garí Thursdays, March 25, April 29, May 27, at 7:30 pm. Art today initiates a series of debates and practices that go beyond what we might call its more immediate reality. The philosopher, thinker, thera… Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /air-war-on-memory Alexander Kluge's reconstruction of the public sphere Lecture held by Marcelo Expósito in the context of the cinema programme. Marcelo Expósito. Artist, writer and independent curator. Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /2004-historical-capitalism-and-systemic-chaos The global situation in the face of the decline of American power Lecture by Immanuel Wallerstein Today the United States is a superpower lacking real power, a global leader that no one follows and few respect, and a nation dangerously drifting… Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT /leaving-the-paradoxes-of-life Alexander Kluge's pragmatic tales Lecture by Gertrud Köch in the context of the cinema programme. Gertrud Koch is professor of Film Studies at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin. She has taught in Europe and the USA and published on aesthetics, fem… Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /antoni-tapies-retrospective-1 Lecture led by Manuel J. Borja Villel. Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /avant-garde-and-subculture-learning-from-lettrism In "The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War", Stewart Home outlines the subterranean history of mid-to-late 20th century avant-gardes in which artistic and political vanguardism emerge as indissociable. In a comprehensive… Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT /from-prostitutes-to-sex-workers The people who charge for their sexual services have been called many things, from the most stigmatising, like ‘hookers', to the ones that provide a better self-image, such as ‘sex workers', by way of the more or less neutral term ‘prostitutes'. Soci… Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT /conversation Event in the context of Dias&Riedweg exhibition at MACBA. Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /internet-as-a-museal-space This event, to mark the launch of the new MACBA Web site, aims to initiate a public debate on the use of the Web by museums and on the specific nature of the medium as regards the way it is used by artists. The Internet and digital media have made… Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /speaking-images Adrian Piper presented her work in the context of her exhibition at MACBA. Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /the-relaunching-of-criticism The book El nuevo espíritu del capitalismo (The new spirit of capitalism, Madrid: Akal, 2002), by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello, traces the outlines of the new spirit of capitalism from a new analysis of business management texts which have provide… Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT /counter-power Crisis hit Argentina, there is no doubt about it. There has been a lot of information about it, and the faces victimised by barbarianism are well known for sure. It will be known too that there were victimisers, people that benefited from all this. T… Thu, 05 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT /the-territory-of-the-genial-republic The debate will provide a forum for discussion of Robert Filliou's work from a non-academic point of view, and a tribute to a historic but very little known figure. The symposium will provide elements of some of his less well-known areas of activity,… Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT /dreams-and-conflicts In this lecture, the director of the Venice Biennale, Francesco Bonami, will be presenting the project that structures the next number. It aims to take maximum advantage of the structure of the exhibition to compose an international panorama which, l… Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT /narration-autonomy-multitude The five Bolognese who make up Wu Ming belonged to the historic core of the people who adopted the multiple name Luther Blissett in 1994 to put into practice a communicative guerrilla and cultural sabotage project (Luther Blissett. Pánico en las rede… Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT /spaces-for-insurgence "As Benjamin pointed out when analysing the Parisian shopping arcades of the 19th century, the whole environment seemed designed to induce nirvana rather than critical awareness. And the purpose of many other cultural institutions –museums and cultur… Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT /from-les-glories-to-besos Directed by Muntadas and Ramon Parramon In the context of the exhibition Muntadas On Translation: Museum (MACBA, November 2002 - February 2003) and as part of the master's degree in Design and Public Space at Elisava Higher School of Design. Part… Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT /art-madness-and-cure Cycle of debates co-ordinated by Enric Berenguer and Francesc Puntí Does art exist only for its own sake, or is there a more necessary art? There is an art of the cure and a cure for art. At times the formeris possible, at times it is not possible… Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT