Activity
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Maite Garbayo Maeztu: To Let Something Do Its Thing
Sâlmon Festival Discursive Programme
Song for Many Movements: Scenes of Collective Creation
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Art history has always neglected matter, which constantly reappears as a problem to be solved, to be controlled. Matter was something passive, dead, raw, that the artist of modernity came to tame. But what would happen if we let it do its own thing? I will propose a way —always interrupted by bodies and materials— to think aesthetic experience as an intersubjective encounter that transcends the scopic to engage magic and affect.
This event is presented as part of Song for Many Movements, an ephemeral experiment in which the ground floor of MACBA becomes a stage for encounters, conversations and shared listening. Curated by María Berríos and Sabel Gavaldon.
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Maite Garbayo Maeztu
Maite Garbayo-Maeztu is Serra Hunter professor in the Department of Art History at Universidad de Barcelona and lead researcher for the project Ritmos del trabajo feminizado en la historia del arte y la cultura visual (Estado español, 1936-2022), funded by the MCIN. Her research explores the intersections between feminisms, visual and popular culture, and contemporary art in the Spanish state and Latin America during the 20th century. Her first book, Cuerpos que aparecen. Performance y feminismos en el tardofranquismo (consonni, 2016) analyzes the presence of the body in performance practices during the final years of the Francoist dictatorship, in connection with feminist activism of the time and visual culture. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México before joining the Art Department of Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico). Her career has developed both in academia and in the contemporary art world, where she has curated several exhibitions and public programs.
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From February 10, to April 1, 2024
Song for Many Movements: Scenes of Collective Creation
An ephemeral experiment in which the ground floor of the museum becomes a stage for encounters, conversations and shared listening
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