Daniel Gasol
Daniel Gasol, PhD from the University of Barcelona, defines himself as a worker who tries to challenge the discourses of a capitalist society organised by powers that impose class, normative sexualities or work as a moral duty. He began his career combining artistic production and research with projects that aim to understand how official media narratives on identity, proletariat, gender or social relations are constituted.
In 2021, he published his doctoral thesis 'Arte (in)útil: Sobre cómo el capitalismo desactiva la cultura' with won him the ACCA prize for art criticism, and in the same year he presented 'Orden Público: Vagos, Maleantes y Peligrosidad Social', a project that explores the law of vagrants and criminals and social danger through files from the Catalan National Archive of Justice. He is currently a researcher at the University of Valencia where he is investigating the origin of the triangulation between religion, science and legislation that shapes contemporary criminology, social hygiene and state policy. In 2020, he received a grant to study the video works and social mechanisms that the collective Video-Nou/Servei de Vídeo Comunitari used to challenge the official narrative of a supposedly exemplary Spanish transition, in the form of a book entitled ‘Unofficial History During the Hypothetical Transition: the Video-Nou / Servei de Vídeo Comunitari case’.
