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Contemporary artistic practices is proposed as a platform from which to examine the languages that define the new contemporary aesthetics. In this context, one of the main goals is to show the complexity of current artistic production linked to the knowledge of heritage.

Organised into three thematic sections, the course is divided into research groups that will establish a dialogue between contemporary works and works and documents from the past, as a starting point for exploring not only the changing role of the viewer, but also the new creative processes of current artistic practice.

Section 1: The tensions between modernity and the avant-garde
(City and Architecture)
In our cultural context, the momentum for aesthetic renovation is led by architecture, design and poetic experimentation. The city becomes the core of this transformation, and the dialogue between innovation and rupture is constant.

Section 2: Art and mass culture
(Photography and Pop art)
From the sixties, and in the context of the postwar, a generation of artists has grown amid a nascent consumer society characterised by technology, capitalism, fashion and consumerism.

Traditional mass media gives way to television, and Pop art emerges as a result of a lifestyle associated with the fascination with objects that are no longer unique but have been mass produced.

Section 3: Overflows
(Body, globalisation and institutional critique)
In a global context, the emphasis shifts to process and the condition of the artwork. New practices and strategies bring into question artistic activity aimed at the production of objects and focus, instead, on the processes and conditions of the work. The document becomes art, and body and time are the raw material for an art that knows no limits.

Contemporary Artistic Practices Course

Programme

Schedule: we offer four editions of this course.

First quarter: Saturdays 9, 16 and 23 November, 10 am to 2 pm
Location: MACBA
Inscriptions from October 7, 2013

Second quarter: Saturdays 1, 8 and 15 February, 10 am to 2 pm
Location: MACBA
Inscriptions from December 16, 2013

Third quarter: Saturdays 10, 17 and 24 May, 10 am to 2 pm
Location: MACBA
Inscriptions from March 27, 2014

Summer: the week of 30 June to 4 July, 5 to 8 pm
Inscriptions from May 27, 2013
Fully booked

Total: 15 hours. Includes some non-attendance sessions.

For group and education program information please call (+34) 93 412 14 13
educacio [at] macba [dot] cat


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