A Neoliberal Counter-revolution? Cultural Imaginaries, Political Subjectivities and the New World Order (1979 – 2019)
First session of the International Congress
Thursday, 16 September 2021
Check out the programme and the participants attending the session on Thursday, 16 September.
* Conferences in Spanish and English, with an available translation.
Programme
9:30-9:45 a.m.
Opening: Paula Barreiro López (Université Grenoble Alpes), Jaime Vindel (CSIC) and María Ruido (Universitat de Barcelona).
9:45-10:30 a.m.
Hauntología, espectros e irrupciones visuales. Del Plan Cóndor a las transiciones democráticas para la revolución neoliberal, Nancy Garín.
Lecture by Nancy Garín. Introduced by María Ruido (Universitat de Barcelona).10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel 1. Neoliberal imaginaries.
Chair: Olga Fernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
- Angela Harutyunyan (American University of Beirut), In The Margins of the Neoliberal Order: Ghosts, Zombies and The Post-Soviet “Contemporary”.
- Cristina Catalina (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Competencia, miedo y virilidad. El daño de la subjetivación neoliberal a través de series de televisión.
- Katy Deepwell (Middlesex University), The perversions of feminism(s) in neo-liberal thought and elements of their resistance in feminist artists' works.
12:00-12:30 p.m.
Break
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Panel 2. Alter-neoliberalism.
Chair: Jonathan Harris (Birmingham City University).
- Dimitris Soudias (London School of Economics), Theorizing an Alter-Neoliberal Critique.
- Christina Novakov-Ritchey (University of California), Postsocialist performance as Insurgent Method.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Lunch
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Panel 3. Technologies and industrialism.
Chair: Alejandro Pedregal (CSIC).
- Adrián Almazán Gómez (Universidad de Deusto), ¿Neoliberalismo o sociedad industrial? Recuperando una tradición olvidada.
- Pablo Santa Olalla (MNCARS), Derivas críticas en los imaginarios artísticos de la Jet Age. Del aerotransporte como símbolo de la globalización al rechazo frontal de sus condiciones de funcionamiento.
- Bárbara Fluxá (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Excavando la Tecnosfera: Estrategias artísticas críticas para un futuro entre materialidades mediales.
4:30-5:00 p.m.
Break
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Panel 4. Visuals beyond the ecological crisis.
Chair: Jaime Vindel (CSIC).
- Simone Fehlinger (Cité du design, Saint-Etienne), New Weather TV. Materializing the planetary as a composite “non-seamless” image.
- Linn Burchert (Humboldt University), Art, Climate Compensation and the Carbon Industries.
- Alberto Berzosa (CSIC) and Alejandro Pedregal (CSIC), Reconversión y crisis ecosocial en el Estado español: estrategias estéticas e ideológicas en el cine documental sobre la desindustrialización.
6:30-6:45 p.m.
Break
6:45-8:30 p.m.
Secuencias de lucha y utopía, Gal Kirn and Jonathan Harris.
Conversation with screenings between Gal Kirn (TU Dresden) and Jonathan Harris (Birmingham City University). Chair: Paula Barreiro López (Université Grenoble Alpes).If you have any question, feel free to contact us on 93 481 33 68 or by email at macba [at] macba [dot] cat
