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...
View ArticleFrom les Glòries to Besòs
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...
View ArticleSpaces 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...
View ArticleNarration, 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...
View ArticleDreams 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCounter-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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSpeaking images
Adrian Piper presented her work in the context of her exhibition at MACBA.
View ArticleInternet 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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleAvant-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...
View ArticleLeaving 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...
View Article2004: 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...
View ArticleAir 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.
View ArticleSymptomArt, 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...
View ArticleFree 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...
View ArticleAdrift (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...
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