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El estudio académico de la historia de las exposiciones y del comisariado es un fenómeno relativamente reciente. Aunque en su inicio se entrelazó con la historia del arte y con los estudios de museología, en los últimos años ha ido... more
El estudio académico de la historia de las exposiciones y del comisariado es un fenómeno relativamente reciente. Aunque en su inicio se entrelazó con la historia del arte y con los estudios de museología, en los últimos años ha ido adquiriendo una progresiva autonomía. Las exposiciones se pueden estudiar como generadoras de esfera pública, como ámbitos discursivos y de representación, como dispositivos productores de experiencias psicológicas y sociales y como formatos de producción susceptibles de determinar la producción artística. El comisariado es una práctica de mediación discursiva que toma fuerza en la segunda mitad del siglo XX y cuyo "hacer" se distingue por la combinación de aspectos prácticos e intelectuales que dan sentido al conjunto heterogéneo de las obras de arte contemporáneas. Este libro entrelaza ambas genealogías y propone una historia unificada de su convergencia. Para ello despliega seis relatos que atraviesan este entrecruzamiento y propone líneas de interpretación de naturaleza más temática que cronológica.
Compilación de artículos que da cuenta de las relaciones entre las prácticas artísticas y las prácticas educativas generadas desde el Dpto de Investigación y Educación del Museo Patio Herreriano entre 2003 y 2006.
Monografía sobre el artista Ángel Ferrant.
Reúne los escritos críticos y testimonios de Ángel Ferrant (1890-1961) prologados y anotados por Javier Arnaldo y Olga Fernández López. Ferrant es uno de los más importantes escultores españoles del siglo XX.
This article addresses the transformation of Madrid cultural landscape in relation to the empowerment that stemmed from civil society, social movements, and local residents’ associations, before and after the 15M Acampadas (2008-2015).... more
This article addresses the transformation of Madrid cultural landscape in relation to the empowerment that stemmed from civil society, social movements, and local residents’ associations, before and after the 15M Acampadas (2008-2015). Within this background, it analyzes the reconsideration of institutional curatorial practice carried out by the municipal art program Intermediae through two of its projects, Citykitchen (2011-2015) and Paisajes urbanos (2012-2015). Placed in the shared zone of institution, temporal communities, knowledge and urban space, these projects exemplify the proposal of curating as place-making, a shift in which art centers are not the subject of cultural enunciation and production, but spaces of negotiation in which common work can take place and new modes of living and taking care of the city can be imagined.
Post/decolonial reading of the MUSAC Collection.
Lectura pos/decolonial de la Colección del MUSAC.
Los discursos y las prácticas que impulsaron las políticas de reconciliación y reconstrucción en Europa Occidental tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial tuvieron en el arte y la cultura espacios muy influyentes para la conformación ideológica de... more
Los discursos y las prácticas que impulsaron las políticas de reconciliación y reconstrucción en Europa Occidental tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial tuvieron en el arte y la cultura espacios muy influyentes para la conformación ideológica de ese proceso histórico. Tanto las exposiciones como los museos se convirtieron en dispositivos valiosos a la hora de comunicar el acercamiento entre culturas, el intercambio de conocimiento o la defensa de la democracia y la igualdad. Si durante la década de los treinta y el periodo de la Guerra, las exposiciones habían difundido mensajes políticos de sesgo propagandístico, en los años cincuenta la propagación de idearios a través de eventos expositivos tuvo lugar en el marco de una nueva diplomacia cultural. Sin embargo, la aparente despolitización de la vida cultural en aras de un universalismo artístico, difuso y homogeneizador, enmascaraba una agenda que dotaba a las instituciones artísticas de un nuevo papel al servicio de los presupuestos ideológicos de las democracias liberales y su imaginario en torno a la ciudadanía.

Estos discursos, sin embargo, no estaban exentos de contradicciones, como tampoco lo estaban los idearios socialdemócratas y liberales, la configuración de la idea de Europa o los marcos teóricos e institucionales en los que se desarrollaban las prácticas artísticas. Algunas de estas contradicciones pueden rastrearse estableciendo un recorrido cronológico que va desde los primeros momentos de la posguerra hasta los acontecimientos desencadenados en torno a 1968, cuando se produjo la impugnación radical de las ideologías que habían articulado las décadas anteriores. Sin ánimo exhaustivo, este artículo plantea una revisión de dicho recorrido a través de cuatro episodios en los que se desarrollan formas de práctica curatorial que hemos relacionado con las nociones de display, promenade, playground y campo de acción. En cada una de estas experiencias se concretan posiciones discursivas que, si bien responden a los contextos nacionales donde tienen lugar, pueden servir como indicadores para analizar las interrelaciones entre comisariado, arte e imaginarios cívicos.
Artículo que pone en relación la exposición Permanecer mudo o morir de Darío Corbeira en  Tabacalera (Madrid) con la reutilización de los espacios industriales como espacios artísticos.
The crisis of the grand historical narratives throughout the 1980s forced the development of new approaches to the way history was constructed and represented, overcoming the teleological Western model and opening its subjects and objects... more
The crisis of the grand historical narratives throughout the 1980s forced the development of new approaches to the way history was constructed and represented, overcoming the teleological Western model and opening its subjects and objects to a more democratic, memorialist, scope. Among others, postcolonial theoretical corpus played a crucial role in challenging the colonial nature of Western national narrations and their international relations, drawing new cartographies and networks that placed geography and topology at its core. However, these revised configurations needed also to be examined in relation to diverse notions of temporality and epistemological formations that brought to the fore new connections between history, anthropology and museology and helped to the writing of unusual genealogies.

Both, the re-examination of museological displays and contemporary curatorial proposals provided a field of opportunities to give representational shape to notions such as encounter, translation, influence, hybridity, effect, diaspora, mediation or (re)mediation, to name but a few, which were being redefined in postcolonial theories. The association, in a new epistemological, contemporary framework, of artworks, artifacts and material culture belonging to different contexts, times or social spheres proved to be a fundamental procedure to interrupt former schemes of historical narration and to create a deepened sense of transhistory. In this paper, we will explore some of the strategies and effects that contemporary curators have tested when they decided to juxtapose heterogeneous objects with the help of some concrete exhibitions on national histories, that have taken place in the last years.
Reflection on the curatorial program Unstable Communities, organised in the framework of the project  Una ciudad muchos mundos (Intermediae, Matadero Madrid, 2015-2016).
Reflexión en torno al programa comisariado Comunidades inestables, organizado en el marco de proyecto Una ciudad muchos mundos (Intermediae, Matadero Madrid, 2015-2016).
This articles reflects on the possibilities of reconstructing historical exhibitions  in the present, taking as a case study the exhibition of Spanish photographer  Miguel Trillo at  CA2M.
El artículo reflexiona sobre las posibilidades de reconstruir exposiciones históricas en el presente al hilo de la exposición del fotógrafo Miguel Trillo en el CA2M.
El texto examina cómo la relación entre las exposiciones, el arte contemporáneo y el arte de las culturas no occidentales contribuyeron en el siglo XX a fomentar discursos eurocéntricos.
Artículo que analiza la práctica de los comisarios Harald Szeemann y George Didi-Hubermann a partir de la noción de ensayo adorniano.
This article examines El Museo de la Calle, an artistic project set up by Colectivo Cambalache that took place between 1998 and 2001, primarily in Bogotá. El Museo de la Calle came about in the changing artistic scene that took place in... more
This article examines El Museo de la Calle, an artistic project set up by Colectivo Cambalache that took place between 1998 and 2001, primarily in Bogotá.  El Museo de la Calle came about in the changing artistic scene that took place in Colombia at the beginning of the 1990s, in which there was a specific interest in investigating its conflicted politics and the transformation of the urban environment.
La práctica artística de Javier Núñez Gasco se caracteriza por una atención sostenida sobre los procesos de construcción de algunas de las figuras esenciales del campo artístico. Entre ellas, destacan distintas piezas vinculadas a la... more
La práctica artística de Javier Núñez Gasco se caracteriza por una atención sostenida sobre los procesos de construcción de algunas de las figuras esenciales del campo artístico. Entre ellas, destacan distintas piezas vinculadas a la autorrepresentación del artista (Inmolación, Copyright, Autorretrato), las obras (Protesis para una bailarina, Tu creador no te olvida) o la reflexión sobre el público (Público incondicional, Consagración, Miedo escénico). En todas ellas se ponen en juego una gran variedad de estrategias performativas que afectan al cuerpo del artista, a los espectadores y a los objetos que median las acciones. En ellas se escenifican algunos de los mecanismos de estas construcciones imaginarias. Este artículo analiza la obra de Núñez Gasco a partir de su exposición retrospectiva Fuera de acto.
This article examines the critical curatorial practices at Intermediae, a Madrilenean institution, and their relations to new institutionality and citizenship.
Artículo que examina las contaminaciones entre arte contemporáneo, cocina de vanguardia y autoría en el caso español.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many non-western artefacts underwent a reallocation from material culture to sculpture, from Natural History and Ethnographic museums to Fine Art collections, an operation made possible by the... more
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many non-western artefacts underwent a reallocation from material culture to sculpture, from Natural History and Ethnographic museums to Fine Art collections, an operation made possible by the underlying colonialist ideology. The aestheticisation process was emphasized whenever they were displayed together with modern art or even staged as modern art. However, if the average public was not prepared for the avant-garde, what kind of legitimacy could it bring to so called primitive art?
Contrary to the reassuring vision of modern art framing non-western art, modern art’s frame was itself unstable, as noted by Constantin Brancusi and Marcel Duchamp, artists who imposed a deliberate indeterminacy in the public presentation of their works. At the same time, the joint installation of modern and primitive art was not a homogenous practice with the same implications.
Rather there were different agendas behind discursive and curatorial intentions, as can be seen in the North American, Soviet and French cases between the 1910s and 1940s. These different display strategies were revised in the late 1980s, when the new context demanded a reconsideration of the still prevalent prejudices, recognizable in the concurrent exhibitions, Rooms with a View: The struggle between culture, content and the context of art (Longwood Arts Projects, 1987); We The People (Artists Space, 1987) and
Art/Artifact (The Center for African Art, 1988).
This article examines the historiographical debates about modern and contemporary art from Latin America that have taken place in the last decades and the role that exhibitions have played in them.
Análisis de los disputas historiográficas sobre el arte moderno y contemporáneo de América Latina que se han producido en las últimas décadas y sobre el papel que las exposiciones han desempeñado en las mismas.
Análisis de las políticas expositivas feministas y queer llevadas a cabo en instituciones artísticas españolas desde la década de los noventa hasta 2012.
Artículo que establece relaciones entre las prácticas site-specific, el arte público, arte y comunidades y el comisariado.
Análisis de la obra de Ángel Ferrant a partir de los numerosos álbumes fotográficos que realizó a lo largo de su vida.
Una aproximación a la noción de intimidad a partir de las obras de artistas contemporáneos de la década de los noventa.
Revisión de las publicaciones existentes sobre comisariado e historia de las exposiciones
Artículo que relaciona a Ángel Ferrant y la Escuela de Altamira a partir del epistolario del escultor, una fuente poco conocida.
La aparición de la denominación cubo blanco (white cube) a principios de los años setenta coincide con el principio de su cuestionamiento, a partir de la toma de conciencia sobre sus límites. Este hecho coincide también con el surgimiento... more
La aparición de la denominación cubo blanco (white cube) a principios de los años setenta coincide con el principio de su cuestionamiento, a partir de la toma de conciencia sobre sus límites. Este hecho coincide también con el surgimiento de la denominación espacio independiente, ambos debidos al mismo autor, Brian O’Doherty. Este artículo aborda la relación entre estos dos fenómenos situándolos en
su momento histórico. Asimismo se pregunta si la crisis del cubo blanco no ha acabado sirviendo para su refuerzo y expansión.

The emergence of the so called white cube in early 1970s coincides with the beginning of its questioning, through the consciousness of its limits. This fact also coincides with the coinage of the term independent space. Both notions were put forward by the same author, Brian O’Doherty. This paper addresses the relationship between this two phenomena, situating them in a precise historical moment. It also
examines if the crisis of white cube has not ended in its re-inforcement and expansion.
This article examines the emergence of the curator in the framework of knowledge economy  and postfordism.
The goal of this paper is to interrogate the role played in the historiography of Latin American art by the category conceptualism. In the last decades two re-elaborations of the concept have entered the historiographic debate, aiming to... more
The goal of this paper is to interrogate the role played in the historiography of Latin American art by the category conceptualism. In the last decades two re-elaborations of the concept have entered the historiographic debate, aiming to describe and to inscribe certain artistic practices since the 1960s in a different genealogy. The following questions arise from this debate: Is Latin American conceptualism different from the one established in the canon? Is this difference a consequence of the practices or of the categorisation to which these practices are submitted?
La obra de Karl Blossfeldt es un paradigma del reencuentro de tiempos. En sus obras adivinamos sistemas anteriores de visión y comprensión de la naturaleza que promueven interferencias entre la observación científica y la contemplación... more
La obra de Karl Blossfeldt es un paradigma del reencuentro de tiempos. En sus obras adivinamos sistemas anteriores de visión y comprensión de la naturaleza que promueven interferencias entre la observación científica y la contemplación estética, con la mirada de un instrumento óptico como eje. Su proyecto fotográfico de documentación sistemática conserva el rumor de otras épocas: mientras el conocimiento científico se iba modernizando, su obra llevaba prendida otros tiempos de la ciencia, herbarios renacentistas, taxonomías linneanas y proyectos estéticos de identificación entre arte y naturaleza.
In the 20th century, exhibitions gradually evolved into devices for producing subjectivities, experiences and discourses. The various formulas for presenting artworks to the public not only exhibited artistic creations but also... more
In the 20th century, exhibitions gradually evolved into devices for producing subjectivities, experiences and discourses. The various formulas for presenting artworks to the public not only exhibited artistic creations but also constructed narratives that were contaminated by the prevailing ideologies of the day. In recent years, many contemporary artists have shown an interest in critically examining aspects of exhibitionary phenomena, with a keen awareness of the weight of history and the mechanisms of fiction. Their thoughtful work with collections, museums and exhibitions of bygone eras attempts to visibilize some of the silences, misunderstandings or undeveloped possibilities of writings from the past. The exhibition A Thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity addresses three areas where these intersections can be observed. The first is devoted to artists who challenge the association between so-called "primitive" art and the avant-garde, a calculated conjunction that served to broaden the tastes of a bourgeois society eager to seem modern. The second features artists who explore the postwar cultural framework, when the process of establishing a canon for modern art overlapped with the interests of Cold War cultural diplomacy. Finally, the exhibition presents pieces by artists who work with today's unstoppable torrent of images and reproductions, whose recombinations have dramatically changed the way we think about exhibitions. Despite this division, many of the works in the show could easily have been placed in another or all three groups, and visitors are therefore invited to establish new dialogues between them.

En el siglo XX las exposiciones se fueron desarrollando como dispositivos productores de subjetividades, experiencias y discursos. Los diferentes modos mediante los que las obras de arte se presentaron al público fueron construyendo, además de la mera exhibición de éstas, narrativas donde se fueron filtrando las ideologías dominantes en cada momento. En los últimos años muchos artistas contemporáneos han mostrado interés por abordar críticamente aspectos de los fenómenos expositivos, con una fuerte conciencia del sentido de la historia y de los mecanismos de la ficción. Mediante un trabajo reflexivo sobre algunas colecciones, museos o exposiciones del pasado, estos artistas tratan de hacer visibles algunos de los silencios, malentendidos o posibilidades no desarrolladas de la escritura del pasado. La exposición Mil bestias que rugen. Dispositivos de exposición para una modernidad crítica se aproxima a tres ámbitos donde pueden observarse estos entrecruzamientos. En primer lugar se presentan artistas que cuestionan la asociación entre el llamado “arte primitivo” y la vanguardia, una unión interesada que ayudó a expandir el gusto de una burguesía deseosa de parecer moderna. En segundo lugar, se exponen artistas que exploran el marco cultural de posguerra, un momento en que la construcción del canon del arte moderno coincidió con los intereses de la diplomacia cultural de la Guerra Fría. Por último, se muestran obras de artistas que trabajan con el flujo imparable de imágenes y reproducciones, cuyas recombinaciones que han alterado significativamente la forma en la que pensamos las exposiciones. A pesar de esta división, muchas de las obras presentes en esta muestra podrían pertenecer a varios de estos ámbitos y, por ello, se invita a los visitantes a establecer nuevos diálogos entre ellas
La historia del grupo de artistas A UA CRAG, fundado en 1985 en Aranda de Duero (Burgos), en un lugar inesperado y periférico, se convierte aquí en un caso de estudio sobre las vidas cruzadas de sus protagonistas. Las dificultades y las... more
La historia del grupo de artistas A UA CRAG, fundado en 1985 en Aranda de Duero (Burgos), en un lugar inesperado y periférico, se convierte aquí en un caso de estudio sobre las vidas cruzadas de sus protagonistas. Las dificultades y las ventajas de la condición descentralizada de este colectivo de artistas retrata, por un lado, el perfil de una incipiente institución arte en la España de los 80 y los 90, pero alude, por otro, a la condición misma de esa empresa que es la práctica artística contemporánea. Los resultados sorprendentes en sus respectivas obras y los periplos de este grupo en Francia, Holanda o Canadá muestran una historia coral que se completa con extensas entrevistas con cada uno de los miembros de A UA CRAG: Javier Ayarza, Rufo Criado, Rafael Lamata, Alejandro Martínez Parra, Jesús Max, Antonio Miquel Cid, Pepe Ortega, Néstor Sanmiguel, Clemente Rodero y Julián Valle. El trabajo de investigación y recuperación de los testimonios sirve aquí de fresco de una historia que muestra a escala muchas de las contradicciones y hallazgos del arte contemporáneo de las últimas décadas.
Cuatro dimensiones. Escultura en España, 1978-2003 propone cuatro recorridos por la escultura de estas últimas décadas que permiten señalar ámbitos de sensibilidad y vinculan autores y obras en su azaroso encuentro en el espacio de una... more
Cuatro dimensiones. Escultura en España, 1978-2003 propone cuatro recorridos por la escultura de estas últimas décadas que permiten señalar ámbitos de sensibilidad y vinculan autores y obras en su azaroso encuentro en el espacio de una exposición. Se trata de convocar complicidades entre obras, por lo que se ha preferido romper la rigidez de trabajar dentro del marco cronológico de forma estricta, buscándose antecedentes que hicieran guiños desde el tiempo. En el mismo sentido se muestran otros soportes, como el dibujo, la fotografía o la pintura, para complementar las propuestas de cada sala.
Este número de Sin Objeto pretende dar continuidad a la temática iniciada en el número inaugural. Si en aquella ocasión se analizaba el coleccionismo de prácticas efímeras o desmaterializadas, parece lógico complementar esta cuestión con... more
Este número de Sin Objeto pretende dar continuidad a la temática iniciada en el número inaugural. Si en aquella ocasión se analizaba el coleccionismo de prácticas efímeras o desmaterializadas, parece lógico complementar esta cuestión con un número que abordara de forma monográfica las problemáticas que atañen al comisariado de las mismas. Si bien las exposiciones centradas en piezas objetuales y documentación siguen siendo la forma predominante de presentación
pública de obras y proyectos, la pluralidad y diversidad de las prácticas artísticas en el mundo contemporáneo ha obligado a reconsiderar qué puede ser una exposición o qué puede hacer un comisarix. La necesidad de adaptar los modelos expositivos a los nuevos tipos de prácticas procesuales, mediales, performativas, site-specific o colaborativas llevó ya desde los años sesenta al desarrollo de proyectos curatoriales que desbordaban las convenciones sobre los espacios, los tiempos y los modos de las exposiciones tradicionales. Desde ese momento se
ha producido una transformación imparable en el ámbito del comisariado que ha convertido los espacios expositivos en lugares de producción y mediación, de investigación y de conocimiento, tanto dentro como fuera de los espacios museísticos y galerísticos tradicionales. Los artículos que componen el dossier de este número dan cuenta no sólo de los muchos modos desde los que abordar el
comisariado de lo inmaterial, sino también de la variedad de debates y referencias teóricas que permiten acompañar sus interpretaciones.
Interview / Entrevista to Jota Izquierdo con motivo de la exposición H-E-L-L-O. Un proyecto de Jota Izquierdo, Sala La Gallera, Valencia, 2009
The goal of this thesis is to look at the critical and dissenting value of exhibitions through the examination of four cases studies, based on six exhibitions taking place between 1968 and 1998 in Latin and North America. The exhibitions... more
The goal of this thesis is to look at the critical and dissenting value of exhibitions through the examination of four cases studies, based on six exhibitions taking place between 1968 and 1998 in Latin and North America. The exhibitions belong to the history of modern and  contemporary exhibitions and curating, a field of research and study that has only started to be written about in the last two decades. This investigation contributes to it, in its
creation of new genealogies by connecting previously overlooked antecedents, or by proposing new relations within established lineages, at the intersection of a specific historiography; to address exhibitions, a tradition of artists acting as curators and an emerging history of curating. The examined exhibitions were put together by artists or artist collectives and were placed in a liminal position between artistic and curatorial practice. All the cases presented a distinct proposal in relation to art and social change, a fact that connects them, in their aims and modus operandi, to a Marxist and neo-Marxist critical and transformative legacy. The cases address the following connections: exhibition as political site (Tucumán Arde, 1968); exhibition as social space (The People’s Choice (Arroz con Mango), 1981); exhibition as encounter (Rooms with a view, We the People, Art/Artifact, 1987-88); and exhibition as an exchange situation (El Museo de la Calle, 1998-2001).
La recuperación historiográfica de Ángel Ferrant se aborda como una monografía centrada en la relación de este artista con el contexto artístico español e internacional, valorando la incidencia de sus aportaciones, a través de un análisis... more
La recuperación historiográfica de Ángel Ferrant se aborda como una monografía centrada en la relación de este artista con el contexto artístico español e internacional, valorando la incidencia de sus aportaciones, a través de un análisis de su producción escultórica, escogiendo el formato cronológico para permitir un discurrir ajustado de las posibles influencias y sus conocimientos sobre el arte de vanguardia y su impacto posterior, aunque este no sea inmediato.
The European Forum for Advanced Practices (EFAP) is an open and inclusive research network originating from universities, NGOs and community-based organisations, independent research entities, museums, and a wide range of arts academies.... more
The European Forum for Advanced Practices (EFAP) is an open and inclusive research network originating from universities, NGOs and community-based organisations, independent research entities, museums, and a wide range of arts academies. EFAP’s broad goal is to establish a dialog across the boundaries that often separate these contexts and to promote exchange with a focus on emergent forms of artistic- and practice-based research.
EFAP proposes an open notion of Advanced Practices that deliberately combine methods and practices from numerous disciplines. The goal of EFAP is to respond to two sets of urgencies:

1) Ever-more complex societal challenges across Europe demand new forms of knowledge exchange and transfer, as new research forms gain ground and new modes of research output become increasingly prominent.

2) This requires multidisciplinary and comprehensive methods to capture and assess their quality and impact in advance rather than retrospectively.

The initial proposers of EFAP have actively shaped contemporary research in the fields of visual art, art history, philosophy, music, theatre, dance and performance studies, architecture, design, and engineering.
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This project aims to open up an innovative field of research on resistance movements since the Second World War, the intersection of cultural history and visual culture. It is divided into two areas of analysis: 1) A transnational study... more
This project aims to open up an innovative field of research on resistance movements since the Second World War, the intersection of cultural history and visual culture. It is divided into two areas of analysis: 1) A transnational study of the visual productions of partisan movements (visual arts, graphic production, poster, photography, film and video) and their contribution to the configuration of new practices, the construction of visual identities and the collective awareness that formed between the SGM and the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2) A study of the implications these visual imagination still have on current visual culture, on contemporary artistic practices, as well as on the configuration of the political imagination.

From a methodological point of view, it first proposes a shift from the traditional object of the history of resistance (based mainly on the literary domain and the document) to visual culture, as well as an expansion of chronologies including antifascist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist movements within a genealogy that includes continuities and ruptures. In this perspective, we will seek to discuss the role that images and audiovisual productions have had in shaping these struggles and demands for civil rights as well as in networks of resistance and solidarity, considering the image as an instrument for building visual knowledge and a transnational vector for creating dissident collective behaviour and consciousness. It is therefore not a question of making an illustrated history, but rather a history of visual productions that highlights their semantic specificities, their uses and materialities, their ability to elaborate transnational codes, their recurrence, their modelling function as well as their “fragility” and ambiguities.

Our project, developed by an international team, is rooted in an approach that transcends national frameworks and links movements, ideologies and practices between the southern and northern hemispheres. For, despite differences in contexts, these visual productions can be seen as part of a culture of resistance shared by Western, Eastern European and Third World geographies. Favouring a transnational and transversal analysis, partisan legacies will be discussed from and through the cultural sphere of concrete enclaves and through the prism of case studies (in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Argentina or Cuba), with a particular emphasis on the processes of transfers and exchanges and their relations with socio-political dynamics. Working on networks and the circulation of images, people (artists, directors, photographers) and ideologies, the project aims to show how these networks and visual identities have been formed, transferred, adapted to local contexts and led to the creation of transnational communities and proto-global mapping.

By combining critical analysis and geospatial visualization with historical parameters, we hope not only to evaluate complex processes, but also to make understandable the ways in which visual culture, as well as artistic exchanges, have helped to shape transnational resistance movements, which have themselves helped to shape the multicultural and global society in which we live today.

Ré.part proposes four axes of analysis: 1. Violence and representation: synchronic approaches and present challenges (which aims to study the role of violence and the challenges of its representation); 2. Transnational visual codes and identities: reappropriation, uses and resemantisations (which focuses on how partisan culture has set up visibility regimes, what have been their materialities and reactivations in local contexts); 3. Networks and displacements: circulation of struggles, images and creators (which seeks to analyze models of collaboration and circulation of images and artists); 4. The figure and representation of the partisan: an imaginary in transformation (how the image of the partisan since the Second World War has changed).
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This project centres around two main axes of study. Firstly, the analysis of the discursive narratives of modernity as shaped by artistic practices and aesthetic and critical discourses. Such analysis is also taking into account the role... more
This project centres around two main axes of study. Firstly, the analysis of the discursive narratives of modernity as shaped by artistic practices and aesthetic and critical discourses. Such analysis is also taking into account the role of institutions and exhibitions in the formation of modernist practices in the different contexts across the transatlantic world during the Cold War. Secondly, the study of the influence and the role of these transatlantic configurations in the transition from modernity to post-modernity and their ongoing presence in today’s global world.

Methodologically, the project will centre on transnational studies seeking to expose the networks of collaboration and contact zones developed by artists, critics, curators as well as art and political institutions; it seeks to show in which way these contributed to the development of a transatlantic culture. This approach will permit the configuration of a new cartography of artistic practices and of extra-institutional, institutional and political relations along the transatlantic axis. Doing so will allow us to question the historiography of art during the Cold War, and contribute towards the reconstruction of these narratives brining into the equation countries such as Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Cuba. In this way the normative, western and colonialist modernity will be displaced to reveal a plurality of realities which gave way to different projects of artistic modernity that challenged and resisted dogmatic Modernism and its principles.

The concrete objectives of this project will be: to analyze the different models, meanings and notions of modern art prevalent in the transatlantic axis; to study vanguard and experimental artistic practices analyzing their aesthetic, political and social basis and their role as models for resistance against the normative, monolithic and polarized discourse imposed by the two blocs during the Cold War; to study the theoretical, aesthetic and critical discourses specific to each context; to identify contact zones and platforms of exchange and to study critically the politics of curatorial “narratives” developed in both hegemonic and subaltern centers. This data and analysis will be visualized through a geospatial and quantitative tool called Geographic Information Systems (GIS) accessible through the online platform that will be designed for the project.
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Mesa redonda de la Fundación Mainel. 18ª Edición de coloquios de cultura visual contemporánea. 2013
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Essay that reviews the 2019 curatorial studies state of the art with the following books: Utopian Display: Geopolitiche Curatoriali, Curating After the Global: Roadmaps for the Present; Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in... more
Essay that reviews the 2019 curatorial studies state of the art with  the following books: Utopian
Display: Geopolitiche Curatoriali, Curating After the Global: Roadmaps for the Present; Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe;
Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions; Of(f) Our Times: Curatorial Anachronics.
Summary of most compelling foreign-language scholarship compiled by the indexers of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH). If you would be interested in serving as an indexer for a future issue, please get in touch. See also... more
Summary of most compelling foreign-language scholarship compiled by the indexers of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH).  If you would be interested in serving as an indexer for a future issue, please get in touch. See also Scahweb.org
The crisis of the grand historical narratives throughout the 1980s forced the development of new approaches to the way history was constructed and represented, overcoming the teleological Western model and opening its subjects and objects... more
The crisis of the grand historical narratives throughout the 1980s forced the development of new approaches to the way history was constructed and represented, overcoming the teleological Western model and opening its subjects and objects to a more democratic, memorialist, scope. Among others, postcolonial theoretical corpus played a crucial role in challenging the colonial nature of Western national narrations and their international relations, drawing new cartographies and networks that placed geography and topology at its core. However, these revised configurations needed also to be examined in relation to diverse notions of temporality and epistemological formations that brought to the fore new connections between history, anthropology and museology and helped to the writing of unusual genealogies. Both, the re-examination of museological displays and contemporary curatorial proposals provided a field of opportunities to give representational shape to notions such as encounter, translation, influence, hybridity, effect, diaspora, mediation or (re)mediation, to name but a few, which were being redefined in postcolonial theories. The association, in a new epistemological, contemporary framework, of artworks, artifacts and material culture belonging to different contexts, times or social spheres proved to be a fundamental procedure to interrupt former schemes of historical narration and to create a deepened sense of transhistory. In this paper, we will explore some of the strategies and effects that contemporary curators have tested when they decided to juxtapose heterogeneous objects with the help of some concrete exhibitions on national histories, that have taken place in the last years.
La práctica artística de Javier Núñez Gasco se caracteriza por una atención sostenida sobre los procesos de construcción de algunas de las figuras esenciales del campo artístico. Entre ellas, destacan distintas piezas vinculadas a la... more
La práctica artística de Javier Núñez Gasco se caracteriza por una atención sostenida sobre los procesos de construcción de algunas de las figuras esenciales del campo artístico. Entre ellas, destacan distintas piezas vinculadas a la autorrepresentación del artista (Inmolación, Copyright, Autorretrato), las obras (Protesis para una bailarina, Tu creador no te olvida) o la reflexión sobre el público (Público incondicional, Consagración, Miedo escénico). En todas ellas se ponen en juego una gran variedad de estrategias performativas que afectan al cuerpo del artista, a los espectadores y a los objetos que median las acciones. En ellas se escenifican algunos de los mecanismos de estas construcciones imaginarias. Este artículo analiza la obra de Núñez Gasco a partir de su exposición retrospectiva Fuera de acto.
Reflexión en torno al programa comisariado Comunidades inestables, organizado en el marco de proyecto Una ciudad muchos mundos (Intermediae, Matadero Madrid, 2015-2016).
This article addresses the transformation of Madrid cultural landscape in relation to the empowerment that stemmed from civil society, social movements, and local residents’ associations, before and after the 15M Acampadas (2008-2015).... more
This article addresses the transformation of Madrid cultural landscape in relation to the empowerment that stemmed from civil society, social movements, and local residents’ associations, before and after the 15M Acampadas (2008-2015). Within this background, it analyzes the reconsideration of institutional curatorial practice carried out by the municipal art program Intermediae through two of its projects, Citykitchen (2011-2015) and Paisajes urbanos (2012-2015). Placed in the shared zone of institution, temporal communities, knowledge and urban space, these projects exemplify the proposal of curating as place-making, a shift in which art centers are not the subject of cultural enunciation and production, but spaces of negotiation in which common work can take place and new modes of living and taking care of the city can be imagined.
La obra de Karl Blossfeldt es un paradigma del reencuentro de tiempos. En sus obras adivinamos sistemas anteriores de visión y comprensión de la naturaleza que promueven interferencias entre la observación científica y la contemplación... more
La obra de Karl Blossfeldt es un paradigma del reencuentro de tiempos. En sus obras adivinamos sistemas anteriores de visión y comprensión de la naturaleza que promueven interferencias entre la observación científica y la contemplación estética, con la mirada de un instrumento óptico como eje. Su proyecto fotográfico de documentación sistemática conserva el rumor de otras épocas: mientras el conocimiento científico se iba modernizando, su obra llevaba prendida otros tiempos de la ciencia, herbarios renacentistas, taxonomías linneanas y proyectos estéticos de identificación entre arte y naturaleza.
Una aproximación a la noción de intimidad a partir de las obras de artistas contemporáneos de la década de los noventa.
The goal of this thesis is to look at the critical and dissenting value of exhibitions through the examination of four cases studies, based on six exhibitions taking place between 1968 and 1998 in Latin and North America. The exhibitions... more
The goal of this thesis is to look at the critical and dissenting value of exhibitions through the examination of four cases studies, based on six exhibitions taking place between 1968 and 1998 in Latin and North America. The exhibitions belong to the history of modern and contemporary exhibitions and curating, a field of research and study that has only started to be written about in the last two decades. This investigation contributes to it, in its creation of new genealogies by connecting previously overlooked antecedents, or by proposing new relations within established lineages, at the intersection of a specific historiography; to address exhibitions, a tradition of artists acting as curators and an emerging history of curating. The examined exhibitions were put together by artists or artist collectives and were placed in a liminal position between artistic and curatorial practice. All the cases presented a distinct proposal in relation to art and social change, a fact that con...
The European Forum for Advanced Practices (EFAP), an informal forum of artists, theorists, philosophers, educators, performers, curators, musicians, urbanists, anthropologists and other cultural actors across Europe and beyond, has... more
The European Forum for Advanced Practices (EFAP), an informal forum of artists, theorists, philosophers, educators, performers, curators, musicians, urbanists, anthropologists and other cultural actors across Europe and beyond, has assembled to propose new ways of recognizing the values of contemporary cultural practices. The EFAP Charter for Advanced Practices takes the form of a preliminary communication that we hope will become an expanded conversation across the fields that have been at the forefront of significant shifts in what is recognized as research and of its place within the trajectory of practice. There is an investment here in new ways of multiplying and proliferating how practices instantiate forms of open source research as opposed to new forms of excellence. The EFAP Charter for Advanced Practices is an intentional address to peers and future researchers, one that recognizes the immense amounts of work taking place across the globe.
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