BUT… IS THIS ART? 2012
Targeted at people with interest in current art. No prior knowledge is required
Free registration through the web at the link below, by phone to 91 276 02 or CA2M front desk as of January 16th.
For a single assistance to a lecture, free entrance is permitted until seating capacity is filled.
For the fourth year running, the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo is offering the But… Is This Art? Introductory Course on Contemporary Art. The course will be broken down into one-and-a-half-hour sessions, discussing key themes in current art: from the death of the author, the new role of the viewer, crisis of the subject to the decline of the great narratives and the formation of art as a critical space.
From the active position of the viewer, it is important to learn to look at different proposals from the artists, but we can even go further. Looking is thinking, thinking with all the knowledge, feelings and readings we have. Our own experience becomes part of the experience with the artwork, and from that point of view, we could start a discussion on themes that affect our position as contemporary subjects. Over the nine sessions, contemporary art professionals will address those themes. This Class Programme is in conjunction with tours to the exhibitions on view and encounters with artists.
CA2M offers a number of training activities in contemporary art and philosophy as part of its public education programme specifically designed for young people and adults.
These courses offer a clear and concise insight into some of the basic concepts for understanding and interpreting contemporary art. The activities are divided into two parts: the first part consists of the introduction of a theme by a guest speaker, who in the second part opens the floor to a discussion involving the participants.
PROGRAMME
FEB 22. WEDNESDAY
UTOPÍA Y CRISIS -UTOPIA AND CRISIS-
Carlos Granados, educator of CA2M and artist
This session will introduce us into the analysis of new behaviors and into the artistic practices after the 68s. We will study the different roles of an artist under a constant construction and crisis and, also, we will discuss about her/his role in the present
FEB 29 WEDNESDAY
MÁS ALLÁ DE LA MUERTE DEL AUTOR -BEYOND THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR-
Pablo Martínez, Head of education and public activities at CA2M, and associated professor in the Art History Department of the Faculty of Fine Art from Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
In this session, we will approach that 60´ practice that has questioned the traditional notions of authorship and spectator. We will review some of the main proposals centered in the construction of the collective sense and had gone further the optical regimes of art.
MARCH 7 WEDNESDAY
LOS NUEVOS PAPELES DEL ARTISTA -THE NEW ROLES OF THE ARTIST-
Yayo Aznar, Lecturer of the Faculty of Geography and History. UNED (National Distance Learning University).
The idea of the death of the author, quite nourished by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault´s texts, becomes a constant within the artistic thinking since the late 60´. We will discuss on how that crisis of the authorship obliges artist to assimilate new roles as conservators, historian, analyst, etc.
MARCH 14 WEDNESDAY
HASTA QUE TENGA SENTIDO -UNTIL IT GETS SEENS-
Victoria Gil-Delgado, educator at CA2M and curator
We will discuss on the spectator position against current art and on the museum as an odd place that needs an active receiver to generate sense. We will address how that new position can drives us to new unknown areas of relation, experience and thinking.
MARCH 21 WEDNESDAY
ALTERATION OF REALITY
Ferran Barenblit, director of CA2M
A large part of the contemporary art production has used, as strategy, the alteration of the way the world normally works. From that Duchampian heritage, which quotes a shred from reality, many artists have inverted processes or changed the use of objects to carry out their projects. All of this, with the goal of subverting that reality, turning it against itself, forcing to question themselves why that order and origin of their contradictions.
MARCH 28 WEDNESDAY
¿DE QUÉ OTRA COSA PODRÍAMOS HABLAR?-WHAT ELSE CAN WE TALK ABOUT?-
Pablo Martínez
What is the politic capacity of art? Can it exist an art socially useful? Is it about a commitment or just about responsibility? These and other questions will join us in the discussion.
APRIL 11 WEDNESDAY
UN PASEO POR LA CRISIS DE SIEMPRE -WALKING THROGHT THE ONGOING CRISIS-
Yayo Aznar
The “Me” rational and contemporary (Western, heterosexual, male, white and middle class) exploited in the 80´ over thousands of pieces by the recognition of new subjectivities hitherto ignored. Those that are with and within us: women, homosexuals, ills, mad, villain… We will analyze the way art has dealt to join its voices and its crisis.
APRIL 18 WEDNESDAY
ARTE Y COLONIALIDAD- ART AND COLONIALITY-
María Iñigo Clavo, artist and researcher.
The discussion will focus on art pieces that dialogue with problematic related to Post-colonial theorization mostly within the Latin-American context, but also in the Western: coloniality, colonial difference, intern colonialism, border thinking, new multiculture, creolization of the world and metonymies of the presence.
APRIL 25 WEDNESDAY
ESPEREMOS QUE NO PASE NADA -LET US HOPE NOTHING HAPPENS-
Luis Ortega, artist
It will take place a visual experience of time through the features of cartography and the material.