BUT... THIS IS ART? 2011

For the third year running, the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo is offering the "But… This is Art?" introductory course on contemporary art. The course, consisting in 2-hour sessions, will focus on key themes in current art: The death of the author, the crisis of the subject, the decline of the great narratives and the formation of art as a critical space.

WED 2 MAR
UNBEARABLE LIGHT. INTRODUCTION
Victoria Gil-Delgado, CA2M educator.

WED 9 MAR
WHAT HAPPENED TO MODERNITY?
Yayo Aznar. Course director. Lecturer in Art History. Geography and History Department. UNED (National Distance Learning University).

WED 16 MAR
WHAT YOU SEE IS MORE THAN JUST WHAT YOU SEE.
Yayo Aznar. Course director. Lecturer in Art History. Geography and History Department. UNED.

WED 23 MAR
A NEW AUDIENCE: PARTICIPATORY ART AND RADICAL DEMOCRACY
Pablo Martínez. Head of education and public activities. CA2M.

WED 30 MAR
UTOPIES OF USELESSNESS OR HOW TO REACH THE IMPOSSIBLE
Carlos Granados. Educator and artist. CA2M.
"To work and create "for nothing," to sculpture in clay, to know one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries — this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions". Albert Camus.

WED 6 APR
THE OTHER STRANGER. ASSIMILATION PERSPECTIVE AND POSTCOLONIAL CULTURE.
Jesús López Díaz. Lecturer in Art History. Geography and History Department. UNED.

WED 13 APR
ART AND GENDER
Yayo Aznar. Course director. Lecturer in Art History. Geography and History Department. UNED.

WED 27 APR
ART FOR OUR FRAGMENTED SOCIETY

Pablo Martínez. Head of education and public activities. CA2M.

WED 4 MAY
INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CRITICISM
Ferran Barenblit. CA2M DIrector.

WED 11 MAY
IN THE BEGINNING:  THE SITUATIONISTS
Jesús López. Lecturer in Art History. Geography and History Department. UNED.

Days: On Wednesday. 2 March - 11 May
Hours: 18:30 — 20:00 h. aprox.