IMAGES THAT TAKE OVER THE SQUARES
With the participation of Aurora Fernández Polanco, Rabih Mroué, Ziad Chakaroun, Carles Guerra, Peio Aguirre, Yayo Aznar and Marc Roig, among others
It now appears that the world is not the same since in 2011 we started to receive images about the taking over of squares: images taking over squares, to such extend that we do not longer think about how those images influences the Middle East riots and the campings at the Spanish squares, we are ready to understand how these riots have indeed modified the image nature. The images of “the actions” are not only documents of a politically agitated historical moment, instead they are attached to the bodies and they become inevitable part of their battle.
What interest us this time is to think together with images, from a certain distance, the necessary one to hold a position and see how some artistic productions have reflected on the making of images, on their performativity. We are also concern about analyzing how images´s free flow seem to be at risk at present: from Syria to Egypt, or even at the Spanish streets, where censorship threat flies over them.
The opening of this course coincide with the solo exhibition by Rabih Mroué at CA2M Image(s) mon amour, curated by Aurora Fernández Polanco, that will approach us to an art work where the involvement with the images gravitate from what they represent to what the images are capable of doing. This time, we will not talk about the hackneyed representation crisis, instead we will think about images´s transformation capacity.
Performance-Lecture by Rabih Mroué on Friday 25th Octuber at 20:00 H.
PROGRAMMING
WEDNESDAY 23 OCT. 18:30 H.
Aurora Fernández Polanco.
Aurora Fernandéz Polanco, Fine Arts professor at Universidad Complutense of Madrid. She leads the investigation group “Images from art and rewriting of the narratives within the global visual culture”and the magazine Re-visiones (re-visiones.imaginarrar.net). Her writings, conferences and commissions have always been related to politics, memory, visuality and representation. She is curating the show Rabih Mroué. Image(s) mon amour.
FRIDAY 25 OCT. 20:00 H.
The pixelated revolution. Performance-Lecture by Rabih Mroué
Rabih Mroué developed his career as director, playwright, performer, essayist and visual artist, his work always reflects on the use of images for (and against) official narratives: from the Lebanese geopolitical reality to the massive production of images of the Syrian revolution. The Pixelated Revolution is a performative lecture on the use of cell phones and it main role mobilizing people during the revolutionary episodes, due to the nature of the shoot images, their reproduction and their quickly broadcasting.
WEDNESDAY 30 OCT. 18:30 H.
Round table moderated by Yayo Aznar
Yayo Aznar professor at the Fine Art History Department of UNED (National Distance Learning University), director of the collection Arte Hoy de Nerea, and editor of Arte actual. Lecturas para un espectador inquieto, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, 2012.
WEDNESDAY 6 NOV. 18:30 H.
El tiempo y la edad del ojo. Performative-Lecture by Ziad Chakaroun
Ziad Chakarounis is a Lebanese actor, performer and Arab-Spanish translator. He has been residing for long periods in Spain. El tiempo y la edad del ojo was inspired by texts and essays by Walid Sadek, artist and Lebanese writer, translated by Ziad Chakaroun, and reinterpretes images from Lebanon war and Civil war.
WEDNESDAY 13 NOV. 18:30 H.
Carles Guerra is chief curator at MACBA, artist, art critic and Contemporary Art professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His work focuses on the usage of images within the education, communication means and contemporary art frameworks, as well as on the Post-Fordism political culture. He has been director of Barcelona Virreina Centro de la Imagen and curator of exhibitions such as: Después de la noticia. Documentales postmedia (CCCB, 2003), 1979. Un monumento a instantes radicales (Virreina, 2011) or Ahlam Shibli. La casa fantasmal (MACBA, 2013)
WEDNESDAY 20 NOV. 18:30 H.
Peio Aguirre is art critic, independent curator and editor, lives and works in Donostia-San Sebastián. He “irregularly” writes for international magazines such as Afterall, A Prior Magazine, Flash Art, ExitExpress, e-flux journal among others, author of numerous monographic texts on contemporary artists. From 2000 to 2005, he was co-director of D.A.E. Donostiako Arte Ekinbideak. He has curated shows as Casco Issues X-The Great Method (co-edited with Emily Pethick), Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht (2007), Imágenes del otro lado, CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2007), Arqueologías del futuro, sala rekalde, Bilbao (2007) and Asier Mendizabal, MACBA, Barcelona (2008). He writes “critic and metacoment” on his blog http://peioaguirre.blogspot.com
Free access to a single lecture, until full seating capacity reached.