This educational program is made up of a commentated screening led by an educator and a direct animation film workshop. The program offers various experimental and fiction creations.
Alexander Apóstol’s projects build a critical analysis of the aesthetic processes of political construction in his native Venezuela. Like other artists from his generation, who started to exhibit their work in the early-nineties, Apóstol (Barquisimeto, 1969) used the tools of photography and video as key elements in a critique of representation, in which the visual culture produced by power and the mass media—with their stereotypes, clichés, concealments and propagandas—is co-opted as the raw material of the work of contemporary art.
FEED THE CHIMERA
In recent years the Universidad Popular explored illusionism and magic. With this idea in mind, we are now proposing to follow up our research and take it to the limit, to the fabulous.
BUT … IS THIS ART? 2018
We are now setting out on another new course with this question, introduced a long time ago with the advent of modernism. Surprisingly, in our hyper-consumerist society, it is still as valid and seemingly unexhausted as ever.
POPULAR UNIVERSITY 2018
During the last school year Universidad Popular took up the challenge to bewitch us again with art, to rediscover the ability to inspire awe.
BUT... IS THIS ART? 2014
After five years of intense debate between the public and the conference givers, we are still unable to answer the question that forms the title of this course.
IMAGES THAT TAKE OVER THE SQUARES
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.
BUT... IS THIS ART? 2013
This time, CA2M launches the revision of gaze. From a number of talks with theoreticians, educators and artists, this course seeks to reflect on both current art proposals and on our gaze toward art.