EVENTS
Ex-Courses Series: Geographies of Contemporary Art
16/01/2007 – 31/05/2007
Ex-Courses Series: Geographies of Contemporary Art
January 16 2007. 19.30h.
Alberto Ruiz Samaniego. Time to Leave. Thinking while Walking.
Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego is a professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts at the University of Vigo. He is a cultural critic, an art curator and a translator. He hols a Phd in Philosophy and a Master in Aesthetics and Theory of Arts from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He has published many books and he has collaborated with several publications and magazines such as Arte y Parte, Revista de Occidente, Lápiz, Diario 16, El Correo Gallego and Exit. Art critic of ABC Cultural. He has curated several exhibitions including Antón Lamazares and Manuel Vilariño, as well as different collective exhibitions of contemporary art (La Isla Futura: arte joven cubano, Arte y nihilismo, 5.000 años de arte moderno). He will be the curator of the Spanish pavilion in the next Venice Biennale.
Tuesday, May 22 2007. 19.30 h.
David Barro. Why does not Anyone Want to be an Art Critic?
David Barro (1974) is editor, art critic, independent curator and co-director of the modern art magazine Dardo Magazine (Dardo ds). He has taught in the Escola des Artes (University of Oporto) from 2000 to 2006. He has been a critic of El Cultural since 1998 and since this year he writes for masdearte.com. He was director of Arte y Parte, [W]art and InteresArte, as well as collaborator of Lápiz. His most recent works include Imagens (Pictures) para uma representação contemporânea y Sky Shout. . La pintura después de la pintura. He has curated a number of exhibitions including: Del zero al 2005, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Otras Alternativas, in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo (MARCO), Seducidos por el accidente in Fundación Luís Seoane, Sin título in Fundación Barrié de la Maza and exhibitions of artists such as Julian Opie.
Thursday, May 24 2007. 19.30 h.
Mercedes Replinger. Attempts of the Impossible: Fictions of Painting
Mercedes Replinger is a theoretical and a lecturer of Contemporary Art History in the Fine Arts Department of the Universidad Complutense of
Monday, May 28 2007. 19.30 h.
Andrea Bellavita. The Shameful Image: the Emersion of the Real Thing and the Confines of the Representation
Andrea Bellavita is a researcher at the University of Studies of Trento and Manager Coordinator of the Mayor School of Media and Show of the University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. He collaborates in the magazine Segnocinema, Social Communication, The Valley of the Eden, The Psychoanalysis and Agalma. He is an author of several essays on the relationship between cinema and psychoanalysis, such as The ghost of the Beauty, The contemporary form of the beauty, Symptoms and Figures, The film ghost, A square on the window of the reality in "The Valley of the Eden", numbers 16-17 (for this publication he has been curator of the bibliographical session dedicated to the cinema and the psychoanalysis; A proposal of psychoanalytical theory of the film language in "The Psychoanalysis" (Astrolabe, Rome, 2004). He is an author of a monography about Kim Ki-duk (Il Castoro, Milan, 2006) and about Luchino Visconti (EDS, Rome, 2006).
Thursday, May 31 2007 19.30 h.
Branden W. Joseph (Columbia University, EEUU). 3 and 7 Seconds Cycles: The Video as a Program
Branden W. Joseph is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He is the author of Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (MIT Press 2003) and editor of Robert Rauschenberg (MIT Press 2002). He is also the author of Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works (ed. Christopher Eamon; Northwestern University Press/Steidl, 2005) and, most recently, Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (forthcoming Zone Books, 2008). His writings have also appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Art Journal, October, Critical Inquiry, Texte zur Kunst, and Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, as well as in such catalogues as CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (2002), X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s (2003), and Robert Rauschenberg: Combines (2005). He is, as well, a founding editor of Grey Room, a journal of architecture, art, media, and politics, published quarterly by MIT Press since 2000.
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