Illegal_cinema
Screening of a film proposed by Cristian Villavicencio followed by discussion. Screening: Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon – Philippe Parreno). Portrait of football player Zinedine Zidane with 17 synchronized cameras during the Real Madrid vs. Villareal CF game. Cristian Villavicencio (Quito 1984). Artist, currently investigating different representational strategies in contemporary audiovisuals for the…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
Bulegoa z/b is launching a new reading group initiative within the E.G.B. line of research. These reading sessions have a dual objective: to revise texts that chart contemporary thought and try out new ways of producing meaning through collective reading. Each group requires the commitment of its participants, who will read and…(Read More)
Forms of formless knowledge
On the 24th of February, Retrospectiva, an exhibition by Xavier Le Roy, opened at the Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona. The idea of the retrospective works in the exhibition as a means of production rather than a way of ordering his trajectory as an artist. On the 25th of February, Xavier Le Roy’s definition of…(Read More)
BGE, Lessons
From 10:30 to 13:00. Actor-network theory is probably the most academically influential sociological proposal of the last three decades. On one hand, we observe that it has become the most strongly-accepted sociological paradigm in social sciences. Writers such as Bruno Latour or Michel Callon appear in all bibliometric indices as two…(Read More)
Forms of formless knowledge
Apparently, art and social thought operate in different arenas, using contradictory approaches in their logic. It is a widely accepted cliché to state that each of the two areas has found its own rationality and means of expression for conceptualising reality. Nevertheless, there is a long history of relationship and contact between them. There are…(Read More)