BGE, Reading groups
“What is real subsumption? Marx defines ‘formal subsumption’ as the process in which capital integrates an existing labour process: techniques, markets, means of production, workers, etc. But the development of capital inexorably transforms social relations and modes of labour in accordance with its own requirements. The real subsumption of the labour process occurs once every…(Read More)
BGE, Lessons
I propose to use particular interests within a sculptural focus to approach audiovisual works of a markedly performative nature. Specific works by artists including Jon Mikel Euba, Sandra Cuesta, Iñaki Garmendia, Inazio Escudero and Elena Aitzkoa have anchored and articulated research for my forthcoming dissertation. Currently, I am trying to pick out and to…(Read More)
BGE, Lessons
African Independence movements of the 60s had already demonstrated that after the visible symbols of colonialism were removed —settlers and military— a lot remained to be done in order to gain a sustainable freedom. This struggle would imply the rise of radical theory and a political practice that would refuse to follow methods and models…(Read More)
BGE, Reading groups
Classical anthropology specifically aims to “understand the meaning of good and bad indigenous manners,” according to Bronislaw Malinowski in the introduction to Argonauts of the Western Pacific, considered the inaugural work of ethnography. Knowing how the natives of its world live and think was the project of an anthropology whose object of knowledge was fundamentally…(Read More)
BGE, Lessons
“A shepherd wants to move a dog, a sheep, and a cabbage across a river. He has a boat where he can only fit himself and one of the other ‘things’. If the dog stays behind with the sheep, it will eat the sheep. If the sheep stays behind with the cabbage, it will eat…(Read More)
BGE, Lessons
17:00 – 21:00 The aim of this seminar is to introduce the concept of theatricality in society and contemporary art practices, and thus discuss the possibility of a dissident theatricality. In order to do this, we will briefly cover the various ways in which theatre has come out of itself, and how other artistic…(Read More)
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An aesthetic essay in images, resulting from artistic practice as a laboratory of analysis of materiality, with the latter understood as a symbolic construction that holds up a large part of the mythologies that ground contemporary society. The session will consist of the projection of an essay in images connected to the concept of materiality…(Read More)
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I go forward in leaps, spins and backward steps. I go forward without going forward. I hardly advance at all, I go back on my steps, I split, I cast doubt on the path I have chosen, I take three steps forward, I go back on them, I change direction, again I cast doubt on…(Read More)
BGE, Lessons
Sixth Lesson: “Auzolan: several cases of building social housing in the twentieth century” seminar.
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From the start of the twentieth century, the construction of housing was to become one of the central elements of a modern project whose aim was to transform and regulate the life of individuals. The universality of the new housing was determined by certain forms that, following the standardized repertoire of the modern movement, were…(Read More)