Fecha: viernes 16 y sábado 17 de marzo de 2012
Hora: 10.00 – 20.00 horas
Lugar: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Auditorio Sabatini
Entrada: gratuita, hasta completar aforo
Dirección: Juan Albarrán y Darío Corbeira
Proyecto y coordinación: Brumaria

El seminario Arte y Transición reunirá a un grupo de artistas e historiadores del arte con el objetivo de confrontar sus análisis acerca de las relaciones entre arte y política durante el proceso conocido como “transición democrática”. Desde una perspectiva crítica, recuperando iniciativas y espacios prácticamente olvidados, las mesas tratarán problemas relacionados con la construcción de la institución-arte, las paradojas de la militancia y el papel de los medios de comunicación.
En los últimos años, diversos proyectos de investigación han comenzado a cuestionar los relatos hegemónicos que envuelven el complejo proceso de transición a la democracia en España. Dichos relatos, presentaban el proceso transicional como una narración sin fisuras, conducida con inteligencia y responsabilidad por un conjunto de políticos que determinan (desde arriba) las pautas, etapas y estaciones del difícil camino hacia la democracia. Esta transición excluye del campo de lo político a otros agentes fundamentales del cambio (desde abajo): movimientos feministas y vecinales, luchas obreras y estudiantiles así como todas aquellas manifestaciones que se producen y difunden fuera de los cauces de la “cultura oficial”.
Así pues, resulta necesario reflexionar sobre las estrategias de resistencia y contestación adoptadas por estas prácticas en el contexto del último franquismo dejando al descubierto sus contradicciones e incoherencias y poniendo en valor aquellos elementos que puedan ayudarnos a comprender las potencialidades del arte en un clima de lucha política. Posteriormente, a medida que el proceso transicional fue cumpliendo etapas, se produjo una paulatina desactivación de las práctica artísticas (recorrido que trata de esbozar la última reordenación de las colecciones del MNCARS entre las salas 001.04 y 001.09), correlato artístico de la desmovilización de la sociedad civil, la deriva posibilista de la izquierda y la implantación de unas nuevas políticas culturales por parte de los primeros gobiernos democráticos. El seminario contará con la participación de Juan Albarrán, Alberto Berzosa, Valeriano Bozal, Jesús Carrillo, Tino Calabuig, Alberto Corazón, Darío Corbeira, Fernando Golvano, Simón Marchán, Guillem Martínez, Juan Pecourt, Alfonso Pinilla, Giulia Quaggio y Daniel Verdú Schumann.

Colaboran:

IV Encuentro de Investigación y Documentación de Artes Visuales
Tiempos oscuros. Violencia, arte y cultura.
Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información de Artes Plásticas (México DF)

Brumaria take part in the seminar Tiempos oscuros. Violencia, arte y cultura with a lecture by Darío Corbeira on the project Violencias Expandidas / Expanded Violences.

Program

The Book Coop: e-flux journal & network—features art books, magazines and other types of publications from members of the journal network, a group of around 200 international art centers, art book stores and independent publishers that self-publish and distribute the print-on-demand e-flux journal.

These are the participants:
Institution, 98weeks, Architectural Association / Bedford Press, Arsenal Gallery, Artspace, AS220, BAK (basis voor actuele kunst), Ballroom, BAS, Bergen Konsthall, Berliner, Künstlerprogramm/ DAAD, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Brumaria, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, CASCO, Casino Luxembourg, CDA-Projects, Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), Cultural Center of Belgrade, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, EACC Espai d’Art contempoarani de Castello, Eastside Projects, Fillip / Motto, Fondazione March, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic AND Institute for Duration, Location and Variables, DeLVe, Gallery Nova / WHW, Grazer Kunstverein, IASPIS, ICA Sofia, Ikon, Independent Curators International (ICI), Index, Kadist / Kadist Paris, Kim?, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Kumu Art Museum, Kunsthalle Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Kunsthaus Graz, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Kunstnernes Hus, Kunstverein, LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, M HKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen), MACBA, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Master in Visual Arts (Faculdade Santa Marcelina), Maumaus (Escola de Artes Visuais), MKG Milton Keynes Gallery, Moderna Galerija, Monash University Museum of Art (Melbourne), Morris and Helen Belkin Art, Gallery (University of British Columbia), Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves, Nassauischer Kunstverein (NKV), National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (MNAC), NBK (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Nottingham Contemporary, OMMU, Pavilion, Pavilion Unicredit, Pori Art Museum, Portikus / Städelschule, Postgraduate Program in Curating (Zürich), University of the Arts AND Whitespace, Press to exit project space, Project Arts Centre, Publication Studio, Publication Studio Vancouver /READ Books / Charles H. Scott Gallery / Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Rakett, REDCAT, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, SALT, Salzburger Kunstverein, Sarai-CSDS, Serpentine Gallery, Shedhalle, split/fountain, Sternberg Press, Stroom den Haag, The Books, The New Gallery, The Power Plant, The Renaissance Society, Traffic, Van Abbemuseum, Vitamin Creative Space, Walker Arts Center, White Flag Projects, Wysing Arts Center, Zach?ta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.

Citizens, one more effort to be true protesters! If not the result will no doubt be discouraging. Our time is not that of Babeuf; after a thousand years it is no longer the time to “change” these crude laws: today it is time to abolish those very laws. Creating out of failure, always, a moment that prevents us from weakening. Elevating impotence to the impossible, that is to say, to the real. Indignation will not help anything, nor will the construction of assemblies where before it was impossible (an authentic creation of a possible, an invention of equality), if what is attempted is nothing more than state recognition and parliamentary reform: one must declare sovereignty from these, at the same time as, if it is necessary (and it is), the dissolution of the Parliament. The problem is not that there are good or bad governors, the problem is government itself. In other words, we will just end up being “better” governed. One must decide on making a decision.

There is apartisanship, that is true politics: the affirmation of the part from those without a part. But as such, as part of the no-part, we only have organization. Without a doubt, and as Mao knew it, “the masses are the real heroes.” People think. Organization opposes itself to the party: those who have nothing are left only with that: the organization of their thought and their generic capacity for sharing.

All power to the assemblies! We think, that this would be the most appropriate slogan. And to go on: production is always necessary, economics is not.

Fraudulent elections for idiots! Confusion or emancipation! and All power to the assemblies! these can very well be the slogans of our time.

The course is an introduction from a broad perspective to the critical action through video, which is revealed as a denounce mechanism for social transformation, thanks to the viral video and the use of social networks such as YouTube and Vimeo, which have transformed the production and dissemination of the video. Aimed at professionals and students in Human studies forming in the field of arts and thinking, as well as communication, audiovisual production and other areas related to culture and communication.

At the same time there will be a program of films that incorporate and claim the difference, either by exposing a situation or proposing alternative discourses. Proposal addresses issues of individual freedoms and collective rights and issues such as environment, gender equality or political action. Among others, there will be screened works by Abdoul Aziz Cissé (Komian, 2010), Eugènia Balcells (Boy Meets Girl, 1978 and For/Against, 1983), María Cañas (Por un puñado de yuanes, 2008), Jaume Pitarch (Killer, 2004, Rethinking David & Golitah, 2006), Marcelo Expósito (Primero de Mayo (la ciudad-fàbrica), 2004 and El año en que el futuro acabó (comenzó), 2007, Brumaria (Violencias Expandidas / Expanded Violences, 2010), Isabel Rocamora (Body of War, 2010), David Mauas (trailer Quién mató a Walter Benjamin…, 2005; trailer of Goya, el secreto de la sombra, 2011 and teaser of Érase una vez en Jerusalén, ZEMOS98 (Peatón Bonzo, 2003) and Núria Vila (Enemigos, no hay enemigo, 2005).

Schedule of screenings:
11-15 May at 1pm and 6-8pm
Place: Sala dels Atlans, Reial Cercle Artistic.

For more information about the course you can download this PDF

30th April from 11am to 2pm and from 5pm to 9pm

Seminar given by Antonio García Senador, Darío Corbeira and Alejandro Arozamena at the Salón de Actos in MUSAC, León.

Seminar about the exhibition A way of organisation around the void. Brumaria Works #3. Expanded Violences (Jacques Lacan, Seminar 22, R.S.I.). It is addressed to people interested in psychoanalysis and its links to art and politics. Registration is free and it can be done through MUSAC’s website or at MUSAC’s Reception. The number of places is 100.

The schedule for the whole day is the following:

General introduction to psychoanalysis
Place: Salón de actos

11 am to 12.30 pm: Antonio García Cenador: What is psychoanalysis?
12.30 pm to 1 pm: break.
1 pm to 2 pm: colloquium.
2 pm to 5 pm: break / joint lunch.

In order to keep on reflecting and debating, a joint lunch will be organised with speakers and general public attending the seminar. When applying for the seminar, it will be required to specify whether one will attend the lunch or not.The cost of the meal will be individual and it will be held in a restaurant chosen by the organisation.

Psychoanalysis, Art and Politics
Place: Sala 1, within the installation

5 pm to 6 pm: Darío Corbeira:
Part I. “15 thesis about contemporary art; from Alain Badiou”
Part II. “15 thesis about contemporary art; from Alain Badiou”
6 pm to 6.30 pm: break.
6.30 pm to 7 pm: Alejandro Arozamena
7 pm: final colloquium