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<p><font color="#3884ab"><b>Picasso in the Monster Institution</b></font><b><br>
</b><font color="#54c1e8"><b>Art, the Culture Industry and the
Right to the City</b></font><br>
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<p>This seminar seeks to reflect on the role of culture in those
social movements that vindicate uses of urban space outside a city
model which looks towards art to strengthen tourist imaginaries,
thus conditioning its institutions and reception. <i>Picasso in
the Monster Institution. Art, the Culture Industry and the Right
to the City</i> strives to create distance from the predominant
sense of celebrations and large-scale cultural commemorations
which, in understanding art as an attractive resource, place
history and artistic experience inside a frame with exclusive ties
to tourism and urban leisure. It also calls into question these
logics and explores possible alternatives.<br>
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The recognition of Picasso’s work is one of the best examples to
analyse the contradictions and complexities of these logics.
Today, the work of the artist from Málaga is broadly appreciated
and disseminated, yet, equally, such a reception cements
stereotypes associated with the heroic and fetichized idea of
artistic avant-garde movements and their most unrelenting myths,
for instance the originality, brilliance and autonomy of art.
These values obscure one of the 20th century’s most complex bodies
of work.<br>
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How can the contemporary city fight against this integration of
art, and its audiences and institutions, in the service economy
and recover the potential of one of the most challenging oeuvres
from the avant-gardes in its historical scope? What are the
devices and anomalous or “monstrous” institutions which are able
to place the work in a space which is alien to this integration?
The seminar sets out to reflect on these questions via two
round-table discussions and a workshop on the monumental imagery
of Picasso and the contemporary city, conducted by Rogelio López
Cuenca and Elo Vega, which will begin at the close of the lectures
and shall be expanded upon in the future. The first session will
debate midstream and monstrous modes of relationship and care,
calling upon different European networks and spaces (S.a.L.E.,
Venice; transversal texts / eipcp, Vienna and Berlin; and La
Invisible, Málaga), and theorists specialised in collaborating
with these instituent machines. The second session analyses the
relationship between art and gentrification through the uses and
abuses of Picasso’s work, putting forward a model of artistic
experience which eludes the so-called creative industries and
economies.<br>
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<font color="#3884ab"><b>Programme</b></font><br>
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Saturday, 25 March. Monster Institutions<br>
17:30 <b>Gerald Raunig</b>. Technecologies. Milieus, Midstreams,
Subsistential Territories<br>
18:30 <b> Florencio Cabello</b>. Notions of Public in Collective
Intelligence.<br>
19:30 <b>Roberta Da Soller</b> (S.a.L.E., Venice), <b>Kelly
Mulvaney</b> (transversal texts / eipcp, Berlin and Chicago) and
<b>Manuela Zechner</b> (Barcelona). Moderated by: <b>Raúl Sánchez
Cedillo</b>. European Cities, from Care and Shelter to Fear,
War, and Debt.<br>
21:00 Debate with the session participants.<br>
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Sunday, 26 March. The Artist in the City-Brand<br>
17:30 <b>Rogelio López Cuenca</b>. In the Great City<br>
This presentation will lead on to a workshop with the artist and <b>Elo
Vega</b>.<br>
18:30 <b>Isabell Lorey</b>. Precarisation. Indebtedness. Giving
Time.<br>
19:30 Debate with the session participants. <br>
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<p><b>Venue</b>: <a href="http://www.lainvisible.net/">La Invisible</a>.
Calle Nosquera, 11. Málaga, ES</p>
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The seminar is organized by <b><a
href="http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/activities/picasso-monster-institution#node-58435">Museo
Reina Sofía</a></b>, <b><a
href="http://www.lainvisible.net/es/node/592">La Invisible</a></b>
and <a href="http://eipcp.net"><b>eipcp</b></a>. <br>
It is part of the transnational project <b>Midstream </b>(<a
href="http://midstream.eipcp.net">http://midstream.eipcp.net</a>).<br>
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