VIVID [RADICAL] MEMORY
[VRM]
Radical Conceptual Art revisited: A social and political perspective from the East and the South
EUROPEAN PROJECT. Programme Culture 2000
Radical conceptual art revisited: a social and political perspective from the East and the South.
Scope of the Project:
To initiate a discussion on the specificities of conceptual art practices, which are/were related to the experience under critical conditions.
To implement an active recovery of the artistic and cultural patrimony of these practices, aimed to discovering the complicity in the context and spaces of current artivism.
First Episode
Artistic production time frame:
The sixties and seventies
Geo-politic and economic scope:
Southern (Portugal, Spain) and Eastern Europe (East-Germany, Hungary)
Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru)
Duration:
1 year (1 Nov 2006 – 31 Oct 2007)
Main activities:
Research, analysis, discussion
Construction of an operational base (to discuss, to study, to recover, to transfer, to spread, to share, to grow...)
Organization of a series of workshop with experts
Creation of a specific network
Creation and presentation of informative & participative activities, in the shape of an exhibition
Creative implication of ICT
Dissemination
Organiser: UB,University of Barcelona
Co-organisers: WKV, Stuttgart; C3, Budapest
General coordinator: Antoni Mercader (UB)
With the special collaboration of MACBA
CREDITS
Organiser:
Co-organisers:
With special collaboration of MACBA
Special thanks to:
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Centro Cultural de España en Lima, Perú (AECI)
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
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