Exhibition: “The democratic skylight. Policies of life and death in the Spanish State (1868 – 1976)”

Exposición: “The democratic skylight. Policies of life and death in the Spanish State (1868 – 1976)”

The exhibition critically reviews the relationships between death, politics and democratic memory regarding contemporary Spanish history, from a horizon of human rights and cultures of peace.
The tour raises a mature debate of the collective past on political violence, as well as the ways to resist it, fight it, discuss it and remember it, proposing historical alternatives, resistance approaches, rejections and adaptive strategies. The first part goes through the citizen struggles from the democratic six-year term to 1936; a second module focuses on the Civil War; a third is dedicated to the dictatorship, to lead, lastly, to the origins of the Transition. Through these dissidences, revolts and daily practices, democratic rights were built. As a whole, it is a long tunnel of the past where the shadows and lights of history can still be seen. With a story that is sensitive to dissidence, opposition and daily practices over the last hundred and fifty years, the project has 266 original works from 71 providers, all national, and is complemented by a large number of photographic and 11 audiovisual reproductions.
The name of the exhibition, Skylight, is a tribute to the celebrated work that Antonio Buero Vallejo premiered in 1967, “El skylight” where he proposes a science-fiction journey between two eras, the Spanish postwar period and the 25th century. In the piece, the inhabitants of a distant future are dedicated to investigating history: they have a “skylight”, a powerful vision machine that allows them to project fragments of the past onto their present. Thus, they reconstruct the lives of those who preceded them, to wonder how their dramas and demands, their struggles and their cruelties also belong to them.

Sala de Exposiciones La Alqueria
Nuevos Ministerios
(Madrid, Spain)
24 March-23 July 2023

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Memorias de lo urbano. First International Symposium.

Memorias de lo urbano

First International Symposium

From 26 to 29 October 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER Memorias en conflicto

9:30 hrs. Conferencia magistral

Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC) “Etnografía de un descenso a las profundidades del Valle (de los Caídos)”

11:00 hrs. Mesa 1 Los conflictos de la memoria en la ciudad

Queralt Solé (Universidad de Barcelona) “El franquismo en el paisaje urbano”

 

Live-streamed on the social networks of the Laboratorio de Antropología Visual de la UAM-I

https://www.facebook.com/labantrovisual

https://www.youtube.com/c/LAVUAMI

Experiencias y extravíos. Seminario de Estudios Visuales y Antropología de la Imagen

Diálogos posibles:

Pensar las imágenes desde

los cuidados

24 March 2021

 

 

Zoé de Kerangat (Proyecto Subtierro, CSIC)

“Cuerpos expuestos y practicas de cuidado a través de las fotografías de la exhumación de los años 70 y 80”

María Roson (UCM)

“Red y cultura material: una aproximación a la guerra de España y al exilio desde los cuidados”

17-19.30h

SENSION ONLINE. More info:experienciasyextravios@geo.uned.es

Marcos, Franco, Lenin: Necropolitical Dissonances

Marcos, Franco, Lenin:
Necropolitical Dissonances

Friday 29 January 2021, 6 pm

DIGITAL MEMORY STUDIES ASSOCIATION

ONLINE EVENT SERIES

 

 

 

Jocelyn Martin Ateneo of Manila University
Marcos: from Dictator to Hero

Francisco Ferrándiz Spanish National Research Council, CSIC
Franco, exhumed in disgrace: from Caudillo to War Criminal

Alexei Yurchak University of California at Berkeley
Laboratory of the Future: Lenin’s body between biochemistry and art

Discussant: Antonius C.G.M. Robben Utrecht University

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Live-streamed in the MSA’s YouTube channel

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Exhibition “Fake Games. The Collectivized Monument” at the IVAM

Exhibition “Fake Games. The Collectivized Monument” at the IVAM

The director of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), José Miguel G. Cortés, the curator Miguel Caballero, and the artist, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, will present the exhibition Fake Games to the media. The collectivized monument.

The artist proposes the creation of a collective memorial in gallery 6 of the museum from one of the most iconic photographs of the Spanish Civil War: Death of a militiaman attributed to Robert Capa and Gerda Taro.

The main installation of the sample is a memorial based on the exchange of a small figure of a little plastic soldier, inspired by the famous militiaman photographed by Capa / Taro. Visitors over the age of fifteen – the minimum age for enlisting in the militias – can take a little soldier home in exchange for a reflection on this conflict and its aftermath that will be written on the walls of the gallery.

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Experiences and deviations. Seminar on Visual Studies and Anthropology of the Image

Experiences and deviations

Seminar on Visual Studies and Anthropology of the Image

2020/2021

 

Next week begins “Experiences and deviations. Seminar on Visual Studies and Anthropology of the Image”, coordinated by Mónica Alonso Riveiro and Lidia Mateo Leivas.

It will take place at the UNED Faculty of Geography and History. Humanities Building, room 331, Senda del Rey 7, Madrid.

Our colleagues will participate in the seminar: Francisco Ferrándiz, María García Alonso, Zoé de Kerangat, Daniel Palacios and Marije Hristova.

 

The social construction of the memory of state terrorism. Memory policies and local memories in Campo de la Ribera (Córdoba, Argentina)

Conference by: 

Vanesa Garbero

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad (CONICET y UNC); Centro de Estudios Avanzados (Facultad de Ciencias Sociales- UNC)


Thursday, February 20, 2020

17:00 – 19:00 hours
Sala María Moliner (1F8)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro: Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal

Free entrance

 

II Historical Memory conference. Seseña

II Historical Memory conference. Seseña

Spain at war. Violence in the rear

February 7 and 8, 2020, Seseña (Toledo))

 

Our partner Miriam Saqqa Carazo will participate in the conference.

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Historical memory from artistic practice. The world of the victors

Conference by: 

Ignasi Prat Altimira
(Visual artist)
 
Monday, February 17, 2020
18.00 – 20.00 hours

Aula 301
Facultat de Geografia i Història (Universitat de Barcelona)
C/ Montalegre, 6
Metro Universitat – Catalunya – Liceu
Free entry
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Around Episodios de una Guerra Interminable by Almudena Grandes

Conference by: 

Aránzazu Calderón Puerta

(Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies of the University of Warsaw)


Thursday 19 December 2019

17:00 – 19:00 hours
Sala María Moliner (1F8)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro: Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal

Free entrance