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Our Many Europes. Europe's Critical ‘90s and the Constituent Museum

Our Many Europes is a programme organised by the European museum confederation L’Internationale and co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme. The members of L’Internationale and its partners Valand Academy (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD, Ireland) will present more than 40 public activities (conferences, exhibitions, workshops) in the framework of this project.

The Uses of Art - The legacy of 1848 and 1989

This programme, organised by L’Internationale and co-financed by the European Union’s Culture Programme, started in 2013 and proposes new readings of European art history. Its perspective on the past is anchored in the long history of civil society, tracing it back to the civic revolutions of 1848 through wars and social changes, up to the revolutions of 1989 and then on to the economic crises of today.

This program emerges out of the need to bring together ideas on the illnesses we suffer from, at a time when the welfare state has given way to a type of governance centered on the proliferation of new disorders, diseases, and medications.

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Listening was the first way of learning the discourse. Listening crystalizes the language in our bodies. Sound makes the speech tangible, almost palpable. When we speak the voice resonates in our larynx as well as in the place of the one is listening.

This seminar, framed inside the European network Midstream, 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. The lectures, held in Málaga, examine the way Picasso is used to shape the contemporary city.

Este taller, que se presentó el 26 de marzo de 2017 en el marco del seminario Picasso en la institución monstruo. Arte, industria cultural y derecho a la ciudad en La Casa Invisible, parte de la intervención en el ámbito local de Málaga del grupo de investigación coordinado por los artistas Rogelio López Cuenca y Elo Vega, a partir de la reflexión sobre la explotación de la ciudad como objetivo para el consumo del turismo cultural.

The exhibition Really Useful Knowledge endeavours to position the notion of critical pedagogy as a crucial element in collective struggles, and explore the tension between individual and social emancipation through education with examples that are both historical and current.

The role the archive plays in contemporary culture, by virtue of its powerful metaphorical potential and as a tool of knowledge and resistance, has been broadly explored in many exhibitions, publications and encounters over the past two decades.

Inside the framework of International Women’s Day, a conversation is set up between anthropologist Rita Laura Segato and sociologist Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar as they seek to pinpoint the inequalities that still exist today under a range of focal points: from gender violence and domestic slavery to the coloniality of power used strategically as an objective of war by some states.

In Brazil, in 1959, the International Congress of Art Critics was held, a symposium where artists, architects, art and architectural historians were brought together to debate the role of modernity in a new world surfacing in the post-war period. This new reading of the minutes sets out to activate the document, understood as a performative exercise of a past utopian episode that still has huge potency and resonates in a present time in which art history and critique have been displaced from their role and public influence.

This conversation takes place inside the public programme Dialogues, formulated by the museum confederation L’Internationale, and departs from four core areas, inviting different thinkers, artists and activists to address terms which resonate in the present. The activity sees political theorist Chantal Mouffe and the philosopher Didier Eribon debate the term populism in relation to citizen representation and cultural institutions.

Mário Pedrosa (Pernambuco, 1900 - Río de Janeiro, 1981) was one of the foremost 20^th-century Brazilian and Latin American thinkers. A critic, politician and sociologist, Pedrosa embodied the paradigm of the public intellectual committed to the debate over the future of society, both politically and culturally, and was a spokesperson in the forming of Brazil’s modern culture.

This activity introduces the thinking of the Brazilian intellectual inside the space of the retrospective dedicated to his work. The talk seeks to disseminate his main ideas in connection with the artists and works that accompany his reflections. Mário Pedrosa (Pernambuco, 1900 – Rio de Janeiro, 1981) was a tireless critic and historian and the author of a unique concept of modernity, whereby art, as he put it, is the “experimental exercise of freedom”.

The international conference Cold Atlantic will examine the artistic, cultural and aesthetic exchanges produced between the USA, Europe, Africa and Latin America during the Cold War. The aim is to highlight the axes of alignment and artistic exchange between the geopolitically minor actors that were trapped inside the huge theatrical strategy from this period. The conference, which will be conducted through round-table discussions, lectures and dialogue, organised through an open international process, looks to recover relatively unstudied nodes of cultural influence and dissemination in its aim to decentralise the Paris-New York axis that still dominates and is ubiquitous in studies on the Cold War and its artistic incarnations, thus fostering discussion that grants a voice to the forms of cultural expression that materialised outside official power structures.