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Art research. Open session

Art research. Open session

LIFE IN DESSAU

Open Session looking at art research

Thursday 7 February. 7pm.

Laura Aixalà, Caterina Almirall, Mirari Echávarri, Cristina Gómez, Lucía Piedra.

Open session within the study programme at A*desk 2012-2013, forming part of the Itinerary “Emergent cultures. Attitudes and procedures in artistic research.”

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Where does artistic research come from and where is it going? But… what really is it? Coming to the end of the first itinerary in the Study Programme at A*DESK 2012-2013, we’ve undertaken the task of mapping out the concepts that we’ve been working on with each of the people who have visited us over these last two months.

It’s not been just a few visits, and they’ve been very varied. We’ve talked to curators, directors, artists and anthropologists, who in turn have talked about endless projects, experiences and concepts. In our cartography we’ve endeavoured to find a place for each one and the relations that were established between them, the concepts and this structure called the “art world”. Despite the density of the task, we’ve finally ascertained a range of questions that, if they don’t offer specific answers, it is precisely because questions are what we need to turn this world round.

We invite you to experience the results, that in turn, are also research (or meta-research), that we wanted to conclude by opening a form of archive-exhibition and if possible a conversation with all of you and the protagonists of the story: Eloy Fernández Porta, Octavi Rofes, Andrés Hispano, Manuel Segade, Tere Badia, Marta García, Oriol Vilanova, Cristian Añó, Sinapsis, Mery Cuesta, Antonio Ortega and Tirdad Zolghadr.

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Free Open Session at A*DESK (C/ de Josep Torres, nº11; 08012 Barcelona)

Coordination: Oriol Fontdevila

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