{"id":7066,"date":"2012-11-26T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2012\/11\/26\/seminar-gramsci-evoking-resistance\/"},"modified":"2012-11-26T05:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T05:53:00","slug":"seminar-gramsci-evoking-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/seminar-gramsci-evoking-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Gramsci: evoking resistance against the loss of culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7045\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/50_gramsci1.jpg\" alt=\"50_gramsci1.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"670\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/50_gramsci1.jpg 670w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/50_gramsci1-527x400.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/> During the decade of the 80s, while Chile lived through a military dictatorship, the Chilean philosopher Pablo Oyarz\u00fan carried out, in his home country, a clandestine seminar exploring the thought of the philosopher and Italian Marxist politician, Antonio Gramsci. This seminar, significant for its illegality within the context in which it arose, that supposed a gesture vindicating culture in a time of political and social instability, is recuperated at La Capella, with the project \u201cSeminar Gramsci\u201d, a proposal by Lu\u00eds Guerra, visual artist, writer and Chilean theorist.<\/p>\n<p>Lu\u00eds Guerra converts the exhibition space into a testimony of the events that take place inside, evoking the clandestine sessions organised by Oyarz\u00fan. At the end of the space there are a few chairs laid out for those attending, a table and microphone for the speaker, a computer and projector, elements that seem to be all that is required for these talks. Six loudspeakers hanging from the roof reproduce oral readings in Italian of texts by Gramsci: fragments that pertain to the &#8220;<em>Prison Notebooks<\/em>&#8220;, brief texts compiled by the Italian thinker during his days of imprisonment. In one of the side naves of La Capella there is a series of 20 sheets of paper hanging from the walls, the majority of them blank, except for 5 which contain drawings in pencil, charcoal and ink, in an apparently na\u00efve style and charged with references, written as much as illustrated by Gramsci. In the second side nave, one only finds the collection of the \u201cPrison Notebooks\u201d, made up four volumes, each of around a thousand pages, placed directly on the floor. On the wall there hangs the odd magazine in which one sees the photograph of a snowy mountain.  <\/p>\n<p>Even though the endeavour has been to fill the exhibition space with a few pieces, such as the drawings or loudspeakers, the central axis of &#8220;Seminar Gramsci\u201d is the programme of activities that started on the 9 November, with the presentation of the project by the author, and which carries on until the 29th of the same month, with \u201cSudamerican\u201d a performance by Pamela Desjardins and Ver\u00f3nica Lahitte. A visit to the space without attending any event within the seminar is tiring and hard to understand due to the fact that it is a procedural piece and acquires meaning at the moment when one of the presentations, debates or performances takes place. The display of just the works, without the existence of the seminars, wouldn\u00b4t make any sense. <\/p>\n<p>Lu\u00eds Guerra was the curator of a centre in Santiago de Chile and at a specific moment invited a group of graffiti artists. They, instead of doing what they were familiar with, the foreseeable, created a school within the centre, that lasted for the duration of the exhibition, thereby placing their way of doing things in crisis, given that they had to confront the unexpected and far more difficulties than if they had done what was expected. To a certain extent Guerra has appropriated this fact, as the proposal of the seminar is not so different from that of the graffiti artists.   <\/p>\n<p>Aix\u00ed doncs, la pot\u00e8ncia de la proposta de Guerra es troba en el paral\u00b7lelisme que s\u2019atreveix a fer entre el context hist\u00f2ric del seminari d\u2019Oyarz\u00fan, i l\u2019actual, aqu\u00ed a Barcelona. Encara que la situaci\u00f3 pol\u00edtica d\u2019ambd\u00f3s casos sigui molt diferent, en tots dos s\u2019hi troba inestabilitat i crisis pol\u00edtica i social, que insinuen la tornada cap a un fort nacionalisme conservador, no nom\u00e9s ideol\u00f2gic, sin\u00f3 tamb\u00e9, com es va fent evident al llarg dels dies, cultural. I \u00e9s que si en la dictadura militar de Xile el seminari de Gramsci era il\u00b7legal, en la nostra contemporane\u00eftat la censura es pot interpretar en el tancament de centres com l\u2019Espai Zero1 o Can Xalant. Amb tot aix\u00f2, la recuperaci\u00f3 de la figura de Gramsci no es fa per elecci\u00f3 capritxosa, sin\u00f3 que, com Guerra explicava en la pon\u00e8ncia \u201c<em>Cultura popular, el arte de no ser gobernados (Popular culture, the art of not being governed)<\/em>\u201d,the interest in this character lies in the fundamental thesis that arises from the question, \u201cwhy are we always defeated by fascism?\u201d. The writings of Gramsci about popular culture in relation to fascist politics, reread now through the thoughts of Lu\u00eds Guerra, link his exhaustive linguistic analyses with this very contemporary context.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the decade of the 80s, while Chile lived through a military dictatorship, the Chilean philosopher Pablo Oyarz\u00fan carried out, in his home country, a clandestine seminar exploring the thought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":7045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6783],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seminar Gramsci: evoking resistance against the loss of culture &#8211; 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