Conference Presentations by Inés Molina-Agudo
XII Seminario de Cultura Visual. Imágenes que piensan. La visualidad en los procesos de construcción de la cultura, la identidad y la memoria, 2024
This presentation traces a journey through some of the marginal publications kept in the archives... more This presentation traces a journey through some of the marginal publications kept in the archives of the Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation, published in different Spanish towns between 1975 and 1979. The term ‘marginal press’ refers to the self-published press, lacking commercial distribution, which emerged in neighbourhoods and towns after Franco's regime as a symptom of the popular loquacity experienced at the time. Based on this selection of materials, which form part of the documentary corpus of a doctoral thesis devoted to the phenomenon, three lines of reflection will be proposed to the group: first, the way in which these magazines strain the notion of quality, truncated in favour of the precarious, ugly and amateurish; their attack on individual authorship, intentionally blurred in order to extol the collective processes of creation; and, finally, their abrogation of the difference between work and document, since they seek not so much to disseminate information in an instrumental sense, but to put the aesthetic, intellectual or creative capacities of their editors to work. The aim is to highlight not only the contributions that art history can make to the study of the marginal press, but also the questions or challenges that these publications can ultimately pose to the discipline itself.
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Esta presentación traza un recorrido por algunas de las publicaciones marginales custodiadas en el archivo de la Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, editadas en distintas localidades españolas entre 1975 y 1979. El término “prensa marginal” nombra a la prensa autoeditada, carente de distribución comercial, que eclosiona en barrios y pueblos tras el franquismo como síntoma de la locuacidad popular entonces experimentada. A partir de esta selección de materiales, integrados en el corpus documental de una tesis doctoral dedicada al fenómeno, se propondrán tres ejes de reflexión al grupo: primero, el modo en que estas publicaciones tensan la noción de calidad, truncada a favor de lo precario, feísta y amateur; su jaque a la autoría individual, difuminada intencionalmente para ensalzar los procesos colectivos de creación; y, por último, su derogación de la diferencia entre obra y documento, ya que no buscan tanto difundir información en un sentido instrumental, sino poner a trabajar las capacidades estéticas, intelectuales o creativas de sus editores. Se trata de subrayar así no solo los aportes que la Historia del Arte puede hacer a la hora de estudiar la prensa marginal, sino también las preguntas o desafíos que estas publicaciones le proponen a la propia disciplina.
Experiences and Misplacements. Seminar of Visual Studies and Anthropology of the Image (Universid... more Experiences and Misplacements. Seminar of Visual Studies and Anthropology of the Image (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) on March 16, 2023.
Rethinking Culture, Media and Creative Industries in the Era of Covid - King’s College London, 2021
Emerging Voices
CREATIVE LABOUR AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Panel 1 – Transformations in cultural i... more Emerging Voices
CREATIVE LABOUR AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Panel 1 – Transformations in cultural institutions
Chair: Kirsty Warner, King’s College London
Abstract: In March 2020, the Spanish government decreed a state of alarm to control the COVID-19 pandemic, which lasted three months. One of the consequences of this emergency measure was the immediate cessation of all activities considered ‘non-essential’, and so concert halls, theatres, museums and art centres were closed, and events and festivals were cancelled. In this context, this presentation proposes an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Spanish cultural institutions based on the reflections that arose from the public meeting ‘Culture and COVID: a conversation about artistic spaces and practices in Madrid’ (November 14, 2020). This meeting brought together several scholars and agents linked to three fundamental institutions of the cultural ecosystem of Madrid (Spain): Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Intermediæ | Matadero and Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo. Authors addressed this debate as a result of a broader discussion about the challenges and issues facing art and cultural spaces today, which includes a series of questions related to the transformations, adaptations, reconversions and/or continuities of cultural institutions, as well as cultural work, during the COVID-19 crisis. Historical, institutional and temporal context is provided to situate the debate and further discussions, framed through an ecofeminist and degrowth approach. Key concepts such as culture as ‘non-essential’ activity, the ‘caring’ role of cultural institutions and the resistance to “compulsory virtualisation” during the pandemic, are addressed here.
Enlace: https://cmci-kings.org/2021/06/30/creative-labour-and-cultural-institutions/
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Conference Presentations by Inés Molina-Agudo
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Esta presentación traza un recorrido por algunas de las publicaciones marginales custodiadas en el archivo de la Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, editadas en distintas localidades españolas entre 1975 y 1979. El término “prensa marginal” nombra a la prensa autoeditada, carente de distribución comercial, que eclosiona en barrios y pueblos tras el franquismo como síntoma de la locuacidad popular entonces experimentada. A partir de esta selección de materiales, integrados en el corpus documental de una tesis doctoral dedicada al fenómeno, se propondrán tres ejes de reflexión al grupo: primero, el modo en que estas publicaciones tensan la noción de calidad, truncada a favor de lo precario, feísta y amateur; su jaque a la autoría individual, difuminada intencionalmente para ensalzar los procesos colectivos de creación; y, por último, su derogación de la diferencia entre obra y documento, ya que no buscan tanto difundir información en un sentido instrumental, sino poner a trabajar las capacidades estéticas, intelectuales o creativas de sus editores. Se trata de subrayar así no solo los aportes que la Historia del Arte puede hacer a la hora de estudiar la prensa marginal, sino también las preguntas o desafíos que estas publicaciones le proponen a la propia disciplina.
CREATIVE LABOUR AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Panel 1 – Transformations in cultural institutions
Chair: Kirsty Warner, King’s College London
Abstract: In March 2020, the Spanish government decreed a state of alarm to control the COVID-19 pandemic, which lasted three months. One of the consequences of this emergency measure was the immediate cessation of all activities considered ‘non-essential’, and so concert halls, theatres, museums and art centres were closed, and events and festivals were cancelled. In this context, this presentation proposes an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Spanish cultural institutions based on the reflections that arose from the public meeting ‘Culture and COVID: a conversation about artistic spaces and practices in Madrid’ (November 14, 2020). This meeting brought together several scholars and agents linked to three fundamental institutions of the cultural ecosystem of Madrid (Spain): Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Intermediæ | Matadero and Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo. Authors addressed this debate as a result of a broader discussion about the challenges and issues facing art and cultural spaces today, which includes a series of questions related to the transformations, adaptations, reconversions and/or continuities of cultural institutions, as well as cultural work, during the COVID-19 crisis. Historical, institutional and temporal context is provided to situate the debate and further discussions, framed through an ecofeminist and degrowth approach. Key concepts such as culture as ‘non-essential’ activity, the ‘caring’ role of cultural institutions and the resistance to “compulsory virtualisation” during the pandemic, are addressed here.
Enlace: https://cmci-kings.org/2021/06/30/creative-labour-and-cultural-institutions/