Politicizations Of Discontent

Creative processes and shared experiences

Exhibition

Exhibition | 18.10 - 28.11.2017 | Cloister Max Cahner

Politicizations Of Discontent stems from a desire to examine in depth other ways of managing discontent via creative processes, shaping an itinerary structured around various experiences that define discontent in terms of its collective, political dimension, returning to society what society itself makes invisible. In today’s society discontent is mainly treated through psychiatry and behaviourist psychology, which encourage medical solutions to unease and favour passive treatment. In the face of this progressive alienation, imposed by hegemonic institutions, art can provide an effective route for seeking other ways to relate to unease, for playing an active, responsible role regarding our own condition.

These creative processes for managing discontent, applied individually and collectively, politically and through participation, show how art becomes a tool for channelling conflict. The relationship between the personal and the public, inked to the concept of “The personal is political” and the “ethics of care”, connects to the creation of “other ways” of managing and politicising unease through creative work, thus fostering critical thought.

This collection provides an approach to different projects and activities that have already been carried out by artists Francesc Abad, Nora Ancarola / Marga Ximénez, Pep Dardanyà, Domènec, Núria Güell, José Maria Martín, Pilar Millán, Matilde Obradors, Carlos Pina, Maria Ruido y Eulàlia Valldosera, with a view to highlighting and sharing the management of unease and vulnerability from various angles, in all of which the process, commitment and an element of cooperation are essential.

The proposals by Rufino Mesa, Virginia García del Pino and the Enmedio group were produced by Arts Santa Mònica with the collaboration of Bòlit as part of the Politicizations of Discontent project.

PROJECTS

-El Camp de la Bota. Francesc Abad
-AntiKeres —les cuidadores—. Nora Ancarola/Marga Ximenez
-Mòdul d'atenció personalitzada. Pep Dardanyà
-24 hores de llum artificial. Domènec
-Mi caaasa. Colectivo Enmedio
-Quien canta su mal espanta. Virginia Garcia del Pino
-La fira de les flors. Núria Güell
-Ciudadanos de a pie. Josep-Maria Martín
-La família. Rufino Mesa
-Afric-a (fem., sing.). Millán
-Menjar sardines crues per aquests mons de Déu (Vestir-nos elegants. per cruspir cadàvers). Matilde Obradors
-No-pain | zero-day | April 6th. Carlos Pina
-ElectroClass. María Ruido
-La memoria interior. María Ruido
-Constelaciones (#1 Valentina). Eulàlia Valldosera

ACTIVITIES

18.10.2017
18.00 h Presentation of the project of Josep-Maria Martín.
19.30 h Inauguration.

24.10.2017
19.00 h Dialog between María Ruido and Alfonso Levy.

31.10.2017
19.00 h Dialog between Núria Güell and J. M. Minguet.

11.11.2017
12.00 h Open Classroom, dialog about heteronyms. With Nora Ancarola, Maia Creus, Daniel Gasol, Laia Manonelles and Laura Mercader. Centre Maristany. Sant Cugat.

15.11.2017
18.00 h Presentation of the project of Eulàlia Valldosera.
University of Barcelona, Faculty of Geography and History, Art History Department, classroom 311.

17.11-17.12.2017
Combinatory optimization. Exhibition and educational project.
Ulla Blanca Lima and Nora Ancarola with the collaborations of Xavi Sert and Letícia Rodríguez. Can Manyè, Alella.

28.11.2017
19.00h Closing act: round table of presentation of the book Politicizations Of Discontent.
Nora Ancarola, Daniel Gasol and Laia Manonelles, editors of the book; Tania Alba, teacher of history of art at the University of Barcelona and author of one of the texts of the publication; and Laura Huerga, editor of Raig Verd.

With the collaboration of:

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