Grup Obert d’Art Polític (GOAP)

GOAP is a research group that meets periodically once a month during the year 2024 at the Santa Monica to discuss texts or works at the crossroads between thought, aesthetics and psychoanalysis.

GOAP brings together philosophers as well as artists and psychoanalysts, with a clearly interdisciplinary purpose, to think and discuss together both theoretical and practical fields, especially in the world of political art.

GOAP is an open group in a double sense: on the one hand, internally, without a pre-fixed plan in advance about which themes, authors or "disciplines" can be touched upon; and, on the other hand, externally, it is also open to consider new incorporations from outside interested in the subject.

GOAP will hold three public sessions a year, in the framework of the Thursdays of voice and word, where anyone is invited to witness the latest debates, reflections and discussions that have taken place in this research group.

GOAP arises from a collaboration with the research project Post-foundational Contemporary Thought: Theoretical-critical analysis of contemporary ontologies of negativity and the question of the violence of the foundation (PID2020-117069GB-I00), based at the University of Barcelona, with three objects of study: political ontology, aesthetics and gender.

https://pensamientoposfundacional.com/

Motor Group:
Laura Llevadot
Luis Guerra
Adrià Porta Caballé
Jordi Mariné Jubany

Laura Llevadot is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona (UB), principal investigator (PI) of the research project Postfoundational Contemporary Thought. She is the author of La philosophie seconde de Kierkegaard: Ecriture et répétition, Paris, L'Harmattan 2013. ISBN 978-2296997110; Kierkegaard through Derrida, Aurora, CO, The Davies Group Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-1-934542-32-3; Jacques Derrida: democràcia i sobirania, Barcelona, Gedisa, 2018; La meva ferida existia abans que jo. Feminisme i crítica de la diferència sexual, Tusquets Editores, 2022. She was director of the 2014 and 2015 editions of the Barcelona Pensa Festival.   

Luis Guerra is a visual artist, PhD in Philosophy. Senior Researcher at the Research Institute at the University of the Arts Hèlsinki. He has been Researcher of the Art & Theory programme at the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria 2022-2023, Research Fellow at the Kone Foundation 2020, Saastamoinen Foundation 2021, Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofía 2015-2016, OSIC Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural del Departamento de Cultura, Generalitat de Catalunya 2017, 2020, 2021. He is the author of Wandering Echoes, Handbook of Operative Losses (Berlin: Errant Bodies Press, 2022) and La Inexistència de l'Art (Madrid: Brumaria, 2017).

Adrià Porta Caballé is a pre-doctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He is currently writing a thesis comparing the concept of "emptiness" in four authors of post-foundational political philosophy: Lefort, Laclau, Badiou and Rancière.

Jordi Mariné Jubany is a pre-doctoral researcher in the Department of Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University. He holds a degree in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2015-2019). He also holds a master's degree in political theory and democratic culture from the Complutense University of Madrid (2019-2020). He was a Fullbright scholar ("ampliative studies" programme) for the class of 2021-2022, which allowed him to study a Master's degree in Philosophy (with a concentration in psychoanalysis) at The New School, New York (2021-2023). He is interested in contemporary political philosophy, post-structuralism, critical theory and psychoanalysis, especially the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Ernesto Laclau.

The research project Post-foundational Contemporary Thought: Theoretical-critical analysis of contemporary ontologies of negativity and the question of the violence of the foundation (PID2020-117069GB-I00) is developed as part of the research carried out in the SGR research group "Crisis of Practical Reason".