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The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, this morning the programming of the Center for Documentation and Advanced Studies of Contemporary Art (CENDEAC) for the fourth quarter of 2008, with the center's director, Miguel Ángel Hernández-Navarro , and the deputy Yaiza Hernández.

The center's program consists of two main blocks integrated on the one hand, for three seminars, and other, for four courses and lectures, which will have as a common thread binding the relationship between art and politics, so the CENDEAC "has created a specialized space in the different aspects of the image compromised art and politics, something completely new in Spain," said Cruz,

The activities of the last quarter, which will form "one of the most important in Europe in terms of reflection on the usefulness of the image and art," explained the regional head of Culture, Spanish groups also participate "very important at the thought of politics "as Brumaria and University Wanderer," who have spent many times from theory to action "and" some of the leading international thinkers, especially those around the circle of Toni Negri , also some of the leading artists and activists from Spain international benchmarks anthropologists like James Clifford and Beatriz Colomina.

In addition, part one of the largest and most provocative artists like Ron Athey, "summed Cruz.

These names are some who will integrate this program "absolutely provocative, coherent and bold, and also falls squarely within the second etymology of 'political' and that has to do with the conflict, which is the health of democracy. "

Thus, the courses and seminars will seek to answer questions like "Are we able to see the images in a period of over-abundance of them, is it possible terrorist image, is it terrorism or a media spectacle can live without the camera ?, is there the possibility of an activist art or been gentrified? ".

The seminars will begin on October 29 with the Professor of Architecture at Princeton University Beatriz Colomina, and "one more predicament Spanish intellectuals outside our country," said Hernandez-Navarro, who will speak on "Architecture in the Age post-Sputnik ", the forms of architecture after the great conflict, focusing particularly on the emergence of a culture of surveillance.

The second seminar will be given by the performance artist Ron Athey, "one of the most controversial artists and the best has been able to explore the limits of the body and the politically correct", as defined by the center's director.

Athey address these issues in his seminar "Praying in the blood.

Performer sodomy, glosalalia and the death drive, which will take place from 25 to 27 November.

The founder of postmodern anthropology, James Clifford, will present his latest work, "Return to the native land: rethinking of many indigenous in the postmodern" seminar that will delve into the rise of identities and the proliferation of cultural and artistic forms .

The courses and lectures begin on September 18 with the Third Meeting of Art and Action, in its first edition dealt with the poetics and aesthetics, the second in ethics and in its third edition will continue to focus on "Art uncomfortable, that you can not institutionalize or market," said Hernandez-Navarro, this time related to politics.

Entitled "Art and Action", these meetings will bring together artists, activists and researchers as Marcelo Expósito, Jordi Claramonte and James Barber.

The course "new grammar of politics", which coordinates the University Nomad, will revolve around the figure of Toni Negri, who will visit the CENDEAC next April to continue with this seminar.

Figures will be linked to the labor movements of 68 Italian, "in which, somehow, come these new restatement of the political" as Sandro Mezzadra.

Christian Marazzi and Mauritius Lazzarato.

From 14 to 16 October will be held the seminar "Iconoclasm and iconolatry.

Image, terrorism and blindness, "which coordinates the group Brumaria, and in which there will be a collective reflection and from different theoretical perspectives on the nature and scope of the conflict of images that has accompanied since its inception to the present" war on terrorism "and whose most notorious episodes were the photos of Abu Ghraib, the images of the arrest and execution of Saddam Hussein or the systematic concealment of the bodies of American soldiers killed in Iraq.

This course will include the participation of thinkers like Graham Coulter-Smith, Marco Scotini and Keti Chukrov.

Finally, the series Voices of Artists, which will take place between October and December, will focus on "Geopolitics and discourse at / on North Africa, Middle East and the Islamic world" in "places where that making art has much to do with the conflict, politics and survival of ideas and most of the people. "

Publications

"The Cendeac is set out very clearly as a major art publishing specialists," said Yaiza Hernández, something that shows the different editions of volumes published by the center.

Among these will be published "Problems of Contemporary Art @.

Philosophy of art course in 15 lessons "by Miguel Cereceda, and" The Third Threshold.

Statute of artistic practices in the era of cultural capitalism, "which, written by Jose Luis Brea, won the Art critic Espais 2006.

Within Ad Hoc Library, published the volume "Miró and Sert in their own words.

Correspondence (1937-1980), in co-edition with the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, which collects a series of letters between the painter and architect Sert Miró, who have never been published and this volume will be "a clear importance in art history, "said Hernandez.

Other books to be published in this collection are "The body is the dream of reason and inspiration angry snake: Marcel.lí Antúnez, face and reverse" Pere Salabert, "We, the public" in co-edition with the Centro Parraga, Roger Bernat, and Ignasi Duarte, "Magnificent misery.

Dialectic of Romanticism "by José Luis Molinuelo, and" Hamlet Does not Live Here "by Antonio Arch.

Within the collection are expected literam Ad Travelling Concepts in the Humanities "by Mieke Bal," Lifestyles, "Nicolas Bourriaud," Art beyond aesthetics ", in Peter Osborne, and" Telepresence and Bio-art " by Eduardo Kac.

Finally, the collection will be published infralight "The puntctum of Roland Barthes, Michel Fried.

Source: CARM