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Contemporary Thought and Artistic Practices

This subject belongs to the department of Cultural Contexts

  • Studies: Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts
  • Credits: 6 ECTS
  • Year: Second year
  • Type: Basic Training
  • Subject code: GBF002

Description

This subject aims to introduce the study and reflection on the most relevant theoretical and conceptual frameworks for contemporary artistic practices, paying special attention to the period from the seventies of the twentieth century to the present day. Overcoming the debate around postmodern culture - central in the eighties and nineties - up to our most immediate past, the cultural transformations marked in recent decades by neoliberalism are analyzed, understood as a dominant cultural production model that is based on a set of power relations, value systems, forms of organization and aesthetic orientations that are inscribed in cultural and educational institutions, but also in the production of our ways of life and our subjectivity. Conceptualized as an experimental laboratory, the subject presents a critical view on the historiographic discourse based on thematic axes that are proposed as ontological openings of contemporaneity.

Course Syllabus

Teachers

Núria Gómez Gabriel, PhD in Communication. Cultural researcher, writer and art curator

Núria Gómez Gabriel

PhD in Communication. Cultural researcher, writer and art curator