PRESENTATION
arteypensamiento (artandthinking)
is a project organised by the International University of Andalusia
with the aim of incorporating the university into the discussion, production,
diffusion and consolidation of contemporary creation and thought. It
should be seen not simply as a way of contributing to the International
University of Andalusia's academic activities, but more as a way of
involving the university in the cultural and social framework, and as
a means of increasing its influence on the social fabric.
arteypensamiento is based on the
concept of re/thinking, the relationship between art, culture and society,
and as a result aims at re/formulating models, formats, modes of presentation
and diffusion: workshops, laboratories, seminars, conferences, encounters,
projects on the Net, publications.
The concept has a unitary but plural character
in terms of activities and formats, the aim is to produce productive,
transversal, interdisciplinary and trans-national projects which focus
on thought, art and contemporary action...
It is also fundamental that the parts
and the whole are integrated. The idea is to develop the necessary mechanisms
to produce a continuous process which aids common and shared intelligence,
and encourages the "issue-addressing" of what we could generically
refer to as the contemporary project. Using the project for uniting,
contextualising and globalising activities which up to now have been
separated and fragmented with the aim of interrelating activities in
a fruitful manner.
Overall therefore, the idea is to highlight
the contradictions in the art world with which we are all familiar,
whilst at the same time attempting to reform the traditional modes of
publishing, presentation and diffusion, with the ultimate aim of offering
new ways of developing them.
In line with the concept of re/thinking,
arteypensamiento, proposes a model adapted to the needs of today's
artists, to methods of production, and to the diffusion of contemporary
creation, bearing in mind the socio-economic, political, and philosophical
reality of our times.
It would be interesting to generate a
dialogue between art, thought, and society, as well as to transfer and
interrelate artistic experience and contemporary thought within the
context of the space in which it is exhibited, and, at the same time,
to see the context not only as a place of presentation but also as a
place which creates its own concepts.
arteypensamiento believes that
it is essential that spaces of knowledge cease to be seen solely as
grand places for contemplation and become creative and productive spaces,
which allow artists and thinkers to carry out projects which change
the tendency to contemplate and over-concentrate on the object, and
move towards a culture of process, motion, and dialogue, so as to give
art and thinking a sense of importance in social dialogue, opening new
ways of communication, cooperation and co-production with other national
and international institutions and spaces which have encouraged the
development of nonconformist and plural views.
AREAS OF ACTION
The arteypensamiento programme
is based around three transversal areas of action: World/Landscapes,
Ethics/Politics and Aesthetics/Poetics. The dividing of projects into
these three theme is merely a guide and solely for the purpose of systematising
the programme.
World/Landscapes
Thinking about the city/the landscape/the
territory/the community as a place to develop the contemporary project,
where creative material reflects the real socio-economic contradictions
affecting citizens and contains symbolic elements which construct /
deconstruct plural identities: citizenship and identity (gender policies,
cultural diversity, etc.), architecture and urban planning, traditions
and customs.
All revolving around the Arab and Latin
American worlds, which are the focus of the Andalusian International
University.
Ethics/Politics
To think about the crisis in humanism, and, as a consequence, the need
to create a new ethic, more in tune with the current hipertextuality.
The city and the modern project are defined
by the humanist tradition which has established a universe of ideas
and ethic precepts which are constructed from literary textuality. The
emergence and subsequent socialisation of a universal space dominated
by audiovisual culture and technology is producing a distortion of the
principles on which we have based our laws and customs.
Aesthetics/ Poetics
To think about the function of art and creativity in contemporary life.
In the broader framework of the city, to analyse artistic practice,
and promote initiatives to be developed in areas of symbolic importance
for the population. The crisis in existing institutional structures
(galleries, museums, etc.), which sustain the system in which artistic
agents operate, and the means which are used for representing and diffusing
works (exhibitions, catalogues, etc.) oblige us to couch the contemporary
project in different terms to those developed up until now.
WORKING TEAM
UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL DE ANDALUCÍA (UNIA)
Rector: Juan Manuel Suárez Japón
Secretaria General: María Jesús Guerrero Lebrón
Vicerrector de Ordenación Académica y Estudios de Postgrado: Plácido Navas Lloret
Vicerrectora de Extensión Universitaria y Participación: María del Rosario García-Doncel Hernández
Vicerrectora de Investigación y Tecnologías de la Comunicación: Llanos Mora López
Vicerrectora de Relaciones Internacionales y Cooperación: Mª Antonia Peña Guerrero
Vicerrector de Planificación y Calidad: Julio Terrados Cepeda
Directora de la Sede Antonio Machado de Baeza: María Alcazar Cruz Rodríguez
Director de la Sede Sta. María de la Rábida: Alfonso Vargas Sánchez
Director de la Sede Tecnológica: Antonio Sánchez Sánchez
Director del Secretariado de Relaciones Internacionales y Cooperación: Pedro Vera Hormazábal
Director del Secretariado de Extensión Universitaria y Participación: Manuel Abad Gómez
Gerente de la UNIA: Luisa Margarita Rancaño Martín
Vicegerente de la UNIA: Isabel Lara Montes
Gerente de la Sede Antonio Machado de Baeza: Pedro Martín Guzmán
Gerente de la Sede Sta. María de La Rábida: Eusebio Rojas-Marcos Merchante
EQUIPO DE DIRECCIÓN DE ARTEYPENSAMIENTO
Nuria Enguita. Productora cultural,
Barcelona.
Santiago Eraso. Productor cultural, Donostia-San Sebastián.
Yolanda Romero. Directora del Centro José Guerrero, Granada.
Pedro G. Romero. Escultor, Sevilla.
Mar Villaespesa. Crítica de arte, Tarifa-Sevilla.
EQUIPO DE GESTIÓN, PRODUCCIÓN Y COORDINACIÓN
BNV producciones.
EDICIÓN Y GESTIÓN WEB
Alejandro del Pino Velasco.
VENUE
In accordance with the spirit of the project
there is not only one single space to cover the different activities.
Spaces used by arteypensamiento, as well as those belonging to
the International University of Andalusia (UNIA) itself, will also include
other areas in institutions or public bodies, as well as public spaces
in the city and in means of communication. A living and growing network
radiating from a double central base: the Rector's Office of the International
University of Andalusia and the virtual arm of arteypensamiento
on the Internet.
The idea is that each project is contextualised in
a space so that it attains a significance and efficiency which guarantees
its social, political and media impact. As Lucy Lippard recently said:
"Art on its own has no social impact. It is its contextualisation
which gives it force".
Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
Monasterio de Santa María de las Cuevas
Américo Vespucio, nº2
Isla de la Cartuja. 41092 Sevilla (España)
Tfno: 34 95 446 2299 / Fax: 34 95 4462288
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