The presentation focuses on the politics of image by questioning its mainstream making methods that generate dialogues for and around socio-political subjects. It considers the subjective nature of historical subjects questioning furthermore concepts such as time, memory and image and the artist’s role in society.
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MOMU & NO ES’ recent work revolves around the construction of stories, habits and routines stemming from their imme- diate surroundings. By questioning social roles and modifying the established rules, they propose other possible alterna- tives, using fiction and ingenuity to develop a series of storylines, events and fables that draw on the post-internet era. Usually working in the fields of video art, installation and screen performance to create new discursive environments in which they mix and reinterpret imaginaries and references of popular culture.
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TUDOR BRATU addresses the topic of “otherness” from the perspective of his family history. In this work, he analyses patterns and models of urbanisation, and the role they play in framing and perceiving the “other”. In urbanised environ- ments, not only is one able to observe the passing of time, but moreover construction of buildings and urban planning reveal changing attitudes, thoughts, and expressions of ideologies and beliefs.
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Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum's work "Libro de los Plagios (The Book of Plagiarism)" explores the nature of authorship and appropriation.
Libro de los Plagios consists of large charcoal drawings, based on black and white photos from the book of the same name. This polemical book was published in 1991 by the Basque sculptor Oteiza, and compares a series of abstract modernist sculptures by various artists with his own work, in order to demonstrate what he perceived as plagiarism of his ideas.