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Research Training Module: Interview

Generally speaking, an interview is a method of questioning. Apart from journalism where the interview is an important tool for investigation as well as presentation of information, various forms of interview techniques are applied in science where interviews are traditionally used to collect data and to address particular research questions. Furthermore, interviews are steadily gaining popularity as a method of artistic expression and research.

The workshop gives an overview of the different uses of interview techniques and designs, depending on the particular contexts. The focus will be on the possible uses of the interview format within the art research context. Besides the theoretical overview, there will be practical/technical training along with presentations of examples. The participants are asked to bring along their own interviews or prepare relevant material that can be discussed and further developed within the workshop.

Declaration of the Barcelona 15M Camp Culture Comission

The Declaration of the Plaça Catalunya AcampadaBCN Culture Commission is a document of principles which were discussed, voted on and written up in two months of assemblies in Plaça Catalunya, Barcelona, within the framework of the 15M Camp. We consider this document to be permanently open and in progress...

Workshop: Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art

The workshop will be conducted by guest lecturer Ivana Marjanović, PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The work that will be done as part of the workshop in the summer semester 2011 will be structured around the production of the book VOCABULARY OF DECOLONIALITY and it will consist of readings and discussions related to the book’s contributions.

Also in relation to the workshop texts we read in the past and presently M1 at 20.30 film program organized by Tjasa Kancler, PhD student visiting us from Barcelona. Program on topics as postporn, and different strategies of resistance projects.

El kit de la lucha en Internet

Pocas dudas caben ya de que Internet se ha convertido en un terreno de batalla crucial para el futuro del desarrollo de la crítica, la transformación y los propios movimientos sociales. A partir de algunas de las principales propuestas ciberactivistas que se han desarrollado en los últimos años como WikiLeaks, Anonymus o Hacktivistas, este libro apuesta por la libertad en Internet, la lucha contra la censura y la falsa escasez de los bienes inmateriales.

Su propio mimetismo con la lógica de la Red (abierta, distribuida, flexible), les ha permitido aportar nuevas herramientas, métodos novedosos y elementos de organización originales que resultan cada vez más imprescindibles ya no sólo para las luchas en Internet, sino también para todos aquéllos que tratan de afrontar eficazmente la transformación de las democracias capitalistas tardías.

Withdraw! Why? Where to?

REARTIKULACIJA #7, 2009, DE-LINKING FROM CAPITAL AND THE COLONIAL MATRIX OF POWER, The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression

In summer 2008, the Missile Defense Agreement was signed between the U.S./Polish and U.S/Czech governments to ensure, as it was termed, “our common security.”

On September 17th, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama suspended the plans for placing missile interceptors in Poland and the radar base in Czech Republic. A new approach was announced that will provide capabilities sooner, built on proven systems and offer greater defenses against the threat of missile attack than the 2007 European missile defense program. The new system will deploy smaller SM-3 missiles, and will be, probably, placed somewhere in Southern Europe or Turkey.

The documentary, Hit-to-Kill, emphasizes political and strategic elements of the deployment of U.S. antimissile shield in Europe, entailing a dialogue between concepts such as security, global dominance, democracy, propaganda and resistance.

Manifiesto 27 de Octubre 2012/#ManiTrans

Avui, juntes, parlem les que habitualment som invisibilitzades: les persones trans, intersex, les migrants, les treballadores sexuals, les bolleres, els mariques, etc. Aquí estem per mostrar que existim, pensem, sentim, i que día a día deconstruïm el sistema de gènere i capitalista. Avui, juntes, volem fer una apologia de les alternatives que nosaltres mateixes creem i vivim, de les alternatives que al destruir el que ens oprimeix, ens fan gaudir.No esperem res d’aquest estat de dret i d’aquest sistema economic controlat per una élit per a satisfer les seves pròpies ambicions, un sistema que maquilla les injustícies i opressions per garantir la seva supervivència a costa nostra. Hem estat les oblidades de l’estat del benestar i som la primera línia de foc en un moment de retallades com l’actual. L’expoli de drets que estem patint es fa visible avui perquè ha caigut la cortina que l’ocultava, però no és nou. Per això sabem que el nostre futur està entre nosaltres, en les nostres xarxes de solidaritat i de lluita.


Reartikulacija #7

Reartikulacija is an art project of the group Reartikulacija (Marina Gržinić, Staš Kleindienst, Sebastjan Leban and Tanja Passoni). It is based on a precise intervention logic; through contemporary political theory, critic, art projects, activism and selforganization, it aims to intervene in the Slovene, Balkan and international space. The platform allows networking with other political subjects, activists, artists, who are interested in the possibility to create and maintain a dialogue with concrete social and political spaces in Slovenia, Europe and worldwide…

+Decolonial Aesthetics

The 6th Annual Workshop of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, at Duke University (http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies) will be devoted to “Decolonial Aesthetics.” This workshop and exhibition is a continuation of the show that at under the same title opened in Bogotá, Colombia, on November 10, 2010. (http://www.udistrital.edu.co/novedades/particularNews.php?idNovedad=3170&Type=E) Although with the same title, the Duke edition will not be a replica of the former but a continuation of it.