DATA OF INTEREST

GUEST:
TANIA BRUGUERA

HOST:
TANIA BRUGUERA


Synopsis:

This week we start, as part of our space AKĐmicas, the summer course Art and Politics coordinated by our director Tania Bruguera. The first issue is focused on the analysis of the interrelation between visual arts and political activism. Each week this new course will arrive for all those interested in two ways. On the one hand, the conferences of the invited artists will be transmitted simultaneously in the space AKĐmicas in the social network Facebook. That way whoever could not see the live, can access our content whenever they want or have time for it. We hope you enjoy this new installment and, above all, that you find it interesting and enriching.


Bio:

Tania Bruguera is an artist who investigates ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life. Her work tries to transform the spaces of social questioning into acts of political effectiveness. By creating proposals and aesthetic models for others to adopt, she defines herself as initiator rather than author. Selected one of the 100 World Thought Leaders by Foreign Policy magazine, she has received the Prince Claus Award, and prestigious awards and fellowships from Guggenheim, Herb Alper, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

She has been a Yale World Fellow and part of the team that prepared the document on freedom of artistic expression and cultural rights in the UN Human Rights Council. Her work has been exhibited at Documenta and at the Venice Biennale and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Vanabbemuseum, among others. Bruguera created and directs the Hannah Arendt Artivism Institute, a space for civic education through art.

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Art and activism

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