November 20 and 27 and December 4, 11, 18 and 20 from 6pm to 8pm
Price of the workshop: 100 €
Language: spanish
Place: Online
Mass dynamics, gender problems, identity, individual and collective narcissism in times of social networks.
Speakers: Ingrid Guardiola, Andrés Hispano, Estela Ortiz, Miguel Ángel Blanca, Mayra Martell and Félix Pérez-Hita.
Workshop description: We are all part of some mass, at least at times. There is no such thing as a separation between critical, autonomous and sensible individuals and what we might call “mass meat”. This is a fight that is played out within each of us. The mass should not be opposed to the individual.
The mass is, precisely, composed of individuals by definition, today more than ever. Accounting individuals, measurable, with their identity document, opinions and personal tastes, of whom they leave their traces in their movements through the networks.
The masses of the Roman Colosseum are not the same as those of the cities of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries (those of Baudelaire or Benjamin, etc.), which in turn are different from the current connected masses.
This seminar will address from different perspectives the change experienced from the masses analysed by Freud, Simmel, Kracauer, Benjamin, Ortega y Gasset or Canetti to today’s masses, connected to their various devices, on the street or from their homes, no less mass than the former. We will also talk about the rise in the networks of identity, autofiction and extimacy (an intimacy exposed, voluntarily or involuntarily), and how issues of class, ideology and gender are raised in some film productions and art since the nineteenth century.
20/ 11 Félix Pérez-Hita(Screenwriter, video editor, teacher and curator).
Tittle: Las masas: del estadio a las redes sociales
A reflection with a historical perspective on the qualitative differences betweenphysical masses and virtual masses
27/ 11 Ingrid Guardiola. (Teacher, researcher and producer.
Tittle: Masas digitales
On the importance of site, screen and participation in shaping the 21st century viewer/user.
04/12 Andrés Hispano.(Director, teacher and curator of exhibitions)
TittleLa multitud y su oscilante prestigio
The presence of mass as a visual motif in our culture since the 19th century, in painting , photography, cinema and the networks.
11/12 Miguel Ángel Blanca. (Director and screenwriter – Boogaloo Films).
Tittle: Autoficción en las redes
About the writing and direction of the Autodefensa series, written by Berta Prieto, Belén Barenys and M. Ángel Blanca.
18/12 Mayra Martell.(Photographer and activist)).
Tittle:Ensayo de la identidad, Ciudad Juárez, 2005-2020
20/12 Estela Ortiz.(Cultural analyst and writer)).
Tittle: Perspectiva de clase, ideología y género en el cine actual
7 and 10 November at 7 p.m. Screening of Miss Universe by Juana Dolores and Q&A with the artist
7th November at the Edison Cinema (Granollers)
November 10 at La Capella. Espai finestres (Barcelona)
Based on the poetics of one of the 15 vignettes in the film Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966), Juana Dolores creates a work halfway between video art and film essay, in which she plays a miss who addresses concepts such as violence, work or love in relation to eroticism in Georges Bataille.
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