Courses

Bodies, homes, rooms, streets, cities, museums,  are conceived in the materials selected for this course as spaces of re-invention where the private and the public come together to cultivate creative intersections for the opening and transformation of the social and the aesthetic in constant mutual complicities and tensions.

At the crossroads of geography, urbanism, architecture, textuality, and anatomy, the self and the collective build each other as new subjects creating new ways of habitation.

The emblematic occupation and re-invention of public spaces that took place in Spain in 2011 following the example of the Arab Spring but also the dangers of turning that re-invention into spectacle and fetishistic display serve as the point of departure to consider both the possibilities and the dangers of processes in which the structures of the project, the spectacle and the ruin, of experimentation and precarity, feed each other in a space in which difference and the commons establish difficult balances.

Performance (Pilar Albarracín, Diana Torres, Maria Llopis...), Feminist and queer essays (Paul Preciado,  Briggitte Vasallo, Aixa de la Cruz, Remedios Zafra...), literature (Sara Mesa, Cristina Morales, Eva Baltasar, Marta Sanz...) Film (Amalia Ullman, Celia Rico, María Ruido...) will be put in dialogue with ways in which activism, alternative architectures and urbanisms are starting to conceive and create new spaces and modes of habitation.