*Picasso in the Monster Institution**
**Art, the Culture Industry and the Right to the City*
This seminar seeks to reflect on the role of culture in those social
movements that vindicate uses of urban space outside a city model which
looks towards art to strengthen tourist imaginaries, thus conditioning
its institutions and reception. /Picasso in the Monster Institution.
Art, the Culture Industry and the Right to the City/ strives to create
distance from the predominant sense of celebrations and large-scale
cultural commemorations which, in understanding art as an attractive
resource, place history and artistic experience inside a frame with
exclusive ties to tourism and urban leisure. It also calls into question
these logics and explores possible alternatives.
The recognition of Picasso’s work is one of the best examples to analyse
the contradictions and complexities of these logics. Today, the work of
the artist from Málaga is broadly appreciated and disseminated, yet,
equally, such a reception cements stereotypes associated with the heroic
and fetichized idea of artistic avant-garde movements and their most
unrelenting myths, for instance the originality, brilliance and autonomy
of art. These values obscure one of the 20th century’s most complex
bodies of work.
How can the contemporary city fight against this integration of art, and
its audiences and institutions, in the service economy and recover the
potential of one of the most challenging oeuvres from the avant-gardes
in its historical scope? What are the devices and anomalous or
“monstrous” institutions which are able to place the work in a space
which is alien to this integration? The seminar sets out to reflect on
these questions via two round-table discussions and a workshop on the
monumental imagery of Picasso and the contemporary city, conducted by
Rogelio López Cuenca and Elo Vega, which will begin at the close of the
lectures and shall be expanded upon in the future. The first session
will debate midstream and monstrous modes of relationship and care,
calling upon different European networks and spaces (S.a.L.E., Venice;
transversal texts / eipcp, Vienna and Berlin; and La Invisible, Málaga),
and theorists specialised in collaborating with these instituent
machines. The second session analyses the relationship between art and
gentrification through the uses and abuses of Picasso’s work, putting
forward a model of artistic experience which eludes the so-called
creative industries and economies.
http://midstream.eipcp.net/picasso-monster-institution
*Programme*
Saturday, 25 March. Monster Institutions
17:30 *Gerald Raunig*. Technecologies. Milieus, Midstreams,
Subsistential Territories
18:30 *Florencio Cabello*. Notions of Public in Collective Intelligence.
19:30 *Roberta Da Soller* (S.a.L.E., Venice), *Kelly Mulvaney*
(transversal texts / eipcp, Berlin and Chicago) and *Manuela Zechner*
(Barcelona). Moderated by: *Raúl Sánchez Cedillo*. European Cities, from
Care and Shelter to Fear, War, and Debt.
21:00 Debate with the session participants.
Sunday, 26 March. The Artist in the City-Brand
17:30 *Rogelio López Cuenca*. In the Great City
This presentation will lead on to a workshop with the artist and *Elo Vega*.
18:30 *Isabell Lorey*. Precarisation. Indebtedness. Giving Time.
19:30 Debate with the session participants.
*Venue*: La Invisible <http://www.lainvisible.net/>. Calle Nosquera, 11.
Málaga, ES
The seminar is organized by *Museo Reina Sofía
<http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/activities/picasso-monster-institution#node-58435>*,
*La Invisible <http://www.lainvisible.net/es/node/592>* and *eipcp*
<http://eipcp.net>.
It is part of the transnational project *Midstream
*(http://midstream.eipcp.net).
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