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archived on 6 February 2011
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The current FORMER WEST research exhibition offers critical re-reading of the dynamics of global capitalism from the oblique viewpoint of the Spanish colonial empire and its imagery.
archived on 2 October 2010
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The Research Seminar on 25 and 26 June 2010 at Museo Reina Sofia addressed the question of why a federal Europe is not “optional” for new political creations in Europe but rather one of their genetic preconditions.
archived on 25 July 2010
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This symposium, held at Tate Britain on 30 April 2010, explored the social turn in exhibition making in Europe and North America in the 1990s, looking at the part played by political activism, institutional critique and forms of socialization influenced by the media and the moving image. You may view recordings of lectures by Claire Bishop, Gregg Bordowitz, Sabeth Buchmann, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Stéphanie Jeanjean, Renate Lorenz, Christian Phillip Müller, Stefan Schmidt-Wulffen and Charles Esche.
archived on 5 December 2010
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The Research Library is a continually expanding curated selection of exhibition catalogs, artist monographs, art theory, and cultural studies publications as well as works from theory, postcolonial studies, political history, geopolitics, and other fields.
archived on 15 January 2011
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Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova interview filmmaker and theorist Hito Steyerl. Steyerl’s lecture, In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment, which she delivered at the 2nd FORMER WEST Research Congress On Horizons: Art and Political Imagination will be available on this website soon.
archived on 5 December 2010
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Curator and writer Paulo Herkenhoff discusses developments in contemporary art and politics in Brazil with Cosmin Costinaş.
archived on 15 January 2011
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In the course of its research trajectory, the project FORMER WEST reaches out to the field of higher education (and beyond) with its varied modes of gathering and reflection. The education platform of the project is continually and organically developing over time into an international constellation of diverse activities and formats. These include master courses, lectures, seminars, and workshops at various universities and art academies, as well as a number of internships, all of which significantly contribute to the understanding of the potential of the FORMER WEST thesis for scholarship in the fields of art, art history, theory, and in the humanities in general (political science, history, sociology, etc.).
archived on 6 February 2011
