NOMADS: EAST_ WEST

Lecture: “The self-managing artist"

This lecture is aimed specially at young artists. It will be essentially practical, based on our own experience.

It will try and present channels, methods and possibilities that can help artists approach the world free of complexes, making it easier to experience different realities, optimize the necessary effort and gain self-confidence.

How to achieve the means necessary to produce, present and exhibit a project.

How to set up contacts and stimulate the desire of others to actively and critically participate in building new realities.

ICTs, information and communication technologies, are creating new possible forms of relating. Art is introducing new media and languages that imply different ways of conceiving, producing, exhibiting, collecting and preserving artworks.

Contemporary artists have acquired new roles that go beyond the creative act itself. We can now talk about artist-producers, artist-curators, artist-researchers and, of course, artist-managers. The Internet makes nomadism possible, but it also introduces a new complexity implicit in its enormous possibilities.

Compared to painting and sculpture, artworks made using new technologies require that artists know about and master aspects that are radically different to those in the past. Achieving the means for production can be, in many cases, a long-term and uncertain process.

In such a complex and changing world, it’s important to be aware of the keys that underlie this new reality, and the knowledge required to make ourselves visible in a global world.

Debate: “The world before our eyes”

The complexity of life today requires a multiple gaze that crosses through different levels, in a complex attempt to understand not just what is happening, but also what is to come.“East and West” condense many of our cultural and travel expectations. And art makes a place for itself as a shared space for understanding and exchanging ideas. The controversy provoked by words like “multiculturalism”, “globalisation” and “clash of civilisations” in our societies, and the change of paradigms involved in the widespread use of new technologies but artists and society in general, will be analysed by major figures from the cultural and art worlds.

Round table:
The round table will consist of two speakers and the artists Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco. The speakers will be selected in collaboration with the Centre.