Scenarios, Representations and Transformations of Labour Work in the Global World
Seminar
November 28, 2018, Barcelona, Catalonia
Organizing Team
Organized by: The Research Project MoDe(s)2, in the framework of the course “Ultimes Tendencies del Arte” of the Art History degree of the Department of Art History and the research project MoDe(s)2 – Decentralized Modernities: art, politics and counterculture in the transatlantic axis during the Cold War. HAR2017-82755-P in collaboration with the Excellence Project: Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in The Global Age: New Methodologies, Concepts, and Analytic Scopes, Part III, (I+D MICINN: HAR2016-75100-P), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, the Grupo de investigación GRC: Art, Globalització, Interculturalitat, AGI/ART II (2017 SGR 577). Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement and La Virreina. Centre de la Imatge.
With the support of: MACBA y del Departament d’Història de l’Art de la Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona.
Participants:
Working Dead. Escenarios del Postrabajo:
Marta Echaves, Curator and Researcher
Antonio Gómez Villar, Researcher and Professor of Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona
María Ruido, Visual Artist, Researcher and Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Design, Universitat de Barcelona
Guillermo Fernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Antón Fernández de Rota, Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios de Galicia y Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Rafael Pinilla, Universitat de Barcelona
Program
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018
12:00 pm
Presentation of the Seminar
12:15 – 1:15 pm
Guillermo Fernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Libertad, orden y autocontrol: cómo la extrema derecha francesa ha politizado el sentimiento de extravío y desamparo de las clases populares
Conversation with Antonio Gómez Villar, Universitat de Barcelona
1:15 – 2:15 pm
Antón Fernández de Rota, CESUGA / Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
De la sharing economy, o de la colaboración de los capitales
Conversation with Antonio Gómez Villar, Universitat de Barcelona
2:15 pm
Lunch
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Rafael Pinilla, Universitat de Barcelona
Noticias desde el trabajo: crónica psicosocial de una década
Conversation with María Ruido, Universitat de Barcelona
6:00 – 7:30 pm
Presentation of the film “Estado de malestar (malestar_exhuberancia_anomalía)” (2018) de María Ruido
Conversation with Rafael Pinilla and Antonio Gómez Villar
Seminar of the Research project MoDe(s)2 with the participation of the working group Working Dead. Escenarios del Postrabajo: Marta Echaves, Curator and Researcher; Antonio Gómez Villar, Researcher and Professor of Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona; María Ruido, Visual Artist, Researcher and Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Design, Universitat de Barcelona; Guillermo Fernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Antón Fernández de Rota, Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios de Galicia, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and Rafael Pinilla, Universitat de Barcelona.
The concept of labour has undergone several changes over the course of history. These changes not only refer to a relationship with the different ruling economic models, they are also related to transformations in the way of thinking, feeling and being of the human being. In other words, we have also to consider labour as a product of the multiple cultural revolutions that have occurred in the history of humanity.
From this perspective, the important economic transformations that took place at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s led, among other things, to the loss of centrality of the factory as a privileged place of production. Material labour that was immediately productive lost its central role in the production process. This marked the extension of the processes of valorisation to the entire society, from the factory to the metropolis. After several decades of such decisive transformations, we are interested in getting into the variable geographies of the new composition of labor, opening different debates, problems and questions that allow us to approach the changes in the composition of the labor force, in the dynamics of capitalist valorization, in the lines of conflict and in the processes of constitution of subjectivities; to think how the conceptual field of recomposition of class has been redefined, a transit that has produced new subjectivities and has defined new cultural and political relations.
Venue
MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art
Auditorio del Convent dels Àngels
Plaça dels Angels 1, 08001 Barcelona, Catalunya
www.macba.cat