Son[i]a #40
Ana Longoni
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“Thinking about global conceptualism” is a seminar that analyses the relations between art and politics: an unending source for the study of artistic behaviour from the 1960s to the present. The contribution of Latin American countries and some eastern European countries are noteworthy in this field, as they have contributed specific and differentiated forms due to their social and political character, which is poorly known and has not been sufficiently studied. These are options that understood and understand art not just as a productive and purely artistic force, but also as a social force that asks to be considered and to rewrite conceptual art.
SON[I]A speaks with Ana Longoni, moderator of the seminar, about this Latin America conceptualism, displaced from the Anglo-American canonical discourse on conceptualism of the 1960s, by introducing us to references of works done in Argentina, Peru, Chile and Columbia.
Suely Rolnik
In this podcast we talk to psychoanalyst, writer and academic Suely Rolnik about micropolitics and macropolitics, about the common and the subjective. We talk about air and about the present, and about how difficult it has become to inspire and to conspire. We abandon the idea of the apocalypse but also that of paradise. We turn our attention to spiders, pausing to observe their strong and flexible threads, and we consider creating provisional spiderwebs to allow the emergence of other worlds. For this weaving, Suely borrows and tells us about Guarani terms such as ñe'é, which means word and also soul.
Reflections at a critical juncture: Toni Serra, Ana Longoni and Rubén Martínez
Overwhelmed by the institutionalised discourse of politics and economists, we invite artists, philosophers, researchers and poets to share their ideas about what is happening to us, to comment on the positive and negative implications of this structural crisis, and to imagine an uncertain future.
Roberto Jacoby
Roberto Jacoby opens up his poetry books and talks about writing, inspiration, plundering and dematerialisation; about blacks and whites, sofa-beds, politics and activism.
Ana Longoni
Excerpts from Ana Longoni's intervention in the "Decentred: Other Accounts of Conceptualism (Argentina and Latin America)" course.