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The Best Albums of the Year
December is the time to take stock. Whatever is still coming from our loudspeakers this month has undeniably managed to resist that “post-mo” syndrome of today’s voracious appetites. At the moment we are still listening to three specific records:
Read more...Primavera Club Festival 2009
This festival, which takes place in two cities simultaneously, and at several spaces at once, proposes several different approaches. It can be enjoyed as a “pick and mix” or as a taster at a single venue. We decided to combine both options, arriving at the following menu:
Read more...To Fight Memory We Have Oblivion
What is reality and what is fiction? What kind of exchanges take place between these two fields, and how do they nurture one another? Few filmmakers have conducted such a judicious examination of the relationships between these two concepts as Isaki Lacuesta. His filmography agglutinates several possibilities. Some faux documentaries are built on the foundations of the genre as established by the Brothers Lumiére, although they still turn out to be highly ingenious fakes. There are also films which, despite being based on fictional premises, have been produced in such a way that improvisation lends the images a seductive tension, similar to that found in real life. From his collaborations with one of the most interesting filmmakers today, Joaquim Jordá, to his recent documentary, Los condenados [The Condemned], Lacuesta has always questioned the assumptions which most directors and reviewers, and therefore viewers as well, take completely for granted.
Read more...On the Inventions of Art. An Interview with Paolo Fabbri.
Paolo Fabbri is one of the most important semiologists working today. He is currently professor of Art Semiotics and Artistic Literature at the Venice University Institute, and throughout his career he has covered a wide range of subjects linked to the study of sign systems, as he himself tends to say, always anchored in the field’s intellectual tradition. At present he combines his teaching work with his position as director of the International Semiotics Laboratory of Venice (LISaV) and as a member of the Cultural Semiotics Study Group, which depends on the Instituto Ortega y Gasset, in addition to being director of the Quaderni della Biennale of Venice and co-director, along with Mario Perniola, of the cultural and artistic magazine AGALMA.
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