Representations of Home Open Seminar 36 by Margarida Martins

11 Março 2025, 17:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

"Artivism Against Indifference: Belonging and Identification through a Common Cause" by Margarida Martins

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Performance Art

6 Março 2025, 17:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

—      Performance Art: Marina Abramović

—      Stages of Marina Abramović’s career

—      Screening and analysis of Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present (2010)

—      The body as a site of resistance and confrontation

— The interplay between artist and audience

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The Late Twentieth Century and Art of the Present Day

27 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

—      Postmodernist aesthetics and criticism: Appropriation and the erasure of boundaries between the original and the reproduction

—      Analysis of a selection of artworks by Jeff Koons, Sherri Levine, and Joana Vasconcelos

- Screening  of Andy Goldworthy’s documentary Rivers and Tides: Working with Time (2002)

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Late Modern and Early Contemporary Art in the Twentieth Century

25 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

—      Art movements of the early 20^th century.

—      The tensions between realism, abstraction, and expressionism

—      The re-definition of art: the development of new techniques and use of everyday objects

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Contemporary Art Decoded by Jessica Cerasi

20 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

-       Discussion of questions that are often raised when engaging with contemporary art: What is contemporary art? How did art come to be what it is today? How can we understand what a work of art means, and cannot just about anything be called art these days?

-       Art as expression: Tracy Emin, My Bed, 1998

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