¬¬¬¬ GVC | History and Remarks
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gvc was founded in 2007 by members of diverse universities, museums and cultural institutions, including art historians, anthropologists, philosophers, sociologist, cultural critics, and curators. As a trans-academic platform, gvc developes diverse long-term research programs, semi-permanent projects, and discontinous activities in collaboration with art institutes, universities, not-for-profit organizations, cultural councils, and etcetera.

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The Research Group on Art, Globalization and Interculturality, a permanent research platform affiliated with the University of Barcelona (Art History Department), has operated since 2007 as the academic core of gvc. In 2008, this research group was awarded a three-year grant for the project New Typologies on the Study of Art: Identity, Micro-politics, and Ethnography. With the support of the Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation National Plan (Ministerio de Educación de Esapaña), this group is actually conducting a new research program entitled Locating Visuality in the Global Era: Concepts, Approaches, and New Methodologies. Researchers of this group include Néstor García Canclini, Aleš Erjavec, Keith Moxey, Anna Maria Guasch, Carles Guerra, Juan Vicente Aliaga, Joaquín Barriendos, Angela Dimitrakaki, Marti Perán. reed more ›››
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In collaboration with the program Art et Mondialisation (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art-Paris), gvc has launched in 2011 a collaborative project entitled Documenting Global Art: Theories, Databases, and Experimental Researching Tools. The project focuses on the analysis of databases and experimental researching tools in the field of visual studies, contemporary art, and postcolonial studies and is coordinated by Zahia Rahamani, Joaquin Barriendos, and Anna Maria Guasch. During the next three years this platform will hold talks, symposiums, and a publications. reed more ›››
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Under the title Visualizing Europe: The Geopolitical and Intercultural Boundaries of Visual Culture, gvc organized in April, 2011 an international conference focused on the interplay between the enlargement of the geopolitical design of the European Union and transnational visual studies in the region. By juxtaposing issues such as intercultural negotiation, migratory aesthetics, diverse understandings of neighborliness, and symbolic struggle, this conference attempted to elaborate on the decolonial dilemmas that the reinvention and promotion of Europe as a coherent and diverse cultural reality is facing today, both spatially and symbolically. reed more ›››
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Rejecting the standardized format that characterizes academic conferences and teaching, gvc founded the Intermittent University, a laboratory for pedagogical experimentation which organizes discontinuous public debates, open talks, workshops, and seminars in which theoreticians, interdisciplinary research groups, activist-researchers, and scholars expose fieldwork results, share heuristic/methodological tools, debate politically engaged academic strategies, comment on publications, and discuss relevant curatorial experiences. reed more ›››
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Since 2007, gvc has promoted the project Visual Cultures/Global Designs (VC/GD), an annual symposium developed in collaboration with the Arts Santa Mònica Center and the department of Art History-University of Barcelona. Speakers’ names at VC/GD include Angela Dimitrakaki, Elvira Dyangani, Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Francesco Jodice, James Elkins, José Luis Brea, Matthew Rampley, Marquard Smith, Mieke Bal, Miguel Ángel Hernández. reed more ›››
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In 2008, gvc organized the project Global (Post)Memories: Museum, Monument, and Deterritorialization, a summer course held at El Escorial (Madrid). Lecturers names include José Luis Brea, Joseba Zulaika, Sergio Rubira, John Welchman, Patricia Mayayo, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Jose Miguel G. Cortes, Antoni Muntadas, Daniel G. Andújar. reed more ›››
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Since 2009, gvc is an active member of the Visual Culture in Europe Network, which promotes and encourages collaborative research, cross-institutional exchanges and teaching activity in the field of Visual Culture Studies between established and emerging scholars, curators, educators, and editors from across a number of European universities and cultural institutions. reed more ›››
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The first issue of the Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art will be online as of the last quarter of 2011. By expanding the critical tools offered by global/globality studies, this journal aims to explore new methodologies for studying the transnational condition of contemporary art and for analyzing the geographic and symbolic displacement of its institutions. reed more ›››
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As a part of the activities of the Intermittent University, in 2009 gvc launched a reading room and an open forum. Both platforms are operated by PhD students linked to critical theory and with a strong commitment to trans-disciplinarity. Permanent fellows of the forum are currently developing a project entitled Negotitating the Frontier: Travelling Boundaries within the Critical Theory and the Arts, a research project and annotated bibliogaphy focused on the uses and transformations of the concept ‘the frontier’ within the art theory. reed more ›››
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Under the title Pedagogical Aesthetics: Education, Institutional Critique, and Strategic Deskilling, gvc organizes since 2009 diverse activities focused on the educational turn of contemporary art museums on the one hand and on the analysis of the multiple ways in which diverse audiences and agents are implicated in the pedagogical transformation of museums on the other. The project started with a workshop gave by Irit Rogoff at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona in which professor Rogoff elaborated on the interplay between museum pedagogies, institutional critique, and the social value of concepts such as creativity, artistic skills and collective knowledge. reed more ›››
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