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INTERMITTENT UNIVERSITY

Is a laboratory for pedagogical experimentation, by means of which gvc organizes public activities and develops alternative teaching strategies. Challenging the long-term departmental programming on the one hand and disrupting the stability and permanency of academic syllabuses on the other, gvc conceived the Intermittent University as a discontinuous public debate which attempts to offer a more accurate answer to today’s formative demands within cognitive capitalism and flexible cultural work. Instead of endorsing any kind of anti-academicism, the Intermittent University promotes trans-academic collaborative networks and stimulates the construction of new bridges between canonized academic knowledge, independent critical thinking, and non-legitimized knowledge production circuits.

The Intermittent University argues that in order to be able to fulfill the democratic educational aspirations of differential communities, today’s formative strategies need to combine permanent academic programs and intermittent alternative networks. At the same time, we argue that we need to go beyond the uni-versalistic and accumultive understandings of knowledge production so as to give shape to a pluri-versal convergence and horizontal redistribution of diverse epistemic, aesthetic, and visual traditions. Taking academic and disciplinary knowledge to be globally significant —but acknowledging at the same time that it only represents one of the multiple possibilities of collective knowledge, the Intermittent University promotes inter-epistemic and discontinuous dialogues between social agents, disciplines, localities, and visualities.

________________________, Conference Visualizing Europe, Macba-Barcelona 2011

PLATFORMS
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OPEN TALKS
A series of informal conversations, workshops, and evening lectures with distingished theoreticians, curators, scholars, and artists. These talks are devoted to produce collective knowledge on issues such as transnational art institutions, global art discourses, world art history, postcolonial studies, visual culture studies …
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SYMPOSIUM VC/GD
Since 2007, the Intermittent University has promoted 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, James Elkins, Matthew Rampley, Marquard Smith, Mieke Bal.
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e-READING ROOM
The e-reading room is an online forum launched by PhD students affiliated with the University of Barcelona. The main aim of this project is to stimulate exchanges between junior and emergent scholars interested in the connection between visuality, globalization, and interculturality.
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MOBILE SEMINARS
The Intermittent University organizes academic-led seminars in museums, art centers, independent organizations, and cultural institutions. Informal but at the same time rigorous, these seminars are devloted to redirect academic knowledge toward non-university circuits.
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PhD STUDENTS OPEN FORUM
Operated by PhD students affiliated with diverse universities, this forum focuses on the interplays between visual intercultural studies and critical theory, with a strong commitment to trans-disciplinarity. Permanent fellows of the forum are developing an annotated bibliogaphy on the concept of the ‘frontier’ in the art theory.
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