Cultures d'avenir
Tania Bruguera: Art and Power
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Artist Tania Bruguera will join journalist and cultural critic Alex Vicente in a conversation within the programme “Cultures d’Avenir”, a project promoted by the CCCB in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt de Berlín (HKW), supported by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ).
A newspaper, a school, a political party, a free forum or a campaign for civil rights are some of the artistic projects developed in recent years by Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. Always radically placed at the intersection of art and politics, art to her means a tool for social transformation. Her work, which has meant gaining international appraisal as well as imprisonment and exile from Cuba, explores and denounces abuse of power and also strives to open new venues for political debate and the defense of collective freedom. Her aim is to turn spectators into citizens, create situations whereby alternative solutions can be explored, that is artistic proposals that may be spaces with a future, stages with possibilities, machines for thinking and show perhaps that things can be different.
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Art and Power
Artist Tania Bruguera, which work explores and denounces abuse of power and also strives to open new venues for political debate and the defense of collective freedom, joins cultural critic Alex Vicente in a conversation within the programme “Cultures d’Avenir”