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Body and Visual Representation

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Letter 1
25/04/2019
Remedios Zafra
to María Ruido
“Every image has a conflict in what it shows or, more frequently, in what it hides”
“Every image has a conflict in what it shows or, more frequently, in what it hides”
Letter 2
08/05/2019
María Ruido
to Remedios Zafra
“Ladies and gentlemen: Welcome to violence! Welcome to the hegemonic visual system, impervious to its exclusions!”
“Ladies and gentlemen: Welcome to violence! Welcome to the hegemonic visual system, impervious to its exclusions!”
Letter 3
23/05/2019
Remedios Zafra
to María Ruido
“Don’t you think that current forms of self-exploitation work in the same sense in the bolstering of their imaginary?”
“Don’t you think that current forms of self-exploitation work in the same sense in the bolstering of their imaginary?”
Letter 4
06/06/2019
María Ruido
to Remedios Zafra
“Digitalisation has not brought us better working conditions, nor teleworking greater peace of mind, but rather continuous undivided production/reproduction”
“Digitalisation has not brought us better working conditions, nor teleworking greater peace of mind, but rather continuous undivided production/reproduction”
Letter 5
20/06/2019
Remedios Zafra
to María Ruido
“Every age frames itself in what it portrays and in what it hides (or blurs).”
“Every age frames itself in what it portrays and in what it hides (or blurs).”
Letter 6
04/07/2019
María Ruido
to Remedios Zafra
“The new worker par excellence is one who puts their entire life to work, the one who no longer has a life, the one who is merely a show”
“The new worker par excellence is one who puts their entire life to work, the one who no longer has a life, the one who is merely a show”

Meet the participants

Remedios Zafra

Remedios Zafra (Zuheros, 1973)

Writer and theorist specialized in the critical study of contemporary culture, visual studies and the politics on identity in networks. Professor of art, gender studies and digital culture at the University of Seville and professor of anthropology at Uned. Her extensive essay work has won numerous awards such as the Anagrama Essay Award and the Critical State Prize for El Entusiasmo. Precariedad y trabajo creativo en la era digital (2017, 2018), Málaga Prize for Essay and Public of the Arts for (h)adas. Mujeres que crean, programan, prosumen, teclean, (2013), Caja Madrid 2004 Essay Award for the work Netianas. N(h)acer mujer en internet, Research Award of the Leonor de Guzmán 2001 and Carmen de Burgos 2000 National Essay Prize. Among her most recent work, the books Ojos y capital (Consonni, 2015, 2018) Los que miran (Fórcola, 2016) Un cuarto propio conectado (2010, 2019). Zafra has a degree in Political Philosophy, a PhD in Art, a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Fine Arts and a master’s degree in Creativity. She is a member of the Etopia Patronages and of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome.

www.remedioszafra.net

María Ruido

María Ruido is a filmmaker, visual artist, researcher and teacher. She lives in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​where she works as a professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Design of the University of Barcelona and is a member of several research groups around representation and their contextual relationships.

Since 1998, María Ruido has been developing interdisciplinary projects on the social construction of the body and identity, the imaginaries of work in post-Fordist capitalism, and on the construction of memory and its relationships with the narrative forms of history, and more recently she works around the new forms of decolonial imaginaries and their emancipatory possibilities.

Her productions include the documentary essays La memoria interior (2002), Tiempo real (2003), Ficciones anfibias (2005), Plan Rosebud (2008), ElectroClass (2011), Le rêve est fini (2014), L’oeil impératif ( 2015), Mater Amatísima (2017). She has received, among others, the Generation Award 2003 (Audiovisual Category) or the Best International Feature Documentary Award at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2009, and her visual essays are in the Permanent Collections of MNCARS, MACBA, CA2M, CGAC , the Archi OVNI or the CajaMadrid Foundation.

Since the beginning of 2000, she has participated in many state and international exhibition projects, as well as in vine and video festivals, circulating his works between both institutions, the artistic and the cinematographic.

http://www.workandwords.net/es