Category: English
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The Spanish Visual Arts System: A Tragicomedy in Several Acts
The visual arts system in Spain faces a complex and challenging situation, evoking a true Lorquian tragicomedy. The legal ambiguity surrounding who qualifies as a “visual artist,” the lack of effective public policies, and an education system stuck in the past hinder the consolidation of a solid artistic context. While Europe advances in the integration…
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Postcapital Archive (1989-2001) [podcast]
The project “Postcapital Archive (1989-2001)” by artist Daniel G. Andújar, which uses an extensive digital archive to analyze themes of history, politics, culture and economy, is an example of how art can challenge power structures and dominant ideologies in a post-communist world. Through montages, installations and workshops, Andújar questions notions of progress, democracy and freedom,…
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e-valencia.org [podcast]
This podcast explores the creation and impact of the website e-valencia.org, a forum for debate on the cultural policy of the Valencian Community, founded by the artist Daniel García Andújar. The controversy surrounding the closure of the website by the University of Alicante is analysed, as well as its relaunch from London. The texts also…
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American Podcast Series
Podcast about Daniel G. Andújar, reflecting on his artistic career and the evolution of the internet, art, and society. It addresses topics such as institutional criticism, digital culture, access to information, the influence of new technologies on art and society, and the importance of creative freedom in an increasingly controlled context.
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Democratize Democracy [podcast]
The interviews with and Daniel G. Andújar offer a critical and challenging view of the role of art in the digital age. Their work invites us to question power structures, dismantle technological utopia, and reclaim art’s potential as a space of resistance, critique, and social transformation. Through appropriation, recontextualization, and the creation of new archives,…
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Daniel G. Andújar, the artist as a thinker and augur of what happens
Daniel García Andújar is prescient: since the very early days of the Internet, he has been able to anticipate the effects of technological progress and new communication strategies, the ways they reshape social and power relations, and how those can become fundamentally unequal. This essay examines the ways in which Andújar has deployed subversive, appropriationist…
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Daniel García Andújar. Documenta 14
Documenta 14 Daniel García Andújar (b. 1966, Almoradi, Spain) The Disasters of War, Metics Akademia (2017) Mixed-media installation Dimensions variable EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens The Disasters of War/Trojan Horse (2017) Mixed-media installation Dimensions variable Neue Neue Galerie (Neue Hauptpost), Kassel Burning the Canon Nordstadt Park Kassel June 23 Nordstadt Park 23rd June, 2017…