CONCRETA 09

Concreta arises from a shared desire and a lack: the desire to build a platform from which to contribute to contemporary reflection on the image, through the publication of a biannual magazine and a series of artist's books; and to do it from a precise place, a community marked during the last fifteen years by the systematic disappearance of the cultural infrastructure dedicated to the plastic and visual arts. This local situation of cultural crisis adds to the current situation of global collapse of financial capitalism, which points towards a change of paradigm in many aspects, not only at a macroeconomic level but also, and above all, micropolitic, announcing a dark future for Culture and the arts. No longer considered ways of critical knowledge of the world, instruments of thought and action, Culture and the arts are reduced to mere entertainment. Concreta is positioned from its inception as a platform of resistance to the cultural impoverishment of our present and, choose the role and the web to develop a proposal that arises in a precise place but is not limited to its geography.

The specific objective of this publication is to contribute to the elaboration of a theoretical research framework, inside and outside the academy, around the image, with special interest in the photographic image and the history of art, but based on all the disciplines of knowledge that think the image as a point of friction and restlessness, as a structure of meaning and as a dialectical field of forces.

With contributions from Donna Haraway, Fabrizio Terranova, Soledad Gutiérrez, Ramón Lapiedra, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria Thereza Alves, Hamish Fulton, La Taula per la Partida, Eduardo Molinari, Laura Vallés, Agar Ledo, Alice Mortiaux.