Discussions and dialogues: Piglia, Gorelik, Guillermo Saavedra, Oubiña among others.

The series of talks “Discussions and Dialogues” invites several specialists to reflect upon the city and how it is viewed by the arts, focusing in the city of Buenos Aires.
 
On each of the three sessions, Fundación Proa will present the thought and work of artists, filmmakers, and creators whose production entails a reflection on contemporary urban life.
 
Saturday 8, 5:30 pm
Intersections: city, art, film, literature.
Adrián Gorelik, David Oubiña, and Graciela Speranza
 
Saturday 15, 5:30 pm
Cinema and the city
Rafael Filippelli, David Oubiña, Guillermo Saavedra, and Eduardo Stupía.
 
Sunday 16, 5:30 pm
Literature and the city
Ricardo Piglia in conversation with Graciela Speranza
 
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Intersections: city, art, film, literature.
Adrián Gorelik, David Oubiña, and Graciela Speranza
 
“Intersections” sets out a dialogue in which the crossings between city, art, film, and literature will be examined.
If modern art is made in the city, how does the urban matter to art? The city can stimulate art, it can be the surface of its intervention, and a cultural riddle to be solved as well as an urban issue that finds in art a way to think around it different from what can be done in architecture and urban planning.
It is unquestionable that in the last decades all of those possibilities were activated in artistic and cultural millieus. How are those practices modified by the transformations experimented by the city?

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Cinema and the city
Rafael Filippelli, David Oubiña, Guillermo Saavedra, and Eduardo Stupía.
 
Ever since its inception, cinema has been linked to the city. Art of the industrial era, privileged modern discourse, the cinematographer has evolved through the century together with the transformations occurred in our conception of the urban. The interdisciplinary discussion will try to unravel the conceptual implications of that relationship: in what ways has cinema represented the city and how have the forms of the city contributed to shape the language of cinema.

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Literature and the city
Ricardo Piglia in conversation with Graciela Speranza.
 
From his readings of twentieth century literature and cinema all the way to his own narrative, the city has been a source of critical reflection and a trigger for the fiction in the work of Ricardo Piglia. On the occasion of the exhibition Urban Spaces: Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth Ricardo Piglia will talk with Graciela Speranza about the urban imaginary in art and literature, and about the cities that create or anticipate their own fictions.