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Keywords: selfrepresentation, critique, subjectivity, transversality, decoloniality, media and social science, critical and arttheory
When talking about research I refer to revisit our lifes in order to transform the things that we don t like into things that we want to see and wish to live.
The primary drivers of the research interest in the last couple of years have been questions that appeared in the context of the spanish economical crisis.
-How is uneasiness represented by those who experience it? How is it comunicated?
-Which artistic practices can we use to represent uneasiness, and how do they relate to changes in the modes of production, its organization, and distribution?
-To what extent does self-representation help to transform the situation of the expressing subjects?
With those questions, I mostly follow two lines researching. First are to define the changes in technology and neoliberal modes of production for to examine the new forms of exploitation and the various forms of uneasiness it has generated (for example precarity, insecurity, exclusion, invisibility). Focussing on various social and artistic practices that accompany those changes to express uneasiness by those who have been affected open the field to analyze new technological and esthetical forms in communication, mediaactivism and audiovisual production. I focus on both individual and collective selfrepresentations characterized by processes of politicization in order to intervene and transform social realities.