THE BROKEN TERRITORY
WINTER BREAK has structured this edition within four thematic axes:
The power of the false: The virtual/real image as a model of either invisibility or overexposure of the national identity. The visual spectacle and what the images circulating the physical and the virtual tell us about facts.
The rise of the abstract over the concrete: The modernist ideal and the neglected country. Infrastructure of the post-revolutionary Venezuela. The left as a model of destruction.
The immaterial and the corporeal: The bodily link with others as the fundamental dimension that sustains the production of the world. Immaterial relations and desensitization that separates minds from bodies. Inmaterial disseminators of violent bodies. Massive exodus to new lands.
Futurology as an exercise of image visualization: Testing grounds for possible exits. Aesthetics of the potential, the corporeal, and the rhizome. The future of Venezuelan civil society, systemic activism, scenarios for unification, and tentative changes of power.
Fall Semester brings together a diverse group of artists, theorists, critics, researchers, and interested individuals to engage in multifaceted discourse on contemporary society and culture. Through a digital platform, the third iteration of Fall Semester, WINTER BREAK, addresses current intersections of what constitutes the real. After discussing the globalized city in its inaugural session in 2014, and the self in 2016, Fall Semester now turns its focus to the broken nation and those directly affected by its current social and economic turmoil.
Written essays and visual content was created by Ángela Bonadies, Amalia Caputo, Lorena González Inneco, Alexandra Kuhn, Elizabeth Marín, Celeste Olalquiaga, Érika Ordos, and Sandra Pinardi.