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Monday, May 23, 2016

The Aesthetics of Resistance, reloaded

Lecture series on the centenary of the birth of Peter Weiss

Peter Weiss (1916-1982), was a German writer, artist, filmmaker, playwright and activist. On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Chair Walter Benjamin Memory and Exile, the Antoni Tàpies Foundation together with the Patronat Call de Girona and the Exile Memorial Museum, organized a series of conferences to revisit his life and thought.

Wednesday, June 1st.
Place: Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies (access by Sant Llorenç street)
6.30 pm
La Estética de la Resistencia o la (anti)novela de formación. Lecture by Germán Garrido Miñambres (Madrid Complutense University)
7.30 pm
Seny i revolució: Peter Weiss i Hölderlin. Round table with the participation of Jörg Zimmer and Mónica Carbó (University of Girona)

Tuesday, June 7th
Place: Auditorium of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies (255 Aragó st., Barcelona)
7pm
Un monument a instants radicals. Lecture by Carles Guerra (Director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies)
7.30pm
Screening of Zur Ansicht. Peter Weiss (1979) a film by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki
8.15pm Un lloc on alguna cosa es comprimeix. Lecture by Andreas Wütz (filmmaker and writer).

Free activities