As art educators, we have accustomed fight for our survival in educational systems where often our job isn’t valued or resourced or both. We know (or, at least, we are taught to know) that we are needed in this world, perhaps now more than ever. However, it is also important to critically investigate how is this need for art and education c…[Read more]

Adding to the long list of “post” conditions, the term “post-internet” offers a fairly recent attempt to characterize a certain social, political, historical, and material condition that artists, curators, educators, and critics are currently working with. For some, it provides a language to articulate the complex entwinements between online…[Read more]

As art educators, we have accustomed fight for our survival in educational systems where often our job isn’t valued or resourced or both. We know (or, at least, we are taught to know) that we are needed in this world, perhaps now more than ever. However, it is also important to critically investigate how is this need for art and education c…[Read more]

Adding to the long list of “post” conditions, the term “post-internet” offers a fairly recent attempt to characterize a certain social, political, historical, and material condition that artists, curators, educators, and critics are currently working with. For some, it provides a language to articulate the complex entwinements between online…[Read more]

As art educators, we have accustomed fight for our survival in educational systems where often our job isn’t valued or resourced or both. We know (or, at least, we are taught to know) that we are needed in this world, perhaps now more than ever. However, it is also important to critically investigate how is this need for art and education c…[Read more]

The 15th Jakarta Biennale’s curatorial premise, Siasat (Tactic) identified artists and art works which demonstrated how individuals and communities, especially in urban Indonesia, cope with social inequality, environmental pressure, and poverty. The resulting exhibition raised questions relevant to recent scholarship around relational aesthetics a…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Since the end of the prohibition of Chinese New Year celebrations, the night sky of towns and cities across Indonesia has been illuminated with fireworks on the eve of Chinese New Year. Most notably, the traditional street parades and accompanying festival on the fifteenth day of the New Year have been growing in size in a number of West…[Read more]

The 15th Jakarta Biennale’s curatorial premise, Siasat (Tactic) identified artists and art works which demonstrated how individuals and communities, especially in urban Indonesia, cope with social inequality, environmental pressure, and poverty. The resulting exhibition raised questions relevant to recent scholarship around relational aesthetics a…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Since the end of the prohibition of Chinese New Year celebrations, the night sky of towns and cities across Indonesia has been illuminated with fireworks on the eve of Chinese New Year. Most notably, the traditional street parades and accompanying festival on the fifteenth day of the New Year have been growing in size in a number of West…[Read more]

Illustration as part of art works has often been considered a form of low art, but as it has progressively become more developed, it has established a decent place in the art community. Through this paper, the authors have tried to apply a primarily participatory research method, including participant observation, deep interview, and literature…[Read more]

Illustration as part of art works has often been considered a form of low art, but as it has progressively become more developed, it has established a decent place in the art community. Through this paper, the authors have tried to apply a primarily participatory research method, including participant observation, deep interview, and literature…[Read more]

The article opposes the naturalization of globalization and flexibilization as necessary economic processes. It points out the discursive processes that underly both developements. Globalization and flexibilization are effective via a “recursive interpelation”: they are locally produced as a translocal phenomenon, which, in turn, appears to be con…[Read more]

Este nuevo trabajo, dentro de la fecunda labor intelectual de Oscar Martínez Peñate,
alcanza un doble objetivo: por una parte nos recuerda el déficit en la construcción de
nuestra identidad cultural, entendida ésta más allá de la “madeja de significados”
elaborados por nosotros mismos, como lo afirma Weber, sino como el conjunto
de valores, t…[Read more]

El Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Transporte y de Vivienda
y Desarrollo Urbano (MOP)1 es una de las instituciones
del Estado que históricamente ha sido señalada por
la ciudadanía como centro de corrupción y, como otra
dependencia más del Poder Ejecutivo que no cumplía
con las funciones que por ley estaba obligada a realizar

Esta obra coordinada por el Máster Oscar Martínez Peñate reúne los puntos de vista y la experiencia de connotadas personalidades de la vida nacional, quienes, en conjunto, aportan una visión crítica, importante para arribar a la comprensión de la sociedad salvadoreña, de cómo está organizada, de cuáles son sus intereses, intenciones y proyectos,…[Read more]

Con esta obra el autor pretende que se conozca la historia vista desde los de abajo, es una nueva perspectiva de analizar los hechos desde dos puntos de vista, los que dieron las órdenes y los que las acataron.
Se describen hechos que por su crueldad y salvajismo resultan más que repugnantes; difíciles de creer que hayan sucedido, por otra pa…[Read more]

Con este trabajo se pretende dar a conocer el funcionamiento de la Asamblea y el trabajo que realizan los diputados, pero sobre todo saber si el Poder Legislativo cumple con los actuales desafíos y retos de esta sociedad de postguerra; de la misma manera, identificar las disfunciones y plantear propuestas para tratar de solventarlas. Para llevar…[Read more]