Kein Betreff

Tourism is a political and cultural phenomenon that is clearly expanding
thanks to the globalization process associated with late capitalism.

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The consumer and leisure society together with information, communication
and transportation technologies are accelerating this process and are
profoundly transforming our perception of the world.

Tour-isms seeks to examine various forms of tourism through art in order to
open up a process of critical reflection on the influence of this global
phenomenon on contemporary cultures and societies. Particular attention is
given to the Spanish context.

The project is structured around two interconnected realities. The first of
these is the tourist-subject, the subject who activates environments and
memories that are standardized, but legitimated by the individual nature of
the experience and the exploration process. The tourist-subject also acts a=
s
a transforming agent actively involved in the cultural and social
transformation processes affecting the territories visited. The second foca=
l
point for the exhibition is tourist spaces. Such spaces reveal some of the
economic, political, cultural and social processes that define new forms of
socialization and new uses and behaviors in the frontiers that exist betwee=
n
that which is private and that which is public, between the historic and th=
e
historicizable.=20

Tour-isms does not seek to provide an exhaustive analysis of tourism or its
historical development; neither does the exhibition aim to offer a
superficial critique of tourism or tourists, or to establish new tourism
models. Tour-isms is a transversal project that draws connections between a
series of people and groups, who, through their work in a wide range of
fields=8Bincluding geography, history, sociology, cultural criticism,
audiovisual practices, architecture, literature and cinema=8Bprovide insights
into the mechanisms of representation that are generated by the discourse o=
f
tourism and play an increasingly significant role in defining images and
spaces in the contemporary world.

City (Barcelona as a model), Experience (the beach) and Story (souvenirs,
photographs) are the three core themes around which this project is
structured.=20

Tour-isms will also incorporate archive materials and films related to the
issues addressed. The project includes a publication with new and previousl=
y
published texts, as well as visual and written material contributed by
participants. A seminar will also be held with conferences, workshops and
round tables.=20


Coordinator: N=FAria Enguita Mayo
Co-organizers: Jorge Luis Marzo, Montse Roman=ED and Iv=E1n de la Nuez
Space: 800 m2=20