Beyond Capitalist Realism
Internationalism After the End of Globalisation

The second part of the "Never Again: Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st Centuries" confrenece was the summit "Internationalism after the end of globalisation".

Following the famous 11th thesis on Feuerbach, the aim of the summit was not only to reflect upon the failures of globalisation, but to revisit internationalism as an unfinished project.

Beyond Capitalist Realism

Yaiza Hernández Velázquez, "The Universal at the end of the Rainbow"

Yaiza Hernández Velázquez

lecturer in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Previously, she worked for six years at Central Saint Martins-UAL, where she led the MRes in Exhibition Studies. Before returning to academia she worked for over a decade in art institutions, including as Head of Public Programmes at MACBA (Barcelona), director of CENDEAC (Murcia) and curator at CAAM (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). Recent publications include "Imagining Curatorial Practice after 1972" in Curating after the Global (MIT Press, 2019), "Cortocircuitos del museo y la autonomía" in ¡Autonomización! ¡Autonomía! (TEA, 2019) and "Who Needs Exhibition Studies?" in El Museo Foro (UNAM, 2019).

Marco Baravalle, "Beyond Capitalist Realism: project and utopia"

Marco Baravalle

a member of S.a.L.E. Docks, a collective managing an independent space for visual arts and activism in Venice. In addition to curating the diverse programming at S.a.L.E. Docks, Baravalle is also part of INCOMMON research team (IUAV University of Venice), focusing on the relationship between art, theatre and activism.

Keir Milburn, "Are we in an Acid Communist Moment?"

Keir Milburn

lecturer in Political Economy and Organisation at the University of Leicester. His latest book, Generation Left, published by Polity, explains why young people are moving to the left while older people are tending towards the right. He also co-hosts the #ACFM podcast on Novara Media

Anti-Fascist Year, "Surprising alliances. Mapping the Anti-fascist Year"

The Anti-fascist Year

a country-wide initiative promoted by a coalition of public institutions, NGOs, social movements, collectives, individual artists and activists across Poland. Its goal is to support anti-fascist struggles and facilitate anti-fascist ideas and messages.

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