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On November 6 at 6pm, in the Antonio Soler Classroom of the Merced Campus, the screening of 'Ocaña, intermittent portrait' will take place.
This documentary, focused on the figure of the Sevillian painter José Pérez Ocaña, will be attended by the researcher in Art History of the University of Murcia (UMU) Lidia García García.
The chosen film, Ventura Pons' first film, portrays the countercultural environment of an era full of contrasts through the testimonies of Ocaña himself and the record of his artistic activity, as well as the interventions of other creators of his environment such as Nazario or Buck
"Transvestite emblem of Las Ramblas and underground reference of the Transition. This self-taught and anti-academic creator has had a difficult insertion in canonical historiography for different reasons: his marginal social extraction and peripheral geographical origin (rural origin and arrival in the big city as a possibility of manifesting sexually, artistically and politically), the use of materials and referents of popular culture and especially the development of performative practices of gender disobedience, "says the UMU researcher.
Practices that have often been read as "a utopian and hyperbolic citation of the prevailing heterosexual order and a subversion of social gender hierarchies," as suggested by Paul B. Preciado, a transgender feminist philosopher, about his work.
Admission is free and to register it is necessary to send a mail with name and surname to ucc@um.es.
About the speaker
Lidia García García (1989) is an FPU predoctoral researcher in the UMU Department of Art History with a thesis on kitsch aesthetics and gender in digital art.
Graduated in Humanities from the University of Alicante (UA), she was an extraordinary prize at the end of her degree and obtained a mention of the academic excellence of the Generalitat Valenciana.
It has also been the first national prize in the XV Contest of Introduction to Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education.
He has participated in international conferences at the University of Cambridge and Southern Denmark, among others - with communications about contemporary art, digital culture and folklore from a gender perspective and has published articles on this subject both in scientific journals and in generalist media as the jump.
It also reports on copla, feminism and LGBT activism in social networks such as 'The Queer Cañí Bot'
This activity, organized by the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Murcia (UCC + I of the UMU) with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology - Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, has The objective is to bring scientific culture closer to society.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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