Julia Ramírez-Blanco
SPAIN
Julia Ramírez-Blanco is senior researcher (Ramón y Cajal contract) at Madrid´s Complutense University. Her interdisciplinary work connects art history, utopian studies, and activist movements. She is author of the books Artistic Utopias of Revolt (Palgrave, 2018), 15M. El tiempo de las plazas (Alianza, 2021), and Amigos, disfraces y comunas (Cátedra, 2022), La ciudad del Sol, Le mouvement 15M entre formes et performances (Éditions Lorelei, 2023).
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CoLab Projects
Mapping Artistic Activism (MAAP)
Researcher and Member of the Steering Committee
CoLab Presentations
November 17, 2022
Prefiguring Other Possible Worlds: Performative Communities in Recent Social Movements
Selected Bibliography
- 15M. El tiempo de las plazas [15M. The time of the Squares] (2021) Alianza Editorial, Madrid. ISBN: 9788413622675
- Artistic Utopias of Revolt: Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol (2018)
- Non-Textual Utopias / Utopias No-Textuales Revista Estudios Globales & Arte Contemporáneo. Vol.4 | núm. 1 | Diciembre 2016.
Open Acess Publications
- “We Are Everywhere!: On Oliver Ressler’s Video Installation Everything’s Coming Together While Everything’s Falling Apart”, FIELD, 16, Summer 2020.
- Introduction / Introducción”, REGAC Journal, No. 4, 2016 (2018), pp. 1-34 (bilingual Spanish/English
- “Rave Poetics“/”Poéticas raveras” , A-Desk, November 20, 2017 (bilingual Spanish/English).
- “Banners and the Madrid 2011 Protest Camp: Reading the Signs of Revolt”, Victoria and Albert Museum, Disobedient Objects Blog, April 16, 2014 (English).
- “Reclaim the Streets! From Local to Global Party Protest”, Third Text 4, special issue, Global Occupations of Art, July, 2013 (English).
- Ramírez Blanco, Julia (2015) Estudios de caso para una iconografía de protesta. Boletín de Arte, n.º 36, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Málaga, 2015, pp. 31-49, ISSN: 0211-8483.