(Pamiela - Edarte, 2012) Cares Mardones, Carmen Andrea; Loi, Marta
The interest in knowing more about the young’s demonstrations (their origins, processes and resultants),
mainly from the concern about their proximity to the market’s impositions and the rethinking of formal
education towards an appropriate management of this problem, has led into projects’ formulations and
research-teams’ training focused on establishing connections which make possible, from the visual culture’s
perspective, the investigation of a happening that lies in an increasingly, image-saturated society’s
configuration.
This document, compiled as part of the Second Conference of Youth Research, Pamplona, reflects our
experiences from dialoguing with young visual-culture producers in a central square, in Barcelona. From
an initial position, as spectators, and a latent willingness to investigate afterwards, these meetings focus
on recognizing the conditions under which these cultural expressions become visible to passerby in a city
like Barcelona. This research’s conclusion indicates our view as spectators, and it clearly reveals the need
to question the young’s demonstrations from different perspectives, not only from a critical point towards
new social conditions. Understanding the importance as studying these issues has, without forgetting the
latency of some social organization’s factors, even if they’re now articulated in a different way, they emerge
behind every attempt to differentiate themselves from others.
Contemplating this issue’s extent, and displaying our intention to open new discussion areas that will expand
these studies, we focus on two key concepts which we consider important for these Visual-Culture
young producers’ visibility, in Barcelona: discrimination and space. Concepts to which we have come
through informal interviews conducted in a public square where they meet on weekends at sunset.
