The Research Group in Aesthetics and Theory of Design and Art (coordinated by Tània Costa) has initiated a collaboration with the Manel Clot Archive with the aim of studying the contributions in the field of pedagogy of a man who has had until now a public recognition focused on the relevance of his work in curatorship and art criticism. Professors Oriol Fontdevila and Víctor García Tur, both former students of Manel Clot, have been added to this research, and it is open to anyone who wishes to join in.
Manel Clot was a teacher at EINA from 1992 to 2011 and introduced two innovations in the centre's educational activities that have had an impact to date. On the one hand, from the subject of Latest Art Trends, Manel Clot articulated in his programmes what he called "(sub/trans/inter)cultures" where design, literature, fashion, music or club culture converged.
Manel Clot's second contribution to EINA was the direction of the three editions of the postgraduate diploma Exhibition Genres (from 2000 to 2003) where, based on the consideration of the exhibition as a fundamental unit of creative practices, he proposed the transformative effects of both the expansion of reception spaces beyond museums and art centres, and the expansion of resources and formats in artistic manifestations.
We reproduce the digital archive "Rosette", which is kept in the Clot Archive (where there is a graphic arrangement of the bibliography of the postgraduate course) as evidence of the ambition and topicality of Manel Clot's framework of reflection and practice. In this way we want to give visibility to the beginning of the collaboration between EINA and the Clot Archive and to thank the support of those responsible for his legacy, especially Anna Clot for all the facilities she is providing for this research.
The installation of the Bibliographic Cartography of Manel Clot at the entrance of the EINA library, today 1st March 2023, pays tribute to him on the seventh anniversary of his death.
Cover photo: Pere Tordera
