UNIA arteypensamiento, a project of the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía in Seville, has been collaborating in the publication of Afterall journal since issue 22. This association is the result of a recognition that both UNIA arteypensamiento and Afterall share a set of interests and attitudes towards contemporary artistic practice and the discourses it generates, as well as an intention to explore art's relationship with and projection onto the social, political, economic and cultural context from which it emerges and where it is developed.

Since its foundation in 2001, UNIA arteypensamiento has been operating as a transformative, generative and critical agent engaged in the production of knowledge on and around artistic practice, with a view to open a space for creation and production - a space in which artists and thinkers can develop projects that are not limited by a cult of the art object but instead defined by attention to process and dialogue. The overall goal has been to give both art and thought the ability to reconsider the world and, at the same time, improve their transformative and emancipatory potentials.

As well as these, UNIA arteypensamiento shares with Afterall a methodological approach shaped by notions of transversality and extra-disciplinarity of art, which leads to connections between practitioners and resources from the art field and projects and experiments situated outside of it. By means of seminars, workshops, symposia, online projects, publications and film programmes, UNIA arteypensamiento attempts to generate ongoing research, favouring a notion of shared intelligence - that is, creating links between activities that are often thought of as unrelated, and at the same time putting into question conventional notions of authorship and intellectual property.¹

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