Listen to the last audio files, from MoDe(s) Research Seminar Diverging Gazes: Art, Politics, Coloniality and their Transnational Networks, held at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, in April 8th, 2016. They include a keynote lecture by Julián Díaz Sánchez (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) “Arte y guerra fría. Cuestiones de método”, and presentations by Inés Plasencia, Pablo … Continue reading Multimedia Archive: last entries
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Wifredo Lam at Reina Sofía Museum: exhibition and catalogue
Until August 15, 2016, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid presents an important exhibition of Wifredo Lam (Sagua La Grande, 1902 – Paris, 1982), covering multiple aspects of the trajectory of the Cuban artist. The exhibition catalogue includes an essay by Paula Barreiro López.
MoDe(s)’s Library: an expanding project
Visit MoDe(s) Library! Conceived both as a working tool and an open window on the group’s ongoing research, it presents a selection of publications around issues like modernity, post-colonial thinking, Cold War history, art and politics.
New: MoDe(s) Multimedia Archive
Have a check at our Multimedia section! Among the research tools offered by MoDe(s), this section offers audio files of lectures and debates that took place in the framework of MoDe(s)’ Activities. Available now, the keynote lecture by Prof. Jonathan Harris and the lectures by Paula Barreiro López, Fabiola Martínez, Jaime Vindel and Laia Manonelles, presented in the framework … Continue reading New: MoDe(s) Multimedia Archive
CFP Doctoral Seminar Cold Atlantic
The University of Barcelona, Saint Louis University (Madrid) and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid invite doctoral students in art history or related disciplines to participate in a doctoral seminar/workshop Cold Atlantic. Cultural War, Dissident Artistic Practices, Networks and Contact Zones at the Time of the Iron Curtain.
“Without Borders” panel
Fabiola Martínez co-organizes the Panel Without Borders: The Promise and Pitfalls of Inter-American Art History at the Annual Conference of the CAA in Washington DC. Participants include Fabiana Serviddio.
CFP international Conference Cold Atlantic
The international conference Cold Atlantic seeks to highlight the transatlantic exchanges between North America, Europe, Africa and Latin America bringing into the fore other hubs of artistic exchange and influence, aiming not just to de-center the Paris-New York axis, but also to foster a discussion that gives a voice to cultural expressions that were generated outside the official power structures.
Maria Ruido. L’œil impératif
L’œil impératif analyses the political, economic and representative mechanisms that serve to perpetuate the effects of colonialism and neocolonialism in the former Spanish and French protectorates in North Africa.
Colonialism, coloniality and visual sovereignty(/ies)
In relation to the exhibition L’oeil impératif by artist Maria Ruido, this round table discussion proposes a transversal reflection on the role that the visual regime acquires in colonial and neo-colonial processes, perceived not only from the perspective of economic exploitation or political interventionism, but also as a hierarchy of thought or an epistemological hegemony.
