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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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Institutionalism, Public Sphere, and Artistic Agency: A Conversation on 32° East Ugandan Art Trust

Publication . Garrido Castellano, Carlos

2017Journal article

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On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art

Publication . Garrido Castellano, Carlos

this paper examines text-based artworks that employ symbolic translations as a way of analyzing the discursive constrains regulating the Cuban public sphere. Through a revision of artistic projects that turn to translation and intend to provoke the spectator’s active engagement, I seek to understand which possibilities are opened by translation in order to escape the burdens of representation and commoditization shaping contemporary Cuban art. I argue that the encouragement of direct experience could be framed as that possible alternative. The potential attributed to experience and practicality, nevertheless, cannot be directly deduced from the artist’s intentions, being contingent ultimately of how each project works.

2015Journal article

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Shadowy Presences: Mobility, Labor and Absence in the Work of Dominican Photographer Fausto Ortiz

Publication . Garrido Castellano, Carlos

This article aims to examine the ways in which contemporary art from the Caribbean, and specifically from the Dominican Republic, is analyzing mobility and human trafficking within a transnational context. In this case I will critique the work of the photographer Fausto Ortiz (Santiago de los Caballeros, 1970), who has reflected recently on the consequences of migration and displacement for Dominican cultural politics. Rather than addressing the representation of marginalized sectors and marginal forms of economy in the particular case of the Dominican Republic, I argue that Ortiz’s photographic practice deepens and broadens the debates about race, citizenship and social inequality, forcing his audience to consider those issues as a central part of the everyday. While addressing those issues, this article tries to insert Ortiz’s photographic practice within international debates on mobility, border practices and displacement.

2017Journal article

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Introduction

Publication . Machado, Everton V.; Gomes, Francisco Luís

2016Book part

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