ARTISTIC CURATORSHIP AND DIFFERENCE IN THE POSTCOLONIAL LUSOPHONE AND HISPANOPHONE ATLANTIC CONTEXTS.

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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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Conceptual Materialism: Installation Art and the Dismantling of Caribbean Historicism

Publication . Garrido Castellano, Carlos

2014Journal 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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Agencia, institucionalidad, experiencia. Revisar lo curatorial caribeño

Publication . Garrido Castellano, Carlos

Este artículo analiza las políticas curatoriales caribeñas de las últimas décadas. Dicho análisis se plantea tres objetivos principales: primero, el de llevar a cabo una revisión histórica de los principales modelos curatoriales que han dominado la dinámica expositiva en la región. En segundo lugar, se plantea una revisión de las principales aproximaciones críticas más recientes a dichas prácticas curatoriales. Finalmente, se esbozarán algunas perspectivas que podrían contribuir a delinear un nuevo paradigma crítico y un entendimiento alternativo de la propia práctica curatorial.

2015Journal article

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Organization, Engagement, Coloniality. Hangar: Centro de Investigações Artísticas in Lisbon.

Publication . Garrido Castellano, Carlos

This paper analyzes the work of Hangar: Centro de Investigação Artística, the first artist-managed space in Portugal dealing with postcolonial issues and African art. Through an analysis of Hangar´s activities, I aim to critically examine how African art has been displayed and consumed in Portugal, particularly in relation to the production of the country´s contradictory postcolonial image. The emergence of Hangar and the development of long-term relations both with emerging artists born in Africa and with the local Afro-Portuguese community imply, I suggest, a new and more fruitful approach. This collaboration also provides new tools for artists and cultural agents to strengthen their agency against the forces of touristification and commoditization that Lisbon and contemporary art from Portuguese-speaking African countries are respectively experiencing. The text is followed by a short interview with Hangar´ founders and directors Bruno Leitão and Mónica de Miranda.

2017Journal article

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Cultures of (In)Security in comparison: From Comparative Literature to Critical Approaches to Security Studies

Publication . Garrido Castellano, Carlos; Araújo, Susana; Martins, Susana S.

2015Journal article

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