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South-South Axes of Global Art

Les circulations artistiques Sud-Sud

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Published on Monday, June 15, 2015

Abstract

The decentered internationalism espoused by the Havana, Dakar, and Gwangju biennials invites art historians to depart from an exclusively North Atlantic focus. Such a shift in purview seriously considers cities and regions that have been marginalized by previous academic emphases, more so than by their historical circulations of art and culture with the rest of the world. Historicizing and measuring the circulation of art on the former margins is now a decisive task if we want to evidence, nuance, or contest the “provincialization” of Europe and North America in recent art history. Artl@s’ upcoming conference aims to gather an international and transdisciplinary group of researchers to collectively investigate the formation and impediments of what we call “South-South” axes from decolonization to the present day.

Announcement

Free entrance, no registration is required.

Program

Wednesday, June 17

9:30 - 10:00 Tea & Coffee 

10:00 - 10:15 Introduction

10:15 – 12:30 PANEL 1 - Historicity of a decentered art history : formation and impediments of South-South circulations

Chair : Sven Spieker

  • Dwight Carey : Global Architecture in the Indian Ocean : The Built Environments of Nineteenth-Century Mauritius
  • Nicolas Nercam : Un aperçu des échanges artistiques sino-indiens de la première moitié du XXe siècle : transfert, identité, politique. Le cas de Calcutta et du Bengale

    11:15 - 11:30 Pause
  • Josefina de la Maza, Juan Ricardo Rey, Carolina Vanegas, Catalina Valdés : Art Collectors in Network and Identity Narratives : Contributions to a Cartography of the Genre of Types and Costumes in South America
  • Victoria L. Rovine : Style Migrations : Tracing South-South Networks through African Dress Practices

    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at the restaurant of the ENS

14:00 – 16:30 PANEL 2 - Cities, routes, regions : placing South-South circulations

Chair : Dominique Malaquais

  • Yin Ker : From Santiniketan to Yangon & Beyond : Considerations on an Ashram’s Vision for a Contextualised Narrative of Modern Burmese & Southeast Asian Art
  • Maria de Fátima Morethy Couto : Entre Paris et Londres : contacts et rencontres des artistes sud-américains en Europe (1950-1970)

15:00 - 15:30 Pause 

  • Maeline Le Lay : Les circulations artistiques entre la RD Congo, le Rwanda et le Burundi : de l’Empire colonial belge à l’Afrique des Grands Lacs
  • Fanny Gillet : De l’Union nationale des artistes plasticiens algériens à l’Union arabe des arts plastiques : pour une analyse des échanges artistiques à l’échelle panarabe (1970-1979)

    16:30 - 16:45 Pause

16:45 - 18:30 Roundtable : Past Disquiet Narratives and Ghosts from The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978

  • Kristine Khouri, Rasha Salti, Claude Lazar, and Nasser Soumi

Chair : Catherine Dossin

18:30 - 19:00 Reception, École normale supérieure

Thursday, June 18

9:00 - 09:45 Keynote

Address by Anthony Gardner : South as Method : Fetish, Farce or Force ?

9:45 - 10:00 Tea & Coffee 

10:00 – 12:30 PANEL 3 - Biennales of the South : expectations and influence

Chair : Anthony Gardner

  • Nuria Querol : The Delhi Biennale : Paradoxical Conditions in South-South Axes of Global Art and Politics
  • Nora Greani : L’art contemporain à l’épreuve de l’authenticité bantoue, L’exemple de la Biennale d’Art Bantu Contemporain

11:00 - 11:30 Pause 

  • Thomas Fillitz : The Biennial of Dakar, Global Art, and the Circulation of African Artists
  • Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Olivier Marcel : Bringing BasArt South

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at the restaurant of the ENS 

14:00 – 16:30 PANEL 4 - Southern connections and non-connections

Chair : Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

  • Annabelle Boissier : Les institutions artistiques asiatiques des décennies 1970 à 2000
  • Emmanuelle Spiesse : Acteurs de l’art du Nigeria ; artistes visuels et marchés de l’art (début des années 2000)

15:00 - 15:30 Pause 

  • Camila Bechelany, Camila Maroja : From the South and Back Again. Constructing Latin American Art at the Biennale de Paris (1977) and at the Bienal Latino Americana de São Paulo (1978)
  • Chanon Praepipatmongkol : Modern Islamic Art Beyond the Middle East

16:30 - 16:45 Pause

16:45 - 17:45 Keynote

Address by Andrea Giunta : Simultaneous abstractions : Nasreen Mohamedi and the constellation of Latin American Art 

18:00 - 19:00 Reception, École normale supérieure

Friday, June 19

9:30 - 10:00 Tea & Coffee 
 
9:30 – 12:00 PANEL 5 - Trauma, memory and visibility in/of the South

Chair : Zahia Rahmani

  • Benjamin O. Murphy : Synchronicity, Historicity, and Juan Downey’s Ethnographic Present
  • Devika Singh : India and South-South Formations : Responses to the Bangladesh War of 1971

10:30 - 11:00 Pause 

  • Katja Gentric : Memórias, Íntimas, Marcas : Angola - Cuba - South Africa
  • Bindu Bhadana : Index of the Disappeared : Navigating the Archive

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch at the restaurant of the ENS 

13:15 - 14:30 Film projection

Christine Douxami, Philippe Degaille : Fesman 2010, du Nord au Sud de l’Est à l’Ouest

14:30 – 17:00 PANEL 6 - A southern turn in art ?

Chair : Andrea Giunta

  • Kevin Murray : South Ways - art undercurrents across the latitude
  • Andrew Weiner : Chorus, Screen, Pistol : Regional Socialism Against the Global Contemporary

15:30 - 16:00 Pause 

  • Cristiana Tejo : Curare : is it possible to de-colonize curatorial practices ?
  • Daniel Quiles and Red Conceptualismos del Sur 

17:00 - 17:15 Pause

17:15 - 18:45 Closing debate : Is the South a place, a mobile condition of domination and invisibilization, a global commodity, a geopolitical ideology, or an academic chimera ? 

Chair : Sven Spieker

19:00 - 20:00 Reception, École normale supérieure 

Scientific committee

  • T.J. Demos, Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London
  • Anthony Gardner, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford
  • Andrea Giunta, Professor at the University of Austin, Texas
  • Dominique Malaquais, Chargée de Recherche 1ère classe au Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, CNRS
  • Zahia Rahmani, Responsable du programme Art et mondialisation, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
  • Sven Spieker, Art Margins, University of California, Santa Barbara

Organization committee

  • Catherine Dossin, Purdue University, Associate Professor. Directrice adjointe d’Artl@s
  • Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Ecole normale supérieure, Maître de conférences en histoire de l’art contemporain, Directrice d’Artl@s
  • Olivier Marcel, ENS/IHMC, Post-doctorant Artl@s
  • Daniel Quiles, Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Places

  • Salle Dussane - ENS 45, rue d'Ulm
    Paris, France (75005)

Date(s)

  • Wednesday, June 17, 2015
  • Thursday, June 18, 2015
  • Friday, June 19, 2015

Keywords

  • art, circulation, décolonisation, périphérie

Contact(s)

  • Olivier Marcel
    courriel : olivier [dot] marcel [at] ens [dot] fr

Reference Urls

Information source

  • Olivier Marcel
    courriel : olivier [dot] marcel [at] ens [dot] fr

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« South-South Axes of Global Art », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Monday, June 15, 2015, https://doi.org/10.58079/sw0

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