Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia , livre ebook

Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning in contemporary Iberia. The book’s main hypothesis is that contemporary art has been pivotal in the construction of contemporary Iberia, a process marked by the attention paid (in heterogeneous, not always satisfactory ways) to the entanglement of the legacies of colonialism and the present-day status of Iberian territories as cosmopolitan societies now integrated in the European Union. It is argued that, at least from the 1990s, curating emerged as a key activity for Iberian societies to display and configure an image of themselves as modern and fully integrated in the European cultural landscape. Such an image, however, had to cope with the legacies of colonialism and the profound socioeconomic transformations of these societies. This book is concerned with bringing together, while redefining and expanding, Iberian and curatorial studies.AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Fictions of Cosmopolitanism, Spectacles of Alterity. Curating and the (Un)Making of Coloniality in Contemporary Iberia. - Carlos Garrido Castellano and Bruno LeitãoPart I: Displaying ColonialityChapter 1: Remapping Disciplines, Displaying Possibilities. A Curatorial Studies-Based Approach to Iberian Studies. - Carlos Garrido CastellanoChapter 2: Curatorial displacements in Spain before and after the 2000s: Coloniality tricks, exhibition eclipses and critical agencies. - Olga Fernández LópezChapter 3: The Exhibition as Representative Strategy for Cultural Diversity: Barcelona, 1992-2011. - Pep DardanyàChapter 4: Displaying Postcolonial Spain. A Conversation between Juan Guardiola and Carlos Garrido Castellano. - Juan Guardiola, Carlos Garrido CastellanoChapter 5: - Discourses of the Common Public Space: Identity, Memory and History in the Exhibitions of Autonomous Galicia. - Manuel GagoChapter 6: Curating Equatorial Guinea: Narratives of Spanish Colonialism in Central Africa as Told through Exhibitions. - Inés Plasencia CampsPart II: Curating beyond Exhibition-MakingChapter 7: What’s Someone Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Curatorial Processes, Ethno-Racial Agency and Coloniality in the Spanish State - Suset Sánchez SánchezChapter 8: Négritude: Approximations of a Century of Artistic Relations between the Canary Islands and Africa - Adonay BermúdezChapter 9: Visible Matters. A Short Exchange between Elvira Dyangani Ose and Carlos Garrido Castellano - Elvira Dyangani OseChapter 10: The Gulbenkian Foundation’s Próximo Futuro Programme and the Challenges of Curating Difference - Bruno LeitãoChapter 11: Documenting Postcolonial Curating. Thoughts on Buala One Decade On - Marta LançaPart III: Insurgent InterventionsChapter 12: Rumors: Representations: Revolutions - María Íñigo ClavoChapter 13: Between false steps and post-/decolonial recompositions in progress. The Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures in Barcelona - Cristina Balma TívolaChapter 14: ARTifariti: an artistic, political and committed encounter with the Sahrawi people - Aurora Alcaide RamírezChapter 15: Geopolitical Shifts and Diasporic Struggles in Former Metropolitan Territories  - Nancy Garín, Antoine SilvestreChapter 16: Angolan Art: A Conversation on Curating, Archives, Coloniality and Diaspora - Paula Nascimento, Adriano MixingeChapter 17: Insurgent Aesthetics: Creole Rap from the Outskirts of Lisbon - Otávio Raposo, Pedro Varela