ABOUT DINOSAURS AND CHAMELEONS, OR THE REPRESENTATIONAL ROLE OF MUSEUMS (2024) /ARTICLE

Taking the International Council of Museums (ICOM) recently revised museum definition by its word, this essay reflects on the history of the museum’s representational role to consider possible ways forward to implement its new emphasis on inclusivity and community participation. Drawing mainly on institutional critique, new museology, and decolonial thought, two curatorial approaches are analysed that could lead the way towards a placemaking approach to museology: artist’s José Miguel González Casanova’s curatorial project Jardín de Academus [Garden of Academus] (2011) at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, and the curatorial approach of the first co-directors of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ) Pablo Lafuente and Keyna Eleison.

The article was published in Annals for Istrian and Mediterranean Studies. Series Historia et Sociologia, 34, 2024, 4 and can be read here.

KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN VISUAL ARTS ORGANISATIONS: A CASE STUDY ON THE TRIANGLE NETWORK (2023) /BOOK

Looking at visual arts organisations (VAOs) from a curatorial perspective, their institutional practices of knowledge production between the realms of the local and the global stand out. Focusing on three of the Triangle Network's partner organisations – HANGAR in Lisbon, Gasworks in London and 32º East in Kampala – three means of knowledge production in VAOs are defined and elaborated on: mediation, representation, and conviviality. The study highlights the existence of various knowledge(s) and insists on their importance.

The book can be acquired here.

Publications

Interested in the power of stories, images and imagination in decolonising processes, this essay examines rest as an embodied, political practice of resistance. By means of two long term artistic projects – The Nap Ministry (2016-ongoing) by Tricia Hersey and Oneiric Propaedeutic (2015-2017) by Daniel Godínez Nivón – the important role of self-care as a self-preserving strategy for black and brown bodies within a white hegemonic, and racist capitalistic system is emphasised. Through the in-depth analysis of the projects, resting and dreaming are framed as meaning-making practices through which a subjective assessment of reality can be achieved. Silence, in both cases the aesthetic manifestation of rest, is presented as a space for personal learning and positioning through the formulation of decolonial narratives.

The essay is published in Cultures of Silence. The Power of Untold Narratives (2023) edited by Luísa Santos and published by Routledge.

The book can be acquired here.

REST AS RESISTANCE. FROM SELF-CARE TO DECOLONIAL NARRATIVES (2023) /ARTICLE

2017

Through, From, To Latin America: Networks, Circulations and Artistic Transits from the 1960s to the Present

Participant

27-28 November, 2017

IHA, FCSH, NOVA, Lisbon

2023

A-Place, Sensing Place Together

Participant

14-15 September, 2023

IFILNOVA, FCSH, NOVA, Lisbon

XII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

Paper Presentation: "Many Hands Make Light Work (2022): Curating Relational Infrastructures"

25-27 January, 2024

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

Academic Conferences

2024

VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Global Translations

Poster Presentation

Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

2018

VIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Cyber+Cipher+Culture

Paper Presentation: "Architecture of Bigness or Cipher Architeture"

Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

2019

IX Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Neurohumanities. Threats and Promises

Paper Presentation: "Institutional Attention Ecologies: The Case of Visual Arts Organisations"

Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon