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A Critical History of Contemporary Art in Nicaragua

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Gabriel Pérez provided an overview of the development of cultural art institutions in Nicaragua, highlighting their enterprise to depoliticize artistic practices and preserve dominant structures.

This critical art history is divided into two parts: first, a historical overview following the development of art institutions from the last 40 years; and second, an examination of grassroots efforts in critical art management, emphasizing self-governance, experimentation, feminist education, and political commitment.

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El desafío de pintar la historia

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Desde la pintura, pero también desde otros medios, mi obra ha sido un esfuerzo constante por entender y explicar para mí y para mis contemporáneos el devenir de Cuba como espacio sociopolítico, histórico y cultural; descifrar las claves de su pasado; interpelar el presente y acaso avizorar el futuro. Son intenciones que siempre pueden latir bajo los pigmentos, con una mirada heterodoxa, antirracista y decolonial. Mi voz pretende participar también desde su modesto rincón en los debates culturales de nuestro tiempo....

The Organic Line. Toward a Topology of Modernism

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Taking as its point of departure the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s notion of the “organic line,” a line of space that appears between a painting and its frame, a door and its lintel, or tiles on the floor, art historian and theorist Irene Small tracks the emergence of the concept in Clark’s work circa 1954. But it also comprehends the organic line as a generative conceptual tool, one that does expansive aesthetic, epistemological, and political work well beyond Clark’s immediate context. Mobilizing a rich...

Echoes of the Haitian Revolution: Music, Sound, and Memory, 1791-1934

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Many scholars have traced the momentous historical consequences of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), seeking to redraw Euro-American maps of the revolutionary era, complicate the relation of imperial center to colonized periphery, and historicize modern categories of race and nation. But research into the varied and vibrant musical cultures of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian revolutionary period, and the subsequent global dispersion and transformation of these cultures, are sparser, especially when it...