Transcultural Perspectives: Theories, Practices, Objects I

2–5 September 2014, Unifesp

The seminar aims at discussing theories and methods of global, transcultural and post-colonial art history. Through close readings of theoretical texts in connections with case studies from the history of art, issues of migration and exchange, hybridity, agency, inter- and transculturality will be discussed, and above all a critical discussion on the writing of art history will be established. Visits of the 31^st Bienal de São Paulo and the international workshop Global Contexts of the Contemporary Latin American Art Market at Itaú Cultural will complete the seminar.

September 2: Problems and Challenges of a Global Art History

Readings and discussion:

• James Elkins (ed.), Is Art History Global?, London and New York 2007.
• Monica Juneja and Christian Kravagna, «Understanding Transculturalism», in: Transcultural Modernism, ed. by Model House Research Group, Berlin 2013, p. 22–33.

September 3: Global Contexts of the Contemporary Latin American Art Market

Visit of the workshop Global Contexts of the Contemporary Latin American Art Market at Itaú Cultural Auditorium, São Paulo

September 4: Global Art and its Institutions

Presentations and discussion of the workshop reports

Readings and discussion:

• James Clifford, «On Collecting Art and Culture», in: The Predicament of Culture, Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art, Cambridge, Mass. 1988, p. 215–51.
• Hans Belting, «Contemporary Art and the Museum in the Global Age», in: Contemporary Art and the Museum. A Global Perspective, ed. by Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddensieg, Ostfildern 2007, p. 16–38.
• Charlotte Bydler, «The Global Art World Inc.: On the Globalization of Contemporary Art», in: The Biennial Reader, ed. by Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal and Solveig Østvebø, Ostfildern 2010, p. 378-405.
• Ángel Guido, Arquitectura hispanoincaica a traves de Wölfflin, Rosario: 1927 (Ángel Guido, «Hispano-Incaic Architecture: a Wölfflinian View», in: Art in Translation, 2009, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 259–71.

September 5: Bienal de São Paulo

Joint visit of the Bienal de São Paulo: discussion of specific works and topics