Singing for the Absent
The very first scene of the video Centro Espacial Satelital de Colombia, by the art collective La Decanatura, depicts a mother cow slowly, even lovingly, stroking with her tongue a newborn calf.
2010s
5 Questions with Olga Kopenkina
Curator Olga Kopenkina describes her curatorial practice, which moves away from grand historical narratives toward specific, national histories producing intersectionalities that she feels are missing in art history today.
5 Questions with Gustavo Buntinx
Art historian, theorist, critic, and museum activist Gustavo Buntinx, answers C-MAP’s 5 Questions, from a Peruvian and Latin American perspective, and challenges us to prevent the normalization of difference in the visual arts.
5 Questions with Gluklya
Artist Gluklya (Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya) speaks about the importance of specific, local narratives for her work: “The experiments that I am doing… are the only reality, the only narrative that I can imagine.”
5 Questions with Matthew Jesse Jackson
Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and a leading expert on Soviet nonconformist art, challenges us to redefine the basic meaning of “art.”
post Presents: Catherine David on Curating with an International Perspective
Catherine David, Deputy Director, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, presents her past and current curatorial projects and discusses how to increase the visibility of works of art made around the world.
5 Questions with Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Budapest-based art historians and curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes comment on the need for a more planetary, as opposed to global, model of art
Travelers’ Tales: C-MAP Research in Warsaw, Łódź, and Berlin
Members of MoMA’s C-MAP Central and Eastern European group reflect on their research trip to Warsaw and Łódź, Poland and Berlin, Germany, which took place in late May / early June, 2016. Over the course of a week, the 14 travelers met with over 70 individuals, including artists, curators, dealers, and art historians; conducted two…
post Presents: Rashid Rana on Curating the Inaugural Lahore Biennale
Rashid Rana discusses curatorial plans for the inaugural Lahore Biennale with Glenn D. Lowry, Director of MoMA.
Mladen Stilinović in Conversation with Ana Janevski
Ana Janevski interviews the Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović in his apartment in Zagreb in March 2013 during the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group trip to Novi Sad, Belgrade, Ljubljana and Zagreb.
Part 3: The OHO Group,”Information,” and Global Conceptualism avant la lettre
In the third and final part of this multi-section essay, art historian Ksenya Gurshtein addresses OHO Group’s work in the year 1970.
5 Questions with Natalia Brizuela
Professor Natalia Brizuela shares her thoughts on how to approach Latin American modern and contemporary artistic practices.