Period 2008-2010: New Critic Typologies in the Study of the Contemporary Artistic Practices: Identity, Micropolitics and Ethnography
Director: Anna Maria Guasch
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
Project I+D MICINN: HUMA2007-66049
Project Information
Affiliated Researchers
Martí Peran, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Carles Guerra, Universitat Pompeu i Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Juan Vicente Aliaga, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Joaquín Barriendos, Columbia University, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, New York, USA
James Elkins, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, USA
Marquard Smith, Westminster University of London, UK, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Visual Culture
Néstor García Canclini, UAM | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México and Researcher Emeritus of the National System of Researchers in Mexico
Angela Dimitrakaki, University of Edinburgh, UK
The project CCAV / ART intends to address the complexity of the new status and the visual art of the last decades from a three-pronged approach: 1) the critical study of artistic practices emerging from the new maps of the global, 2) the approach of new theoretical concepts derived from these practices, and 3) the approach of a set of innovative working methods designed to analyze the relevance of the new art history, by establishing a critical position regarding what in the anglo academic world is usually called World Art History.