Round-table
© Lisa Sturacci studio
In 2020 AWARE launched a free webinar, open to all, allowing the public to meet and exchange with members of our TEAM programme, as well as guest speakers working towards greater inclusiveness of women artists in the history of art.
For its seventh webinar, AWARE will host Andrea Giunta, on the issue: “Can exhibitions intervene in feminist cartographies of Latin American art?” During this webinar, Andrea Giunta will present four exhibitions on art and feminism in Latin America she curated between 2017 and 2021: Radical Women. Latin American Art, 1960-1985, co-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill (Hammer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, 2017-2018); the 12th Porto Alegre Biennial, Brazil, Feminine(s). Visualities, Actions, Affects (2020); Rethinking Everything (Rolf Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2020 – Espace Van Gogh, Arles, 2021) and When the World Changes. Questions About Art and Feminism (Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, 2021).
This webinar will be moderated by Maura Reilly, curator, art writer and head of the TEAM program for AWARE.
Pratical Information
The webinars take place each month on variable day and time depending on the guest. Registration is mandatory to access to the meeting.
The webinar#7 will take place on Tuesday, Octobre 19th, 2021 at 5 pm, Paris time. The meeting will be held in English.
Free (subject to availability), reservation is mandatory.
Webinars will be broadcasted and will be available on AWARE website.
Andrea Giunta is a Writer, Professor, and Curator. She received her PhD at Buenos Aires University, where she is Full Professor of Latin American and Contemporary Art. She is Principal Researcher at CONICET. She previously held the Chair in Latin American Art and Criticism at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was also the founding director of CLAVIS (Center for Latin American Visual Studies). She is the author of several books on Latin American and international art including: Feminismo y arte latinoamericano. Historias de artistas que emanciparon el cuerpo (Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI, 2018 forthcoming by University of California Press), When Does Contemporary Art Begin? (ArteBA, 2014); Escribir las imágenes. Ensayos sobre arte argentino y latinoamericano (Siglo XXI, 2011); El Guernica de Picasso. El poder de la representación. Europa, Estados Unidos y América latina (Biblos, 2009); Poscrisis. Arte Argentino después del 2001 (Siglo XXI, 2009); Avant-garde, Internationalism and Politics. Argentine Art in the Sixties (Duke University Press, 2007). In 2020, she published Contra el canon. El arte en un mundo sin centro (Siglo XXI, 2020). She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2001), the Harrington Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (2007), and appointed Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2017). Since 2014, she is part of the Academic and Artistic Advisory Committee of MALBA museum, Buenos Aires. She was the co-curator of Verboamérica, MALBA, 2016, and Radical Women. Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (Hammer Museum at UCLA, Brooklyn Museum, NY, and Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Brazil). She curated the Bienal 12. Porto Alegre, 2020, Feminine(s). Visualities, Actions and Affections.
Programme
Thu. 12 November 2020
10 AM (CET)
Webinar #1 | For its first webinar, AWARE hosted Jacqueline Millner, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. A feminist art historian, she is a specialist in Australian contemporary art and is currently leading a research program on “Care: Feminism, Art, Ethics in the Age of Neoliberalism”.
Thu. 10 December 2020
5 PM (CET)
Webinar #2 | For its second webinar, AWARE hosted Doris Sung, Assistant Professor of Asian Art history, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA on the subject: “Why Have there Been no Great Chinese Women Artists?”.
Thu. 21 January 2021
5 PM (CET)
Webinar #3 | For its third webinar, AWARE hosted Tal Dekel, Head of the Visual Literacy Studies Program, Kibbutzim College of Education and Arts, Tel Aviv (Israel), on the subject: « Common Differences - Contemporary Feminist Art in Israel, an Intersectional Analysis ».
Wed. 17 February 2021
5 PM (CET)
Webinar #4 | For its fifth webinar, AWARE hosted Agata Jakubowska, Associate Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, on the subject: « Discussing women artists in European socialist states »
Wed. 17 March 2021
5 PM (CET)
Webinar #5 | For its fifth webinar, AWARE hosted Kerry Lynn Greaves, Assistant Professor in Art History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on the subject: « Women Artists in the Nordic Countries and the Politics of Gender in the Welfare State ».
Wed. 22 September 2021
5 PM (CET)
Webinar #6 | For its sixth webinar, AWARE hosted Ceren Özpınar, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Design at the University of Brighton UK, Lina Kattan, Associate Professor of Visual & Performing Arts at the University of Jeddah Saudi Arabia, and Nadia Radwan Assistant Professor of World Art History at the University of Bern Switzerland; on the topic of feminist art and art histories in the Middle East and North Africa.
TEAM: Teaching, E-Learning, Agency, Mentoring is an international academic network whose aim is to collect and publish information on women artists developed by scholars, students and teachers. From South America to Africa, Eastern and Northern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, TEAM enriches the AWARE website, with priority given to geographical areas that are still under-represented to date, and supports the training of a new generation of art historians sensitive to gender issues and the role of women artists.
The TEAM Network is headed by a great figure of feminist art history in the United States: Maura Reilly, PhD, co-founder of the Elizabeth SacklerCenter for FeministArt at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
