Project description
Amazonian contemporary art
The globalisation of art circuits has influenced indigenous contemporary art. Now indigenous artists from the Amazon, in particular from Peru, attract the interest of different scientific disciplines like anthropology, art history and curatorial studies. Amazonian contemporary art proposes novel opportunities to approach the aesthetical-political dimensions of humanities and art. In indigenous Amazon contemporary artists’ life, work, evolution and activism are interconnected. The EU-funded Amazonart project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, will develop theoretical and methodological knowledge that will facilitate our understanding of an artist's connection with global art circuits. Anthropology, art history, curatorial studies as well as museums will benefit from this research.
Objective
This project develops a novel theoretical and methodological approach to understand the work, trajectories and activism of indigenous Amazonian contemporary artists as they enter global art circuits and seeks to produce more suitable curatorial narratives. Over the last decade the field of contemporary art has expanded its boundaries through the integration of art practices from various parts of the globe including indigenous art. A significant scholarship has traced the practices and global articulations of Australian and North American indigenous artists, which have developed a strong circuit of art agents and stimulated readjustments in art historical narratives. Yet the global rise of other vibrant indigenous art practices requires immediate attention. This is the case of Amazonian contemporary art which is mobilising different aesthetics and agendas and proposing novel contributions to the arts and humanities at large. With a focus on Amazonian Peruvian artists, this project develops a novel approach to explore the work, trajectories and activism of indigenous Amazonian contemporary artists as they enter global art circuits. Its aim is to produce the first major study on Amazonian contemporary art that expands the current framework of analysis of art and shamanism to look at artists’ practices, agendas and mobility across the local, urban, national and global arenas and to propose more suitable vocabularies and curatorial narratives. It does this through an innovative collaborative methodology with Amazonian artists responding to their aim of self-representation. This MSCA action draws on my on-going collaborations with Amazonian artists and on my background in the fields of anthropology, museum studies and cultural policies. The participatory and interdisciplinary approach of this research seeks to contribute to dialogues amongst anthropology, art history and curatorial studies and benefit museum practices and policies in addressing indigenous art today.
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- humanities history and archaeology history
- social sciences sociology anthropology
- humanities arts art history
- humanities arts modern and contemporary art
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF-EF-CAR - CAR – Career Restart panel
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
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CO4 3SQ Colchester
United Kingdom
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