The Baroque of Minas Gerais, in colonial Brazil, flourished in the 18th century and constitutes a unique example of the school’s manifestation if compared to further baroque experiences in the country. A local manifestation of the European style, the Baroque of Minas was reassessed by the modernists artists of São Paulo in the 1920s, for whom the colonial Baroque provided a foundational myth of Brazilian artistic and cultural identity. According to the modernist interpretation, the Baroque of Minas was the first authentic national artistic manifestation: on the one hand it mirrored the anti-colonial desires of the population; on the other, it derived its particular characteristics from Brazil’s ethnically mixed people—the mestiço. The modernist interpretation of the colonial Baroque was governed by ideological interests, and emerged in a context of postcolonial and neocolonial discussions that were occupying many Latin-American thinkers at the beginning of the 20th century. The Paulista modernists did not interpret the Baroque monuments in Minas as a historical phenomena in their own right, but attributed to it diverse meanings that negotiated pressing topics such as the one of a Brazilian identity.
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Lénia Marques (Rotterdam) & Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia (Aveiro)
Transforming Places Through Street Art: Bordalo II and the City
Work by Bordalo II In recent years, street art has gained increased attention in academia, which reflects the growth and expansion of different forms of street …
Esper Postma (Berlin/Deventer)
GAGAPALIZI: A New Museum for Florence
© Esper Postma In the 19th century, Florence became celebrated as the cradle of the Renaissance. Countless museums were founded which fragmented collections …
Sasha Huber (Helsinki)
“Demounting Louis Agassiz” Artistic Renegotiation of Archive, Memory & Place
Rentyhorn intervention © Sasha Huber In her presentation, Sasha Huber will speak about her artistic research and engagement within the cultural-activist …
Sasha Shestakova (Bochum)
Decolonizing Soviet Art History
Pankov Konstantin, Waves, 1938, Solontsev Museum Complex, Tyumen, Russia On the 64th day of the escalation of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the Russian …
Aziza Chaouni (Fez/Toronto)
Sidi Harazem: Co-Designing Heritage Preservation in a Modern Oasis
© Aziza Chaouni © Aziza Chaouni Prior to independence, Morocco’s domestic tourism comprised moussems (religious festivals) and thermalism. The oasis of Sidi …
Cristiana Strava (Amsterdam)
At Home with Colonial Materialities: Snapshots of Heritage-Making and Unmaking on Casablanca’s Margins
Nid d'Abeille experimental, colonial-era worker housing, Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca, 1952 Hay Mohammadi is a mythicized yet maligned neighbourhood on the …
Kateryna Kublytska (Kharkiv/London)
Destruction of Immovable Cultural Heritage During the War of the Russian Federation Against Ukraine
© Emmanuel Durand During her presentation Kateryna Kublytska examines the types of destruction of objects of immovable cultural heritage as a result of the war …
Ece Canlı (Porto)
Beneath the Thick Skin, Behind the Brick Wall
Analogy between the body and building or “body-as-house” has long prevailed in mainstream architecture, comparing skins to walls, veins to conduits, windpipes …
Robert Glas (Rotterdam)
On the film-installation '1986 Or A Sphinx's Interior'
Film still '1986 Or A Sphinx's Interior' © Robert Glas In 1986, Norwegian prison abolitionist Thomas Mathiesen said: ‘There is a clear and strong …
Łukasz Stanek (Manchester)
Socialist Worldmaking
International Trade Fair, Accra, Africa Pavilion and Pavilion A, aerial view, 1967. GNCC, Vic Adegbite (chief architect), Jacek Chyrosz, Stanisław Rymaszewski …
Dawit Benti (Addis Ababa)
Challenges of Urban Heritage Conservation during State-Led Gentrification of Addis Ababa's City Centre
© Daniel Emale Addis Ababa, a young city in an old nation is an administrative and a business capital of Ethiopia. During 136 years of its existence, …
Taputukura Raea (Wellington) & Digital Pasifik
Re-Claiming Pacific History - Making Pacific Cultural Heritage Visible and Accessible
Digital Pasifik team during digitalpasifik live – Showing Cook Islands collections from the National Library of New Zealand via Facebook live © Digital Pasifik …
Laura Ammann (Berlin)
The Appeal of the Colonial Baroque to the Brazilian Modernists
Tarsila do Amaral - Vista de Ouro Preto 1924 © Laura Ammann The Baroque of Minas Gerais, in colonial Brazil, flourished in the 18th century and constitutes a …
Paul Basu (Bonn/London) & Ozioma Onuzulike (Nsukka) & Ikenna Onwuegbuna (Nsukka)
[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times
Northcote Thomas Collections © Re-Entanglements Over the past few years the Museum Affordances / [Re:]Entanglements project has been re-engaging with colonial …
Between Zones of Conflict and the Realm of Dreams: Planetary Perspectives on Film and Filmmaking
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Mykola Ridnyi (Kyiv)
Circle of War: Artistic and Historical Narrations on the Frontlines of Ukraine Session 1: April 29, 6 pm CET Saber, Deer and Spinning Wheel. Exhibition in the …
Mariana Martínez-Bonilla (Mexico-City)
Ghostly Times Violence, Memory and Resistance in the Works of Bruno Varela Session 1: April 29, 6 pm CET In the last week of September 2014, 43 rural students …
Yashaswini Raghunandan (Bangalore)
Eclipse Entanglements Session 2: April 30, 11 am CET © Yashaswini Raghunandan In 2016, filmmaker Yashaswini Raghunandan, visited a village in Murshidabad which …
Chihab El Khachab (Oxford)
Materialist Approaches to Cinematic Creation: A View from Egypt Session 2: April 30, 11 am CET © Chihab El Khachab Fiction cinema can seem like a mesmerizing …
Christian Thiam (Dakar)
AFRICAN RHYTHM FOR AFRICAN FILM: Transposition of the Concept of "Asymmetrical Parallelism" into Film Language Session 3: April 30, 2pm CET Mamiwatta © …
Roundtable: Fide Dayo (Rome) & Norma Gregory (Nottingham)
African Cinema Session 3: April 30, 2pm CET “African Cinema” is the theme of the African Diaspora Cinema Festival that draws on the principle that being …
Alyssa K. Barry (Dakar)
Navigating the Digital Spaces
Voyaging (Edification Series) © Alun Be As the COVID-19 pandemic recently showed us, our world today can no longer survive without digital technology. If the …
Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ashipala (Windhoek) & Tuuda Haitula (Windhoek) & Museums Association of Namibia
Museum Development as a Tool for Strengthening Cultural Rights – A Case Study
©Museums Association of Namibia Between 2017 and 2021, the Museums Association of Namibia (MAN) worked in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Arts …
Njabulo Chipangura (Manchester)
Community Museums in Zimbabwe as an Alternative Form of Representing Living Cultures
In this paper Njabulo Chipangura will present the Marange Community Museum as an alternative form of cultural display that emerged as a result of community …
Annalisa Bolin (Kalmar) and David Nkusi (Kigali)
Decolonizing Heritage Management in Rwanda: Community Engagement and Homegrown Solutions
What does it mean to decolonize heritage? In addition to rethinking narratives presented in heritage, such an effort also includes changing management …
Chantal Umuhoza (Kigali)
Decolonizing Conservation Practices in Rwanda Museums
In 2020, Rwanda museums started a 10-year project of Decolonising Museums, in collaboration with Royal Museum for Central Africa. The Ethnographic Museum is …
Alessandra Ferrini (London)
Unruly Connections
Hiba Shalabi (Tripoli) with translation by Malak Altaeb (Tripoli/Paris)
#SaveTheOldCityOfTripoli
The campaign #SavetheOldCityofTripoly aims at the restoration of the Old City of Tripoli and at the preservation of Libyan cultural heritage. This talk will …
Banji Chona (Rome)
Ngoma zya Budima: Exploring Grief and Death, Celebrating Life and Love, Batonga Drum Story
Ngoma zya Budima is a research project by Banji Chona that swells with the gravity as well as the ethereality of mourning and remembrance. A displacement from …
Victoria Phiri (Lusaka), Samba Yonga (Lusaka) & Mulenga Kapwepwe (Lusaka) & the Women’s History Museum Zambia
Decolonization of Cultural Objects in the Process of Restitution and Repatriation. The Case of Zambian Cultural Objects in Swedish Museums
This paper is based on a digital restitution project in the Gwembe Valley of Southern Province of Zambia, conducted by the Women’s History Museum Zambia (WHMZ) …
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