People in Motion: Gego and Schendel's Moving Art

Modernist Cultures 9.1 (2014), 27-45.

This article explores the movements of modernist bodies across Europe and the Americas in the early twentieth century. Arguing that scholarship is still insufficiently attuned to the diversity and porousness of art-forms and languages that actually characterized the period, the essay tracks the movement of dancers through an expansive Western circuit, showcasing their involvement in unsuspected forms of circulation, collaboration, and cultural exchange. Focusing in particular on Tórtola Valencia, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Charlie Chaplin, the article demonstrates the cross-cultural movements implied in their own performances and tours; but it balances this interest in the modernist traveler with a focus on the figure designated by Mary Louise Pratt as the 'travelee', the one who is visited. Collecting responses in multiple languages and artforms from 'travelees' in the spaces through which these performers passed, it is argued, allows scholars to configure new maps of cultural modernity.

Political Psychology, 2024

Carnaval de Negros y Blancos is a mixed- race festive act inscribed on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). It hosts collective gatherings that provide opportunities for identity emergence and reaffirmation, where heritage owners lead top- down and bottom- up safeguarding efforts. This study aims to document the processes of collective action for sustainability, by analyzing top- down and bottom- up initiatives for safeguarding. We conducted a mixed- methods study in Pasto, Colombia, using data from interviews with ICH stakeholders (n = 59) and from surveys with carnival players (n = 403). Heritage safeguarding, peacebuilding, human expression, transcendent experience, and evolving identities are the main themes within safeguarding movements. Additionally, the quality of participation in the event, either as performer or not performer at Senda del Carnaval, relates to sociocognitive and emotional processes of both social movements and collective gatherings. Findings portray ICH as a context for sustainable cities and communities, as well as increased peace, justice, and responsive institutions

CIHA, 2023

Since the first manifestations of its genre, art historical texts try to understand the artistic processes of creativity as a process of migration; inventions are understood as mobile processes. The development of the figure of an artist or of a style can be seen as a complex process of migrating individuals or concepts. Migration has also been understood through its historical, political and socio-economic aspects. In addition to this, it has been a fundamental aspect of the human experience since the beginning of the Modern Age, i.e., since the times of the circumnavigation of the world, which provoked displacements of large population groups across all the continents. Even before the creation of art history as a scholarly discipline in the 19th century, art and culture have been construed through the exchange of objects, concepts and practices among a variety of territories and societies around the globe, not only between Europe and their colonies and vice versa, but also between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula or India, or Asia and the Americas. European mass emigration to the Americas, that started in the 19th century and continued throughout the 20th century as a forced migration related to the two World Wars and the many other violent conflicts around the globe, reaches an unprecedented level in the 21st century, when humankind faces new challenges brought about by different forms of transit of peoples, ideas and images.

This exhibition focuses on distinct perceptions of time-phenomenological, empirical, political, and fictional. Contemporary artists from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe map the show into five areas of multimedia installations that examine cultural differences in the construction of time.

Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image n.10, 2018

Susana Viegas and James Williams (Eds), "Painting, Moving Images and Philosophy", Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image n. 10, Dec 2018. ARTICLES . Painting at the Beginning of Time: Deleuze on the Image of Time in Francis Bacon and Modern Cinema, David Benjamin Johnson . “Each Single Gesture Becomes a Destiny”: Gesturality between Cinema and Painting in Raúl Ruiz’s L’hypothèse du Tableau Volé, Greg Hinks . Whither the Sign: Mohammed Khadda in Assia Djebar’s La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua, Natasha Marie Llorens . Manet and Godard: Perception and History in Histoire(s) du Cinéma, Pablo Gonzalez Ramalho . A Work of Chaos: Gianluigi Toccafondo’s Animated Paintings, Paulo Viveiros . Ill Seen, Ill Said: The Deleuzian Stutter Meets the Stroop Effect in Diana Thater’s Colorvision Series (2016), Colin Gardner . Blue Residue: Painterly Melancholia and Chromatic Dingnity in the Films of David Lynch, Ed Cameron

Today museums are developing new curatorial and pedagogical strategies based on more dialogic and participatory forms of knowledge production and dissemination in order to strengthen their social engagement with society and their educational functions towards its visitors. This article argues that performative approaches to art, culture and curation can help us rethink the static model of exhibition as representation and help us qualify alternative modes of looking, interacting and learning from art.

Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education, 2018

Conceptual Framework On a warm sunny day in October, 2016, I sat in an uncomfortable office chair in the middle of a Midwestern campus quad, tethered to the woman sitting across from me by the connected microphones pinned to our shirts. We were brought together by our mutual participation in Migration Stories an art project led by visiting artist Mark Menjivar (2016). The piece was a component of Northern Triangle, a Borderland Collective exhibition about the United States' relationship to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala ("Borderland Collective: Northern Triangle," 2016). As a volunteer for Menjivar's project, I was tasked with drawing out the migratory histories of passing strangers on the college quad. Participants were invited to self-determine what they considered migration, be it their personal journey that led to their arrival on the campus, to their ancestor's relocations from various homelands. Later, these migration stories became part of an oral history archive that Menjivar disseminated through exhibitions, print publications, and a project website (Menjivar, 2016).

Exploration of some of the works of visual art produced by the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop

InterArtive Issue #55, 2013

The primary purpose of this special issue on "Art and Mobility" is to reflect on the multiple aspects of cultural and artistic mobility and to open the way towards a transdisciplinary field of study that increasingly claims its place in the analysis and research of the social and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.

And Yet It Moves! On Cinema, Media and Mobility Udine / Gorizia FilmForum 2021 Conference Proceedings, 2023

ISBN 978-88-6977-416-4 TOC: 1. Archives of Mobility Mobility Media: An Archaeology of the Photographic ID Document Eszter M. Polonyi Luis Trenker’s Transcultural Multiple Version Mountain Films: Overview, Background, and Implications Maria Adorno An Unexpected Discovery: The Film and Audio-Visual Archives of Senegal Marco Lena, Tiziana Manfredi The Eyes of the War: An Archaeology of WWI Aerial Apparatuses Between Panoramic And Telescopic Vision Matteo Citrini 2. Microphysics of Portability Cinema Spatialized: The Experience of Space in the VR Documentary Bridge to Sovietopia Kseniia Bespalova Embodiment and Materialist Practices in Artist’s Cinema: A Conversation Christina Lammer, Markus Maicher, and Simona Schneider From Mobility Euphoria to Pandemic Immobility (and Back): Action Cameras and Somatic Images in the Age of Global Capitalism Chiara Grizzaffi 3. Networks of Circulation Nollywood’s Remaking Practices and Networks of Circulation Sonia Campanini Freedom to Cross(Media): Migrating Contents and Migration Stories in Manu Chao’s Music Videos Giuliana C. Galvagno, Cristina Balma-Tivola 105 107 115 125 4. Moving in the Land of Stillness Mobile Memories: New Looks at Ancient Tales Lucia Di Girolamo Mobility and Mediality: Non-fiction Films of the Economic Miracle and the Construction of a Modern Southern Landscape Angela Maiello, Giacomo Tagliani Destabilizing Mobility: Emigration from the South in Postwar Italian Non-fiction Cinema and TV Massimiliano Gaudiosi