3-4 April, Dis:connected artistic belonging and recognition in global modernity
The twentieth century is characterized by a high degree of mobility and circulation of artists. Art history is increasingly paying attention to dis:connectivities of transnational artistic trajectories and their role in shaping multiple modernities. This workshop interrogates which historiographic narratives artists on the move get inscribed into, juxtaposing these narratives with the artists’ own perceptions of professional belonging and recognition. By artists on the move we understand (visual) artists that have left their place of origin and ended up elsewhere, intentionally or unintentionally.
We examine whether the move constitutes a detour in the artist’s life and career, in that it diverts a (personal or professional) trajectory, and how the move and new place of creation impacts the artist’s career and inscription into (institutional, art historical, hegemonic) narratives. Here we are especially interested in artists that went to places outside well-established centres of modernity. How were they received in these places, what were their own expectations regarding their professional and personal development, and how were these matched? The question of dis:connectivity is pertinent here in that it highlights the possibility of being at once connected and disconnected to different narratives of belonging and recognition, and potential tensions between subjective perceptions and formal histories.
Date: 3-4 April
Venue: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Maria-Theresia-Str. 21, 81675 Munich
Organisers: Dr Claudia Cendales Paredes and Dr Nadia von Maltzahn
Please register here by 27 March.