In this case, I am looking at examples of radical creativity in a wide variety of contexts, including Indonesia, Hong Kong, Uganda, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, the Caribbean, Portugal or Indonesia. Socially Engaged Art and the Reinvention of Radical Creativity. I am currently writing a new monograph in collaboration with SUNY Press on socially engaged art and coloniality under the title of Decolonial Complicities. I have edited two volumes related to those topics and co-edited several special issues on post-tropical aesthetics, art and Caribbean cultures of migration and counterstreaming visual imagination. The Caribbean has played a central role in defining my understanding of arts and more generally the capacity of cultural creativity to address issues of sociopolitical transformation. My last monograph, Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019) deals with those topics in several Caribbean contexts. This implies dealing with formal and informal art institutions, contemporary curating and bottom-up strategies of artistic production. I explore how different forms of activist and socially-committed artistic and literary creation contributed to the construction of postcolonial public spheres. Research Interests The main focus of my research is on contemporary creativity and civic agency in postcolonial contexts. Sobre a representação visual da catástrofe natural (Lisboa, Nova Vega, 2016.) During my first year at UCC I coordinated the research events of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Department. As part of my research in Lisbon, I completed a short monograph in Portuguese ( Além da dor e da tragédia. Colonialidade e Curadoria (Lisbon, January 2017) Africa in Cuba (Lisbon, June 2017) and Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Citizenship in Transnational Europe (Lisbon, November 2018) two conferences ( Envisioning the Futures of Emancipation and the Emancipation of Futures (Barranquilla, Colombia, September 2015, ), Arte e política reloaded? The Right to the City (Lisbon, June 2016), the publication of a reader in Portuguese with key texts on collaborative art and politics (Lisbon: Sistema Solar, 2019), the organization of five lectures (Paz Guevara, Conrad James, Jay Koh, Jerome Branche, Juan Duchesne Winter) and a special issue accepted for publication in Third Text Journal, in addition to the publication of several articles. The activity of this project, which integrates researchers and students from ten countries, included the organization of four seminars ( Comparing “We’s”: Community, Cosmopolitanism and Emancipation in a Global Context (Lisbon, October 2015), Península. In Lisbon I was Principal Investigator of Comparing We´s: Cosmopolitanism, Emancipation, Postcoloniality, a research project on creative collective agencies and emancipation focusing mostly on Lusophone and Hispanophone contexts. My stay in the University of Lisbon has been essential to complement my previous expertise in Latin American studies with a new focus on Portuguese and African cultures. This research has resulted in articles published or currently under evaluation in journals such as Third Text, Cultural Dynamics, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Iberoamericana, Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Small Axe or Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. The research developed since then, without forgetting the Caribbean and Latin America, my main area of research, has focused on exploring how collaborative and curatorial creative practices deal with difference and reproduce and/or challenge coloniality. in June 2014, I joined the Centro de Estudos Comparatistas and the Instituto de História de Arte of the Universidade de Lisboa as FCT-funded Postdoctoral researcher. This dissertation summarized the results of five years of research that included long term residencies in the United States, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom. Art and Context in the Caribbean at the Turn of the Millennium, for which I was awarded the distinction Cum Laude and an excellence award in 2017. on contemporary art history with a dissertation entitled Continent of Insularities. In 2013 I completed an international Ph.D. In Granada I completed a BA in Art History (2007) another in History (2010) and two Masters Degrees, one specialized in Art History and Heritage and another on History and Archaeology. Before I was FCT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon (2014-2018) and researcher and teacher at the Department of Art History of the University of Granada (2009-2014). BiographyI joined the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Department in 2018. Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies.
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