Transdisciplinary workshop organized by Hana Gründler (Research Group Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual KHI-MPI) and Joanna Smalcerz (University of Warsaw/KHI-MPI).
The workshop looks at the concept of epistemic injustice or even violence and its relation to the art historical realm. We are interested in how the criteria of ‘modernity’ shaped the birth of the discipline and how the geographical foci of art history—and the assumptions that come with it—determine the discipline’s epistemologies, which, despite efforts to broaden perspectives and question the canon, often still involve epistemic injustice and violence. On one hand, our interest is informed by the epistemic injustices embedded in the past and present practices of art history and the wider cultural sphere; on the other hand, by the ideological violence exerted upon and through art history and its narratives within various political and social systems of the 20th century. We aim to explore the geopolitics of the art historical discourse from its inception until today, ranging from the distribution of academic interests and the perpetuation of established artistic geographies through research funding policies to the geopolitics of musealization. The workshop will address the following questions, among others: What has served as the basis for the critical evaluation of art historical production, and how have these criteria been shaped by the paradigms and geographies of modernity? What are the consequences of adopting a linear teleology of historical progress in the study of art? Which alternative ways of knowing art—such as those grounded in affective and sensory modalities— have been excluded or actively repudiated? And, finally, how can we confront art history’s ‘epistemological monoculture’?
Speakers:
Nadia Ali, Valentina Bartalesi, Maxwell Boersma, Miguel Gaete, Katrin Nahidi, Damiana Otoiu, Marco Pomini, César Saldaña Puerto, Frida Viktoria Sandtström, Itay Sapir, Piotr Słodkowski, Foad Torshizi
This will be a hybrid event.
VENUE
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
Via dei Servi 51
50122 Firenze, Italia
More information on how to participate online will follow soon.
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