“Real Time Story Telling”: A Performance-Art Festival in the Context of International Networks during the Transitional Period in Poland before and after 1989
Małgorzata Kaźmierczak
The article explains the situation of performance artists in Poland during the transition period before and after 1989. Then it focuses on the first large...
The Problem with Film: Murayama Tomoyoshi’s Variations on the Visible
André Keiji Kunigami
The article explores the film theory written by the Japanese avant-garde artist Murayama Tomoyoshi (1901–1977). Murayama authored a robust yet understudied body of film writing,...
Constellational Modernisms: “Socialist Humanism” and “Contextual Art” in Ion Bitzan and Wanda Mihuleac’s Graphic Art of the 1970s
Cristian Nae
Art exhibitions acted as facilitators of transnational encounters among artists during the Cold War. This article analyzes the emergence and local circulation of two art...
Developmental Dilemmas
Tausif Noor
Three recent volumes on the economic, infrastructural, and international networks of modernism reveal the extent to which notions of development have shaped the trajectory of...
Militant Mappings: A Template Toolkit
Cian Dayrit
The rise of Duterte's authoritarian regime, and a series of violent dispersals to peasant-led mobilizations, prompted counter-mapping workshops in protest camps and rural communities. These...
Modern Art, Indigeneity, and Nationalism in Paraguay: An Introduction to Josefina Plá’s “Ñandutí Crossroads of Two Worlds”
Sofia Gotti
This article introduces the first translation of the text “Ñandutí: Crossroads of Two Worlds” by Josefina Plá, pioneer of Paraguayan art and literature. The text...
Ñandutí: Crossroads of Two Worlds: The Lineage and Magic of Ñandutí
Josefina Plá
This article introduces the first translation of the text “Ñandutí: Crossroads of Two Worlds” by Josefina Plá, pioneer of Paraguayan art and literature. The text...
