Research
Research interests
- Museums
- Exhibition Studies
- Tourism
- Decolonial/Postcolonial Studies
- Academic Capitalism
Current research
Much of my work attempts to read critically through the enduring legacy of European Enlightenment and Romantic thought on “global contemporary” art and its institutions, drawing from decolonial studies and liberation movements.
I am particularly interested in artistic and para-artistic institutional models that understand themselves (even if no one else does) as prefiguring, supporting or representing radical social changes. I have found valuable resources in institutional models that might not always think of art as their main legitimating discourse, from self-organised activist spaces to community museums.
Additionally, I am interested on the cultural lives of tourism and its embroilment with forms of extraction that draw from colonial models.
I continue to collaborate frequently with art and cultural institutions and I tend to blur the line between my practical and theoretical work.