Transcultural Memories

Celeste Ianniciello; Michaela Quadraro

Transcultural Memories: Contemporary Esthetic and Postcolonial Critique

Authors

Celeste Ianniciello

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Michaela Quadraro

University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Keywords:

postcolonial questions, digital aesthetics, Roshini Kempadoo, Trinh T. Minh-ha, archive, Keith Piper, cultural studies, arts and media, otherness, John Akomfrah, feminist theory, situated knowledge, corporeality, Mediterranean, migration, Lampedusa, Zineb Sedira, Lara Baladi, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Postcolonial museum

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Materia Postcoloniale

Pages: 151

Language: Inglese

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27412

Abstract: This volume analyses the several ways in which transcultural memory is articulated in contemporary artistic practices connected to the experiences of migration, exile, diaspora and transnationalization. This task is carried out through examples of innovative curatorial and museum projects, which suggest alternative understandings of practices of memorializing and archiving the past, highlighting its relation with contemporaneity and its postcolonial configuration. In the following analysis, the several ‘case-studies’ are a result of independent and collaborative research (the first was conceived during the PhD course in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World, at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, while the latter was carried out in the context of the European project MeLa*, which deals with the reconsideration of the European museums and archives in the era of global migrations). The two kinds of research are related because they suggest a critical reflection on the complex and stratified interconnections among the cultural, geographic, historic, economic and social contexts of Europe and the contemporary World, paying keen attention to the Mediterranean area and recognizing the global processes of migration and their historic development as essential tools for understanding the present age.

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Author Biographies

Celeste Ianniciello, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

She completed a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World and is a member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Department of Human and Social Sciences). Her research deals with contemporary art in relation to migrant experiences in the Mediterranean Area, understood as art of the cultural, geographic, historic, ecologic, epistemological and gender confinement and trespass, and analysed through the theory and criticism of Cultural, Postcolonial and Feminist Studies. Her last publications include the co-editing of The Postcolonial Museum. The Arts of Memory and the Pressures of History (2014) and the volume Migration, Arts and Postcoloniality in the Mediterranean (Routledge, 2018).

Michaela Quadraro, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

She completed a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, where she is a research fellow and member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies. She carries out research in the fields of cinema and contemporary art, adopting the critical approach of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, Visual Culture and New Media. Her last publications include L’arte digitale postcoloniale. Uno studio sull’opera di Isaac Julien e Trinh T. Minh-ha (2012) and the co-editing of The Postcolonial Museum. The Arts of Memory and the Pressures of History (2014).