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Speakers 44th AICA Congress 2011

: MAREK BARTELIK (USA) President of AICA-USA and Vice-President of AICA International. Lecturer. He teaches modern and contemporary art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He was a Visiting Professor at Yale and MIT. Author of numerous publications. He regularly contributes to “Artforum.” Text: "Notes on Some Positive Effects of Time of Crisis on Art Criticism"

: SUELY ROLNIK (Brazil)Psychotherapist and art critic. Co-author with Félix Guattari of “Micropolítica. Cartografías del deseo,” 1986. Professor and member of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the Catholic University of São Paulo and Professor of the Independent Study Program (IEP) at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). Her research examines the policies of subjectivity, from an interdisciplinary perspective, contemporary art in its interface with politics and the clinic. Text: "Archive Mania"

: Works for the City of New York as a researcher in the field of urban sociology. She is currently working on the New York City Housing and Neighborhood Demonstration Project, an experimental study of 3,000 low-income households that will examine the health, financial, and social effects of subsidized housing. She holds a B.A. degree in Urban Studies and Architecture from Barnard College, Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn and is a docent at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Text: "Public Art in Age of Government Austerity"

: ALOYSE NDIAYE (Senegal)Seventeenth-century French philosophy Specialist. He has published "La philosophie d'Antoine Arnauld" (Paris, 1991) as well as numerous articles in the field of history of philosophy. He was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Dakar. He is Director of l'Institut Supérieur des Arts et de la Culture, Dakar. Text: "La création en Afrique et la crise mondiale: une nouvelle revendication humaniste."

: NIILOFUR RARRUKH (Pakistan) President of AICA Pakistan and Vice President on the Board of AICA International. Art critic, historian, curator, and activist. Author of "Pioneering Perspectives", 1996. She is the Founding Editor of NuktaArt, Pakistan’s Contemporary Art Magazine. Text: "No Paradise in Sight."

: MONTSERRAT ALBORES GLEASON (Mexico) During the year 2001 she was part of the curatorial team of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rufino Tamayo and in 2004 was director of the OMR gallery. In 2002 she participated in the Documenta11 educational_project. She co-founded the Petra curatorial project. Among her exhibits is El Doble de la Realidad (2007), for the museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain; exhibition that received the award for young curators issued by the same institution. Since 2007 she works as an independent curator. She currently writes for ArtForum.com and directs the program of conferences and events at TECOH. Text: "¿Misfeasance?"

: MIGUEL ÁNGEL FERNÁNDEZ (Paraguay) Writer, poet, art critic, editor. Bachelor in Human Studies from the Catholic University of Asuncion. Founding member and first secretary of AICA Paraguay, member of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (International Association of Hispanicists) and the Sociedad de Estudios Literarios Hispanoamericanos (Hispanic-American Literary Studies Society). Founder and director of the Magazine Diálogo and Ediciones Diálogo. He teaches Latin American Literature and Semiotics at the Faculty of Philosophy, National University of Asuncion, and is the coordinator of the Graduate for Arts at Universidad del Norte, Asuncion. Text: "Criticism and Historical Context."

: KLARA KEMP-WELCH (England/UK) Ph.D. fellow researcher at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she has taught since 2009, after completing her PhD at University College London in 2008. She has published widely on conceptual and action-based art and is currently completing two monographs: Antipolitics in Action: Art and Theory in Late Socialist Central Europe (forthcoming with I.B. Tauris 2012) and Networking the Bloc: International Relations in East European Experimental Art, scheduled for completion in 2013. Text: "Krytyka Polityczna. Critical Art and Crises of Criticism in Poland."

: CINQUE HICKS (USA) Graduate of Harvard University's comparative literature program. Visual art critic, arts writer, and arts columnist for Creative Loafing, Atlanta's preeminent alternative weekly newspaper. He founded Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now, an online daily news magazine in 2006. From 2003 to 2005 he edited and produced the arts resource blog The Electric Skin, profiled by Art in America as one of 10 blogs most worth daily reading. He currently serves on the board of Art Papers magazine, as well as on a number of art prize and curatorial committees. He is currently creative director of the Atlanta Art Now book series and a co-author of its inaugural volume Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape. Text: "The New Action Criticism: Restraining Authority Via Public Networks."

: ALBAN MARTÍNEZ GUEYRAUD (Paraguay) Architect, art critic and independent curator. Member of AICA and ICOMOS. Master in “Historia, Arte, Arquitectura y Ciudad” (1993) and Doctor Architect by the ETSAB, UPC, Barcelona, __Spain (2005). Head of Exhibitions Galería Dels Àngels, Barcelona, a __contemporary and new trends art space (1999-2006). He has curated exhibitions, lectured and made numerous publications. He is currently Director of the School of Graphic Design at Columbia University of Paraguay and in charge of the department of Contemporary Latin American Art at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) dependent of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Art at the National University of Asuncion. Text: "Art and Ecology: A Renewed Relationship."

: THERESE HADCHITY (Barbados) Born in Denmark in 1963. She studied art history and 20th century culture at the University of Copenhagen before relocating to Barbados in 1990. Since 1997 she has worked as a freelance critic and curator and, in 2000, founded the Zemicon Gallery in Bridgetown, Barbados – a small space dedicated to contemporary art of the Anglophone Caribbean. Text: ISLANDS. Or: The post-colonial artist and the absent institution."

: TINEKE REIJNDERS (Netherlands) President of Giele Trust, Foundation Het Harde Potlood, Fellowship Fund Commission of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art), jury AICA Incentive Prize for Young Critics. She contributes essays and monographic articles to magazines and books (Dutch and international). Her domain of interest includes all fields of contemporary art, with a slight emphasis on extra-western art, alternative art and artist-run organisations. Writes regularly for AMC magazine and irregularly for magazines like Ons Erfdeel and Metropolis M. Regular contributor to weekly De Groene Amsterdammer (Video Art, Rem Koolhaas, Artists’ Initiatives, Van Gogh etc.) 1981-1990. Text: "Alternative Forms of Interaction."

: FRANCK HERMAN EKRA (Ivory Coast) Image strategy consultant, curator and independent art critic. He works in Paris and Abidjan. Formed in the Historical Research Center (HRC) of the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS) and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Letters, Arts and Traditions (CÉLAT) of Laval University in Quebec, where he was assistant professor and research aid. He is interested in memory processes, power relations, the practices of representation and social imagery. Since 2010, he became the first winner of the AICA Incentive Prize for Young Critics. Text: "Métacritiques: itinéraires transafricaines."

: CHUS MARTÍNEZ (Spain/Germany) She is dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department, and Member of Core Agent Group Agent, as well as Associate Curator at MACBA, Barcelona, where she was Chief Curator from 2008 to 2010. Previously she was Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005–08) and Artistic Director of Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2002–05). For the 50th Biennale di Venezia (2005), Martínez curated the National Pavilion of Cyprus, and in 2010 served as a Curatorial Advisor for the 29th Bienal de São Paulo. She lectures regularly and has written numerous catalogue texts and critical essays. Text: "The Scandalous beauty of nonesense."

: PAUL ARDENNE (France) Writer, curator, member of AICA International. Collaborator to Art and Archistorm Press. Author of "Art, l'âge contemporain" (1997), "L'art politique dans are moment" (2000), "L'Image Corps" (2001), "A contextuel Art" (2002), "Portraiture" (2003), "habitée Terre" (2005, reed. 2011). Some curations: "Micropolitiques" (Grenoble, 2000), "experimenter réel" (Albi, Montpellier, 2002-2003), "La Force de l'art 1" (Paris, 2006), "Ailleurs" (Paris, 2011), "WANI" (2011). Artistic Director of Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (2012 edition). Text: "Liberté d'expression du critique d'art et industrie culturelle."

: ALESSANDRA SIMOE PAIVA (Brazil) Journalist and authoress of hundreds of stories, articles and criticisms on art, architecture and design. Member of ABCA (Brazilian Art Critics Association), the Brazilian section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). Presently, she is taking doctorate degree on urban art at the Latin American Program (PROLAM), São Paulo University (USP). Text: Urban Art: The Relationship Between Artistic Production in Cities Public Spaces and Concepts Applied to Visual Arts."

: EMMA DWAN O’REILLY (Ireland) PhD researcher for the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Emma is interested in the tensions between word and image and how new forms of writing about art could help ease these tensions and lead to a richer more engaged understanding of the art object. She is currently co-editor/curator of Allotrope, a quarterly publication dedicated to thematic representations of word and image. Text: "What matter who's speaking someone said, what matter who's speaking. Contemporary Art Writing in Ireland."

: LISBETH REBOLHO GONCALVES (Brazil) Standing president of ABCA, Brazilian Association of Art Critics. International Vice-president of AICA. Head Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Master and doctor counselor. Art researcher, since 1980. Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo, from 1994 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2010.Text: "Criticism and Curatorship as Spaces of Discussion."

: DAVID MATEO NÚÑEZ (CUBA) Critic, writer. Chief Editor of the magazine “Arte x Excelencias”. Member of the Executive Artist Association of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and member of its section of criticism. He was director of the Art Gallery Villa Manuela of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) during the years 2009 and 2010. He was awarded with the Curator National Award in 2001 and winner National Review in 2002. He joined in 2007, the Jury Prize Ninth Edition The Latin American Engraving Award, La Joven Estampa, sponsored by Casa de las Americas. Text: "Cuban Art and the Paradoxes of the Market."

: LIAM KELLY (Ireland) Professor of Irish Visual Culture at the School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast, N.Ireland. He holds a BA (Hons.) degree in the History of European Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and a Ph.D from Trinity College, Dublin. His publications include ‘Thinking Long – Contemporary Art in the North of Ireland’; ‘The City as Art’ (ed.), ‘Art and The Disembodied Eye’ and ‘The School of Art and Design, Belfast 1960-2009’. From 1986-1992 he was Director of the Orpheus Gallery, Belfast and from 1996-1999 Director of the Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland. Texto: "The Becoming of Art/ The Decommissioning of Art - A Case Study."

: SAMUEL HERZOG (Switzerland) Born in 1966, journalist, lives in Zurich. Herzog worked as a freelance journalist specializing in art between 1997 and 2001. Since 2001 he has managed the company HOIO - importing specialties from the fictitious island of Santa Lemusa. Samuel Herzog has been senior visual arts editor at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung since 2002. Text: "<>: A spy story as an attempt to formulate cultural criticism unde new conditions.

: ALICA HABER (Uruguay) Art historian, art critic. Uruguayan curator specializing in contemporary art, Uruguayan art, art theory and virtual museology. Is author of projects and director of ARTE magazine and the Virtual Museum of Arts (MUVA). She is curator of numerous exhibitions in Uruguay and in the international sphere. Author of numerous books, articles, catalogs and publications, and has also taught art history. She is an invited panelist at congresses for ICOM, AICA, CAA, ALAA. The AICA Argentina selected her as the best Latin American critic of the Year in 1987 and, in 2000, she was awarded with the Basilio Uribe award, for her career.

: MARIA AMELIA BULHOES (Brazil) Regional Vice-president of ABCA, the Brazilian section of AICA. She is Ph.D. in Social History by University of São Paulo, Head Professor of History, Theory and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department of UFRGS. So far she has been involved as coordinator and co-author of important art books. She is editor of Porto Arte magazine, and recently published Web art e poéticas do território. She was director of the Brazilian Cultural Center in Venezuela, Caracas, in 2003, and curator of the Pinacoteca Barão de Santo Ângelo,1998-2000. Actually is director of the directory www.ig.art.br

: JURE MIKUZ (Slovenia) Born in Ljubljana in 1949, he received a doctor’s degree in 1983 at Ljubljana University. In 1972 he started to work as a curator in the National Museum of Modern Art (Moderna galerija), Ljubljana, and served as Director of this museum during the years 1986 to 1992. In the year 1974 he came an elected member of AICA, and during the years 1992 to 1993 he served as deputy minister of culture. During the year 2001 he was professor and chief of the Department for Historical anthropology of image, ISH, at Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities, and also full professor of art history, at the University of Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

: ROYCE W. SMITH (USA) Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wichita State University, in Kansas. Dr. Smith has lectured extensively about the roles and impacts of large-scale exhibitions and biennales in the contemporary art world, and has chaired numerous panels engaging with this topic, including “Africa, ‘Africanness’, and the Contemporary Mega-Exhibition” at the 2011 Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art Congress at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and “Multiculturalism, Migration, and the Mega-Exhibition: Considering the Impacts of Contemporary Festivals, Biennales, and Documentas” at Tate Britain in 2008. His forthcoming book, Biennale!: Representation, Crisis, and the Contemporary Mega-Exhibition, will be published by I.B. Tauris in 2012.

: HIROSHI MINAMISHIMA (Japan) Professor of Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo. Ex-director of Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto. Commissioner of Japanese pavilion of the 53th Venice Biennale 2009.

: TICIO ESCOBAR (Paraguay) Art critic, writer and anthropologist. Current Minister of Culture of Paraguay. He was chief curator of the Triennial of Chile (2009), the exhibition "Otras contemporaneidades, convivencias problemáticas" at the Bienal de Valencia, Spain (2007) and the "Tres Fronteras" at the 6th Biennial of the MERCOSUR, Porto Alegre (2007). Honorary Curator at the 6th Biennale of Curitiba (2011). He was Director of Culture of the Municipality of Asuncion. Founder of the Visual Arts Center / Museum “Museo del Barro”, Asunción, Paraguay. He was awarded with the Prince Claus Prize for Culture and Development (1998) and the Bartolomé de Las Casas award, Madrid (2004)

: TANIA BRUGUERA (Cuba) Immigrant Movement International. Artist. She is founder / director of Art Practice, the first curriculum of political art and performance (2002 - 2009). She has participated in Documenta, Performa, several editions of the Venice, Gwangju and Havana Biennales. Her work has been part of individual and collective projects at Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery, PS1, ZKM, IVAM, Kunsthalle Wien and The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is part of the collections of Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Daros Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum, IVAM, Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam. In 1998 she was selected Guggenheim Fellow, in 2008 she received the Prince Claus Prize, and in 2009 was the first recipient of Neuberger Prize.

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