A lecture by Christian Kravagna, Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, is an art historian, critic and curator. An intervention into the current Global Art discourse from a historical perspective informed by a postcolonial approach.
Contrary to the widespread fixation on a post-1989 periodization of art’s globalization, this lecture calls for a localization of 20th century’s transcultural contacts and alliances of artists, critics and activists in the context of early decolonization movements.
Christian Kravagna
Editor: The Museum as Arena: Artists on Institutional Critique (2001), Routes: Imaging travel and migration (2007)
Spolueditor: Transcultural Modernism (2013)
Kurátor: Living Across: Spaces of Migration, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2010; Planetary Consciousness, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2008; Migration: Globalisation of Cultural Space and Time, Max Mueller Bhavan, Nové Dillí, 2003 (spolu s with Amitem Mukhopadhyayem)
Routes: Imaging travel and migration, Grazer Kunstverein, 2002; Prízraky spoločensky mŕtvych, tranzit.sk, Bratislava
