RG Coordinator

Bruno Marques

 

Integrated Researchers

Amanda Tavares	Ana Balona de Oliveira	Basia Sliwinska	Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro	Larissa Brum Pinheiro
Luísa Soares de Oliveira	Margarida Brito Alves

 

Collaborating Researchers

Ana Catarina Pinho	Catarina Rosendo	Cristiana Tejo	Daniela Salazar	Giulia Lamoni
Israel Guarda	José Oliveira	Miguel Meruje	Miguel Mesquita Duarte	Paula Ribeiro Lobo
Paula Varanda

 

Non-PhD Researchers

Alexandra do Carmo	Carolina Machado	Catarina Pires	Felipe Xavier	Fernando Duarte
Flora Paim	Francisca Gigante	Frederico Caiafa	Gustavo Borges Corrêa	Iriê Campos Júnior
Ivo Braz	João Viotti	Katherine Sirois	Luísa Castro Almeida	Luísa Salvador
Manuel Furtado dos Santos	Óscar Faria	Pedro Gonçalves	Raquel Ermida	Rita Barreira
Rita Gomes Ferrão	Rita Natálio	Sofia Steinvorth	Susana C. Gaspar	Tainan Barbosa
Thaynã Targa

 

Visiting Researchers

Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer

Haizea Barcenilla

Luis D. Rivero Moreno

Saray Espinosa

Thiago Fernandes

 

Keywords

Contemporary Art and Architecture

Migrations, Circulations, Globalization

Performance Art and Performativity

Photography, Cinema and Video

 

Description

CASt is currently constituted by 20 researchers, besides including the collaboration of 8 researchers associated to other R&D units. CASt is connected both to the Art History and to the Artistic Studies PhD programmes, and develops research spanning from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Over the last decade, CASt has broadened its methodologies, privileging interdisciplinary and transnational approaches to art history.
CASt comprises 4 sections (the last 2 operate as Clusters):

1. Spatial Practices, coord. by Alves, takes spatial practices in contemporary art as its main focus, privileging a conception of space connected to materiality and constructiveness, but also addressing the multiple activations of space based on relational and collaborative strategies.

2. Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Art, coord. by Lamoni and Balona, develops transnational approaches to art history nourished by other areas of knowledge production like post-colonial studies and feminist theoretical formations – with a specific, though not exclusive, focus on the Global South.

3. Photography & Film Studies, coord. by Marques, addresses the visual arts in a broad context and considers photography, cinema and video as heterodox and interdisciplinary areas, placing particular emphasis on the relations established with other forms of expression, such as literature, painting, architecture, installation or performance.

4. Portuguese Performance Art & Performativity in Arts, coord. by Madeira and Cruzeiro, aims at bringing together researchers whose work explores Portuguese performance art as well as new forms of performativity that have developed through hybridization within the worlds of art and society in areas such as theatre, dance, music, photography, installations, digital art, as well as social movements.