Quoting name: Raquel Ermida

Position: Researcher

Title of PhD project: A Micropolítica e a Dimensão invisível dos coletivos de artistas do Porto

Supervisor: Margarida Brito Alves, IHA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST Advisor: Catherine Quèloz, HEAD-Genève

Position(s) within IHA: SC Member | RG Member [Contemporary Art Studies]

Thematic areas: Visual Arts; Art Collectives; Democracy; Micropolitics; Common

Contact: anagomes@fcsh.unl.pt

CIÊNCIA ID: C71C-F21B-6A95

ORCiD: 0000-0002- 5638-9508

Biography

Raquel Ermida holds a PhD in Artistic Studies from NOVA FCSH, with a dissertation funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that investigates the democratic potential generated by more than 40 artist collectives that emerged in Porto between 1998 and 2013. She holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts – Critical and Curatorial Studies of Cybermedia from the Haute École d’Arts et de Design in Geneva and is a researcher at the Art History Institute (IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST). She is also a member of the IRPDP – Independent Research Platform and Doctoral Practice in Geneva.

In 2020, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and carried out research at Pratt Institute in New York. In 2022, she joined the research team of the IHA seed project Confined Artistic Practices: Resistance and Collectivism in the Covid-19 Pandemic in Portugal. She is the author of book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in international publications (Routledge, Journal of Visual Art Practice and Arte, Individuo y Sociedad). In 2023, she co-edited a special issue of Revista de História da Arte dedicated to Fields of Collaboration in Contemporary Artistic Practices.

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Abbreviations:
SC – Scientific Council
RG – Research Group