Research Profile

Biography

I joined the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Department in 2018. Before I was FCT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon (2014-2018) and researcher and teacher at the Department of Art History of the University of Granada (2009-2014).                

In Granada I completed a BA in Art History (2007) another in History (2010) and two Masters Degrees, one specialized in Art History and Heritage and another on History and Archaeology. In 2013 I completed an international Ph.D. on contemporary art history with a dissertation entitled Continent of Insularities. Art and Context in the Caribbean at the Turn of the Millennium, for which I was awarded the distinction Cum Laude and an excellence award in 2017. This dissertation summarized the results of five years of research that included long term residencies in the United States, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom.               

After completing my Ph.D. in June 2014, I joined the Centro de Estudos Comparatistas and the Instituto de História de Arte of the Universidade de Lisboa as FCT-funded Postdoctoral researcher. The research developed since then, without forgetting the Caribbean and Latin America, my main area of research, has focused on exploring how collaborative and curatorial creative practices deal with difference and reproduce and/or challenge coloniality. This research has resulted in articles published or currently under evaluation in journals such as Third Text, Cultural Dynamics, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Iberoamericana, Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Small Axe or Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. My stay in the University of Lisbon has been essential to complement my previous expertise in Latin American studies with a new focus on Portuguese and African cultures.                

In Lisbon I was Principal Investigator of Comparing We´s: Cosmopolitanism, Emancipation, Postcoloniality, a research project on creative collective agencies and emancipation focusing mostly on Lusophone and Hispanophone contexts. The activity of this project, which integrates researchers and students from ten countries, included the organization of four seminars (Comparing “We’s”: Community, Cosmopolitanism and Emancipation in a Global Context (Lisbon, October 2015), Península. Colonialidade e Curadoria (Lisbon, January 2017) Africa in Cuba (Lisbon, June 2017) and Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Citizenship in Transnational Europe (Lisbon, November 2018); two conferences (Envisioning the Futures of Emancipation and the Emancipation of Futures (Barranquilla, Colombia, September 2015, ), Arte e política reloaded? The Right to the City (Lisbon, June 2016), the publication of a reader in Portuguese with key texts on collaborative art and politics (Lisbon: Sistema Solar, 2019), the organization of five lectures (Paz Guevara, Conrad James, Jay Koh, Jerome Branche, Juan Duchesne Winter) and a special issue accepted for publication in Third Text Journal, in addition to the publication of several articles. As part of my research in Lisbon, I completed a short monograph in Portuguese (Além da dor e da tragédia.
Sobre a representação visual da catástrofe natural (Lisboa, Nova Vega, 2016.)

During my first year at UCC I coordinated the research events of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Department. 

Research Interests

The main focus of my research is on contemporary creativity and civic agency in postcolonial contexts. I explore how different forms of activist and socially-committed artistic and literary creation contributed to the construction of postcolonial public spheres. This implies dealing with formal and informal art institutions, contemporary curating and bottom-up strategies of artistic production.

My last monograph, Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019) deals with those topics in several Caribbean contexts.
The Caribbean has played a central role in defining my understanding of arts and more generally the capacity of cultural creativity to address issues of sociopolitical transformation. I have edited two volumes related to those topics and co-edited several special issues on post-tropical aesthetics, art and Caribbean cultures of migration and counterstreaming visual imagination.                

I am currently writing a new monograph in collaboration with SUNY Press on socially engaged art and coloniality under the title of 
Decolonial Complicities. Socially Engaged Art and the Reinvention of Radical Creativity. In this case, I am looking at examples of radical creativity in a wide variety of contexts, including Indonesia, Hong Kong, Uganda, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, the Caribbean, Portugal or Indonesia. In this book, I argue that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically-committed art practices from a lens sensitive to postcolonial and decolonial struggles. These struggles were central in the development of radical views of artistic production and cultural practices, developing a vast yet largely underexplored set of ideas and practices decades prior to the acceptance of socially-engaged art by Mainstream art institutions and its incorporation in the art world. As part of this book I am also analysing how anti-colonial theory and praxis informed contemporary aesthetics and creative practices, particularly focusing on the work of C.L.R. James and Amílcar Cabral.                

I am also co-editing a collective volume,
Curating and Coloniality in Contemporary Iberia (accepted for publication in 2020 by the University of Wales Press) that analyses how contemporary art exhibitions and other curatorial practices dealt with the legacies of colonialism in the Iberian space. The volume offers an innovative take on Iberian Studies, exploring how coloniality is impacting contemporary Iberian societies. The book includes artists, curators, cultural managers and scholars from the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America and Africa as collaborators.

After completing those initiatives, I intend to work on two different projects: a study of the contemporary representations of the art world(s) in Latin American and “Lusophone” literature; and an examination of the afterlives of anticolonial aesthetics.
 

Research Grants

 ProjectFunding
Body
Start DateEnd DateAward
AHGBI Visiting International Fellowship€2,780.00
Extraordinary Doctorate Award
Erasmus Fellowship for visiting professorshipERASMUS€500.00
Curating Difference in the Postcolonial Iberian ContextOther: Not Listed01-JUN-1431-AUG-18€107.64
University of Granada Post-Doctoral ScholarshipOther: Not Listed01-SEP-1331-MAR-14€9,900.00
FPU Visiting Researcher Scholarship-Duke UniversityOther: Not Listed27-MAY-1328-JUL-13€2,400.00
Santander Iberoamérica Fellowship for Young Professors and ResearchersOther: Not Listed€4,000.00

Publications

Books

 YearPublication
(2022)Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System.
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2022) Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System. London and New York: Routledge. [Details]
(2021)Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future.
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2021) Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future. New York: SUNY Press. [Details]
(2019)Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere.
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2019) Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. [Details]
(2016)Além da dor e a tragédia. Sobre a representação visual da catástrofe natural.
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2016) Além da dor e a tragédia. Sobre a representação visual da catástrofe natural. Lisbon: Nova Vega. [Details]
(2011)Museos locales y didáctica de la arqueología.
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2011) Museos locales y didáctica de la arqueología. Jaén: Universidad de Jaén. [Details]
(2011)Arte en diálogo. Conversaciones sobre práctica artística contemporánea, identidad e integración cultural en República Dominicana.
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2011) Arte en diálogo. Conversaciones sobre práctica artística contemporánea, identidad e integración cultural en República Dominicana. Santo Domingo: Centro Cultural de España. [Details]

Book Chapters

 YearPublication
(2020)'Social Engagement and/against Creativity. Artmaking, Collective Agency and the Politics of Urgency in the Hispanic Caribbean'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2020) 'Social Engagement and/against Creativity. Artmaking, Collective Agency and the Politics of Urgency in the Hispanic Caribbean' In: New Perspectives on Hispanic Caribbean Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
(2018)'Produção cultural e engajamento político na Afro-Lisboa'
Otávio Raposo, Carlos Garrido Castellano (2018) 'Produção cultural e engajamento político na Afro-Lisboa' In: Modalidades e trajetórias de participação política no Brasil e em Portugal. Florianópolis (Brazil): Editora Insular. [Details]
(2017)'Tales from a Caribbean Federation of Arts'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2017) 'Tales from a Caribbean Federation of Arts' In: Rob Perrée (eds). Tirzo Martha. I Wonder If they Will Laugh When I’m Dead. Amsterdam: Jap Sam. [Details]
(2017)'De Re Vegetalia. Unfoldings and Dislocations of Tropicality within and beyond the Postcolony'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2017) 'De Re Vegetalia. Unfoldings and Dislocations of Tropicality within and beyond the Postcolony' In: Mónica de Miranda (eds). Geography of Affections. Mónica de Miranda, 2012-2016. Lisbon: Hangar. [Details]
(2017)'Kingston comme dancehallscape. Une approche spatiale du phénomène du dancehall à partir de l’œuvre de l’artiste jamaïcaine Ebony Patterson'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2017) 'Kingston comme dancehallscape. Une approche spatiale du phénomène du dancehall à partir de l’œuvre de l’artiste jamaïcaine Ebony Patterson' In: Charlotte Pujol ; Émilie Doré ; Félicie Drouilleau ; Susana Villafuerte and Vanessa Tinteroff (eds). Les Amériques Créatives. Regards croisés sur les discours et les pratiques. Paris: L'Harmattan. [Details]
(2014)'Geographical Embodiments. Re-making (Urban) Caribbean Cartographies through Art from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2014) 'Geographical Embodiments. Re-making (Urban) Caribbean Cartographies through Art from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic' In: Van Haesendonck, Kristian and D´Haen, Theo (eds). Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. Amsterdam: Rodopi. [Details]
(2014)'Del barco al museo. Intervenciones del atlántico negro en el arte caribeño contemporáneo'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2014) 'Del barco al museo. Intervenciones del atlántico negro en el arte caribeño contemporáneo' In: Aurelia Martín Casares (eds). Esclavitudes hispánicas (siglos XV al XXI): Horizontes socioculturales. Granada: Universidad de Granada. [Details]
(2012)'Performing the Booker Prize: What The White Tiger Means in the Indian Contemporary Art Context. About the (Re)Presentation of City and Violence'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2012) 'Performing the Booker Prize: What The White Tiger Means in the Indian Contemporary Art Context. About the (Re)Presentation of City and Violence' In: Agarwal, Nilanshu Kumar (eds). Aravind Adiga´s The White Tiger. Howrah, India: Roman Books. [Details]
(2012)'El pintor onubense Rafael Moreno Pascual, padre del arte intuitivo en Cuba. Aproximación cultural y biográfica'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2012) 'El pintor onubense Rafael Moreno Pascual, padre del arte intuitivo en Cuba. Aproximación cultural y biográfica' In: Rafael López Guzmán (eds). Andalucía-América. Arte y Patrimonio. Granada: Átrio. [Details]
(2011)'Andalucía en el imaginario histórico y patrimonial de República Dominicana. Arquitectura, pintura y escultura, siglos XV-XX'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2011) 'Andalucía en el imaginario histórico y patrimonial de República Dominicana. Arquitectura, pintura y escultura, siglos XV-XX' In: López Guzmán, Rafael (eds). Andalucía-América. Estudios Patrimoniales. Granada: Átrio. [Details]

Edited Books

 YearPublication
(2019)(Coordinated Special Issue) The (Post)Colony and the Common. Collective Creativity, Agency and Emancipation in a Global Context
Carlos Garrido Castellano (Ed.). (2019) (Coordinated Special Issue) The (Post)Colony and the Common. Collective Creativity, Agency and Emancipation in a Global Context London: Third Text. [Details]
(2019)Textos para uma história da arte socialmente comprometida
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Paulo Raposo (Ed.). (2019) Textos para uma história da arte socialmente comprometida Lisbon: Sistema Solar. [Details]
(2017)(Co-Edited Special Issue) Creation, political repression and censorship in the Iberian and Latin American Contexts
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Santi Pérez Isasi (Ed.). (2017) (Co-Edited Special Issue) Creation, political repression and censorship in the Iberian and Latin American Contexts Tartu: Interlitteraria Journal. [Details]
(2016)(Co-Edited Special Issue) Counterstreaming Puerto Rican Visual Imagery. Assessing the Impact of Cultural Remittances
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Laura Bravo López (Ed.). (2016) (Co-Edited Special Issue) Counterstreaming Puerto Rican Visual Imagery. Assessing the Impact of Cultural Remittances New York: Centro. Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. [Details]
(2015)(Coordinated Special Issue) Caribbean Cultures in the Era of Aesthetic Customization. Exploring the Boundaries of Visual Literacy
Carlos Garrido Castellano (Ed.). (2015) (Coordinated Special Issue) Caribbean Cultures in the Era of Aesthetic Customization. Exploring the Boundaries of Visual Literacy University of Heidelberg: Miradas. Elektronische Zeitschrift für Iberische und Ibero-amerikanische Kunstgeschichte. [Details]
(2015)(Co-Edited Special Issue) Itinerarios artísticos de la ciudadanía en el Caribe hispano: entre la política y la estética
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Aurora Alcaide Ramírez; Yissel Arce Padrón (Ed.). (2015) (Co-Edited Special Issue) Itinerarios artísticos de la ciudadanía en el Caribe hispano: entre la política y la estética Universidad de Murcia: Arte y políticas de identidad. [Details]
(2015)(Co-Edited Special Issue) Culturas de (In)segurança em Comparação
Susana Araújo; Carlos Garrido Castellano; Susana Martins (Ed.). (2015) (Co-Edited Special Issue) Culturas de (In)segurança em Comparação Lisbon: Dedalus. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada. [Details]
(2012)De los últimos creadores de mapas. Exposiciones colectivas y pensamiento curatorial en el Caribe insular
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Dominique Brébion (Ed.). (2012) De los últimos creadores de mapas. Exposiciones colectivas y pensamiento curatorial en el Caribe insular Madrid: La Discreta. [Details]
(2011)(Coordinated Special Issue) Visiones del Post-Trópico. Arte actual desde el Caribe
Carlos Garrido Castellano (Ed.). (2011) (Coordinated Special Issue) Visiones del Post-Trópico. Arte actual desde el Caribe Universidad de Granada: Papeles de Cultura Contemporánea. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

 YearPublication
(2019)'Contemporary Currents, The Exhibitionary Complex, and Activist Curating. A Conversation with Terry Smith'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2019) 'Contemporary Currents, The Exhibitionary Complex, and Activist Curating. A Conversation with Terry Smith'. Revista de História de Arte (Nova University of Lisbon), [Details]
(2019)'The Lure of Diglossia. A Conversation with Grant Kester'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2019) 'The Lure of Diglossia. A Conversation with Grant Kester'. Art & the Public Sphere, 7 (2):161-174 [Details]
(2018)'The Boda Moment. Positioning Socially-Engaged Art in Contemporary Uganda'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2018) 'The Boda Moment. Positioning Socially-Engaged Art in Contemporary Uganda'. Field. A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism. (University of California San Diego), (10) [Details]
(2018)'Curating and Cultural Difference in the Iberian Context. From Difference to Self-Reflexivity (and Back Again?)'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2018) 'Curating and Cultural Difference in the Iberian Context. From Difference to Self-Reflexivity (and Back Again?)'. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, [Details]
(2018)'Artistic autonomy in non-autonomous contexts: reframing collective agency and insurgence from Caribbean artist-managed spaces'
Castellano, CG (2018) 'Artistic autonomy in non-autonomous contexts: reframing collective agency and insurgence from Caribbean artist-managed spaces'. Social Identities, 24 :66-86 [DOI] [Details]
(2019)'Unapologetic Views of Afro-Lisboa. Young Luso Afro-descendants, Lugar de Fala and Cultural Industries (with Jerssi Paulo)'
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Jerssi Paulo (2019) 'Unapologetic Views of Afro-Lisboa. Young Luso Afro-descendants, Lugar de Fala and Cultural Industries (with Jerssi Paulo)'. Afterall, (47):127-137 [Details]
(2018)'The institution of institutionalism: difference, universalism and the legacies of Institutional Critique'
Castellano, CG (2018) 'The institution of institutionalism: difference, universalism and the legacies of Institutional Critique'. Culture, Theory, and Critique, 59 :59-73 [DOI] [Details]
(2017)'Shadowy Presences: Mobility, Labor and Absence in the Work of Dominican Photographer Fausto Ortiz'
Castellano, CG (2017) 'Shadowy Presences: Mobility, Labor and Absence in the Work of Dominican Photographer Fausto Ortiz'. Photography And Culture, 10 :3-18 [DOI] [Details]
(2017)''The eloquence that allowed his training as a visual artist.' Subalternity, culture and institutions in La Mucama de Omicunle by Rita Indiana Hernndez'
Castellano, CG (2017) ''The eloquence that allowed his training as a visual artist.' Subalternity, culture and institutions in La Mucama de Omicunle by Rita Indiana Hernndez'. Hispanic Research Journal, 18 :352-364 [DOI] [Details]
(2017)'Caribbean Artistic Genealogies of Withdrawal. Rethinking Caribbean Visuality Beyond Objecthood'
Castellano, CG (2017) 'Caribbean Artistic Genealogies of Withdrawal. Rethinking Caribbean Visuality Beyond Objecthood'. Interventions-International Journal Of Postcolonial Studies, 19 :1153-1172 [DOI] [Details]
(2017)'Una mirada crítica a las genealogías del transnacionalismo artístico. Lo local y lo global en las bienales de La Habana y Johannesburgo'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2017) 'Una mirada crítica a las genealogías del transnacionalismo artístico. Lo local y lo global en las bienales de La Habana y Johannesburgo'. Iberoamericana (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin), 17 (66):73-87 [Details]
(2017)'Introduction. Creation, Political Repression and Censorship in the Iberian and Latin American Contexts'
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Santi Pérez Isasi (2017) 'Introduction. Creation, Political Repression and Censorship in the Iberian and Latin American Contexts'. Interlitteraria Journal (Tartu University), 22 (1):5-7 [Details]
(2017)'Institutionalism, Public Sphere, Artistic Agency. On 32 East. Ugandan Art Trust'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2017) 'Institutionalism, Public Sphere, Artistic Agency. On 32 East. Ugandan Art Trust'. Critical Interventions. Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. (University of California), 11 (2):116-131 [Details]
(2017)'Organization, Engagement, Coloniality. Hangar: Centro de Investigações Artísticas in Lisbon'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2017) 'Organization, Engagement, Coloniality. Hangar: Centro de Investigações Artísticas in Lisbon'. Field. A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism. (University of California San Diego), 6 [Details]
(2016)'Imperial Spatio-Temporal Disarrangements. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz´s Performative Documentary and the Emancipative Unseen'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2016) 'Imperial Spatio-Temporal Disarrangements. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz´s Performative Documentary and the Emancipative Unseen'. Centro. Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 28 (1):60-92 [Details]
(2016)'Caribbean curatorial agencies. A Cultural Object´s unruliness and its affective aftermaths'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2016) 'Caribbean curatorial agencies. A Cultural Object´s unruliness and its affective aftermaths'. Cultural Dynamics (Duke University), 28 (3):249-265 [Details]
(2016)'Lo incognoscible latinoamericano: Aportes y limitaciones de su crítica cultural'
Magdalena López; Carlos Garrido Castellano (2016) 'Lo incognoscible latinoamericano: Aportes y limitaciones de su crítica cultural'. Iberoamericana (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin), 16 (63):55-66 [Details]
(2016)'Sur en espejo. Portugal en el imaginario curatorial español contemporáneo'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2016) 'Sur en espejo. Portugal en el imaginario curatorial español contemporáneo'. Bulletin Of Hispanic Studies, 93 (9):1023-1039 [Details]
(2016)'Rethinking the “Transnational” Caribbean Curatorial. Caribe Insular: Exclusión, Fragmentación y Paraíso´s Politics of Space'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2016) 'Rethinking the “Transnational” Caribbean Curatorial. Caribe Insular: Exclusión, Fragmentación y Paraíso´s Politics of Space'. Small Axe, [Details]
(2016)'Introduction. Counterstreaming. Measuring the Impact of Cultural Remittances'
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Laura Bravo López (2016) 'Introduction. Counterstreaming. Measuring the Impact of Cultural Remittances'. Centro. Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 28 (1):4-12 [Details]
(2015)'On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2015) 'On Truth and Opacity. Symbolic Translation and Legibility in Contemporary Text-Based Cuban Art'. Mitologías Hoy (University of Barcelona), (12):223-236 [Details]
(2015)'Introduction. Caribbean Cultures in the Era of Esthetic Customization. Exploring the Boundaries of Visual Literacy'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2015) 'Introduction. Caribbean Cultures in the Era of Esthetic Customization. Exploring the Boundaries of Visual Literacy'. Miradas-Elektronische Zeitschrift für Iberische und Ibero-amerikanische Kunstgeschichte (Heidelberg University), (2):2-4 [Details]
(2015)'On Wanting Images and Shared Responsibilities. Belkis Ramírez´s De la Misma Madera'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2015) 'On Wanting Images and Shared Responsibilities. Belkis Ramírez´s De la Misma Madera'. Miradas-Elektronische Zeitschrift für Iberische und Ibero-amerikanische Kunstgeschichte (Heidelberg University), (2):23-31 [Details]
(2015)'Agencia, institucionalidad, experiencia. Revisar lo curatorial caribeño'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2015) 'Agencia, institucionalidad, experiencia. Revisar lo curatorial caribeño'. Zama. Revista del Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), 7 (7):99-111 [Details]
(2015)'El Caribe desde España. Curaduría, identidad regional y postcolonialidad en el espacio ibérico'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2015) 'El Caribe desde España. Curaduría, identidad regional y postcolonialidad en el espacio ibérico'. Arte y Políticas de Identidad (Universidad de Murcia, Spain), (13):215-232 [Details]
(2015)'Locating Human Agency in the Anthropocene. Environmental Universalism, Natural Catastrophes, and the Possibilities of Critique'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2015) 'Locating Human Agency in the Anthropocene. Environmental Universalism, Natural Catastrophes, and the Possibilities of Critique'. Dedalus. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, (19):109-131 [Details]
(2015)'Cultures of (In)security in Comparison: From Comparative Literature to Critical Approaches to Security Studies'
Susana Araújo; Carlos Garrido Castellano; Susana Martins (2015) 'Cultures of (In)security in Comparison: From Comparative Literature to Critical Approaches to Security Studies'. Dedalus. Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, (19):11-35 [Details]
(2014)'Conceptual Materialism Installation Art and the Dismantling of Caribbean Historicism'
Castellano, CG (2014) 'Conceptual Materialism Installation Art and the Dismantling of Caribbean Historicism'. Third Text, 28 :149-162 [DOI] [Details]
(2014)'Posibilidades y limitaciones del arte participativo en el contexto cubano. Sweat (2004) de Alexandre Arrechea'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2014) 'Posibilidades y limitaciones del arte participativo en el contexto cubano. Sweat (2004) de Alexandre Arrechea'. Quiroga. Revista de Patrimonio Iberoamericano (Universidad de Granada, Spain), (5):144-148 [Details]
(2013)'Gerardo Mosquera. Localizando el arte internacional'
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Renata Ribeiro (2013) 'Gerardo Mosquera. Localizando el arte internacional'. Quiroga. Revista de Patrimonio Iberoamericano (Universidad de Granada, Spain), (4):116-127 [Details]
(2013)'On Art and Other Trades in Turn of Millennium Cuba: A Conversation with Alexandre Arrechea'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2013) 'On Art and Other Trades in Turn of Millennium Cuba: A Conversation with Alexandre Arrechea'. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 22 (2):155-169 [Details]
(2013)'De claves, enfoques y heartbeats. Conversation with Adál Maldonado'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2013) 'De claves, enfoques y heartbeats. Conversation with Adál Maldonado'. Centro. Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 25 (2):196-223 [Details]
(2013)'Periferia de la periferia. Sobre el papel de las exposiciones colectivas en la definición del arte caribeño contemporáneo'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2013) 'Periferia de la periferia. Sobre el papel de las exposiciones colectivas en la definición del arte caribeño contemporáneo'. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 25 (1):19-28 [Details]
(2012)'Celebrados, desposeídos y adorados. Representaciones del destino trágico del héroe en el imaginario visual caribeño contemporáneo'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2012) 'Celebrados, desposeídos y adorados. Representaciones del destino trágico del héroe en el imaginario visual caribeño contemporáneo'. 452º. Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada (Universidad de Barcelona), (6):57-74 [Details]
(2012)'Anecdotario de una visa imaginaria. Diáspora y activismo en la obra de Jean-François Boclé'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2012) 'Anecdotario de una visa imaginaria. Diáspora y activismo en la obra de Jean-François Boclé'. Revista Brasileira do Caribe (Universidade Federal de Maranhão, Brazil), (24):335-357 [Details]
(2012)'Desplazamientos, contextos y compromisos. Entrevista con Gerardo Mosquera'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2012) 'Desplazamientos, contextos y compromisos. Entrevista con Gerardo Mosquera'. Iberoamericana (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin), (45):167-172 [Details]
(2011)'Horizontes compartidos. India en las bienales de La Habana (with Margarita González)'
Carlos Garrido Castellano; Margarita González (2011) 'Horizontes compartidos. India en las bienales de La Habana (with Margarita González)'. Periférica. Revista para el análisis de la cultura y el territorio (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain), (12):142-158 [Details]
(2011)'Creando el museo nacional. Exposiciones artísticas e identidad en la Jamaica poscolonial'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2011) 'Creando el museo nacional. Exposiciones artísticas e identidad en la Jamaica poscolonial'. Quintana (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), (10):157-167 [Details]
(2011)'Entrevista a Limber Vilorio: Inventario inquieto antes de la catástrofe'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2011) 'Entrevista a Limber Vilorio: Inventario inquieto antes de la catástrofe'. Situarte (Universidad de Zulia, Venezuela), (10):89-95 [Details]
(2011)'Esquema para habitar ciudades de sombra. Entrevista con el fotógrafo dominicano Fausto Ortiz'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2011) 'Esquema para habitar ciudades de sombra. Entrevista con el fotógrafo dominicano Fausto Ortiz'. Discursos Fotográficos (Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil), 7 (10):223-241 [Details]
(2010)'Rompiendo el mapa. Cuatro visiones de la frontera en el arte actual dominicano'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2010) 'Rompiendo el mapa. Cuatro visiones de la frontera en el arte actual dominicano'. Intercambio. Revista sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe (Centro de Investigación en Identidad y Cultura Latinoamericanas. Universidad de Costa Rica), (7,8):37-53 [Details]
(2010)'De la fotografía como herramienta de investigación estética. Entrevista con Polibio Díaz'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2010) 'De la fotografía como herramienta de investigación estética. Entrevista con Polibio Díaz'. Arara. Journal of the Americas (University of Essex, Department of Art History), (9) [Details]
(2009)'Nuevas identidades, nuevos muros. Hacia una significación emotiva de la experiencia fronteriza'
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2009) 'Nuevas identidades, nuevos muros. Hacia una significación emotiva de la experiencia fronteriza'. Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural (Argentina), (8):95-124 [Details]

Book Reviews

 YearPublication
(2018)(Book Review) Roshini Kempadoo, Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and the Location of the Caribbean Figure.
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2018) (Book Review) Roshini Kempadoo, Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and the Location of the Caribbean Figure. Book Reviews [Details]
(2018)(Book Review) Activism against Nostalgia and Self-Defeatism: Gregory Sholette, Delirium and Resistance. Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism.
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2018) (Book Review) Activism against Nostalgia and Self-Defeatism: Gregory Sholette, Delirium and Resistance. Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism. Book Reviews [Details]
(2018)(Book Review) Jacopo Galimberti, Individuals against Individualism. Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969).
Carlos Garrido Castellano (2018) (Book Review) Jacopo Galimberti, Individuals against Individualism. Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969). Book Reviews [Details]

Teaching Activities

Teaching Interests

My teaching activity this far has focused on contemporary Latin American, Iberian and African cultural practices. In the University of Granada, I taught several courses at the Fine Arts and Philosophy Faculties on modern art history and aesthetics, Latin American and Caribbean Art and researching resources in art history. In Lisbon I have been responsible for a BA course on Contemporary African art, focusing on Lusophone African countries; I also lectured in courses on contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature and culture. Furthermore, I was visiting professor at the University of Lisbon (2012), the University of Birmingham (2013), the University of Miami (2015), the University of El Atlántico (Colombia) (2015), Macau University (2017) and Cork University (Ireland) (2017).

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University College Cork

Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh

College Road, Cork T12 K8AF

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