C Garrido Castellano
Biographic Data
| ID | 29647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Garrido Castellano |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Garrido |
| FAMILY NAME | Castellano |
| SIGNATURE | CASTELLANO C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3979-9193 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reassessing the Politics of Artistic Capitalism: The Art Novel and Contemporaneity in the Spanish State: An Introduction
Dancing Mastery: Unthinking Autonomy and De-Hierarchizing Dissidence through Fiction in the Contemporary Spanish State
This article argues that Julieta Singh’s decolonial redefinition of mastery provides an effective tool to analyse contemporary Spanish fiction concerned with precariousness and the materiality of artistic and cultural creativity. Engaging with Cristina Morales’ Lectura fácil (2018) and Greta García’s Solo quería bailar (2023), I argue that contemporary Spanish writers are advancing useful ways of dealing with the unsustainability and ultimately m…
Cultural Labour and Contemporary World Literatures in Portuguese
What Is the "Contemporary" in Contemporary Caribbean Art
This essay attempts to answer two main questions: What might contemporary art from the Caribbean look like? And how does contemporaneity emerge when scrutinized from the point of view of the Caribbean? Assuming the concept of "contemporaneity" has critical value, the author seeks to expand on Terry Smith's and David Scott's musings with time and temporality. The essay's main objective is therefore to reflect on what kinds of strategies and approa…
Batida and the politics of sonic agency in Afro-Lisboa
This article examines the politics of sonic agency in batida, the most successful recent electronic musical style emerging from Lisbon's outskirts in Portugal. The genealogies of batida are closely linked to the emergence of a young generation of Djs do Gueto [Ghetto Djs] who unabashedly claim their right of belonging as major players within the Portuguese acoustic and cultural fields. We analyse batida as a space for agency and affirmative mobil…
Modos Artísticos. En torno a la novela de arte contemporánea como espacio de experimentación. Una mirada a Muerte Súbita (2013) de Álvaro Enrigue
Este artículo analiza el potencial creativo y la dimensión experimental de la ficción literaria reciente centrada en el mundo del arte. En concreto, el ensayo reconoce en Muerte Súbita (2013) de Álvaro Enrigue un buen ejemplo de la capacidad de este tipo de novela de arte para generar maneras alternativas de entender el sistema-arte. Lejos de representar personajes históricos o de adaptarse a las reglas del campo artístico, la ficción contemporán…
C.L.R. James and the Genealogies of Socially Transformative Aesthetics
This essay analyses C.L.R. James’s thoughts on aesthetics as a valid source for a redefinition of the genealogies of socially transformative creative practices in the Americas. It argues that despite being highly relevant for the debates taking place in the context of the United States around the central decades of the twentieth century, James’s thoughts on aesthetics have been largely silenced, misinterpreted and relegated to the specific coordi…
Introduction the Temporal Politics of Anticolonial Aesthetics
This essay aims at developing a critical intervention in the politics of time of anticolonial aesthetics. Engaging with recent debates on cultural activism and postcolonial and decolonial studies, our main objective is to examine the ways in which anticolonial cultural analysis and production keeps nurturing contemporary processes of progressive social transformation. We argue that anticolonialism should not be bounded to a specific historical mo…
Performance Art, Race, and Contemporaneity in the Dominican Republic
This essay discusses issues of time and temporality in relation to performance art from the Dominican Republic. It contends that Dominican performance artists are advancing critical understandings of what is to be contemporary. The essay considers the work of David Pérez “Karmadavis,” Sayuri Guzmán, and José Ramia as expressing the role of artists in defining and delving into what it means to make art in and of the present, while simultaneously c…
Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future: A conversation with Carlos Garrido Castellano
Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future
Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique. Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art a…
Temporary Art Platform and the Reconfiguration of the Public Space in Beirut
The main objective of this article is to understand the ways in which Lebanese artists are dealing with issues of normativity and legibility while operating in public spaces. By looking at the work developed by Temporary Art Platform ( TAP ) during the last ten years, I argue that public art has been crucial in the production of alternative understandings of civic agency and the public space. Simultaneously, by looking at A Few Things You Need to…
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
This article explores the capacity of visual arts to deal with transnational, multidirectional processes of remembering and spatial redefinition. Through analyzing two sets of work by Emma Wolokau-Wanambwa that address the tradition of formal art training at Makerere University and the aftermaths of the Second World War in Africa, respectively, the article touches on issues of art education, the production of historical meaning, and the role of c…
Assessing the Neoliberal Künstlerroman. ‘ Creative’ Self-Realisation and the Art World in Michael Cunningham’s by Nightfall
This article identifies fertile ground to explore the relationship between literature and neoliberalism in recent novels concerned with the analysis of the contemporary art system. Its main objective has to do with acknowledging the impact of artistic systems of valorisation and regulation in processes of self-definition and self-fulfilment taking place in broader spheres of the social. Simultaneously, the article also engages with the conditions…
Decentring the Genealogies of Art Activism
The main objective of this article is to call into question the critical purchase and universal validity of the vocabulary used in discussions on art activism. Through an examination of what Charles Mills calls ‘Ideal Theory’, I argue that a new lexicon for socially transformative creativity is all the more urgent. Such a new lexicon would help in articulating alternative genealogies and histories of radical aesthetics. The task of provincialisin…
Inside and Outside the Exhibition Space
This essay deals with issues of citizenship, artistic labor, and belonging in the context of the Dominican Republic. It examines the collaborative work of the Colectivo Quintapata to understand how artistic collaboration is used as a way for generating social transformation and reaching audiences beyond the artistic medium. Analyzing art installations, public interventions, and socially engaged art pieces produced by Quintapata between 2009 and 2…
"Bottom-up creativity and insurgent citizenship in "Afro Lisboa: Racial difference and cultural commodification in Portugal
This article analyzes recent audio-visual creativity by young Afrodescendants emerging out of the outskirts of Lisbon. We argue that those cultural productions are challenging unproblematic identifications of the Portuguese capital as a multicultural city shaped by African communities. Responding to issues of racism, police violence, and urban marginalization, but also to celebratory views of Portuguese society as exempt of racial discrimination,…
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Notes on Curatorship, Cultural Programming and Coloniality in Portugal
This article examines the impact of contemporary curating and cultural programming in the configuration of critical perspectives on Portugal's postcolonial identity. It argues that visual creativity is forging a new paradigm in the Portuguese cultural field. In this context, postcolonial discourses are not silenced but, rather, aligned with international agendas in broader cultural initiatives mirroring the transformation of the main Portuguese c…
Institutions artistiques caribéennes, critique et sphère publique
l'actualit ditoriale sur le Maghreb, l'Afrique sub-saharienne et l'Afrique du Sud, il tait important de ne pas vincer les territoires caribens. Les configurations gopolitiques des Carabes et les stratgies de productions artistiques que
Curating and Cultural Difference in the Iberian Context: From Difference to Self-Reflexivity (and Back Again)
This article analyzes how curatorial practices deal with coloniality and, in a broader sense, with the legacies of colonialism and imperialism in our postcolonial present. To do so, it approaches the curatorial landscape of the Iberian territories in a moment of a radical geopolitical transformation, marked by the inclusion of Portugal and Spain in the European Union, the critical responses to the commemoration of their imperial past, and the ret…
Artistic autonomy in non-autonomous contexts: Reframing collective agency and insurgence from Caribbean artist-managed spaces
This article engages the debates on collective agency, autonomy, institutional practices and socially engaged art by comparatively analyzing the activity of two Caribbean artist-managed spaces which emerged in the first decade of the twenty-first century: BetaLocal in Puerto Rico and L’Artocarpe in Guadeloupe. Based on fieldwork research and interviews with artists and art audiences, the examination of both projects will be driven by three main o…
Caribbean Artistic Genealogies of Withdrawal. Rethinking Caribbean Visuality Beyond Objecthood
This essay examines how Caribbean artists have employed withdrawal in critical, insurgent ways. I confront several Caribbean projects developed in different chronologies and locations that have attempted to use withdrawal in order to challenge uneven institutional dynamics. The examples I discuss here – Cuban art dedicates itself to baseball (Havana, José A. Echevarría Stadium (Vedado), 1989), Silvano Lora’s Marginal Biennial (Santo Domingo, mult…
Shadowy Presences: Mobility, Labor and Absence in the Work of Dominican Photographer Fausto Ortiz
This article aims to examine the ways in which contemporary art from the Caribbean, and specifically from the Dominican Republic, is analyzing mobility and human trafficking within a transnational context. In this case I will critique the work of the photographer Fausto Ortiz (Santiago de los Caballeros, 1970), who has reflected recently on the consequences of migration and displacement for Dominican cultural politics. Rather than addressing the …
La elocuencia que su entrenamiento como artista plástico le permitía.' Subalternidad, cultura e instituciones enLa Mucama de Omicunléde Rita Indiana Hernández
Este artículo analiza la última novela de la escritora dominicana Rita Indiana Hernández, La Mucama de Omicunlé, con el objetivo de examinar la aplicabilidad en el presente de los debates sobre subalternidad e instituciones culturales a la literatura caribeña actual. Las múltiples referencias al universo del arte contemporáneo que encontramos en la novela establecen una ruptura con obras anteriores de la autora, llevando a contextualizar su produ…
"Bottom-up creativity and insurgent citizenship in "Afro Lisboa: Racial difference and cultural commodification in Portugal
This article analyzes recent audio-visual creativity by young Afrodescendants emerging out of the outskirts of Lisbon. We argue that those cultural productions are challenging unproblematic identifications of the Portuguese capital as a multicultural city shaped by African communities. Responding to issues of racism, police violence, and urban marginalization, but also to celebratory views of Portuguese society as exempt of racial discrimination,…
Shadowy Presences: Mobility, Labor and Absence in the Work of Dominican Photographer Fausto Ortiz
This article aims to examine the ways in which contemporary art from the Caribbean, and specifically from the Dominican Republic, is analyzing mobility and human trafficking within a transnational context. In this case I will critique the work of the photographer Fausto Ortiz (Santiago de los Caballeros, 1970), who has reflected recently on the consequences of migration and displacement for Dominican cultural politics. Rather than addressing the …
Conceptual Materialism: Installation Art and the Dismantlingof Caribbean Historicism
This article analyses how Caribbean artists approach material culture in order to raise questions of historicism, knowledge and display. Installation artists Nikolai Noel (Trinidad and Tobago), Marcos Lora Read (Dominican Republic) and Blue Curry (Bahamas) approach sugar, kapok wood and sun cream from a materialist point of view in order to transcend referential values. In so doing, they translate a critical concern to the life of the things and …
Batida and the politics of sonic agency in Afro-Lisboa
This article examines the politics of sonic agency in batida, the most successful recent electronic musical style emerging from Lisbon's outskirts in Portugal. The genealogies of batida are closely linked to the emergence of a young generation of Djs do Gueto [Ghetto Djs] who unabashedly claim their right of belonging as major players within the Portuguese acoustic and cultural fields. We analyse batida as a space for agency and affirmative mobil…
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
This article explores the capacity of visual arts to deal with transnational, multidirectional processes of remembering and spatial redefinition. Through analyzing two sets of work by Emma Wolokau-Wanambwa that address the tradition of formal art training at Makerere University and the aftermaths of the Second World War in Africa, respectively, the article touches on issues of art education, the production of historical meaning, and the role of c…
Decentring the Genealogies of Art Activism
The main objective of this article is to call into question the critical purchase and universal validity of the vocabulary used in discussions on art activism. Through an examination of what Charles Mills calls ‘Ideal Theory’, I argue that a new lexicon for socially transformative creativity is all the more urgent. Such a new lexicon would help in articulating alternative genealogies and histories of radical aesthetics. The task of provincialisin…
Inside and Outside the Exhibition Space
This essay deals with issues of citizenship, artistic labor, and belonging in the context of the Dominican Republic. It examines the collaborative work of the Colectivo Quintapata to understand how artistic collaboration is used as a way for generating social transformation and reaching audiences beyond the artistic medium. Analyzing art installations, public interventions, and socially engaged art pieces produced by Quintapata between 2009 and 2…
Notes on Curatorship, Cultural Programming and Coloniality in Portugal
This article examines the impact of contemporary curating and cultural programming in the configuration of critical perspectives on Portugal's postcolonial identity. It argues that visual creativity is forging a new paradigm in the Portuguese cultural field. In this context, postcolonial discourses are not silenced but, rather, aligned with international agendas in broader cultural initiatives mirroring the transformation of the main Portuguese c…
Rethinking the "Transnational" Caribbean Curatorial: "Politics of Space in "Caribe insular: Exclusión, fragmentación y paraíso
Through a critical interpretation of "Caribe insular: Exclusión, fragmentación y paraíso," one of the major Caribbean art exhibitions showcased in the 1990s, this essay examines the spatial politics of Caribbean art curatorship taking place abroad. It argues that any understanding of the spatial politics regulating the display of Caribbean art outside the region has to be approached from an ambivalent point of view. In this case, this implies rec…
Periferia de la periferia. Sobre el papel de las exposiciones colectivas en la definición del arte caribeño contemporáneo
The present article focuses on analyzing the reality of Contemporary Caribbean Art through the collective exhibitions generated during the Nineties, one of the elements that have contributed more clearly to the creation of links between the artistic practices of the region. In order to do that, some issues concerning curatorship, understood as a cultural practice able to work as an instrument of cultural mediation, will be examined. Moreover, it …
On Art and Other Trades in Turn of Millennium Cuba: A Conversation with Alexandre Arrechea
This interview seeks to analyse the dynamics of the Cuban cultural context at the end of the millennium. To do so, it examines the work of Alexandre Arrechea, a former member of the collective Los Carpinteros. During the 1980s Cuban art had held an important position as a space for social and political criticism, replacing other spaces and becoming a major centre for discussion in the public sphere. That process changed substantially in the follo…
Conceptual Materialism: Installation Art and the Dismantlingof Caribbean Historicism
This article analyses how Caribbean artists approach material culture in order to raise questions of historicism, knowledge and display. Installation artists Nikolai Noel (Trinidad and Tobago), Marcos Lora Read (Dominican Republic) and Blue Curry (Bahamas) approach sugar, kapok wood and sun cream from a materialist point of view in order to transcend referential values. In so doing, they translate a critical concern to the life of the things and …
Rethinking the "Transnational" Caribbean Curatorial: "Politics of Space in "Caribe insular: Exclusión, fragmentación y paraíso
Through a critical interpretation of "Caribe insular: Exclusión, fragmentación y paraíso," one of the major Caribbean art exhibitions showcased in the 1990s, this essay examines the spatial politics of Caribbean art curatorship taking place abroad. It argues that any understanding of the spatial politics regulating the display of Caribbean art outside the region has to be approached from an ambivalent point of view. In this case, this implies rec…
Caribbean curatorial agencies: A Cultural Object's unruliness and its affective aftermaths
This essay analyzes A Cultural Object, an installation made by the Jamaican artist Dawn Scott in 1985, in order to discuss how institutional practices and criticism are framed in contemporary Caribbean art. Through an examination of A Cultural Object's afterlife in the space of the National Gallery of Jamaica, I attempt to examine the relation between the agencies of the museum, the artist, the spectators, and the installation. In so doing, the t…
Caribbean Artistic Genealogies of Withdrawal. Rethinking Caribbean Visuality Beyond Objecthood
This essay examines how Caribbean artists have employed withdrawal in critical, insurgent ways. I confront several Caribbean projects developed in different chronologies and locations that have attempted to use withdrawal in order to challenge uneven institutional dynamics. The examples I discuss here – Cuban art dedicates itself to baseball (Havana, José A. Echevarría Stadium (Vedado), 1989), Silvano Lora’s Marginal Biennial (Santo Domingo, mult…
Shadowy Presences: Mobility, Labor and Absence in the Work of Dominican Photographer Fausto Ortiz
This article aims to examine the ways in which contemporary art from the Caribbean, and specifically from the Dominican Republic, is analyzing mobility and human trafficking within a transnational context. In this case I will critique the work of the photographer Fausto Ortiz (Santiago de los Caballeros, 1970), who has reflected recently on the consequences of migration and displacement for Dominican cultural politics. Rather than addressing the …
La elocuencia que su entrenamiento como artista plástico le permitía.' Subalternidad, cultura e instituciones enLa Mucama de Omicunléde Rita Indiana Hernández
Este artículo analiza la última novela de la escritora dominicana Rita Indiana Hernández, La Mucama de Omicunlé, con el objetivo de examinar la aplicabilidad en el presente de los debates sobre subalternidad e instituciones culturales a la literatura caribeña actual. Las múltiples referencias al universo del arte contemporáneo que encontramos en la novela establecen una ruptura con obras anteriores de la autora, llevando a contextualizar su produ…
Curating and Cultural Difference in the Iberian Context: From Difference to Self-Reflexivity (and Back Again)
This article analyzes how curatorial practices deal with coloniality and, in a broader sense, with the legacies of colonialism and imperialism in our postcolonial present. To do so, it approaches the curatorial landscape of the Iberian territories in a moment of a radical geopolitical transformation, marked by the inclusion of Portugal and Spain in the European Union, the critical responses to the commemoration of their imperial past, and the ret…
Artistic autonomy in non-autonomous contexts: Reframing collective agency and insurgence from Caribbean artist-managed spaces
This article engages the debates on collective agency, autonomy, institutional practices and socially engaged art by comparatively analyzing the activity of two Caribbean artist-managed spaces which emerged in the first decade of the twenty-first century: BetaLocal in Puerto Rico and L’Artocarpe in Guadeloupe. Based on fieldwork research and interviews with artists and art audiences, the examination of both projects will be driven by three main o…
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Notes on Curatorship, Cultural Programming and Coloniality in Portugal
This article examines the impact of contemporary curating and cultural programming in the configuration of critical perspectives on Portugal's postcolonial identity. It argues that visual creativity is forging a new paradigm in the Portuguese cultural field. In this context, postcolonial discourses are not silenced but, rather, aligned with international agendas in broader cultural initiatives mirroring the transformation of the main Portuguese c…
Institutions artistiques caribéennes, critique et sphère publique
l'actualit ditoriale sur le Maghreb, l'Afrique sub-saharienne et l'Afrique du Sud, il tait important de ne pas vincer les territoires caribens. Les configurations gopolitiques des Carabes et les stratgies de productions artistiques que
Temporary Art Platform and the Reconfiguration of the Public Space in Beirut
The main objective of this article is to understand the ways in which Lebanese artists are dealing with issues of normativity and legibility while operating in public spaces. By looking at the work developed by Temporary Art Platform ( TAP ) during the last ten years, I argue that public art has been crucial in the production of alternative understandings of civic agency and the public space. Simultaneously, by looking at A Few Things You Need to…
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
This article explores the capacity of visual arts to deal with transnational, multidirectional processes of remembering and spatial redefinition. Through analyzing two sets of work by Emma Wolokau-Wanambwa that address the tradition of formal art training at Makerere University and the aftermaths of the Second World War in Africa, respectively, the article touches on issues of art education, the production of historical meaning, and the role of c…
Assessing the Neoliberal Künstlerroman. ‘ Creative’ Self-Realisation and the Art World in Michael Cunningham’s by Nightfall
This article identifies fertile ground to explore the relationship between literature and neoliberalism in recent novels concerned with the analysis of the contemporary art system. Its main objective has to do with acknowledging the impact of artistic systems of valorisation and regulation in processes of self-definition and self-fulfilment taking place in broader spheres of the social. Simultaneously, the article also engages with the conditions…
Decentring the Genealogies of Art Activism
The main objective of this article is to call into question the critical purchase and universal validity of the vocabulary used in discussions on art activism. Through an examination of what Charles Mills calls ‘Ideal Theory’, I argue that a new lexicon for socially transformative creativity is all the more urgent. Such a new lexicon would help in articulating alternative genealogies and histories of radical aesthetics. The task of provincialisin…
Inside and Outside the Exhibition Space
This essay deals with issues of citizenship, artistic labor, and belonging in the context of the Dominican Republic. It examines the collaborative work of the Colectivo Quintapata to understand how artistic collaboration is used as a way for generating social transformation and reaching audiences beyond the artistic medium. Analyzing art installations, public interventions, and socially engaged art pieces produced by Quintapata between 2009 and 2…
"Bottom-up creativity and insurgent citizenship in "Afro Lisboa: Racial difference and cultural commodification in Portugal
This article analyzes recent audio-visual creativity by young Afrodescendants emerging out of the outskirts of Lisbon. We argue that those cultural productions are challenging unproblematic identifications of the Portuguese capital as a multicultural city shaped by African communities. Responding to issues of racism, police violence, and urban marginalization, but also to celebratory views of Portuguese society as exempt of racial discrimination,…
Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future
Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique. Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art a…
C.L.R. James and the Genealogies of Socially Transformative Aesthetics
This essay analyses C.L.R. James’s thoughts on aesthetics as a valid source for a redefinition of the genealogies of socially transformative creative practices in the Americas. It argues that despite being highly relevant for the debates taking place in the context of the United States around the central decades of the twentieth century, James’s thoughts on aesthetics have been largely silenced, misinterpreted and relegated to the specific coordi…
Introduction the Temporal Politics of Anticolonial Aesthetics
This essay aims at developing a critical intervention in the politics of time of anticolonial aesthetics. Engaging with recent debates on cultural activism and postcolonial and decolonial studies, our main objective is to examine the ways in which anticolonial cultural analysis and production keeps nurturing contemporary processes of progressive social transformation. We argue that anticolonialism should not be bounded to a specific historical mo…
Performance Art, Race, and Contemporaneity in the Dominican Republic
This essay discusses issues of time and temporality in relation to performance art from the Dominican Republic. It contends that Dominican performance artists are advancing critical understandings of what is to be contemporary. The essay considers the work of David Pérez “Karmadavis,” Sayuri Guzmán, and José Ramia as expressing the role of artists in defining and delving into what it means to make art in and of the present, while simultaneously c…
Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future: A conversation with Carlos Garrido Castellano
Modos Artísticos. En torno a la novela de arte contemporánea como espacio de experimentación. Una mirada a Muerte Súbita (2013) de Álvaro Enrigue
Este artículo analiza el potencial creativo y la dimensión experimental de la ficción literaria reciente centrada en el mundo del arte. En concreto, el ensayo reconoce en Muerte Súbita (2013) de Álvaro Enrigue un buen ejemplo de la capacidad de este tipo de novela de arte para generar maneras alternativas de entender el sistema-arte. Lejos de representar personajes históricos o de adaptarse a las reglas del campo artístico, la ficción contemporán…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Art (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)