Reframing Art Histories: Distinguished Scholars Series with Homi K. Bhabha

Reframing Art Histories: Distinguished Scholars Series with Homi K. Bhabha
This series serves as a robust platform for distinguished art and cultural historians to explore new modes of enquiry which advance the plural and connected nature of global art histories. The speakers invited for this series are scholars whose body of work has made a recognised contribution to the reframing of canonical understandings of art’s histories, either through the deployment of new critical approaches and methodologies, or by widening the ambit of art history’s objects of enquiry to include cultural forms and practices.
With a distinct post-colonial and transcultural character, this series represents a further self-reflexive moment in a long lineage of ruminations about art’s histories, methodologies, museum and curatorial practice, as they inform each other to grasp complex cultural phenomena.
In the inaugural lecture of the series, join Homi K. Bhabha (Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University), one of the most important figures in postcolonial studies, as he explores the intertwined histories of colonialism and modernity, and their implications for narratives of art history.
The programme also features as discussants Patrick Flores (Deputy Director, Curatorial & Research, National Gallery Singapore) and Vineeta Sinha (Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, National University Singapore).
This lecture took place at National Gallery Singapore on 14th January 2023, as part of the "Reframing Art Histories: Distinguished Scholars Series".
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About the Speaker
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, and one of the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. He has authored numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism, including "Nation and Narration and The Location of Culture", which was reprinted as a Routledge Classic in 2004, as well as a range of essays on William Kentridge, Anish Kapoor, Taryn Simon, and Mathew Barney. He also writes on contemporary art for Artforum.
He is currently Curator in Residence of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a member of the Academic Committee for the Shanghai Power Station of Art, and an advisor on the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (CMAP) project at the Museum of Modern Art New York.
Bhabha served on jury for the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) and the 2018 Sharjah Biennial. In 2019, he was honoured by the Institute of Contemporary Art in London for his influential work in studies of colonialism, postcolonialism, and globalisation.
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"Reframing Art Histories: Distinguished Scholars Series" is supported by a dynamic partnership: a young art history programme in Asia’s foremost University, the National University of Singapore; a leading visual arts institution overseeing the largest public collection of modern art in Singapore and Southeast Asia, the National Gallery Singapore; a leading peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; and the Benjamin Batson Fund.
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