The ongoing Ghost of Lukács research in 2020-2021 was supported by the Wellesley College Davis Award and Faculty research grants.

Authors

Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi is an interdisciplinary artist with a research based practice looking at deColonial knowledge-production by working with and analyzing the limitations of traditional and digital technologies in visual representation. In her virtual, installation and conversation-based work she queries: what materials, mediums, and art historical methodologies can support multidimensional knowledge that doesn’t want to be confined in a colonial, imperialist, capitalist constructed space and time?

Emily Shoyer is a specialist in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on memory and trauma through a decolonial and psychoanalytic lens. She has published and spoken internationally on modernist postcolonial and global diasporic contemporary art and has held curatorial and research roles at Venus Over Manhattan, the Museum of Modern Art and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. She holds an MA in Modern & Contemporary Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and a BA in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Research Assistant:
Arina Zadvornaya, Wellesley College Physics and Media Arts & Sciences
Anna Kolesova, Boston Center for the Arts, MA

Related Presentations and Talks:
Panel Discussion:[De]Mapping the Future – Listening to the Historic Origin Body, 2021 hosted by Wellesley College, Webinar
Video screening, [De]Mapping the Future – Listening to the Historic Origin Body, Kunstraum Gallery, New York, NY
Panel Discussion: Memorials: As Monuments Fall. Emerson College School of the Arts and Public Art Think Tank, Webinar
Panel Discussion: Eastern European Art & the Age of Extremity, Webinar, Kunstraum LLC, New York, NY
In conversation with Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi, In the Words, In the Bones, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Artist panel: Conversation with the artists, In the Words, In the Bones, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

The ongoing research process is presented here:
Related visual Research
Methodology of artistic practice as research

Further presentations

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