Postcolonial Hauntologies: Art in the Presence – Absence of the Past

Postcolonial Hauntologies: Art in the Presence – Absence of the Past is part of a three-day event, held jointly at the University of Amsterdam and Concordia University. It aims to foster transdisciplinary dialogues while enhancing voices from diverse regions that address colonial legacies. The conference focuses on art as a medium to touch upon and aesthetically transform spectral traces and explores the decolonial potentiality of institutional sites such as archives and museums. 

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Oragnisers:

Assel Kadyrkhanova is a visual artist and researcher; currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Her practice-led research looks at art as a medium of memory, focussing on post-Soviet postcolonial Central Asia.

Mehmet Berkay Sülek is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in Contemporary Art History and Historiography.

Alexandra Tsay is a curator and researcher interested in global turn in art histories, with a focus on Central Asian contemporary art. Currently, she is a PhD student in art history at Concordia University.

The Concordia event is supported by Montreal’s Interuniversity PhD Program in Art History, Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Curatorial Studies and Decolonizing Art Institutions and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture.

The Amsterdam event is supported by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. It is realised as part of the ARRG (Artistic Research Research Group), coordinated by Colin Sterling, Florian Göttke, Assel Kadyrkhanova, Julia Stoll and Alexandra Chisholm.