research projects
Dubuffet and the Culture of Modernism
This research project is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Getty Foundation for the year 2006-2007.
Documentary Evidence? Rethinking the Document in Contemporary Art.
The purpose of this research project is to shed light on the role of documents in modern and contemporary art. My aim is twofold: first, it is to identify a continuity between different ways in which documents have been used in art since modernism, and to show that, contrary to usual belief, these apparently divergent uses form part of a single history. Second, it is to explore the relations between art and other disciplines, by focusing on specific art projects that utilisedocuments borrowed from fields other than art. Documents, I argue, are more than just transparent representations of the world or recordings of facts; they are products of particular, sited, conventions of knowledge production. Thus I will identify the document as a privileged site for theorising the necessarily dialectical relationship between the autonomy and the politics of art.
Photography, Film and Displacement Conference series 2005-2006
2005: Georges Didi Huberman
2006 : Philippe-Alain Michaud2008: Hubert Damisch
2006: Jacques Ranciere.
the links below show the programme of this conference and exerpts of the conference that were published online in the journal Art & Research
Shared History - Decolonising the Image
Is an academic conference,exhibition and film program that took place in Amsterdam in May-June 2006, on the subject of the visual representation of decolonisation processes. The conference focused in particular on the relations between Indonesia and the Netherlands and Algeria and France. We are currently preparing an edited book based on the conference.
conference programme
Fellowships and Awards
she was, in 2005-2006 a fellow of the Getty Foundation and of the Terra Foundation for American Art.