About the event

From  11/15/2016 to 11/16/2016

Sala de Graus A. Calsamiglia (room 40.035), Edifici Roger de Llúria

Organized by Centro Investigador en Arte Primitivo y Primitivismo (CIAP) del CER Insituto de Cultura de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Contact phone: 935421798

The Symposium on Primitivism in Europe and America aims to open a debate between different scholars on the subject of the mutual appropriation, assimilation and exchange between Amerindian societies and their artistic practices, and European art collectors, anthropologists and artists, since Colonial times.  
 
On the one hand, we would like to open a discussion on the appropriation of the Indigenous Art objects from the Americas by Western culture since the first collections of Primitive Art created during Colonial expeditions, as well as the acquired interest of avant-garde and contemporary artists in the aesthetic forms of Amerindian cultures and Non-Occidental cultures in general. On the other hand, we would like to highlight the importance of the assimilation process of the European culture by the Indigenous societies, and the introduction of European traits in their own aesthetic practices. 
 
During these two days of symposium, we will open four different tables of discussion that include lectures and round tables by specialized scholars and the presentation and discussion of two documentaries on Indigenous societies from North America and The Amazon. These discussions will be organized according to the following Subjects:
 
  1. Primitivism and Amerindian Cultures
  2. Indigenous Societies in Documentaries
  3. Primitivism in Europe
  4. Museography, Curatorship and Primitivism

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financiado por MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA Y COMPETITIVIDAD (MINECO) (ref. HAR2013-41219)   Institut de Cultura de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra

 

 

Unitat de coordinació acadèmica d'Humanitats

 

 

 

Jonathan King

José Luis Martínez

David Cerqueiro

Alessandra Caputo

Maite Méndez Baiges

David Almazán

Silvia Dolz

José Bedia

Tuesday, 15th of November, morning

11:00h | Presentation of the Symposium. By Estela Ocampo
 
1) Primitivism and Indigenous Cultures from the Americas
 11:30h | Rolling back prejudice: primitivism and the art of the Pacific Northwest Coast. By Jonathan King
 12:30h | From Toasting Vases to Selling Objects. Some Reflections on the Making of Andean Objects Collections Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. By José Luis Martínez
 13:30 – 15:00h | Lunch break
 

Tuesday, 15th of November, afternoon

2) Indigenous Cultures in Documentaries
 15:00h | The Beginnings: Screening of the film In the Land of the Head-Hunters by Edward Curtis (60 min.)
 16.00h |  In the Land of the Head-Hunters: Primitivism & Edward S. Curtis. By Mick Gidley.  Introduction by Roser Bosch
 17.00-17.15h |  Coffee break
 17:15h | A Research Example from Today: Screening of the Documentary Culebra in Limbo by David Cerqueiro (35 min.)
 18.00h | Round table in charge of David Cerqueiro and Alessandra Caputo. 
 
 Wednesday, 16th of November, morning

3) Primitivism in Europe
 11:30h | The Presence of Art Nègre in Cubism: An Open Debate. By Maite Méndez Baiges
 12:30h | Africa and Primitivism in Spanish Art. By David Almazán 
 13:30 – 15:30h | Lunch break

 Wednesday, 16th of November, afternoon

4) Museography, Curatorship, and Primitivism
 15:30h | Global reflections in the museum. About Brücke-artists and Colon-representations in the Ethnographic Collection Dresden. By Silvia Dolz
 17:30h | Tribal Affinities (In Permanent Quest for Archetypes). By José Bedia
 19:00h | Closure cocktail