LILIANA GÓMEZ
Liliana Gómez is a professor of art and society at the University of Kassel, Kunsthochschule Kassel and the documenta Institut. She is the director of CELA (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos) at the University of Kassel and on the board of directors of the CALAS Regional Center Andean Region (Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies). She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.
She has a background in philosophy and architecture and completed her PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin. She received her habilitation at the University of Zurich and has been a visiting professor and researcher at Columbia University, Harvard University, NYU, Universidad del Rosario Bogotá and the Orient-Institut Beirut.
From 2017 to 2023, she led the research project Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the Global South for which she was awarded an excellence grant and SNSF-professorship by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Her research interests include modern and contemporary arts and visual cultures and their intersections with coloniality and extractivism, in particular the history of Latin American modernism, exhibition history, cultural and media theory, the theory and history of the archive, decolonial and environmental aesthetics.
Recently, she edited Performing Human Rights: Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South (DIAPHANES, 2021) and co-edited Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (Routledge, 2020) and Eco-operations (DIAPHANES, 2024). She is the author of the books Lo urbano: Teorías culturales y políticas de la ciudad en América Latina (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2014) and Archive Matter: A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern (DIAPHANES, 2023).
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