Publications

Books, articles, chapters, and essays on global art history

Background image: Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ Geo Dis/connect 5 (2020). Wall installation with collected and printed maps and color paper.

2025-2030

2028. “Animation, Sustainability, and Transmedia in the Frailejón Ernesto Pérez series: Towards Critical Environmental Education.” In Animation and Sustainability. Edited by Cristina Formenti and Chris Pallant. London: Bloomsbury. Under contract and submitted. ISBN 9781350540361 [Excerpt on Academia]
2027. “Resistant, Poetic, and Visionary Weaving in Anita Paillamil and Guillermo Bert’s Contribution to the Mapuche Decolonial Struggle in Encoded Textiles” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 9 (1). [Buy from California University Press] [Excerpt on Academia]. Ask me for a personal copy.
2026. “Mapuche Portal #3. Anita Paillamil and Guillermo Bert’s poetic and decolonial reformulation of Mapuche textiles”. Source: Notes in the History of Art. [Buy from Chicago University Press] [Excerpt on Academia]. Ask me for a personal copy.
2026. Sea Currents and archipelagic thinking in Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ queer and abstract experimentation.” Cuadernos de Música y Artes Visuales y Artes Escénicas 21(1): 186-209. Academic journal ranked Q1 in Scopus-SJR. Special issue on “Experimentations, Resistances, and Overflows in Latin American Artistic Practices”. https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.mavae21-1.scqe (Free download from the journal’s site) [Also download from Academia]
2026. “Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ Queering Video Work (2005-2012): A Journey Opening to an Archipelagic Perceptual Mesh.” Nuevos Horizontes. Special Issue “Visual Culture in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean”. Accepted and in copyediting. [Download here]
2026. “Samuel Fosso’s Masquerade: History, Colonial Trauma, and Healing in Emperor of Africa.” In Walking with the Enemy: The Art of Subversive Mimicry in the Post-Truth Era. Series: Rethinking Art’s Histories. Edited by Tom Williams, Gediminas Gasparavicius, and Maia Toteva, 355-371. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526169488. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.45369516.21. [Buy at Manchester U Press] [Excerpt in Academia]. Ask me for a personal copy.
2026. “A língua and the Heart in the Mouth / A língua et le cœur au bord des lèvres”, Esse 118 [Buy at Esse] Ask me for a personal copy.
2026. “Hac Vinent’s Disca and Cuir Meshes / Disca et cuir : les maillages de Hac Vinent”, Esse 117: 52-59 [Buy at Esse] Ask me for a personal copy.
2025. “A Mural-Graffiti in Medellín: Fighting for the territory” Graffiti and Street Art 3(2): 48-63. Special issue: “Inscribed Territories: Informal Governance”. https://doi.org/10.48619/gsa.v3i2.A1250 (Free download from the journal) [Download from Academia]
2025. “Postcards of Downtown Reno: Intermedial and Cultural Assemblages”. Cuadernos de Historia del Arte (CHA) 45: 242–269. Special issue: “Re-readings of the Tourist Postcard”. https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.45.040 (Free download from the journal) [Also download from Academia]
2025. “Chircales, the City, and the Peasant’s Dreams of Buenvivir.” Photography and Culture 18(1): 87–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2024.2445876 Ask me for a personal copy. [Excerpt on Academia]

2020-2024

2024. “Arocha’s Black and White Pop: History, Desire, and Politics in 1960s Colombia.” In Pop Cinema. Edited by Glyn Davis and Tom Day. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474497909. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.15478454.10 Ask me for a personal copy [Excerpt on Academia]
2023. “Activism, Textuality, and Feedback in La nueva banda de la terraza’s Graffiti-Projections.” SAUC – Street Art and Urban Creativity, 9(3): 8-22. J https://doi.org/10.25765/sauc.v9i3.803 (Free download from the journal’s site) [Download from Academia]
2023. A decolonial fall on the Tulcan Hill: Between recasting public memory and place, and recovering history and commemoration”. In Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials. Edited by Juilee Decker (Rochester Institute of Technology). Routledge. ISBN 9781032183718. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256076 Ask me for a personal copy [Buy from Routledge] [Excerpt on Academia].
2023. “García’s Juegos (1978-1979): puppets, immunity, torture.” In Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art. Edited by Isabelle L. Wallace and Jennie Hirsh. Publisher: Routledge. ISBN 9781032290454. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003303978 Ask me for a personal copy [Buy from Routledge] [Excerpt on Academia].
2022. “De Orfeo a las Ménades: hacia una videopoesía nómada en There is no forgetting de Margarita Becerra Cano [From Orpheus to the Menades: Towards a nomadic Video Poetry in Margarita Becerra Cano’s There is no forgetting].” Revista Chilena de Literatura 106: 487-513. https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/68784 (Free download from the journal’s site) [Download from Academia]
2021. “De muertes, círculos, y manos: lo audiovisual en Circus (1989) de Margarita Becerra Cano [On Deaths, Circles, and Hands: The Audio-visual in Margarita Becerra Cano’s Circus (1989)]”. Calle 14: Revista de investigación en el campo del arte, 16(30): 392–407. https://doi.org/10.14483/21450706.18308 (Free download from the journal’s site) [Download from Academia]
2020. “The Threefold topography of performance: Drawing, Action, and Video in María Evelia Marmolejo’s Anónimo 4.” TDR The Drama Review 64.4 (Winter): 129–146. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00968 [Download here] [Excerpt on Academia].
2020. “Alberto Baraya’s Decolonial and Posttraumatic Photography: Displaced Difference within Trauma Culture.” Photographies 13.3: 341-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2020.1774920 [Download here] [Excerpt on Academia]
2020. “Aire: actante y metáfora en el Delta del Níger de George Osodi [Air: actant and metaphor on George Osodi’s Delta of Niger River].” Cuadernos de Música y Artes Visuales y Artes Escénicas 15.2, 68-89. https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.mavae15-2.aaym (Free download from the journal’s site) [Download from Academia]
2020. “Runa Islam’s Emergence (2011): Reproducing and projecting Antoin Sevruguin’s negative in a time of uprisings.” Cinergie, il Cinema e le altre Arti 17: 31-42 https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/10521 (Free download from the journal’s site) [Download from Academia]
2020. “Una utopía artística: juego y televisión en Personalmente T.Video [An artistic utopia: play and television in Personalmente T.Video].” Calle 14 Revista de Investigación en el Campo del Arte, 15(28). https://doi.org/10.14483/21450706.16278 (Free download from the journal’s site) [Download from Academia]

2010s

2015. “Corte de florero, simulacros y testimonio de la violencia [Flower cut vase, simulacra and testimonies of violence].” In Pensar el arte hoy: El cuerpo, edited by Carlos Sanabria, 174-191. Bogotá: Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. ISBN 9789587251630. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2175p7q.13. [Buy From U Tadeo] [Download here] [Download from Academia]
2010. “Emblemas, cuerpo y memoria colectiva [Emblems, body and collective memory].” In Premio nacional de crítica: ensayos sobre arte contemporáneo en Colombia, 111-136. Bogotá: Universidad de Los Andes and Colombian National Ministry of Culture. ISSN: 2145-59-10. [Download here] [Download from Academia]
2010. “Una aproximación a lo público del arte público.: Reﬂexión crítica sobre el arte público en Colombia.” In Estética: Miradas Contemporáneas 3, edited by Carlos Sanabria, 13-44. Bogotá: Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. ISBN: 978-958-725-031-2. [Buy from U Tadeo] [Download here] [Download from Academia]
2010. “Pensar el interculturalismo: crisis y confesión.” In Estética: Miradas Contemporáneas 3, edited by Carlos Sanabria, 45-74. Bogotá: Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. ISBN: 978-958-725-031-2. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2175p5p.5. [Buy from U Tadeo] [Download here] [Download from Academia]
2010. “Cuerpos en dolor (I) imágenes emblemáticas del régimen ético de la violencia [Bodies in Pain (I): emblematic images of violence’s ethical regime]” In Revista de Estudios Sociales 35 (2010): 123-137. https://doi.org/10.7440/res35.2010.11 (Free download from the journal’s site) [Also on Academia]

2000s

2008. “Caricatura y performance en diálogos interculturales [Caricature and performance in intercultural dialogues].” In Revista de Estudios Sociales 30 (2008): 46-57. https://doi.org/10.7440/res30.2008.04 (Free download from the journal’s site) [Also on Academia]
2008. “Donación, apropiación y testimonio del testimoniar: la original validaicón de la obra de arte y del museo como lugar de presentación de la historia”, El Museo y La Validación Del Arte, 135-146. Medellín: La Carreta Editores.
2007. “Sobre el encuentro de Arte y técnica: el caso Génesis de Eduardo Kac [On art and technology’s interweaving: the case of Eduardo Kac’s «Genesis»]”. In: Estética: Miradas Contemporáneas 2 (Teoría, Praxis, Sociedad), 117-136. Bogotá: Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano.ISBN 978-958-9029-94-7. [Buy at U. Tadeo] [Download from Academia]
2007. “Pensar la crisis: Confesión e interculturalidad [Thinking of crisis: confession and interculturality].” En Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana 28, 97 (jul-dic 2007): 55 – 63.
2007. “Unland: The Orphan’s Tunic. La escultura como lugar del testimonio y trazo de la memoria.” In Premio nacional de crítica: ensayos sobre arte contemporáneo en Colombia, tercera versión, 11-37. Bogota: Universidad de Los Andes and National Ministry of Culture. ISBN: 978-958-695-294-1 [Download here] [Also on Academia]
2006. “Lo Público y el Arte Público. Arte público en Colombia.” In Premio nacional de crítica: ensayos sobre arte contemporáneo en Colombia, segunda versión, 35-56. Bogota: National Ministry of Culture and Universidad de Los Andes. ISBN: 958-685-224-X [Download here] [Also on Academia]
2006. “Al-àrabia, la [lengua] árabe [The Arab language]”, Grafía 4: 129-141. ISSN 1692-6250.
2006. “Arte y Memoria. Sobre el aporte del arte en Latinoamérica en la Construcción de una cultura más incluyente y democrática [Art and memory. Art’s contribution to democratic culture in Latin America]”, Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana 27, 95: 241-249. ISSN: 0120-8462.