Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Issue 53
‘Medium/Metaphor/Milieu’ looks at the exhibitionary in and beyond exhibitions.
Issue 52
Afterall is pleased to present issue 52, ‘New Politics’. We seem to experience yet another version of the discontents of civilisation, paralleled by the search for new political responses.
Decolonising the Museum
Decolonising museums in the 2020s, with Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, and Bolivian artist, writer and musician Elvira Espejo Ayca, chaired by Amanda Carneiro, Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
Issue 51
Time Will Tell
Amanda Carneiro diarises a disrupted sense of consciousness. Forced into a virtual void, she is haunted by the works of Adrian Piper, Belkis Ayón, Dalton Paula, Arthur Dispo do Rosário, Rosana Paulino, Black Quantum Futurism and Lorna Simpson.
Issue 50
Between the Visible and the Unspeakable: An Interview with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz on Histories and Curatorship
In collaboration with Museu de Arte de São Paulo we have been building a critical forum for cultural theorists, curators and artists to raise questions and formulate proposals for the reinterpretation of exhibitions and museum collections in non-canonical ways. Here MASP curators André Mesquita and Amanda Carneiro talk with anthropologist and curator Lilia Moritz Schwarcz about the intersections between academic research and curatorship, the introduction of decolonial and post-colonial debate in Brazil and MASP’s 2018 exhibition ‘Afro-Atlantic Histories'.