Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz
2016

This book collects essays and artists’ contributions to a symposium held in 2015 by the Institute for Art History in Florence (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) in collaboration with Villa Romana. It questions the traditional Florentine narrative, from a standpoint of post-colonial theory. Florence, commonly accepted as the birthplace of the Renaissance, is viewed here as also being the origin of the cultural domination in the former non-European colonised world.
The book is structured in chronological order of the symposium, divided by smaller insert pages that carry information about the respective authors and title of their talk or performance. The contributions vary from essays, over photographic documentation of perfomances, to sections entirely conceived by the artists themselves.

with Alexa Spors, Sam Shepherd
Flexcover, 244 pages, English