The Catalog of Speculative Translations
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As part of a larger project that takes a critical look at the exhibition in French museums of objects removed from African material culture, “Act II, Fugitivities,” curated by Cosmo Whyte and Abigail E. Celis, intends to respond to the Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amerindiens (MAAOA) in Marseille. The exhibition is on display at Galerie de l’UdeM until March 1, 2025.
Curator
Abigail E. Celis est professeure adjointe en histoire de l’art et muséologie à l’Université de Montréal. Formée en études culturelles, elle s’intéresse aux survivances du colonialisme et aux imaginaires décoloniaux dans la culture visuelle, la pratique artistique et les normes muséales en contextes francophones contemporains, avec un accent mis sur la France et le Sénégal.
Cosmo Whyte est professeur adjoint à la Faculté des arts et de l’architecture de l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles (UCLA). Whyte utilise le dessin, la sculpture et l’installation pour explorer les intersections de la racialisation, du nationalisme et du déplacement. Pour Whyte, l’archive est à la fois un seuil et un site de perturbation dont il se sert pour sa pratique artistique.
Canada Research Chair in Art and Racial Justice
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Concordia University
Balbir K. Singh is Canada Research Chair in Art and Racial Justice, as well as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. She is the Director of Dark Opacities Lab, a hub for BIPOC political and aesthetic study and strategy. Using anti-colonial methods of reading and sensing, Singh builds on theories of opacity in her in-progress manuscript “Militant Bodies: Racial/Religious Opacity and Minoritarian Self-Defense,” which takes a materialist feminist approach to explore questions that center post-9/11 racial and religious hyper-policing of Muslim and Sikh bodies. Currently, she serves as Reviews Editor for Art Journal and is part of the Journal of Visual Culture’s Editorial Colelctive. Singh has been published in journals including Sikh Formations, Critical Ethnic Studies, QED, Surveillance and Society, Rhizomes, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Spectra, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures in the Americas.
