Personal consultations for FFA doctoral students with Giovanni Aloi and Charles Esche
In November 2024, exceptional seminars and lectures by international guests will take place as part of the doctoral programme. In addition to two blocks of intensive seminars, FaVU also offers the opportunity for individual consultations on dissertation topics with art historians and curators Giovanni Aloi and Charles Esche.
Consultations will be held on Friday, 8 November 2024 (Giovanni Aloi), and Wednesday, 20 November 2024 (Charles Esche). These sessions will take the form of discussions centred on portfolios and the consultation of specific methodological or artistic issues faced by each doctoral candidate.
Giovanni Aloi’s research focuses on a critical reflection of the Anthropocene, the representation of nature in modern and contemporary art, climate change, and sustainability. Another key area of his interest lies in the history of the art market and how economic factors influence art-making and art writing. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the editor-in-chief of *Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture* (www.antennae.org.uk). He has contributed to BBC radio programmes, worked at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries, and is currently the American correspondent for *Esse* magazine. Giovanni Aloi is co-editor of the "Art after Nature" series for the University of Minnesota Press and the author of *Art & Animals* (2011), *Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene* (2018), *Why Look at Plants? The Vegetal Emergence in Contemporary Art* (2019), *Lucian Freud – Herbarium* (2019), and *Posthumanism in Art and Science* (2020). https://www.aloi.info
Charles Esche is the director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and maintains active engagement with the academic sphere as a professor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. His current interdisciplinary projects address the consequences of decolonisation and the potential for applying demodernisation to our thinking in the face of the decolonial challenge. In recent years, he has also focused on analysing museum collection narratives and investigating the cultural and political histories of exhibition-making. For the current season at the Van Abbemuseum, he has curated a series of exhibitions centred on ecological themes in art. Esche has co-curated the São Paulo Biennial, the U3 Triennial in Ljubljana, the Riwaq Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, and other major international exhibitions. https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/306-charles-esche
The lectures and individual consultations are supported financially by the European Union through the National Recovery Plan and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
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