THE TEAM
DR JORDANA BLEJMAR - PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Jordana is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool. Originally a Literature graduate from the University of Buenos Aires, she was awarded her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and the co-editor of Instantáneas de la memoria: Fotografía y dictadura en Argentina y América Latina (with N. Fortuny and L. García, 2013), El pasado inasequible: desaparecidos, hijos y combatientes en el arte y la literatura del nuevo milenio (with M.E. Perez and S. Mandolessi, 2018) and Entre/telones y pantallas: afectos y saberes en la performance argentina contemporánea (with C. Sosa and P. Page, 2021). In 2019 she co-curated with N. Fortuny the installation Tearing Up the Past at Tate Liverpool. She is an Assistant Editor of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and has recently been invited to contribute to two BBC Radio 3-Free Thinking Programmes.
PROF MICHELLE HENNING - MENTOR
Michelle is Professor in Photography and Media in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool. She writes on the history and theory of photography as well as on modernism, new media and museums. She is the author of Photography: The Unfettered Image (Routledge, 2018), Museums, Media and Cultural Theory (Open University Press, 2006) and editor of Museum Media (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). She also works as an artist, designing record covers and art directing for PJ Harvey among others. Her current research projects are on the photographic materials industry in 1920s-30s Britain, drawing on the archives of the photographic company Ilford Limited, and on the role of affect and mood in digital and social media photography.
DR ERIKA TEICHERT - RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Erika completed her PhD in Latin American Studies at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge in February 2022. Her doctoral research focused on the use of photographic practice in contemporary human rights activism in Argentina. She has published on different topics in Argentine visual culture, including photography, cinema, theatre and visual arts. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Latin American visual and material cultures, considering intersections with politics and social movements.
DR NATALIA FORTUNY - CONSULTANT
Natalia is a poet, teacher and researcher at CONICET on photography and contemporary visual culture. She coordinates the Grupo de Estudios en Fotografía Contemporánea, Arte y Política (FoCo) in the Instituto Gino Germani at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at UBA and at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. She is currently directing two research projects: 'Dispositivos fotográficos' (PICT) and 'Imágenes oscilantes' (Ubacyt). She has published several books, including Arder con lo real (ArtexArte, 2021), Memorias fotográficas (La Luminosa, 2014) and Instantáneas de la memoria (Libraria, 2013, with Jordana Blejmar y Luis Ignacio García). She also published numerous book chapters and articles in international journals, and she has coordinated exhibits and events on photography both in Argentina and abroad. She published the poetry books Chacarita (Determinado Rumor, 2017), La construcción (Gog y Magog, 2010) and Hueso (En Danza, 2007); and for children, ¡Tengo una hermana trapecista! (Editorial Maravilla, 2018)
DANIELA PELEGRINELLI - CONSULTANT
Daniela has a Bachelor's in Education from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is a specialist in education in museums, the culture of childhood, toys and play. Her professional career is dedicated to creating and managing projects and spaces that promote ludic and cultural experiences premised on participation and immersion in order to guarantee children's rights and to strengthen community-building. As a specialist in the history of toys, she works as a teacher, researcher, consultant, presenter, workshop leader, assessor, curator and author of this subject-matter. Currently, she is developing the exhibition space 'Inventar y Recordar' at the Museo Casa del Acuerdo in San Nicolás, and she is writing the essay 'Prodigiosa Marilú' supported by the Premio Ampersand 2021.
MARTÍN LEGÓN - ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AND CONSULTANT
Martín is a visual artist. He was part of the Kuitca Scholarship at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella between 2010 and 2011. His works can be found in the following collections: CA2M, Móstoles, Spain; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson in San Juan; MoMA Library in New York; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Rosario (Macro), Argentina, amongst others. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
FLORENCIA BATTITI - PARTNER
Florencia is a curator, art critic and teacher of contemporary art. Since 2000 she works as Chief Curator at the Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires where she leads the Public Art Programme and the curation of exhibitions spaces where the first displays of Bill Viola, Alfredo Jarr and Anish Kapoor took place in Argentina. She was awarded the Trabucco Scholarship for a research project on the interruption of memory in Argentine art during the 1990s (2013). She was also awarded the Radio France Internationale and Radio Cultural al Fomento de las Artes for the curatorial programme at the Parque de la Memoria (2016). She was curator for the Argentine submission for the International Art Biennale in Venice. Currently she is Vice-President of the Asociación Argentina e Internacional de Críticos de Arte, and she is also a lecturer for the Master's in Curatorial Studies at the Universidad de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF).
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PROF BEN HIGHMORE - ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Ben is Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex. His most recent books are The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain (Yale University Press, 2017) and Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation, and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2017). His book Lifestyle revolution: How taste changed class in late twentieth century Britain, will be published in 2022 by Manchester University Press. He is currently writing a book on the recent history of playgrounds.
PROF JOANNA PAGE - ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Joanna is Professor of Latin American Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of several books on contemporary literature, cinema, graphic fiction, and the visual arts in Latin America. Many of her research projects focus on the relationship between science and the arts, but she has also worked on questions of memory, modernity, capitalism, posthumanism, new materialism, decoloniality and environmental thought in Latin America. Her most recent monograph is Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art (2021).