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BADDELEY Oriana
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PROfESSOR
BiOgrAPhY Professor Baddeley is Associate
Dean of Research at CCW and Deputy Director
of the research centre for Transnational Art,
Identity and Nation (TrAIN). She studied History
and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. Her
doctoral subject, researching the historiography
of definitions of ‘art’ in relation to Ancient
Mexico, formed the basis for work on the 1992
Hayward exhibition, The Art of Ancient Mexico.
She has written extensively on contemporary
Latin American art, including Drawing the Line:
Art and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin
America (Verso 1989, co-author Valerie Fraser) and
collaborated with Gerardo Mosquera to produce
Beyond the Fantastic: Art Criticism from Contemporary
Latin America (inIVA/MIT 1996). With Toshio
Watanabe and Partha Mitter, (2001–04), she
worked on a major AHRC funded project, Nation,
Identity and Modernity: Visual Culture of India,
Japan and Mexico, 1860s–1940. She is on the International
Advisory Committee of the University
of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, and the
edi torial board of Art History; and is a Trustee
of the St Catherine Foundation and the Ashley
Family Foundation.
rESEArCh StAtEMENt As a co-founder of the
UAL research centre for Transnational Art, Identity
and Nation (TrAIN: www.transnational.org.
uk); my research is undertaken within the context
of globalization, identity studies and contemporary
art practice. My earlier doctoral research grew
out of attempting to understand the values and
meanings of the ancient cultures of the Americas
and the ways in which colonization and the discourses
of post-colonialism had impacted on the
interpre tation of those cultures. With a focus
on Mexico and Latin America, I have also worked
in detail on the histories of ‘exhibiting’ the art
of these regions and explored how traditions of
display and catego rization have been responded
to within the global structures of contemporary
art expositions. Running throughout much of
my writing has been a fascination with the ways
in which different geogra phic contexts impact
on definitions of creative practice and how
such definitions are then inter preted. In recent
years, my publications have included a comparative
discussion of the work of Ernesto Neto
and Gabriel Orozco, and an explo ration of the
work of Teresa Margolles in relation to stereotypes
of Mexican identity. In 2011, working
with a previously unknown archive of his work,
I curated an exhibition of Swiss pho tographer
Fred Boissonnas that explored themes of identity
and myth in the area of travel photo graphy.
I am continuing to research around issues of cultural
stereotype and ideas of authenticity,
particularly looking at the associations of death,
gender and danger with cultural otherness.
SELECtED OUtPUtS AND AChiEVEMENtS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2011 fred Boissonnas: the Sinai Expeditions 1929–33,
Patriarcat œcuménique, Musée d’art chrétien, Chambésy,
Genève.
2007 ‘Teresa Margolles and the Pathology of Everyday
Death’ in: Dardo Magazine #5, Santiago de Compostela,
Rio de Janeiro.
2007 ‘The Relocation of Authenticity and Transnational
Dilemmas, Rio de Janeiro’ in: Asbury, M. & ferreira, G.
(eds), Transnational Correspondence, Special Edition
of Arte and Ensaios #14, Universidade federal do Rio
de Janeiro.
2005 ‘Reflecting on Kahlo: Mirrors, Masquerade and the
Politics of Identification’, in: frida Kahlo, exhibition
catalogue, Tate Modern, London.
SELECTED CONfERENCES / PRESENTATIONS
2010 ‘A People United – Latin America and the Visualizing of
the Political in 1970s Britain’ in: Meeting Margins:
Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950–78
conference, University of Essex.
2010 Authored visual essay ‘… a fair calculation, if not a
certain operation’ in: re:SEARCHING – Playing in the
Archive, exhibition at the ING Bank.
2010 ‘from Kahlo to Margolles: Visualizing the politics of
Victimhood’ in: Ghosts of the Mexican Revolution in
Literature and Visual Culture (Art, film, Photography),
an international symposium to commemorate the
centenary of the Mexican Revolution, Trinity College /
Centre for Latin American Studies, University of
Cambridge.
Photograph (B.cat: 6666) Saint Catherine Library Stairway, 20.04.1929
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2009 28th Bienal de São Paulo ‘The Contemporary Bienal’
panel for the 28BSP convened by the Transnational Art,
Identity & Nation (TrAIN) Research Centre, University of
the Arts London.
2009 Co-organizer and Chair / panellist with Charles Esche,
Exhibitions and the World at Large, Tate Britain, London.
2005 Co-organiz
er and speaker, The Many faces of frida, Tate Modern,
London.