José Luis Falconi, PhD

Academic Publications

Publications

“Ad Usum, ad hoc (Or how to use this book)” In: José Luis Falconi (Ed.) Pedro Reyes’s Ad Usum: To Be Used

2018
The Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University (FAS) and Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA
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“Eleven Thesis on the Relation Between Art and Society (circa 2015)”

2014
In: José Luis Falconi, Jorge Munguía and Lucia San Román (Eds.), Notebook on Time (Citizen Culture)
Santa Mónica Art Museum
Santa Monica, CA
pp. 4-10
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“The Smooth Mechanism of Relics (Notes on the Efficiency of Nostalgia)”

2007
In: Svetlana Boym (Ed.) Nostalgic Technologies
CGIS/Provost Office for the Arts, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
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“Doble Margen: ¿Es acaso posible la contemporaneidad desde la periferia?” [Double Margin: Is it ever possible to have contemporaries in the periphery?]

2016
In: Sergio Rojas (Ed.) Actas de la Conferencia Regional Latinoamericana de Arte
Universidad de Chile
Santiago de Chile, Chile
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“Stitched by Fire: The Thread of Sparks of Santiago Escobar Jaramillo’s Colombia, Tierra de Luz”

January - June 2012
In: Antípoda14: Antropología y temporalidad; Antípoda- Revista de Antropología y Arqueología Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Antropología
Bogotá, Colombia
No 14, pp. 233 – 243
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“Back in the Picture (On the Place of Aesthetics in Democratic Life), José Luis Falconi interviews Doris Sommer”

March 2015
In: Atlántica: Journal of Art and Thought. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) N.55
Gran Canarias, Spain
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“Carlitos Way: Or the Artist as Framework, circa 2000 AD”

2008
In: Raphaela Platow (Ed.) Carlos Amorales: Discarded Spider
Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
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“Exacto exceso: A propósito de Nelly Richard” [Exact Excess: On Nelly Richard]

2022
Introduction to Alejandra Castillo, Nelly Richard and Miguel Valderrama (Eds.) Crítica y Política: Conversaciones con Nelly Richard (Second Edition)
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Editorial Palinodia, Chile
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“Nathalie Goffard, o un paisaje parecido a uno mismo” [Nathalie Goffard or a landscape almost resembling oneself]

2019
Epilogue In: Nathalie Goffard Bascuñan (Ed.) Intramuros. Palimpsestos sobre arte y paisaje Editorial Metales Pesados
Santiago de Chile, Chile
[In Spanish]
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“The Temptation of Eden: Landscape Architecture in the Andean Region Nowadays, a Portfolio”

October 2017-April 2018
With Javiera Infante (PUCP-Lima) In: José Luis Falconi (Ed.) Cuadernos Inter.cambio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe
Universidad de Costa Rica Vol. 15. N. 2. Special Section
San José, Costa Rica
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“No Me Token; or, How to Make Sure We Never Lose the * Completely”

October 2013
In: Guggenheim Museum UBS MAP Global Initiative
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Stitched by Fire: The Thread of Sparks of Santiago Escobar Jaramillo’s Colombia, Tierra de Luz”

January-June 2012
In: Antípoda14: Antropología y temporalidad; Antípoda- Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Antropología. No 14, pp. 233-243
Bogotá, Colombia
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“Tractable Times-Afterword”

2006
In: José Luis Falconi and Gabriela Rangel (Eds.) A Principality of its Own
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA
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“The Political Economy of Latin America: New Visions”

June, 2020 - May 2021
With James A. Robinson.
For the: World Bank’s Latin America Vision 2040 project
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“Contra-Memoria: Entre el recuerdo y la historia oficial. Una conversación con José Guillermo Nugent” [Counter Memory: Between Remembrance and Official History. A conversation with José Guillermo Nugent]

August 2019
In: [cuatro treintatrés] Journal Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Artes, Departamento de Artes Visuales. No 02
Santiago de Chile, Chile
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“What is the Use of Calling Antanas Mockus an Artist?”

2017
In: Carlo Tognato (Ed.) Cultural Agents Reloaded: The Legacy of Antanas Mockus
Harvard University Press/Cultural Agents Initiative, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
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“No Me Token; or, How to Make Sure We Never Lose the * Completely”
[Reprinted in English to be included in: A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art

2021
Leonardo Anreus, Robin Greeley and Megan Sullivan
Wiley-Blackwell, Boston, MA
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“(What about) The Other Latinos? (Introduction)”

August 2007
In collaboration with José Antonio Mazzotti. In: José Luis Falconi and José Antonio Mazzotti (Eds.)
The Other Latinos David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA
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“Repairing Symbolic Reparations: Assessing the Effectiveness of Aesthetic Memorialization in the Inter-American System of Human Rights”

March 2020
Contributor with Robin Greeley, Michael Orwicz, Ana Maria Reyes and Fernando Rosenberg
The International Journal of Transitional Justice
Volume 14. Issue 1, March 2020
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Introduction to Robin Greeley (Ed.) La Interculturalidad y sus imaginarios: Conversaciones con Néstor García Canclini

2018
Gedisa (Spain), ArtLifeLaboratory and Palinodia (Chile), pp. 5-10
Mexico City, Madrid, Boston and Santiago de Chile
[In Spanish]
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“Historiographical Tai Chi (The Game)”

2014
In: Janet Dees, Irene Hoffman, Candice Hopkins, and Lucia San Román (Eds.) Unsettled Landscapes; SITElines. 2014 New Perspectives on Art of the Americas
Site Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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“No Me Token; o Cómo Asegurarnos a nunca perder el * por completo”

2014
In Kaypunku. Vol. 1.
Universidad San Marcos
Lima, Perú
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“El orden, las órdenes de Ollanta Humala” [The order, the orders of Ollanta Humala]

June 2006
In collaboration with Martín Oyata. In: Revuelta. N.3
Universidad de las Américas
Puebla, Mexico
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“Las Moradas: 1947-1949”

2009
In: Rita González (Ed.) Número Cero N.5. Special Magazine Project of the Second Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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“Las Moradas: 1947-1949” [Translated from English]

2009
In: Rita González (Ed.) Número Cero N.5. Special Magazine Project of the Second Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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“La solitaria búsqueda de las definiciones, en torno a la última poesía de P. Granados” [The Solitary Exercise of Definitions: The Poetry of Pedro Granados] [Translated to the Portuguese]

October 2000
In: Agulha, Jornal do Poesia
Fortaleza, Brazil
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“Exacto Exceso: A propósito de Nelly Richard” [Exact Excess: On Nelly Richard]

2020
in Alejandra Castillo, Nella Richard and Miguel Valderrama (Eds.)
Crítica y Política. Second Edition
Editorial Palinodia
Santiago de Chile, Chile
[In Spanish]
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(There Is No) Friendly(er) Fire; Postscript to "Stitched by Fire"

2019
(Translated from the Spanish) in:
Santiago Escobar (Ed.) Colombia, tierra de luz
Universidad de Caldas
Manizales, Colombia
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“Ad Usum, ad hoc (Or how to use this book)”

2018
In: José Luis Falconi (Ed.)
Pedro Reyes’s Ad Usum: To Be Used
The Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University (FAS), Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA
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“Fernell Franco: Alquimista de la Imagen” [Fernell Franco: Alchemist of Images]

July 2016
Panorama Internacional (Entrevista)- [Interview on the Photography of Fernell Franco] In: Revista Enfoque Visual N. 11-35
Bogotá, Colombia
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“Illegible Futures (or the Writings on the Wall), On Edgar Orlaineta’s Work”

2015
In: Gonzalo Ortega (Ed.) Registro 04. Espacio Tiempo
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
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“Bill of Rights (Or How to Use Bills Rightly)”

2014
In: José Luis Falconi (Ed.)
The Great Swindle: The Works of Santiago Montoya’s
Halcyon Gallery
London, England
pp. 83-93
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“Stitched by Fire: The Thread of Sparks of Santiago Escobar Jaramillo’s Colombia, Tierra de Luz”

2019
In: Antípoda14: Antropología y temporalidad; Antípoda -Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Antropología, Bogotá, Colombia
January-June 2012
E.9.12.a.1. Reprinted in Santiago Escobar (Ed.) Colombia, tierra de luz Manizales, Colombia, Universidad de Caldas
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“Techniques for Leaving an Apartment: The Extraordinary Ordinariness of Jorge Mario Múnera’s Photography”

2010
In: José Luis Falconi (Ed.) Portraits of an Invisible Country. The Photographs of Jorge Mario Múnera
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA
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“Las Moradas: 1947-1949”

2009
[Translated from English] In: Rita González (Ed.) Número Cero N.5. Special Magazine Project of the Second Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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“Carlitos Way: Or the Artist as Framework, circa 2000 AD”

2008
In: Raphaela Platow (Ed.) Carlos Amorales: Discarded Spider
Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
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“The Ghost that Worked for the Machine: On Barry Freedland’s Signs of Identity”

December 2007
In: Southeastern College Arts Conference Review, Volume XV, N. 2. pp. 176-181
Atlanta, GA
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“Bluriness in Focus”

2004
In: José Luis Falconi, Adál Maldonado (Eds.) Out of Focus Nuyoricans
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA
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“Cualquier parecido con la realidad es pura coincidencia. A propósito de Materia Común de Ximena Garrido-Lecca e Ishmael Randall Weeks”

2020
In: Cubo Abierto, Revista del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima. No. 3. Año 2.
Agosto-Noviembre, 2020
Lima, Perú
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“A Glossary for Tania Bruguera”

2018
In: Lucía San Román and Susie Kantor (Eds.) A Lexicon Interpreted
Yerba Buena Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
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Ximena Garrido-Lecca “How Simultaneous is Our Belatedness?”

2017
In: FLACC. Amsterdam, 2018. FLACC Journal No.16.2
Genk, Belgium
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“The Archeology of the Present: The Wreckage of History According to Jorge Mendez Blake”

2015
In: Gonzalo Ortega (Ed.) Registro 04. Espacio Tiempo.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Monterrey, N.L., México
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“Futuros ilegibles (o la escritura en la pared), en torno a la obra de Edgar Orlaineta”

September 2018
[Translated from English] In: Gonzalo Ortega (Ed.) Registro 04. Espacio Tiempo
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
2015
Reprinted In Spanish
In: FLORAE Magazine 4 (Traducción/Traición) Bogotá, Colombia
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“Irremediable precisión (En torno a Fernell Franco)” [Irremediable Precision (about Fernell Franco)].

March-April 2014
In: Buensalvaje. N 10
Lima, Perú
[In Spanish]
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Cosido por fuego: el hilo de chispas de Colombia, Tierra de Luz, de Santiago Escobar Jaramillo [Translated from English]

2019
In: Santiago Escobar (Ed.)
Colombia, tierra de luz.
Universidad de Caldas
Manizales, Colombia

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“Shiny Pyrrhic Victories; On Cristóbal Lehyt’s If Organizing is the Answer; What’s the Question?”

2010
In: Cristóbal Lehyt (Ed.) If Organizing is the Answer; What’s the Question?
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Carpenter Center for Visual Studies, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
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“Two Double Negatives”

2008
In: Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson (Eds.) The Meaning of Photography
Yale University Press, pp 130-147
New Haven, CT
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“Off-Shootings”

2008
In: AFA02
Galería AFA
Santiago de Chile, Chile
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“The Smooth Mechanism of Relics (Notes on the Efficiency of Nostalgia)

2007
In: Svetlana Boym (Ed.) Nostalgic Technologies
CGIS/Provost Office for the Arts, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

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Essay reprinted as “Bluriness in Focus: On Adál Maldonado”

2010
In: Black Renaissance Noire. Institute of African-American Affairs at New York University. Volume 8, Issue 2/3. pp. 10-12. Summer 2008.
Essay Selected as a Document of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art – International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, TX
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“(No hay) Fuego (más) amigo; Postscriptum a “Cosido por Fuego” [(There Is No) Friendly(er) Fire; Postscript to "Stitched by Fire"]

2019
In: Santiago Escobar (Ed.) Colombia, tierra de luz
Universidad de Caldas
Manizales, Colombia
[In Spanish]
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“A Glossary for Tania Bruguera”

2018
[Translated into Spanish and published as “Léxicon interpretado” in: Lucía San Román and Susie Kantor (Eds.) Hablándole al Poder
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
Mexico City, México
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“Los Márgenes del Fuego: Andrés Sierra, volición y lo abyecto en la fotografía actual” [The Margins of Fire: Andrés Sierra, volition and the abject in contemporary photography]

2016
In: Premio Bienal - Salón Colombiano de Fotografía
Salón Colombiano de Fotografía
Medellín, Colombia

“La arqueología del presente: El naufrágio de la historia según Jorge Méndez Blake”

2015
[Translated from English] In: Gonzalo Ortega (Ed.) Registro 04. Espacio Tiempo
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
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“To Pay the Bills with Bills (or how to keep cash flowing)”

2014
In: José Luis Falconi (Ed.) The Great Swindle: The Works of Santiago Montoya’s
Halcyon Gallery
London, England
pp. 9-17
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“Conscientious Objector: Non-Objects as Index in Darío Escobar’s Sculpture”

2013
In: José Luis Falconi (Ed.)
A Singular Plurality: The Works of Darío Escobar
Department of History of Art and Architecture (FAS), Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA
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“Amnesia: A Memoir. (Remembrances of Karen Miranda’s photography)”

January 2012
In: Karen Miranda Rivadeneira Other Stories/Historias Bravas
Real Art Ways
Hartford, CT
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“Las Moradas: 1947-1949”

2009
In: Rita González (Ed.) Número Cero N.5. Special Magazine Project of the Second Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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“Dos dobles negativos”

October 2013
[Translated from English]
In: Papel Máquina. N. 8
Santiago de Chile, Chile
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“Off-Shootings”

December 2011
In: AFA02. Santiago de Chile, Chile, Galería AFA 2008.
Reprinted in English and Spanish in: IV International Conference of Photography, “Más allá de la reportería” [Beyond Photojournalism].
Fotográfica Bogotá 2011, FotoMuseo, Bogotá, Colombia
[Original in English; translated into Spanish and French]
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“Resources of the Real: Latin American Photography at the Americas Society, 1967-2006.”

2006
In: José Luis Falconi and Gabriela Rangel (Eds.)
A Principality of its Own
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press
Cambridge, MA
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Back blurb

2019
for Lyle Rexer’s The Critical Eye (Fifteen Pictures to Understand Photography)
Intellect Books
London, England
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Blurb

2011
for William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies
for Lima Book Fair, July
Lima, Perú
[In Spanish]
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