José Luis Falconi, PhD

Academic Publications

Visual Art/Art History/Photography

Academic Publications:
Visual Art/Art History/Photography

“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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