The issue has been initialized in a workshop-cum-seminar with the same name co-taught by Koch and Oesterreich virtually across Heidelberg University as well as Universität der Künste Berlin between 16 and 18 June 2021 under pandemic circumstances. The invited key talks of Prof. Dr. Patricia Zalamea (Bogotà) and Prof. Dr. Dafne Cruz Porchini (Mexico-City) that stimulated the scholarly debate are now included in revised versions and enriched by several other reflections following an international Call for Paper. Contributions engage with a variety of topics ranging from Pre-Columbian visual and graphic formulation of artisanal knowledge via challenges to colonial hegemonic knowledge by bi-lingually educated indigenous cultural brokers to imperialist and nationalist representations of non-Western cultures in the first world exhibitions as well as the visual cultural histories of climate turbulences in Latin-America till today. In addition, several catalogue entries in the section “Art works recalled” also focus on the complex tension between transculturation and decolonial questions in the artistic practices of artists located in such divers places as Mexico, the Philippines, the US-American border with Mexico, the former German Democratic Republic, or Spain. They are supplemented by two (exhibition) reviews highlighting decolonial and collaborative translational endeavors as well as transcultural curatorial reform in German contexts.
Miradas Journal is dedicated to foster academic exchange to better connect Anglophone, Germanophone, Ibero- and Lusophone discourses on the art histories entangling Latin-American regions and the Iberian Peninsula, which is why all articles in English are accompanied by shorter resumés in one of these other languages.
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