Arantxa Ciafrino
Arantxa Ciafrino is a PhD candidate in Sociomuseology at the Lusófona University, with the support of the UNESCO Chair Research Grant - Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity.
She works as a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development at the Lusófona University - University Centre of Lisbon and is a research fellow on the project CARIM - Contemporary Art - A path towards inclusive museology - funded by the Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).
Her academic background includes a degree in Museology from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and a master's degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture in a collaborative programme organized by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Reina Sofía National Museum.
She has professional experience in cultural production, research and curating. In 2019, she created a series of exhibitions focused on sound, video and performance art, called Wechseln, which took place in different independent art spaces in Madrid and Berlin. She has worked for museums and art galleries and is currently conducting research on Contemporary dance and performance as decolonial practice in museums as part of her PhD studies.
Áreas de interesse académico e científico Areas of academic and scientific interest
- Museology and Sociomuseology
- Decolonial museum practices
PhD project
Decolonial practices in european museums.
Abstract
The project intends to analyze new forms of postcolonial or decolonial thinking within museum practice. The guiding question is: How are museums in Europe reacting to the new agenda under discussion about colonial debt or historical/symbolic restoration? The project focuses on three major European cities: Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon. The intention of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of which strategies have already been adopted and how they are being implemented.