From a global perspective, this seminar will address the transformative potential of socially committed art. Special attention will be paid to the development of artistic actions that address the coloniality of being and the production of knowledge. The seminar will discuss the critical points of the current debate on socially engaged art from a non-Eurocentric perspective.

Carlos Garrido Castellano is a senior associate lecturer at University College Cork (Ireland), where he coordinates a degree programme in Portuguese Studies. Garrido is also a research associate at Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (Rutgers University Press, 2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (SUNY Press, 2021) and Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (Routledge, 2023), as well as other publications in Spanish and Portuguese.