Maica Gugolati
2018
Ph.D. Social Anthropology at EHESS, IMAf department – INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN WORLDS, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (EHESS), – Paris, France. PSL Universities. Specialization in Visual, Social Anthropology and Performance Studies. Monograph on Caribbean Studies, Decolonial Methodologies.
2012
M.A. Social Anthropology and Ethnography at EHESS, Paris, France; specialization in Anthropology of Emotions. Caribbean Region, African Diaspora, Indian Diaspora, Migration, Majority World.
2010
Master. Visual Ethnography at ISFCI – Institute of Photography and Integrated Communication- Rome, Italy.
2008
B.A. Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Verona, (Italy) with the specialization in Hermeneutic and Feminist theories.
2009-2011
Photography studies in Street-Reportage
From 2026 – Member of Radical Film Network
From 2026 – Member of ALADOS Colombia – Colombian Documentary Corporation
From 2026 – Member of SFVA, French Society of Visual Anthropology
From 2024 – Co-Editor at Faire Mondes Online Art Journal.
From 2023 – Member of AICA- International Association of Art Critics, International and Southern Caribbean section.
From 2023 – Member of art Shuffle Collective.
From 2020 – Affiliated Researcher at Institute of African Worlds (IMAF), CNRS- National Center of Scientific Research- France.
From 2020 – CFC Member of Call for Curators
From 2020 – Member of TSOEG, Temporal School of Experimental Geography
Selected Art Residencies Art Interventions
2026: “MalaHembra(s)” _ ẄickedFemale(s)” in Invisible Disabilities series of performative experiments at mahewa residency
2024: Afro-Corp-Oralidades, international event of AfroDescent video art exhibition in collaboration with the choreographer Karol Mariposa, Cali, Colombia, June.
2023: ERROR art residency, Mexico City and Puebla. November-December
2023: Creative Authors and Editors retreat. Accra, Ghana. Accord Literary y Rock Retreat Gibraltar.
2023: PAF, PERFORMING ARTIST FORUM, France.
2022: Spring Curatorial Fellowship, Vienna Austria ART GEOGRAPHIES, at Verein K – Kunst, In collaboration with Mumok Museum and Academy of Fine Arts.
2021: Tate Modern London, UK “CONSENT NOT TO BE A SINGLE BEING, WORLDING THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN” founded by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational.
Selected Art Curator
2023: VBKO, Vienna, Austria. Feel(in) the Gaps, Invisible Disabilities. with Gabrielle Le Roux, Leticia Barreto, Cinzia Greco and Jaime Lee Loy; and in collaboration with Ostensible Collective.
2022: “An archeology of the self” with Krystell Ann Art Gallery, Paris, France with Giana De Dier, FranCoise Semiramoth and Sandrine Plante.
2021: Participation and Art Curator at AKAA – Also Known As Africa– African and Diaspora Art Fair, at Carreau du Temple, Paris, France with KrystellAnn Art gallery
2020: Art Curator Grid, curate online exhibition with 8 artists. “through a fluid mosaic”
2020: Selection for Tate Modern’ workshop on “Play”. Canceled for COVID19 pandemic
2019-2020: Art Curator at AllegraLab Virtual Museum 2019- seminar and conference organization, EHESS and MSH Paris France
For Selected Filmography
Listening to images. Escuchar Las Imágenes experimental documentary (2026) 57:09 min
Error-Errar short ethno-fiction (2023) 17min
Petals Battle, Video installation 4 screen (2023) 4:00 min
Traversées/Transverses I II III IV V, Experimental Ethnography (2014) 4 min each project
Selected Publication
2024: What Is Anthropology? A Definition Of Anthropology From Experts Around The World.
2024: with Ana Maria Gomez, and Rafael Palacios, “Bailar para ser Escuchados” in Esclavages/ Post Esclavages_ Slaveries and Post-Slaveries, CNRS Journal
2021: “A detergent artwork in Trinidad and Tobago: Christopher Cozier’s Blue Soap.” In Esclavages/PostEsclavages _ Slaveries and Post-Slaveries (5), CNRS.
2021: “Con-Versare between Alice Yard and Beta-Local, Trinidad & Tobago and Puerto Rico” in Faire Monde(s) Art Journal.
2019: with Cécile Vermot, “Parody, satire and the rise of populism under postcolonial criticism: an Italian and a French case”. Edited by Adrián Scribano, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Freddy Alex Timmermann López. In Populism and Postcolonialism, 31-47. London: Routledge.
2018: “Creation of an exportable culture: a cosmopolitan West Indian case” In Honor of Stuart Hall African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2018.1451597 April.
Selected Art Exhibitions
2024: in collaboration with Christopher Cozier, “Notes on…” at Prospect 6 New Orleans, USA
2023: Sept 7th-Oct 15th, at VBKO, Vienna, Austria. Feel(in) the Gaps, Invisible Disabilities. with Gabrielle Le Roux, Leticia Barreto, Cinzia Greco and Jaime Lee Loy. Artist with Petals Battle mixed media installation and performance.
2023: May- Working Spaces. Ethnography and art. “In De Mascamp” on-line.
2023: April “Floating Powers” public art print at Toofpress and Toofprint Granderson Art Lab, Belmont Trinidad and Tobago (WI) in collaboration with Documenta 2022
2023: UnConnected Yet, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata India. 16-22 Jan. November Australia
2020: “Floating Tropics” ONCA Art Gallery, Brighton UK. Collective exhibition Extracting-Us August 3rd-Sept 25th.