Eva Smrekar
Magic City, Drag Spectacle and Modern Performance (1890-1930)
Eva Smrekar is a Master's student in philosophy and art history at the Faculty of Letters in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Her research focuses on the formation of modernity through the relationship between modern medicine, various artistic practices and the body in the second half of the 19th century. Her dissertation on Jean-Martin Charcot and the influence of his clinical research on the development of modern entertainment in Paris was awarded the Dean's Prize of the Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana.
As part of the École des Modernités residency program, Eva Smrekar is continuing her research into the history of male transvestism in music-hall, café-concert and balls in late 19th- and early 20th-century Paris. Her research focuses above all on two particular models of the transvestite body, constructed in the modern spectacle: transformism, a new music-hall performative genre based on imitations and rapid transformations of voice, costume and gesture on stage; and the transvestites of "Magic City", one of the first amusement parks in Paris, which became famous for its Mi-Carême transvestite balls especially in the 1920s and 1930s. The figure of Barbette (Vander Clyde Broadway, 1899-1973), a close friend of Cocteau and Man Ray, whose career is documented in archives held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, is the main theme of this research.
Jesal Thacker
Jesal Thacker a reçu une formation artistique, mais a choisi de poursuivre des études universitaires. Diplômée de la J.J. School of Art de Bombay, elle conduit des recherches sur l’art moderne et contemporain indien. En 2005 elle a créé Bodhana, une organisation à but non lucratif qui vise à mener des recherches et publier des ouvrages sur l’art moderne Indien. L’objectif premier est de travailler sur l’héritage et les archives des artistes d’Inde de la période moderne dont l’étude manque encore.
Marion Grébert
Marion Sergent
Lauren Walden
Nat Paterson
Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940), monstrous diversity, and widening access
Nat Paterson is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, and is in a research residency at the Giacometti Institute. In his thesis, entitled "Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940), monstrous diversity, and the widening of access", he analyzes Chauveau's creative practice - a visual artist and writer who, in the face of social alienation, created monstrous "companions" for himself - in relation to the concept of "neurodiversity".
Samina Iqbal
Connecting Paris with the Modern Art of Pakistan
Samina Iqbal is a practicing artist, art historian, and an academic, currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, Art & Design, at the Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan.
Fabiola Martinez
Rufino Tamayo in Paris : 1950-1960
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez received her PhD from the University of the Arts London, and since 2007 has been the director of the Art History program at SLU Madrid.
Eva Smrekar
Magic City, Drag Spectacle and Modern Performance (1890-1930)
Eva Smrekar is a Master's student in philosophy and art history at the Faculty of Letters in Ljubljana, Slovenia.