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Lecturer, Director of MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies
Modern and Contemporary Art, Europe and the Americas
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2007
Kaira M. Cabañas received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2007 and is currently preparing her first book: Performative Realisms: The Politics of Art and Culture in France 1945–1962. The work examines the group of artists commonly known under the banner of Nouveau Réalisme, including Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Daniel Spoerri, and Jean Tinguely, among others, and describes how their reformulations of avant-garde strategies (i.e., monochrome, collage, readymade) were developed in relation to the conventions of language and institutions. Cabañas has also engaged extensively with contemporary art in international contexts, including as a contributor to Gego 1957–1988: Thinking the Line (2006); as an outside reader for Parachute’s issue on Havana (2007); and as author in the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona’s presentation of its collection (2009). Argentine artist Julio Le Parc and the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (Paris) are among her current projects. In addition, she is at work on a book-length study of Lettrism, which will provide a historical and theoretical account of the core Lettrist films produced in the years 1950–1952.
Cabañas’s writings have appeared in Grey Room, Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, Parachute, and Art Journal, as well as in various international catalogues such as Yves Klein: Corps, couleur, immatériel (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2006), Le Nouveau Réalisme (Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 2007), and the forthcoming Yves Klein (Walker Art Center, 2010). She also serves on the advisory board of the Paris-based journal Multitudes.
908 Schermerhorn
Telephone: (212) 854-5676
E-mail: kc2421@columbia.edu
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Seven Circles / Seven Sounds: Lothar Baumgarten (ed. and preface). Bregenz: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2009. Essays by Thomas Bartscherer, Craig Buckley, John Curley, Christian Rattemeyer (interview), and Amy Rosenblum-Martín.
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Jacques Villeglé. Text, Kaira Cabañas; interview with the artist, Nicolas Bourriaud; essay, François Bon. Paris: Flammarion, 2006.
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