Dr. Rodrigo Salido Moulinié will be giving a lecture, “Phonographies of Race: The Politics of Picturing Jazz.” on Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 at 6 pm in ARC E02.
About the talk:
Please join the writer, photographer, and researcher Rodrigo Salido Moulinié for a talk that will unpack the politics of picturing the sonic color line through music by exploring the visual depictions of jazz by Black, Mexican, and white American artists during the Harlem Renaissance. Images of jazz were one of the main battlefields in the debates surrounding the depictions of racial difference in visual art and literature in 1920s New York. What happens when we try to listen to these images?
About Rodrigo Salido Moulinié:
Rodrigo Salido Moulinié is a writer, photographer, and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar and a Contex Doctoral Fellow. In 2023, he was awarded the Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship in Modern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to work on his dissertation: “Covarrubias’ Crossings: Art, Science, and the Global Politics of Ethnographic Image-Making.” The project charts a Latin American modernist’s pilgrimages between Mexico, New York, and China during the first half of the twentieth century. It follows the Mexican artist, cartoonist, and anthropologist Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) and his circle to explore the connections between art and science through written and visual products—the clash between sketches and photographs, novels and scientific reports, modernism and primitivism.
Salido Moulinié’s work explores the interconnections between the histories of science, art, and anthropology. It traces the tensions between the making of ethnography and the development of new visual methods of representing otherness—photography, painting, sketching, and writing. His first book, El pasado que me espera: bosquejo de etnografía cinemática (Mexico City: Bonilla Artigas, 2023), explores the politics and poetics of ethnographic representation. Drawing on two years of fieldwork on Santa Muerte—a Mexican folk saint usually described as the patron saint of the Drug Wars in Mexico—the book exploits the diversity of the devotion and the violence inherent in reducing it to a narco-saint.
Please RSVP by October 9th if you are interested in attending.
* This event is for Pratt community.