[Bio c. 2010] Born in Rome, Fiamma Montezemolo is both a Cultural Anthropologist (Ph.D, University of Naples) and an artist (MFA, SFAI). As a an established scholar in border and urban studies, she has patiently designed rigorous and long-term ethnographic-artistic interventions at the Tijuana-San Diego border where she has also resided and taught for many years. As an artist she situates her work as a critical extension and overcoming of the ethnographic turn in contemporary art during the 1990s. She works with various media, including, installation, cartography, video, digital photography, industrial materials, performance, video and archival documents. She contributed a conceptual map of Tijuana for the 2005 edition of the bi-national, public art event InSite05, co-authored the internationally acclaimed book ‘Here is Tijuana’ (Black Dog Publishing, London, 2006). She has numerous national and international publications with Third Text (Routledge), Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies (UCLA), Revista de Antropología Social (Madrid University), Alteridades (Revista de la UAM, Mexico), Letras Libres, La Ventana (Unversidad de Guadalajara, Mexico), Avatar: Journal of Anthropology and Communication (Meltemi,Italy). She realized a video on the Zapatista Movement called “Faceless: Zapatista video diaries”. She held several academic appointments: Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (2008- 2009), Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Cultural Studies at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico, (2003-2008), Visiting Scholar in the department of Anthropology at Stanford University (2002). She is currently co-editing with Josh Kun the book “Re-Assembling Tijuana” for Duke Press University (2011).
Among her most recent group exhibitions, performances and screenings are “Borders” at Root Division Art Gallery, San Francisco; “Sensing Territories” at the Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco); “Performing Malinowski” at the Teatro Vascello (Rome); “Installing the Ethnographer-as-Artist” at the European Institute of Design (Rome); projections of “Faceless: Zapatista video diaries” at the Escola de Comunicacoes e Artes (Universidade de Sao Paulo); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Reading Performance Workshop as part of Renee Green’s solo exhibition Endless Dreams & Time-based Streams).
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| Role | Project |
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| Artist | Ethnographic Terminalia: New Orleans |