Cultures of Silence

Luísa Santos holds a PhD in Culture Studies from the Humboldt & Viadrina School of Governance, in Berlin, Germany and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, in London, UK. She is Assistant Researcher and Assistant Professor in Culture Studies/Artistic Studies at the CECC (Research Centre for Communication and Culture), Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal, having been granted a Gulbenkian Professorship between 2016 and 2019. Having authored various publications in the domains of art and society, Luísa Santos sits on the editorial and scientific boards of the peer-reviewed magazines Estúdio, Gama, and Croma, and of the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS – Research Group Moving Image Kiel), Büchner-Verlag. Since 2018, she has been the co-artistic director of the nanogaleria, an independent curatorial project which she co-founded with Ana Fabíola Maurício.

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface: Telling a Story of Silence(s) in Three Parts; Part I: (Embodied) Silence and Memory; 1. Un-Silencing Bodies, Un-Silencing Lives: Artistic (Self-)Decoloniality and Artistic (Self-)Empowerment; 2. The Sound of Silence in the Age of Man; 3. Ecocritical Perspectives on Nuclear Silence: Listening Across Multiple Scales; Part II: (Imposed) Silence and Identity; 4. Burning Silence in the Country House: On Colonial Torchères at Betlér Manor; 5. Queer Silences: Art, Sexuality and Acoustic Neuroma (The Art of Samak Kosem); 6. Silence as a Weapon of Power Within the Context of the Portuguese Dictatorship; 7. [Inaudible]: The Politics of Silence in the Work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Gabrielle Goliath; Part III: (Acts Of) Silence and Resistance; 8. Undoing Language: Gender Dissent and The Disquiet of Silence; 9. Rest as Resistance: From Self-Care to Decolonial Narratives; 10. Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19 Pandemic: Addressing a Pervasive Public Health Issue Through an Upstream Multi-Systems Approach; Conclusion; 11. On the Subject of Silence; Index