Terri Geis: Ted Joans Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism, Africa, and Central Europe

Terri Geis (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Ted Joans Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism, Africa, and Central Europe
talk presented by Manthia Diawara (due to unexpected health problems)
moderator: Jana Ndiaye Berankova
October 20, 2023
6-7:30 p.m.
UMPRUM Technology Center
Auditorium
Mikulandská 134/5
Prague 1
Lecture organized in the framework of UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio 2023/24 “East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa.”
The project is funded by EU.
Terri Geis is an art historian, independent curator, and museum educator. She is a specialist on women artists affiliated with Surrealism and the intersections between Surrealism and the Americas. Past projects include In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with Ilene Susan Fort and Tere Arcq) and “‘My Goddesses and My Monsters’: Maria Martins and Surrealism in the 1940s,” in Debates on Surrealism in Latin America: Vivisimo Muerto (Getty Research Institute). Geis’s work has also investigated Surrealism’s connections with Afro-Caribbean art and culture, with essays including “Great Impulses and New Paths: VVV, Surrealism, and the Black Atlantic” (Revue Miranda, Université Toulouse, 2017). Other publications include an essay for the retrospective exhibition Leonora Carrington: Magical Tales (Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2018), and multiple essays for The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). With Manthia Diawara, Geis has been awarded the 2021 senior fellowship through the Dedalus Foundation for a book project on the surrealist Ted Joans.