SPQ is excited to have Dr. Tello visit SPQ this fall!  She is the Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow National Institute for Experimental Arts, at UNSW AUSTRALIA.

Veronica Tello completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2013. Her research broadly focuses on the intersections of contemporary art and politics. Her forthcoming book Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Contemporary Art and Refugee Histories (Radical Aesthetics Radical Art series, Bloomsbury) analyses how contemporary artists have adopted experimental methods for memorialising recent refugee flows spanning Cuba–America, Middle-East–Australia and Africa–Europe.

Her current research examines contemporary art at the intersection of social practice, public art and institutional critique in the work of artists such as Tania Bruguera, Ahmet Ögüt, Renzo Martens and Jonas Staal. It traces the development of experimenal social institutions led by these artists in diverse regions including the Congo, Syria, Germany and the US amidst global crises including conflict, refugee flows and the uneven distribution of capital.

Veronica’s work has been widely published in national and international journals, most recently in Third Text, Afterall and Contemporaneity. Other publications include essays in Phaidon’s Vitamin D2 and Vitamin P2 monographs, as well as catalogue essays for numerous Australian artists in the areas of performance art, video art, photography and installation