Crafting the Baroque in Goa: Meaningful Materials and Artisanal Knowledge
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Frederick Noronha
Sep 26, 2023, 1:58:37 AM9/26/23
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Crafting the Baroque in Goa: Meaningful Materials and Artisanal Knowledge
Dr. Kelli Wood, Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor, Univ. of Tennessee
“Crafting the Baroque in Goa” will be a talk which focuses on the myriad objects and buildings utilizing shells (game boards, furniture, carpentry, paintings, pearl jewelry, Goa stones, nautilus cups, shell-pane windows, architectural elements, lime-mortar, etc.) that were produced in and transported through Goa and the global the circulation of shellcraft in the early modern period. During the 16 th and 17 th centuries, Indian artisans in Goa collided and connected with a host of new European, East Asian, African, and New World inhabitants in their lands, including Catholic missionaries, colonial governors within the Portuguese imperial network, European merchant traders, and politicians, laborers, slaves, and craftsmen
from across the globe. The cosmopolis of global Goa resulted in a “modo Goano,” a corpus of uniquely Goan artworks and buildings created through dynamics of negotiation, circulation, reception, appropriation, subjugation, and resistance on the part of local residents who often emigrated from surrounding regions.
This talk seeks to unpack artistic production in early modern Goa, which has often described as “Indo-Portuguese,” as a cultural heritage seated within a complex nexus of Konkan terrain and connected through sea routes and ocean waters. By considering the full context and range of shell craft in Goa, this project seeks to thus reorient our understanding of the subset of already canonically adopted luxury shell objects that were exported to
Europe. A developing system of universal scientific knowledge and European collecting practices worked in tandem to efface and ignore the ways in which many “natural” specimens were transformed by foreign labor. The medium of shell craft in the port city of Goa offers an opportunity to further interrogate why many Iberian and Italian courts and collectors overestimated some objects’ naturalia when other Europeans clearly understood and highly valued the labor and skill of the intersecting artisanal communities responsible for their facture. In addressing the ecologies, agents, and terrains central to these shell crafts, this study aims to explore the meaning made by this material, and, to reassert the primacy of artisanal epistemology underlying the global market’s demand for artworks exported from Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Dr. Kelli Wood, Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor, Univ. of Tennessee
“Crafting the Baroque in Goa” will be a talk which focuses on the myriad objects and buildings utilizing shells (game boards, furniture, carpentry, paintings, pearl jewelry, Goa stones, nautilus cups, shell-pane windows, architectural elements, lime-mortar, etc.) that were produced in and transported through Goa and the global the circulation of shellcraft in the early modern period. During the 16 th and 17 th centuries, Indian artisans in Goa collided and connected with a host of new European, East Asian, African, and New World inhabitants in their lands, including Catholic missionaries, colonial governors within the Portuguese imperial network, European merchant traders, and politicians, laborers, slaves, and craftsmen
from across the globe. The cosmopolis of global Goa resulted in a “modo Goano,” a corpus of uniquely Goan artworks and buildings created through dynamics of negotiation, circulation, reception, appropriation, subjugation, and resistance on the part of local residents who often emigrated from surrounding regions.
This talk seeks to unpack artistic production in early modern Goa, which has often described as “Indo-Portuguese,” as a cultural heritage seated within a complex nexus of Konkan terrain and connected through sea routes and ocean waters. By considering the full context and range of shell craft in Goa, this project seeks to thus reorient our understanding of the subset of already canonically adopted luxury shell objects that were exported to
Europe. A developing system of universal scientific knowledge and European collecting practices worked in tandem to efface and ignore the ways in which many “natural” specimens were transformed by foreign labor. The medium of shell craft in the port city of Goa offers an opportunity to further interrogate why many Iberian and Italian courts and collectors overestimated some objects’ naturalia when other Europeans clearly understood and highly valued the labor and skill of the intersecting artisanal communities responsible for their facture. In addressing the ecologies, agents, and terrains central to these shell crafts, this study aims to explore the meaning made by this material, and, to reassert the primacy of artisanal epistemology underlying the global market’s demand for artworks exported from Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Biography
Kelli Wood, the Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee, is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and curator. Dr. Wood’s research on the visual and material culture of games and sports has been published in journals such as Art History, Renaissance Studies, ArLis, and in edited volumes and art magazines. Her first book based on her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy, is under contract with Amsterdam University Press. That work was generously supported by the Fulbright Italy, a Kress fellowship at the National Gallery of Art, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wood curated a permanent wing of the Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, A Global History of Sport, which opened in 2022 in anticipation of the FIFA World Cup. Recently Dr. Wood has undertaken research on the circulation of materials and makers in sixteenth century Goa as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India. She serves as the College Art Association’s Field Editor for Early Modern Art and as an Editor of The New Art Examiner.
Kelli Wood, the Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee, is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and curator. Dr. Wood’s research on the visual and material culture of games and sports has been published in journals such as Art History, Renaissance Studies, ArLis, and in edited volumes and art magazines. Her first book based on her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy, is under contract with Amsterdam University Press. That work was generously supported by the Fulbright Italy, a Kress fellowship at the National Gallery of Art, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wood curated a permanent wing of the Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, A Global History of Sport, which opened in 2022 in anticipation of the FIFA World Cup. Recently Dr. Wood has undertaken research on the circulation of materials and makers in sixteenth century Goa as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India. She serves as the College Art Association’s Field Editor for Early Modern Art and as an Editor of The New Art Examiner.
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Sep 26, 2023, 3:52:54 AM9/26/23
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What an interesting talk + topic! Wish there had been some advance notice (or maybe I missed that). Will there be any recording?
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Frederick Noronha
Sep 26, 2023, 6:28:49 AM9/26/23
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Hold on pls, not been able to get Dr Kelli Wood's talk as yet. FN
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You're a star Fred, many thanks!
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Helga Do Rosario Gomes
Sep 26, 2023, 10:39:47 AM9/26/23
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Yes it would have been a great talk for you Vivek as well as for us. Fredrick, we look forward to the recording. And if Prof. Wood is still in goa you can tell her that Victor Hugo Gomes has a huge collection of shells and other similar objects in his hotel in Betul. She might like to check them out.
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Helga
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Crafting the Baroque in Goa: Meaningful Materials and Artisanal Knowledge
Dr. Kelli Wood, Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor, Univ. of Tennessee
“Crafting the Baroque in Goa” will be a talk which focuses on the myriad objects and buildings utilizing shells (game boards, furniture, carpentry, paintings, pearl jewelry, Goa stones, nautilus cups, shell-pane windows, architectural elements, lime-mortar, etc.) that were produced in and transported through Goa and the global the circulation of shellcraft in the early modern period. During the 16 th and 17 th centuries, Indian artisans in Goa collided and connected with a host of new European, East Asian, African, and New World inhabitants in their lands, including Catholic missionaries, colonial governors within the Portuguese imperial network, European merchant traders, and politicians, laborers, slaves, and craftsmen
from across the globe. The cosmopolis of global Goa resulted in a “modo Goano,” a corpus of uniquely Goan artworks and buildings created through dynamics of negotiation, circulation, reception, appropriation, subjugation, and resistance on the part of local residents who often emigrated from surrounding regions.
This talk seeks to unpack artistic production in early modern Goa, which has often described as “Indo-Portuguese,” as a cultural heritage seated within a complex nexus of Konkan terrain and connected through sea routes and ocean waters. By considering the full context and range of shell craft in Goa, this project seeks to thus reorient our understanding of the subset of already canonically adopted luxury shell objects that were exported to
Europe. A developing system of universal scientific knowledge and European collecting practices worked in tandem to efface and ignore the ways in which many “natural” specimens were transformed by foreign labor. The medium of shell craft in the port city of Goa offers an opportunity to further interrogate why many Iberian and Italian courts and collectors overestimated some objects’ naturalia when other Europeans clearly understood and highly valued the labor and skill of the intersecting artisanal communities responsible for their facture. In addressing the ecologies, agents, and terrains central to these shell crafts, this study aims to explore the meaning made by this material, and, to reassert the primacy of artisanal epistemology underlying the global market’s demand for artworks exported from Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Biography
Kelli Wood, the Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee, is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and curator. Dr. Wood’s research on the visual and material culture of games and sports has been published in journals such as Art History, Renaissance Studies, ArLis, and in edited volumes and art magazines. Her first book based on her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy, is under contract with Amsterdam University Press. That work was generously supported by the Fulbright Italy, a Kress fellowship at the National Gallery of Art, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wood curated a permanent wing of the Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, A Global History of Sport, which opened in 2022 in anticipation of the FIFA World Cup. Recently Dr. Wood has undertaken research on the circulation of materials and makers in sixteenth century Goa as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India. She serves as the College Art Association’s Field Editor for Early Modern Art and as an Editor of The New Art Examiner.
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