ONLINE TrAIN Open Lecture: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela

In this timely lecture, given increasing tensions in the region, brought about by the threat of US intervention and the long-lasting crisis of an unsustainable political regime; Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela, will bring together the art historical with the social, political and economic history of the country, whereby icons of modernity emerge as ruins of a utopian future turned sour.

Introduction by Prof. Michael Asbury, Deputy Director TrAIN Research Centre.

About Sean Nesselrode Moncada:

Author of Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela (2023), which received the ALAA–Arvey Foundation Book Award; the Fernando Coronil Prize for Best Book on Venezuela; and the Visual Culture Studies Book Award, Latin American Studies Association. His writings have appeared in numerous journals and exhibition catalogues, including Architectural Theory Review, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Caiana, and Gego: Measuring Infinity. He is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.