'Desnortar', or disoriented, means to lose the north or the sense of direction, to disorient. In Disoriented a collective book from a gender perspective, we consciously seek to lose both the geographical north and the north of the contemporary art canon. We aim to rethink and disrupt, from feminist, LGTBQ+ and postcolonial approaches, the coordinates that have articulated the discourses on the art history and art system along the 20th and 21st centuries. Coordinates that define how these artistic practices and systems of modernity and the contemporary are understood, the cardinal directions and main conceptual issues, or which artists are relevant or expendable according to the narratives of avant-garde and contemporary art history. It is crucial to reinterpret and disorientate, to disnorth and thereby shatter these references to overcome the gaps that prevent the emergence of alternative knowledges. To address questions or artists often perceived as peripheral to a grand historical narrative, we propose an intersection of modern and contemporary art history, gender, feminist, queer and postcolonial approaches, and transnational interrelations. This intersectionality allows us to actively lose the north of the canon and to direct our gaze towards subjects outside the usual centres of legitimation. Mostly, we attend to women artists, to peripheral geographical centres, to subaltern collectives, or to practices or materials regularly considered of little artistic interest. All of the above critiques how conventional discourses have excluded some collectives or certain artistic proposals, and the resistances that have emerged against them. TABLE OF CONTENTS Opening Bodies: Towards A History of The Female Hyper-nude Maite Méndez Baiges The Indian Performing Artists? Voices, Gestures and Combats: The Case of Bangalore Nagaratnamma, Chandralekha and Mallika Sarabhai Tiziana Leucci The Most Excellent People in the World and the Most Docile. Representations of Coloniality in Publicity and News Features on Women's Fashion Elo Vega Disoriented Desire. Ethnopornography and the Homoerotic of Orientalism in the Paintings of Gabriel Morcillo Javier Cuevas del Barrio The Art of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Contemporary Afro-descendant Creation Carla Hayes Mayoral The History of a Safety Pin Necklace: Transnational Colonisation Misrepresented Inmaculada Hurtado Disorienting the Purchase: Postmodernist Objects for Sale in Flea Market, a Project by Ana Pissarra in Collaboration with Lara Portela Vanessa Badiagliacca The (Mis)representation of Women in Modernist Practices in Portugal Mariana Pinto dos Santos Some Notes on Gender and Art in Contemporary Argentinian Art Georgina G. Gluzman Narrated Architecture. La Posa, a Building by Juan Muñoz in Peru Cintia Gutiérrez Reyes Instrumentalising Southern Territories: Touristic Practices and Neo-colonial Dynamics in Costa del Sol Héctor Vázquez de la Rosa Social, Decolonial and Transnational Museology. Reflections from the Global South, and some Current Brazilian Cases Ariadna Ruiz Gómez Losing the North of Nightingales and their Songs Concepción Cortés Zulueta Some Dovecotes and Pigeon Bodies in Contemporary Art Practices Andrés Richarte Tetrachromatism: The Supervision of Concetta Antico Ana Gerena