'With Global Studies: Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture, the project "GAM - Global Art and the Museum" seeks to provide an overview of the institutional and ideological landscape of contemporary art and culture in a global context. In the last decades, the increasing complexity of political, economic, and social relationships worldwide has been shaping the worlds of art and culture, whose institutions often have yet to adapt to new local and global conditions.
 
Museums, biennials, and diverging art markets take on different roles in different places, while they themselves become the subject matter of a steadily diversifying range of academic disciplines. In this book, case studies on individual artists, regional scenes, and their relations to the global demonstrate the diversity and conflicts within the art worlds and provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion of these issues by historians, cultural studies scholars, and social scientists.' (Back cover)

The book is the third volume from the series 'GAM - Global Art and the Museum' from the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. The two previous volumes include Contemporary Art and the Museum: A Global Perspective (2007) and The Global art World: Audiences, Markets, and Museums (2009). The essays in the book represent the events of two conferences held in June 2009 and June 2010 organised  by the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe with funding from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

Includes illustrations, bibliography, and biographies of contributing authors.

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Onsite

Location code
REF.BEH3
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

455

ISBN / ISSN

9783775732024

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Editorial

Global Studies: Mapping Art and Culture - Hans BELTING, Andrea BUDDENSIEG, Peter WEIBEL

The Content of the Present Volume - Jacob BIRKEN

Between Local and Global Markets

Versatile Collaborations: Narratives of Alighiero Boetti's Afghan Embroideries - Nicola MÜLLERSCHÖN

Heritage in Stone: A Decade of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture, 2000-2010 - Jesmael MATAGA, Farai M. CHABATA

The Development of the Utopia Art Movement Through the Lens of Relationships Between Artists and the Art World - Chrischona SCHMIDT

The Art Market Bubble of Contemporary Indonesian Art: Part of a Global Development? - Irina VOGELSANG

Contemporaneity and Commitment

Back to Contemporary: One Contemporary Ambition, Many Worlds - Carol Yinghua LU, 盧迎華

Festivalizing Performance: Snapshots of an Alternative Circuit - Adele TAN

Whither the Postcolonial? - Anthony GARDNER

Globalization, Representation, and Post-colonial Critique: Austrian Documentary Film auteur's Take on Globalism - Julia T.S. BINTER

Contemporary art as Historical Discourse

The Aesthetics of Transcultural Desire: Borderline Interventions in Miao Xiaochun's The Last Judgment in Cyberspace and the Last Judgment in Cyberspace--Where Will I Go? - Isabel SELIGER

A Transcultural Perspective on Performativity in Chinese Moving-Image Installations - Birgit HOPFENER

Suddenly Modern: Traditional Chinese Aesthetics in Transformation at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games - DING Ning

First Person Plural: Manifestos of the 1970s in Southeast Asia - Patrick D. FLORES

Representation Between Otherness and the Global

Global Art History and the 'Burden of Representation' - Monica JUNEJA

The Display of Indian Contemporary Art in Western Museums and the Question of 'Othering' - Cathrine BUBLATZKY

Contemporary Musings - Elizabeth HARNEY

Indonesian Contemporary Art in the International Arena: Representation and Its Changes - Agung HUJATNIKAJENNONG

Photographs from the Intersections Series by David Goldblatt and the Question of Representation after Apartheid - Anne LINDEN

Planarity/Planetarity: Visual Art Practice as Cultural Technique and the Aesthetics of Xenography in Isaac Julien's Moving-image Art - Rania GAAFAR

Art Under the Conditions of Its Production

Worldmaking: The Cosmopolitanization of Dak'art, the Art Biennial of Dakar - Thomas FILLITZ

(Re)mapping Luanda: Post-War Utopias of the Angolan Contemporary Art Scene - Nadine SIEGERT

Becoming Transnational: Insights into the Transformation of the Contemporary Art Scene in Nairobi, Kenya - Noémie JÄGER

Frontera- or Talking About Some Limitations of the Translation (Process) of Contemporary Art - Daniela WOLF, LABORATORIO 060

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