'The rise of globalism has created tremendous challenges to old economic, political, and cultural paradigms, and these changes are reflected in artistic practices. Disciplinary boundaries are crossed as easily as geographical ones. How does the new internationalism that we are facing affect aesthetics and artistic production? Is there a link, for example, between the rise of video works and the global availability of the digital medium? Does the global information age facilitate an "international language of art" and an alternative reading of art history, toward art histories?
From the perspective of a museum of modern and contemporary art, the institution has to overcome a major contradiction: between its mission of permanence and its mission of change. How can cultural institutions contribute to the revamping of their own structures now that the hegemony of western modernity is being challenged? How can museums connect with new audiences through different practices, different scholarship, and different interpretative strategies growing out of the sedimentation of their history?
To invite and encourage such dialogue, How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age looks at current scholarship on globalism and changing curatorial practices, and identifies critical models provided by artists themselves. This catalogue features though-provoking essays and conversations by curators, critics, and cultural programmers from across the world as well as the multidisciplinary artworks of more than forty visual, film/video, performing, and new media artists from Brazil, China, India, Japan, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States.' - from back cover
Includes artists' profiles accompanied by images, information on parallel programmes, supplementary reading material (reprinted from other sources), and a checklist of exhibited works. Please note only Asian artists are indexed below.
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2003
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catalogue
Globalization from the Rear: 'Would You Care to Dance, Mr. Malevich?' - Philippe VERGNE
The Local Tango and the Global Dance - Vasif KORTUN, Cuauhtémoc MEDINA
Initiatives, Alternatives: Notes in a Temporary and Raw State - HOU Hanru, 侯瀚如
Translocations - Steve DIETZ, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Yukiko SHIKATA, 四方幸子, Raqs Media Collective
Musings on Globalism and Institutional Change - Kathy HALBREICH, Vishakha N. DESAI
Interactions/Intersections: Cultural Globalism and Educational Practice - Sarah SCHULTZ, Kiyoko MOTOYAMA SIMS, Susan ROTILIE, Christi ATKINSON, Meredith WALTERS
Content, Context, and Cultural Commitment: Curating the Performing Arts - Philip BITHER, Baraka SELE
Revolt, Dysfunction, Dementia: Towards the Body of 'Empire' - Hidenaga OTORI
'Le cinéma est un language universel' - Cis BIERINCKX, Philippe VERGNE
Learning and Dislearning to Be Global: Questions at 44°53' N, 93°13' W and 22°54'24' S, 43°10'21' W - Paulo HERKENHOFF
Just How Did Latitudes Become Forms? - Philippe VERGNE, Douglas FOGLE, Olukemi ILESANMI, Aimee CHANG
Artists in the Exhibition
Translocations Online Exhibition
Film/Video Programs
Performing Arts Programs
Selected Reading Materials
Modernity and Difference: A Conversation Between Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj - Stuart HALL, Sarat MAHARAJ
Moving Contexts - Ann DILS, Ann Cooper ALBRIGHT
Beyond the Nationalist Panopticon: The Experience of Cyberpublics in India - Ravi SUNDARAM
Victims, Victims Everywhere - Slavoj ZIZEK
A Sweet Lullaby for World Music - Steven FELD
Networked Agencies - Andreas BROECKMANN
Ten Theses on Globalization - Amartya SEN
Position and Program: July 1966 - Helio OITICICA
Hybrid Art?: A Look Behind the Global Scenes - Hans BELTING
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun APPADURAI
The Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Some New Writings in South Africa - Njabulo S. NDEBELE
How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age
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