Situating Global Art: Topologies - Temporalities - Trajectories

by Sarah Dornhof (Editor), Nanne Buurman (Editor), Birgit Hopfener (Editor), Barbara Lutz (Editor)

Overview

In recent years, the term global art has become a catchphrase in contemporary art discourses. Going beyond additive notions of canon expansion, this volume encourages a differentiated inquiry into the complex aesthetic, cultural, historical, political, epistemological and socio-economic implications of both the term global art itself and the practices it subsumes. Focusing on diverse examples of art, curating, historiography and criticism, the contributions not only take into account (new) hegemonies and exclusions but also the shifting conditions of transcultural art production, circulation and reception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837633979
Publication date:	12/06/2016
Series:	Image
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Dornhof (Dr.) is a postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.
Nanne Buurman (M.A.) is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Freie Universität Berlin.
Birgit Hopfener (Dr. phil.) is Associate Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, CA.
Barbara Lutz (Dr. phil.) is a cultural scientist and works as an art mediator for documenta fifteen in 2022. She was a member of the doctoral study program "Produktionsräume Ästhetischer Praxis" at the University of Hildesheim Foundation and gained her PhD at the Institute of Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. With a critical regard to social and cultural discrimination her work focuses on concepts and methods of transculturality in the field of exhibition practice and art mediation in a global context.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Acknowledgements 5
Contents 6
Introduction 9
Situating Global Art. An Introduction 11
Spectres of 1989: On some Misconceptions of the 'Globality' in and of Contemporary Art 35
The Scrim, The Pistol, and the Lectern: Dis-Situating the Global Contemporary 53
The Aesthetics of Irony as a Form of Resistance: Zhang Peili in "Harmonious Society, " 63
"A Collage of Globalization" in Documenta11's Exhibition Catalogue 75
Lacing Places: Situationist Practices and Socio-Political Strategies in Korean Urban Art Projects 91
Gulf Labor: The Boycott as Political Activism and Institutional Critique 111
You Can't Always Curate Your Way Out! Reflections on the Ghetto Biennale 129
Generation 00: The Artist as Citizen 155
How Far How Near: A Global Assemblage in the Modern Art Museum 167
Of Maps, Nodes and Trajectories: Changing Topologies in Transcultural Curating 191
Curating as Transcultural Practice. documenta 12 and the "Migration of Form" 213
Exhibiting Contemporary Moroccan Art: Situated Curatorial Narratives and Institutional Frames of Globalization 231
The Art of Globalization / The Globalization of Art: Creating Trans-national, Interethnic, Cross- Gender and Interspecies Identities in the 3D Work of Miao Xiaochun 255
Transculturally Entangled - Qiu Zhijie's Concept of Total Art 275
Globalization as an Artistic Strategy: The Case of Takashi Murakami 289
The Blind Spot of Global Art? Hans Ulrich Obrist's Ways of Curating 301
Biographies 327