29.07.2011--30.07.2011 / SYMPOSIUM GLOBAL ART
A Symposium held by the AICA (Austrian and Swiss sections) and the Salzburg International Summeracademy for Fine Arts
Concept: Sabine B. Vogel and Hildegund Amanshauser
Location: NEW Auditorium (Hörsaal) 230, Juridical Faculty of Salzburg University, Entry Kapitelgasse 6, 5020 Salzburg
English with German titles
Globalisation is generally taken to refer to an economic process. But what does this worldwide development signify for art? Are we at the beginning of a new development, which we might call global art -- and what do we understand by this? How far do the new living conditions of globality influence contemporary art? Since art has been internationally linked for centuries, is there now some new quality that distinguishes global art? How does what we might call global art relate to the debate on post-colonialism?
Globalisation -- Globalism
"It is time to re-stage the world", writes the Indian cultural theorist Nancy Adajania. Her aim is to achieve a state able "to release the cultural self towards others in a manner that bypasses dependency and embraces collaboration, making for a productive cosmopolitanism" (Springerin 1/2010). Thus the objective is a society based on exchange and mutuality.
The basis of this "re-staging" is a critical engagement with globalisation, through a mode that Adajania terms "globalism". It is a deliberate gesture of recovering the potentialities of the lattices of globalisation from neoliberal doctrine. To the neo-liberal, globalism refers to a nation-state's policy of treating the entire world as a market and source of goods and services. To Adajania, on the other hand, globalism is a transcultural, collaborative, multi-participatory mode of performing ideas and conducting projects, with the emphasis on ethical responsibility and a transformative aesthetics. While neo-liberal globalism is a extension of old first world geo-politics, Adajania's perspective on globalism shifts the locus to the global South.
Global art -- wish or reality?
For art, globalisation means first of all the end of western hegemony and the beginning of a world trade market. With globalisation, more and more artists enter the global art market, followed by galleries and collectors from a variety of cultures and regions. The influence of globalisation is beginning to emerge clearly in the themes of the artworks.
When can we speak about global art? Does global art refer generally to art created no longer from the standpoint of western cultural superiority, but from the experience of globality and under the conditions of globalisation?
Is global art a collective term for works that trace the history of images and their worldwide dissemination -- or does it refer to those works, which manage to overcome the long outdated geo-political division of the world into western/non-western?
Is the mark of global art a worldwide intelligible visual language, or is it the use of themes concerning globalisation?
Or is global art the wish for and the promise of a multicentric perception of the world, in which local and global are expressly linked, traditions and current developments juxtaposed, and boundaries of cultural hegemony open to discussion?
These issues will be debated by theorists and artists to clarify the term and the concepts involved in global art.
Speakers
Nancy Adajania is a cultural theorist, art critic and independent curator, based in Bombay. She is co-artistic director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale, 2012.
Hans Belting, art historian, professor emeritus at the State University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe.
Bassam El Baroni is a curator and art critic from Alexandria, Egypt. He is the co-founder and director of the non-profit art space Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF).
Monica Juneja holds the Chair of Global Art History at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg.
Jitish Kallat is an artist, based in Mumbai.
Gerardo Mosquera, independent curator, critic and art historian based in Havana. He is artistic director for PHotoEspaña 2011--2013, Madrid.
Senam Okudzeto, artist, writer and activist and the founder of Art in Social Structures, an NGO for cultural education and preservation in Ghana.
Moderators
Hildegund Amanshauser, art historian, curator, author. Since 2009 director of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
www.amanshauser.net
Sabine B. Vogel, lives in Klosterneuburg, curator and art critic, since 2008 president of AICA Austria.
Simone Wille is an art historian and writer on art, based in Vienna. She regularly writes for English and German publications including the Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ), www.universesin-universe, Art Nukta.
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