How Latitudes Become Forms : Art in a Global Age

by Kortun, Vasif; Kortun, Vasif; Hou, Hanru; Vergne, Philippe; Hou, Hanru; Halbreich, Kathy; Herkenhoff, Paulo

• ISBN13: 9780935640731
• ISBN10: 0935640738
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

The rise of globalism has created tremendous challenges to old economic, political, and cultural paradigms, changes that are increasingly reflected in diverse artistic practices across the planet. If disciplinary boundaries are now crossed as easily as geographic 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 digital media? Does the global information age facilitate an international language of art and an alternative reading of history, from art history toward art histories? From the perspective of a museum of modern and contemporary art--a purely European construct--the art institution has to overcome a major contradiction, one that exists between its mission of permanence and its mission of change. To invite and encourage such dialogue, How Latitudes Become Forms looks at current scholarship on globalism and changing curatorial practices, and identifies critical models provided by artists themselves, featuring tho

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 4
Acknowledgments	p. 6
Global Advisory Committee	p. 8
Globalization From the Rear: "Would you Care to Dance, Mr. Malevich?"	p. 18
The Local Tango and the Global Dance	p. 28
Initiatives, Alternatives: Notes in a Temporary and Raw State	p. 36
Translocations	p. 40
Musings on Globalism and Institutional Change	p. 66
Interactions/Intersections: Cultural Globalism and Educational Practice	p. 76
Content, Context, and Cultural Commitment: Curating the Performing Arts	p. 88
Revolt, Dysfunction, Dementia: Toward the Body of "Empire"	p. 98
"Le Cinema Est Un Language Universel"	p. 116
Learning and Dislearning to be Global: Questions at 44[degree]53[prime] N, 93[degree]13[prime] W and 22[degree]54[prime]24[second] S, 43[degree]10[prime]21[second] W	p. 124
Just how did Latitudes Become Forms?	p. 130
Artists in the Exhibition	p. 152
Translocations Online Exhibition	p. 256
Film/Video Programs	p. 258
Performing Arts Programs	p. 262
Selected Reading Materials	p. 278
Checklist of Works in the Exhibition	p. 348
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