Conference
Symposium on Art Critics in a Global World - Art Geographies and Identity Politics
2007-11-09 - 2007-11-11
Auditori del Macba Plaça dels Àngels 1, Barcelona.
→ go to http://www.aica-int.org/spip.php?article669
The trouble in some regions occasioned by social and economic problems in the context of globalization, has provoked a constant and forced stream of citizens from one part of the world to another, giving as a result a cultural and identity mobility which has entered an improvised postnational, posthistorical and postcolonial scene. Such mobility isn’t forced only by economical, ecological, social, work or health-related reasons, but also due to factors such as welfare, adventure, pleasure, sex or tourism. Therefore, we can talk of two kinds of mobility, the privileged one and the one forced by precariousness.
As a result, we can see new geographies of art. Never before were used concepts such as transitory existences, geobodies, genre topics in transnational spaces, geographical but also identity borders as a new phenomenon which explores the global dimension of mobility through global and local phenomena research. There have been many exhibitions and theoretical approaches to analyse this new phenomena in the art context. The present symposium places itself in the context of such reflections, as it aims to discuss the political and social answers to such questions, as well as the effects of the privileged western mobility on the creation and spread of non-Western voices in the context of art and the subsequent neo-colonialist approach.
Nevertheless, mobility in a global world has also entailed very deep changes in the meaning of traditionally unchangeable concepts from aesthetics and the humanities. So, this migratory phenomenon has its equivalent in the world of ideas ; we can talk of concepts such as travelling concepts in the humanities, as described by Mieke Bal in the book with the same title, where she stresses the relevance of transversal migration of concepts between cultures and contexts in the art field. Therefore, concepts travel often from one science to another, between subjects or historical periods and disperse communities, giving as a result an hybrid use of those concepts.
In this new scenario of the humanities and the new artistic practice, polluted by various genres, subjects, behaviours and methodologies, it arises the need to create new tools of study of cultural critics, which can deal with such practices and visual acts born in the context of global mobility and from the economy of the capitalism of knowledge.
This symposium will try to approach the new phenomenon of travelling aesthetics and the new identity frames by inviting different experts so we can have a deep look on them and establish a dialog which brings a critical and interpreting tool to meet with the new needs aroused by the new and emerging visuality.
Source: http://www.aica-int.org/spip.php?article669
Program
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, 9TH NOVEMBER 2007
– 16:00 h Opening by the President of ACCA.
Presentation of the symposium by the project curators : Menene Gras Balaguer, Anna Maria Guasch and Pilar Parcerisas
– 16:30 h- 18:00 h Fantasies and Utopias of Intellectual Migration
Iván de la Nuez,
Art critic, essayist writer and exhibition curator in Palau de la Virreina since 2000. He has published, among others, La balsa perpètua, Paisajes después del Muro, El mapa de sal and Fantasía Roja.
– 18:00 h-18:30 h. Break
– 18:30 h- 20:00 h New Geographies and Art Praxis in the Context of Mobility Politics
Olu Oguibe,
Artist, curator and consultant on contemporary art. As a curator, he has collaborated in events in the context of contemporary art institutions such as Tate Modern London, Venice Biennale, Museo de la Ciudad de México, and has written many books and essays around contemporary African and American art, such as Reading the Contemporary African Art from Theory to the Market place (1999).
– 20:00 h- 21:30 h.Debate
SATURDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2007
– 10:00 h – 11:30 h Enjeux et impasses de la migration des théories littéraires post-coloniales vers les arts plastiques
Zahia Rahmani,
From INHA. Institute National d’ Histoire de l’Art (Paris, France)
– 11:30 h-12:00 h. Break
– 12:00 h-13:30 h Connections and Disconnections between West and Non-West Art
Wonil Rhee,
Curator of Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves, ZKM 2007, co-curator of Shanghai Biennale 2006, curator of ElectroScape 2006, Artistic Director of the 4th Media City Seoul Biennale 2006.
– 16:00 h- 17:30 h Geopolitics of Identity. Genre in Transnational Spaces
Ursula Biemman,
Artist, theorist and curator, specialized in migration, mobility, technology and genre. She has published Been There and Back to Nowhere (2000), Geography and the Politics of Mobility (2003) and Stuff It – The Video Essay in the Digital Age (2003), curator of the projects Geography and the Politics of Mobility (2003), The Black Sea Files, on oil policies in the Caspian Sea, Kunstwerke Berlin (2005) and Maghreb Project on mobility in the Mediterranean, Cairo / Geneva (2006).
– 17:30 h- 18:00 h. Break
– 18:00 h-20:00 h Mobilitat, Borders, Identity. Globalization of Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Art Internationalization
Panel with Joaquín Barriendos, Roberta Bosco, Carles Guerra, Miguel Ángel Hernández, art critics and theorists.
– 20:00 h- 21:00 h. Debate
SUNDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2007
– 10:00 h– 11:30 h Cultural Borders and Artistic Migration in the Context of Postcomunism
Boris Groys,
Philosopher, essayist, art critic and media theorist, expert in art and literature of postmodern Russia. Professor of philosophy, art history and media theory in ZKM Karlsruhe. Video artist, author of, among others, Unter Verdacht. Eine Phänomenologie der Medien (2000), Topologie der Kunst (2003), Die Muse im Pelz (2004). Curator of The Dreams Factory of Comunism. Visual Culture of Stalinism (2004).
– 11:30 h- 12:00 h Break
– 12:00 h- 13:30 h Asia as an Art Geography of Plural Identities
Huang Du (waiting for confirmation),
Independent art critic and curator, co-curator of the 6th Shanghai Biennial. His major curatorial projects include : curator for Chinese Pavilion of the 26th Sao Paulo Biennale (Sao Paulo, 2004) ; Co-Curator for The 7th International Antique Biennale of Parma (Parma , 2004) ; Assistant Curator for Chinese Pavilion of the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) ; Contributing Curator for The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Seoul, 2002) ; Curator of Making China (New York, 2002).
-13:30 h – 14:00 h. Symposium conclusions
