Conference
The Interplay of Art and Globalization - Consequences for Museums
2007-01-25 - 2007-01-27
IFK, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Reichsratsstr. 17, 1010 Wien, Austria
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As a medium of global participation and awareness, contemporary art claims to be universal, but it simultaneously presupposes local roots, alternative genealogies, and plural modernities. The postcolonial era in non-Western sites often uses art in a twofold manner: it claims contemporary art to exist everywhere, as a medium of global participation, and, at the same time, stages local art history as a claim for an independent avant-garde and a different modernity, whether such claims are a fiction or not. The interplay of art and globalization thus may bring to the fore, at one and the same time, an aggressive localism that makes use of culture as weapon of otherness and defense, and a transnational art, indifferent to claims of geography, history, and identity.
Program
Thursday, January 25, 2007, 2:00 pm – 7:30 pm
2:00 pm
Hans Belting [biography] : Introduction
Global Art World
Chair: Peter Weibel [biography]
2:30 pm
Thomas Fillitz [biography]: Contemporary art, coevalness, and the global art world
3:30 pm
Joaquín Barriendos Rodríguez [biography]: Global art and museographic imaginaries:
the era of the expanded internationalism
4:30 pm Coffee break
5:00 pm
Morgan Perkins [biography]: Making contemporary art international:
indigenous interpretations of the avant-garde
6:30 pm
Hans Belting [biography]: Contemporary art and the museum in the global age
Friday, January 26, 2007, 9:30 am – 6:30 pm
Consequences for Museums I
Chair: Ladislav Kesner [biography]
9:30 am
Masaaki Morishita: Museums – contact zones and a part of the artistic field: struggles between the curator and the local artist in public art museums in Japan
10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 am
Savas Arslan: Making museums: The rise of private museums in Turkey
12:00 am
Elena Trubina: Repossessing places and redefining audiences:
the Lenin Museum as the Biennale’s venue
Consequences for Museums II
Chair: John Onians
3:00 pm
T. J. Demos: The Tate effect
4:00 pm
Edin Hajdarpasic: Museums and contemporary art in Sarajevo after the war
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Coffee break
5:30 pm
Sabine Grosser: Keeping up with the time – the role of museums in the
distribution of contemporary art looking at an Asian country
Saturday, January 27, 2007, 9:30 am – 13:30 pm
Contemporary Art in a Global Perspective
Chair: Beat Wyss
9:30 am
Louisa Avgita: Contemporary art globalised: local culture and the institutions of globalisation
10:30 am – 11:30 am Coffee break
11:30 am
Ksenija Berk: Unleashed dangers of contemporary curatorial practices
12:30
Malcolm John Ferris: Toward a critical presentation of non-Western contemporary art
