Trans-global Art-ground
Curatorial seminar, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade 06-13 December 2003 Trans-global Art-ground is the title of the curatorial seminar with the goal to generate a joint project with partner institutions, represented by the participants in the seminar. The seminar will focus on defining modes of movement through a global art system. The aim of the seminar is to induce trans-global perspectives on contemporary cultural models and creative art practices. Topic: Starting from the standpoint that we can no longer perceive the art world as springing from one center which is producing the dominant paradigm of art as if being the universal one, and that all cultures in their specificities are already included and interwoven in the global system, we come to the conclusion that the issue of minor, or neglected cultures and their representation is no longer at stake. What now appears as an actual problem is how to overcome the isolated particularity of a certain local culture, and its full self-referentiality, making its products communicable on levels beyond the pure fascination with other and different. In other words, the loss of a firm universal ground does not eliminate its need: it just transforms the ground into an empty space which can be partially filled in a variety of ways. The participants will be therefore invited to trace specific trajectories through otherwise purely differential global art world, connecting different instances of the phenomena with a potential of producing universalizing effects. The structure of the seminar will comprise of: Lectures: December the 7th at 16 h Saskia Sassen, USA December the 8th at 16 h Hiroshi Yoshioka, Japan December the 11th at 16 h Marina Grzinic, Slovenia Prezentations by the participants, introducing emerging art practices into the general discussion Workshops to provide with the platform for the development of a joint project exploring the terrain of the relations of representation as the condition of the constitution of any social process, including the process of globalization. Participants: Marko Brumen, Slovenia, Aleksandra Mircic, Serbia and Montenegro, Francesco Bernardelli, Italy, Hyoungmi Kim, South Korea, Kristian Lukic, Serbia and Montenegro, Mai Abu ElDahab, Egypt, Maria Bilske, Australia, Taru Elfving, Finland. Concept: Zoran Eric i Stevan Vukovic Organization: BAZA - Belgrade Art Initiative <http://www.baza.org.yu/>www.baza.org.yu Center for New Media - kuda.org Novi Sad <http://kuda.org/>http://kuda.org Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade <http://www.msub.org.yu/>www.msub.org.yu Contact: Zoran Eric and Stevan Vukovic <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
