Expanding Internationalism - A Conference on ... - Mary Jane Jacob

NEW FORUMS
How can we address the need for an
expanded international forum
Moderator:
Panelists:
Milena Kalinovska, USA
Emmanuel Arinze, Nigeria
Anthony Bond, Australia
Kellie Jones, USA
Ulli Lindmayr, Austria
Beral Madra, Turkey
Thomas M2sser, USA
Roald Nasgaard, Canada
David Ross, USA
Anda Rottenberg, Poland
This panel of curators and critics aimed to answer what kind of new
forums, in the context of expanding internationalism, would be effective
and benefit a broad variety of artists from a number of different
backgrounds and countries. We understood that we were brought together
precisely because our breadth of experiences, according to which part of
the world we have worked in and that what we have been individually
concerned with would differ. Yet, the corrplex interests of our small
group perhaps reflects to some extent the complexity of issues that are
associated with the current understanding of what contemporacy
international exhibitions--sometimes labeled global--entail. We indeed
talked predominantly about exhibitions since they are where contemporacy
art is made public and validated.
It has also been clear to us that the
question of the "Other" and its role in international shows, vecy much
debated recently and particularly addressed in Western Europe since the
second part of the '80s, had motivated the U.S. organizers of this
conference.
The notion of the "Other" thus presided over our discussion
as it progressed.
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