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

Immediate results from this meeting were seen even before its
closing: new associations and networks were built as newly introduced
colleagues spoke about future plans and projects. In the responses
received after the event many spoke regrettably that the time was too
short to get to know each other and to talk. The program for this
conference, with its far reaching and general topics, was too broad to
cover all subjects thoroughly, but it revealed a future agenda.
And this
conference conceived as a starting point will hopefully be but one
conversation in a continuing dialogue.
Perhaps moving on in other
directions, subsequent meetings may bring more artists into the
conversation; continue the successful roundtable format while focusing on
more specific topics or those germane to the conference site; may become a
forum for visual, as well as verbal, exchange of information; make
recommendations for action. For now, this conference, however, has served
to move us along in our collective and individual rethinking of
internationalism, cultural context, and conterrporary art.
Mary Jane Jacob
Independent Curator
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