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

well as in Latin .America--and we don't know exactly which is the play that is
going to be performed in which we shall certainly participate. Then a curious
and problematic similitude occurs in Latin American countries: artists wish to
declare explicitly their identity from the cultural point of view, or want to
reject themselves as Latin-Americans and just be considered hommes du monde
(citoyens du monde) .
The complexity of this situation is our contemporaneity
which we live intensely, because of its unique situation in this delicate
moment -- the vertiginous instant in which we are involved.
Dissemination of information about international shows; how to increase press
coverage for exhibitions in non-western countries.
Dissemination of information about international exhibitions is
nowadays, at least in Brazil, a very serious problem.
newspapers and magazines have changed their pJ:lilo~qplJ.y.
Editorships of
Art criticism in
Brazil has been substituted by reporters' art coverage, generally quick and
superficial by uninformed journalists. There is no concern in trying to get
involved in the complexity of the organization of a show until it is received
by the audience.
Sometimes a newspaper gives an exhibition only "one day"
attention, as if an exhibition was a television program on the air for a
single evening from 9 to 10. Also, because of the "audience aura," very often
these "reportages" are written before the formal opening of the show.
That
makes it difficult for the writer to have a complete view of the physicality
of the show, which is fundamental, from our point of view, in order to write
about it.
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