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

symposia, artists' workshops, and meetings of all kinds, simultaneously with
the exhibitions, to encourage dialogue and understanding.
The above refers to contemporary art produced for exhibition.
Traditional art, whose meanings and purposes differ, poses specific problems,
not yet solved.
But it is precisely contemporary art from the "South" that
needs to be "internationalized, " erasing the vision of the Third World as
traditional or whose contemporary art is disqualified because it resembles the
art of the (international) centers (meaning it is not picturesque or
"primitive" enough), while disregarding its specific contributions as
contemporary art.
The real "internationalization" of the artistic scene cannot be
postponed, but the efforts towards this goal should not distract Third World
artists from their aim to satisfy the needs of their own situation. I believe
that today' s culture should be more and more local -- serving as a solution to
local problems ....... and at the same time more intemCitioDeil, that is, with a
knowledge of the whole and an aim for communication among all.
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