Workshop at ZKM |
Art is in a process of globalization <--> museums as official institutions of a city or state still work on a local scale.
New project of ZKM: Observing the changes in museum policies in the era of so-called "global art".
Discussion in the ZKM Cube with Peter Weibel. 3 questions are imposed:
1. Does art deserve and enjoy a definition as something universal? Do all societies have art? What does universalism mean or has meant in the last century?
--> answers: universalim has different meaning in different places and different times.
2. What does the notion of contemporary art mean?
--> in Western art, contemp. art = period, outside the west, contemp. art = goes beyond the modern, new audiences for art are created
3. How can be understood the paradoxical reactions of re-nationalization and re-ethnicization of local art production in the face of an enforced globalization?
Art is in a process of globalization <--> museums as official institutions of a city or state still work on a local scale.
New project of ZKM: Observing the changes in museum policies in the era of so-called "global art".
Discussion in the ZKM Cube with Peter Weibel. 3 questions are imposed:
1. Does art deserve and enjoy a definition as something universal? Do all societies have art? What does universalism mean or has meant in the last century?
--> answers: universalim has different meaning in different places and different times.
2. What does the notion of contemporary art mean?
--> in Western art, contemp. art = period, outside the west, contemp. art = goes beyond the modern, new audiences for art are created
3. How can be understood the paradoxical reactions of re-nationalization and re-ethnicization of local art production in the face of an enforced globalization?
art is in a process of globalization <--> museums as official institutions of a city or state still work on a local scale
AntwortenLöschennew project of ZKM: observing the changes in Museum policies in the era of so-called "global art"
AntwortenLöschendiscussion in the ZKM cube with Peter Weibel: Three questions are imposed: 1. Does art deserve and enjoy a definition as something universal? Do all societies have art? What does universalism mean or has meant in the last century?
AntwortenLöschen--> answers: universalim has different meaning in different places and different times.
2. What does the notion of contemporary art mean?
--> in Western art, contemp. art = period, outside the west, contemp. art = goes beyond the modern, new audiences for art are created
3. How can be understood the paradoxical reactions of re-nationalization and re-ethnicization of local art production in the face of an enforced globalization?
questions of the closing discussion:
AntwortenLöschenWhat is the current meaning of contemporary art in different cultures? When did it split with modern art in terms of exhibition practice? Is so-called hegemonic modernism often considered synonymous with Western art and with modern in the broader sense? How does modernism survive in global art? Dies the global process change the concept of "modern" versus what we now call "contemporary art"? Compared to the shift of the Western art scene after 1960, did the rise of contemporary art in the parts of the world without roots in the modernist tradition change the Western situation, too?
Can we say that although contemporary art is spreading across the globe, it no longer appears as something uniform throughout the world?
and so on ... (p.245)
conclusion:
AntwortenLöschen- need for a place where information about current museum practice in different geographical areas would be available
- museums no longer hold a monopolist position, have to react to other institutions
- the distinction between art critics and anthropologists is no longer valid facing the contemporary culture/art