Table Of ContentFrontmatter 1 Acknowledgements 5 Contents 6 Introduction 9 Situating Global Art. An Introduction 11 Spectres of 1989: On some Misconceptions of the 'Globality' in and of Contemporary Art 35 The Scrim, The Pistol, and the Lectern: Dis-Situating the Global Contemporary 53 The Aesthetics of Irony as a Form of Resistance: Zhang Peili in "Harmonious Society, " 63 "A Collage of Globalization" in Documenta11's Exhibition Catalogue 75 Lacing Places: Situationist Practices and Socio-Political Strategies in Korean Urban Art Projects 91 Gulf Labor: The Boycott as Political Activism and Institutional Critique 111 You Can't Always Curate Your Way Out! Reflections on the Ghetto Biennale 129 Generation 00: The Artist as Citizen 155 How Far How Near: A Global Assemblage in the Modern Art Museum 167 Of Maps, Nodes and Trajectories: Changing Topologies in Transcultural Curating 191 Curating as Transcultural Practice. documenta 12 and the "Migration of Form" 213 Exhibiting Contemporary Moroccan Art: Situated Curatorial Narratives and Institutional Frames of Globalization 231 The Art of Globalization / The Globalization of Art: Creating Trans-national, Interethnic, Cross- Gender and Interspecies Identities in the 3D Work of Miao Xiaochun 255 Transculturally Entangled - Qiu Zhijie's Concept of Total Art 275 Globalization as an Artistic Strategy: The Case of Takashi Murakami 289 The Blind Spot of Global Art? Hans Ulrich Obrist's Ways of Curating 301 Biographies 327
SynopsisSince the early 1990s, the term "global art" has gone hand in hand with an expansion of the canon, while not always reflecting the plurality of art worlds. This volume interrogates the relationship between the increasing globalization of artistic discourse and the situatedness of its practices. Focusing on multiple recent practices of art, curating, historiography, and criticism, the contributions ask how contemporary forms of critique not only take into account new hegemonies and exclusions but also address transcultural entanglements in the arts. Thus, they challenge universalizing conceptions of art in the age of globalization., In recent years, the term global art has become a catchphrase in contemporary art discourses. Going beyond additive notions of canon expansion, this volume encourages a differentiated inquiry into the complex aesthetic, cultural, historical, political, epistemological and socio-economic implications of both the term global art itself and the practices it subsumes. Focusing on diverse examples of art, curating, historiography and criticism, the contributions not only take into account (new) hegemonies and exclusions but also the shifting conditions of transcultural art production, circulation and reception.