CONFERENCE

THE INTERPLAY OF ART AND GLOBALIZATION ­ CONSEQUENCES FOR MUSEUMS

25­27 January 2007

IFK, Vienna
Reichsratsstrasse 17, 1010 Vienna

As a medium of global participation and awareness, contemporary art claims
to be universal, but it simultaneously presupposes local roots, alternative
genealogies, and plural modernities. The postcolonial era in non-Western
sites often uses art in a twofold manner: it claims contemporary art to
exist everywhere, as a medium of global participation, and, at the same
time, stages local art history as a claim for an independent avant-garde and
a different modernity, whether such claims are a fiction or not. The
interplay of art and globalization thus may bring to the fore, at one and
the same time, an aggressive localism that makes use of culture as weapon of
otherness and defense, and a transnational art, indifferent to claims of
geography, history, and identity.

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Thursday, 25 January 2007, Venue: IFK

14.00 Hans Belting
Introduction

Chair: Peter Weibel

GLOBAL ART WORLD

14.30 Thomas Fillitz
Contemporary art, coevalness, and the global art world

15.30 Joaquín Barriendos Rodríguez
Global art and museographic imaginaries:
the era of the expanded internationalism

16.30 Coffee break

17.00 Morgan Perkins
Making contemporary art international:
indigenous interpretations of the avant-garde

18.30

Hans Belting
Contemporary art and the museum in the global age

Friday, 26 January 2007, Venue: IFK

Chair: Ladislav Kesner

CONSEQUENCES FOR MUSEUMS I

9.30 Masaaki Morishita
Museums ­ contact zones and a part of the artistic field: struggles
between the curator and the local artist in public art museums in
Japan

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Savas Arslan
Making museums: The rise of private museums in Turkey
12.00 Elena Trubina
Repossessing places and redefining audiences:
the Lenin Museum as the Biennale¹s venue

13.00 Lunch break

Chair: John Onians

CONSEQUENCES FOR MUSEUMS II

15.00 T. J. Demos
The Tate effect

16.00 Edin Hajdarpasic
Museums and contemporary art in Sarajevo after the war

17.00 Coffee break

17.30 Sabine Grosser
Keeping up with the time ­ the role of museums in the
distribution of contemporary art looking at an Asian country

Saturday, 27 January 2007, Venue: IFK

Chair: Beat Wyss

CONTEMPORARY ART IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

9.30 Louisa Avgita
Contemporary art globalised:
local culture and the institutions of globalisation

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Ksenija Berk
Unleashed dangers of contemporary curatorial practices

12.00 Malcolm John Ferris
Toward a critical presentation of non-Western contemporary art

Convener:
Hans Belting (IFK, Vienna)

Participants:
Savas Arslan (Bahçesehir University, Istanbul)
Louisa Avgita (City University of London)
Joaquín Barriendos Rodríguez (University of Barcelona)
Ksenija Berk (University of Nova Gorica)
T. J. Demos (University College London/University of London)
Malcolm John Ferris (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield)
Thomas Fillitz (University of Vienna)
Sabine Grosser (University of Paderborn)
Edin Hajdarpa?i? (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Ladislav Kesner (Masaryk University and Cultropa, Prague)
Masaaki Morishita (University of London)
John Onians (University of East Anglia, Norwich)
Morgan Perkins (State University of New York ­ Potsdam, NY)
Elena Trubina (Ural State University, Ekaterinburg)
Peter Weibel (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe)
Beat Wyss (State Academy for Design, Karlsruhe)

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