2018 NYU Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX)
The afternoon session at the ICI Berlin addresses the lived entanglements of the global that are not adequately theorized by notions of the global and the local, which bifurcate experiences that are necessarily co-constituting. It will take up the question of how artworks, artists, cultural producers, art historians, historians, and theorists who simultaneously exist on multiple and intertwining scales, co-constitute the global in relation with one another through meaning making/world-making processes of (critical) interconnecting, social networks, transnational/transcultural historiography, the circulation of objects, and imagined communities.
We aim to address methodological challenges in the study of art history that reimagines its possible narratives by simultaneously holding account of art’s global resonances and its local, national, and regional frameworks. The papers on this panel are situated at the intersection between diaspora, postcolonial, and global (art history) studies. They seek to decolonize and deimperialize new top-down narratives of so called ‘global art’, that often identify global capitalism as the universal condition and will instead shed light on the multiperspectival polyphony that co-constitutes the global.
Programme
15:30-17:30 Panel
Birgit Hopfener, Carleton University
Devika Singh, Cambridge University
Francesca Tarocco, NYU Shanghai/Cà Foscari University, Venice
David Teh, National University of Singapore
Ming Tiampo, Carleton University
17:30-18:00 Discussion/Q&A
moderated by John Tain
18:00-18:15 Coffee Break
18:15-18:45 Book Launch
for Sarah Dornhof, Nanne Buurman, Birgit Hopfener, Barbara Lutz (eds.) Situating Global Art: Topologies, Temporalities, Trajectories (Bielefeld 2018).
18:45-19:00 Break
19:00 Keynote
Lydia H. Liu (Columbia University)
In English
With
Birgit Hopfener
Devika Singh
Francesca Tarocco
David Teh
Ming Tiampo
et al
Keynote by Lydia H. Liu
Organized by
Birgit Hopfener and Ming Tiampo, in collaboration with Annette Bhagwati and Alexandra Chang as part of GAX 2018
Presented in collaboration with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW Berlin), ICI Berlin, the Centre for Transcultural Analysis at Carleton University (CTCA), and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU as part of GAX 2018
With the support from the NYU Global Research Initiatives, Office of the Provost
The panel is the public part of a two-day symposium at HKW and ICI Berlin. This symposium, in turn, is part of GAX 2018 in London and Berlin, 13–23 June 2018.
The event, like all events at the ICI Berlin, is open to the public, free of charge. The audience is presumed to consent to a possible recording on the part of the ICI Berlin. If you would like to attend the event yet might require assistance, please contact Event Management.
