Trans-global Art-ground

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From: "Zoran Eric" <ericz at eunet.yu>

Trans-global Art-ground



Curatorial seminar, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade 06-13 December 2003



Trans-global Art-ground is the title of the curatorial seminar with the goal 
to generate a joint project with partner institutions, represented by the 
participants in the seminar. The seminar will focus on defining modes of 
movement through a global art system. The aim of the seminar is to induce 
trans-global perspectives on contemporary cultural models and creative art 
practices.



Topic: Starting from the standpoint that we can no longer perceive the art 
world as springing from one center which is producing the dominant paradigm 
of art as if being the universal one, and that all cultures in their 
specificities are already included and interwoven in the global system, we 
come to the conclusion that the issue of minor, or neglected cultures and 
their representation is no longer at stake. What now appears as an actual 
problem is how to overcome the isolated particularity of a certain local 
culture, and its full self-referentiality, making its products communicable 
on levels beyond the pure fascination with other and different. In other 
words, the loss of a firm universal ground does not eliminate its need: it 
just transforms the ground into an empty space which can be partially filled 
in a variety of ways. The participants will be therefore invited to trace 
specific trajectories through otherwise purely differential global art world, 
connecting different instances of the phenomena with a potential of producing 
universalizing effects.



The structure of the seminar will comprise of:



Lectures:

December the 7th at 16 h Saskia Sassen, USA

December the 8th at 16 h Hiroshi Yoshioka, Japan

December the 11th at 16 h Marina Grzinic, Slovenia



Prezentations

by the participants, introducing emerging art practices into the general 
discussion



Workshops

to provide with the platform for the development of a joint project exploring 
the terrain of the relations of representation as the condition of the 
constitution of any social process, including the process of globalization.



Participants: Marko Brumen, Slovenia, Aleksandra Mircic, Serbia and 
Montenegro, Francesco Bernardelli, Italy, Hyoungmi Kim, South Korea, Kristian 
Lukic, Serbia and Montenegro, Mai Abu ElDahab, Egypt, Maria Bilske, 
Australia, Taru Elfving, Finland.



Concept: Zoran Eric i Stevan Vukovic



Organization:

BAZA - Belgrade Art Initiative <http://www.baza.org.yu/>www.baza.org.yu

Center for New Media - kuda.org Novi Sad <http://kuda.org/>http://kuda.org

Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade <http://www.msub.org.yu/>www.msub.org.yu



Contact: Zoran Eric and Stevan Vukovic <mailto:office at baza.org.yu>
office at baza.org.yu