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The Global Art System
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts recommends the two day workshop with Lucrezia Cippitelli: The Global art system, contemporary internationalism and ways to challenge the mainstream
on 29th and 30th of April, 2011 at Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF).
Samir Amin's analysis of the concept of Eurocentrism traces its origins back to the end of the 1970s, even if it seems to perfectly depict the world of the early 21st century: "Eurocentrism is anti-universalist, since it is not interested in seeking possible general laws of human evolution. But it does present itself as Universalist, for it claims that imitation of the Western model by all peoples is the only solution to the challenges of our time." Art history and the global art system are no exception to this ideological construction of a monolithic center of the world opposed to (or imitated by) a wide and undefined periphery. The workshop will focus on the Contemporary Art System, the legacy of Eurocentrism and the notion of internationalism in recent decades.
Lucrezia Cippitelli, PhD, is professor of Aesthetics at the Art Academy of L'Aquila, a visiting scholar at Cornell University, and invited curator of the TIME_FRAME project at NIMK, Amsterdam and is currently working as consultant curator for Habana Biennale. She is the author of Alamar Express Lab (Rome, Gangemi, 2007) and co-editor of Tania Bruguera (Milan, Postmedia, 2010).
ACAF's Artistic Director and Co-Founder Bassam El Baroni will speak at our Sympoisum "Global Art" (29, 30 July 2011)
more info
http://www.acafspace.org/
http://turbulence.org/blog/2011/04/12/lucrezia-cippitelli-the-global-art-system-alexandria/
on 29th and 30th of April, 2011 at Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF).
Samir Amin's analysis of the concept of Eurocentrism traces its origins back to the end of the 1970s, even if it seems to perfectly depict the world of the early 21st century: "Eurocentrism is anti-universalist, since it is not interested in seeking possible general laws of human evolution. But it does present itself as Universalist, for it claims that imitation of the Western model by all peoples is the only solution to the challenges of our time." Art history and the global art system are no exception to this ideological construction of a monolithic center of the world opposed to (or imitated by) a wide and undefined periphery. The workshop will focus on the Contemporary Art System, the legacy of Eurocentrism and the notion of internationalism in recent decades.
Lucrezia Cippitelli, PhD, is professor of Aesthetics at the Art Academy of L'Aquila, a visiting scholar at Cornell University, and invited curator of the TIME_FRAME project at NIMK, Amsterdam and is currently working as consultant curator for Habana Biennale. She is the author of Alamar Express Lab (Rome, Gangemi, 2007) and co-editor of Tania Bruguera (Milan, Postmedia, 2010).
ACAF's Artistic Director and Co-Founder Bassam El Baroni will speak at our Sympoisum "Global Art" (29, 30 July 2011)
more info
http://www.acafspace.org/
http://turbulence.org/blog/2011/04/12/lucrezia-cippitelli-the-global-art-system-alexandria/
21/04/11 14:39 SummerAcademy 2011, Global Art
