Global versus Local By contrast to the artworld of 1991, the artworld of 2013 is no longer simply international, but global. There is a difference between the two: where once there were national art cultures, something different has begun to emerge – a single ‘artworld’ that is no longer dominated by a few powerful national scenes. These are artists who not only comment on the breakdown of identity in the flux of migration and global informational circulation, but who themselves embody these realities, personally and professionally. Hybridity, flux, fragmentation – such themes characterise increasingly the output of artists who circulate in an artworld defined by the tension between addressing a domestic public and a global one. ‘Increasingly, it has become clear that in the emerging global scenario, one cultural form will be enforced on all. It will be one culture made of many cultures, one history made of many histories – a whole made of disunited fragments, with no imperative to unite them.’ Today, finding the imperative that unites them is the task of all localities, together, against the power of the global.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:18:00 +0000
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