ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, 09|17|2011 – 02|05|2012
 

The Relevance of Temporary Locations

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Ala Ebtekar »Ayanadeh-nameh«, 2011

Frauke Schnoor: A Review

“Why did you choose where you live?” was artist-in-Residence, Will Kwan's reply to my question about what he would ask other artists, curators and scientist connected with the exhibition The Global Contemporary. What I found interesting about Kwan’s question was its forceful skepticism with respect to the claim that globalized art is a space that no longer has a location, at least, not any concrete one. Will Kwan was born in Hong Kong and lives in Toronto. Stephanie Syjuco, who crochets Italian bags in Karlsruhe, was born in the Philippines and lives, just like Ala Ebtekar,, in San Francisco; Ebtekars family comes from Iran. While in Karlsruhe, he visited his uncle, an immigrant Iranian poet in Germany. Where are we talking? And what does this say about that of which we are talking? Continue reading ...

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globalart | Tuesday, 21 February 2012 00:00
 
Lost in Translation. New Biographies of Artists

Self-images and Monologues

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Guy Ben-Ner »Drop the Monkey« 2009

Text by Antonia Marten

Contemporary art thematizes the conditions of its own production with increasing frequency. For many of the artists participating in this circus of international exhibitions, it is the analysis of this complex web of relations between the protagonists, platforms and institutions of the globally networked art world that is of primary concern. This prompts the question as to what role(s) the artist himself assumes within this structure so as to maintain his or her position within it, and/or the effects of this on the constitution of present-day artistic identity.Continue reading ...

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globalart | Tuesday, 07 February 2012 00:00
  Life Worlds and Image Worlds

Everything Counts

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Mattias Olofsson »Culture Constructing Nature« 2005

Text by Jacob Birken

In modernity it has often been claimed that since their separation from the court and church, the fine arts have lost their representative function; that they no longer serve to represent the powerful and the mediation of their worldview, but rather ultimately stand for themselves – put simply, l'art pour l'art. However, this is evidently not such a straightforward matter, for contemporary art might very well be seen as representative of a prevailing system – in our case, then, a democracy partly determined by the market. Weiterlesen ...

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globalart | Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:00
  World Time. The World as Transit Zone

Timeliness – A Lecture-performance by Raqs Media Collective

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The lecture-performance Timeliness by Raqs Media Collective, ZKM_Media Theater, Photo: Felix Gruenschloss, © ZKM

Interview by Sara Giannini

“Timeliness” is a lecture-performance by Raqs Media Collective (RMC) that Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta performed at the ZKM as part of the event “Curating in Asia” on December 9, 2011. Speculating on the concept of “time”, Raqs Media Collective intertwines financial and political matters related to capitalism with ontological issues related to ephemerality and permanence. In an untimely, Internet time-based discussion, I interrogated them on the meaning and implications of simultaneity in the “global contemporary.” Continue reading ...

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globalart | Wednesday, 18 January 2012 09:07
  Life Worlds and Image Worlds

Smash the Cherry – Pooneh Maghazehes ,Sandbox‘

 

Pooneh Maghazehe »Sandbox«, 2011, work in progress). Video, 9 min (2 min exerpt)

Visual opulence is one of Pooneh Maghazehe’s passions. The 32-year old American-Iranian lives in Brooklyn, recently graduated from Columbia University in New York, and, as artist-in-residence took a close examination of the history of the ZKM. Continue reading ...

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globalart | Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:47
 
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