In my opinion Globalisation is everything. Beginning with adventures to "savage" lands and colonisation of these "uncivilized" countries. The basis of modern art tracing back to tourism and the printed tissue souvenirs were wrapped in. However I think to establish an understanding of Globalisation in Contemporary Art, I need to understand the individual words as well as the combination. And so this leads me to the following quotes which I am open minded to and agree with.
The following are quotes taken from various websites/people;
Fabianglobalforum
"Globalisation is the process by which interaction between humans, and the effects of that interaction, occurs across global distances with increasing regularity, intensity and speed. This adds a new dimension to, or even replaces entirely, interaction which previously across continental, national or local distances."
www.editiondesign.com/fgf/knowledge/article007.html
Humanities Conference 2005
Contemporary Art and Globalisation: Biennials and the Emergence of the De-Centred Artist
By:
Mr. John Byrne
The impact of Globalisation on contemporary art practice has been both obvious and disconcerting, apparent and subtle. Most recently, the world wide growth in 'Biennials' has provided the most obvious evidence of the radical changes which have been taking place in the global economies of contemporary art practice since the collapse of the Eastern Block. Globalisation has, as in many other areas of social relations and endeavour, both homogenised and fragmented engagements with and responses to the 'art world'. This has led to a kind of new, postmodern 'International Style' of works which, despite their differing quality, simply appear to be the same in any kind of location. In response to the blandness of such 'airport art', many Biennials have recently sought to encourage a direct 'engagement' with the 'cultural specifics' of their location. The result of this has been, perhaps predictably, a kind of 'parachute documentary art' produced by artist willing to make lightening fast responses to the possibility of a financially rewarding brief. However, in spite of this polarisation of the contemporary art world, into the glibly general and the impossibly specific, many artists have begun to produce works which are intentionally 'de-centred' - dispersed over time, space and location – simultaneously denying the possibility of their works post-biennial absorption into a globalised economy of commodified art objects and further de-stabilising the traditional relationship between artist and artwork. Drawing on the experience of researching Channel 5's programme on the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 04, this paper will attempt to evaluate some of the significant shifts that are taking place in, and as a result of, the growth in the contemporary globaised art economy.
http://h05.cgpublisher.com/proposals/631/index_html
POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD
A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture
Communication, travel and migration are affecting the way we live Our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe
Multiculturalism and identity is being overtaken by creolisation: Artists are now starting from a globalised state of culture
This new universalism is based on translations, subtitling and generalised dubbing
Today's art explores the bonds that text and image, time and space, weave between themselves
Artists are responding to a new globalised perception. They traverse a cultural landscape saturated with signs and create new pathways between multiple formats of expression and communication.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/altermodern/manifesto.shtm
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