The Global Present
Achille Mbembe reflects on the global present and observes a recurring demand for durability in a planet in need of political and aesthetic repair.
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo in Conversation with Thomas J. Lax
In this conversation the two discuss Pilar’s artistic formation; her use of family lore and fabulation in her interventions into the silences of the state archive; and her interests in science and digital technology.
The Planetary: the Globes of Globalization and Global Warming
Is the globe of globalization the same as the globe of global warming?
Objects in Circulation
The panel examines historical cases of the migration of images and knowledge across cultures and temporalities.
Global Resonance, Belonging, and the Artist Abroad: Okamoto Tarō in Paris
Okamoto Tarō recollects his experiences in Paris between 1929 and 1940, discusses the Abstraction-Création movement and reflects on his time at the Sorbonne and Musée de l’Homme.
Poema Colectivo 2020
In the spirit of collectivity despite geographical distance, post invited contributions to create a “collective poem” based on the 1981 project Poema Colectivo Revolución by the artists’ group Colectivo 3.
Incommensurability and Untranslatability
The move to diversify art historical narratives is often accompanied by a search for commonalities. Instead addressing a need to acknowledge radical difference and untranslatability, each presenter in this panel approached the question of the incommensurable, interrogating tensions between a global approach and site-specific study.
Restitution and Return
The discussion raises contemporary questions of restitution of cultural property taken during periods of colonial expansion.
Anthropology and I: My Time at the University of Paris Department of Ethnology
This source is an English translation by Stephanie M. Hohlios of a compelling 1971 memoir-essay by Japanese artist Okamoto Tarō—“Watashi to jinruigaku: pari daigaku minzoku gakka no koro (Anthropology and I: My Time at the University of Paris Department of Ethnology)”. Okamoto’s essay “Anthropology and I” sheds light on a widely recognized but little understood…
New York, Site of International Crossings
The session explores New York as a site of intersections of artists from around the world who have passed through or settled in the city.
The Multiplication of Perspectives: Opening Keynote
In the keynote lecture, Zdenka Badovinac introduces her concept of the “sustainable museum,” and explores possible translocal approaches to exhibition practice from the so-called periphery, nevertheless situated within the neoliberal global network of art museums and biennials.
Borders and the Barrier of the Skin
A key contradiction of globalization is its facilitation of the movement of goods while the movement of people is increasingly restricted. Furthering this tendency, biometric technologies have expanded the traditional notion of the border, regulating the circulation of gendered, racialized, and classed bodies.