Dutch pavilion: Fiona Tan
13/07/09 Erik van Tuijn
Fiona Tan’s international career took off when Okwui Enwezor presented her at Documenta 11 as an artist capable of handling identity and background in a form that is both political and poetic. This summer, her exhibition at the Dutch pavilion in Venice, entitled Disorient, may well prove Enwezor right.
An Archipelago of Local Responses
Nicolas Bourriaud on the Altermodern
10/03/09 Christophe Gallois
The Tate Triennial is opening in London this spring, put together this time by the French curator Nicolas Bourrioud who became renowned for conceiving the term 'relational aesthetics'. He has seized the exhibition as an opportunity to further explore his newest art historical concept: altermodernity.
reviews 20.01.09 Erik van Tuijn
Krefeld (GER)
Kunstmuseen Krefeld: Museum Haus Lange und Haus Esters
12/10/08 - 25/01/09
How do you get an elephant into a matchbox? You squeeze him in of course. Or, if the Elephant is actually an oeuvre consisting of giant photo's, you could also make prints the size of stamps.
01/12/07 Grant Watson
India is modernizing at varying speeds. The seeds of this development lie far in the past, more than seventy years ago. Grant Watson describes the history of a special region in India, Bangalore, in the South of India.
The Power of Postcolonial Thinking
01/12/07 Saloni Mathur
South-Asian cultural philosophers are authoritative in present-day thinking on the consequences of today’s globalism. Trained in both India and the West, they know better than anyone how to place the complexity of contemporary cultures in a critical light. What makes their approach so special?
Against Latin American Art
23/02/06 Gerardo Mosquera
Does it make sense anymore in the global world we live in, to link one’s identity to a specific location? Where, for example, does a place like Latin America begin and end? In the past notions such as tropicalism were developed to define art from a particular region. Now however, according to Gerardo Mosquera, it is time to think about art from Latin America differently.