Life Between Borders: The Nomadic Life of Curators and Artists - Softcover
With globalization theory on our minds for more than twenty years and mobility becoming more commonplace, and even expected in contemporary art, it is no wonder our identities are bound up with our own sense of involvement in mobility. We move so easily, and relatively freely, around the world that it has become normal to move to new countries for a job, to live somewhere temporarily, and to adapt readily, all while being required to understand cultural customs before we even get there. With all these expectations and exposure, how do we reconcile our own cultural identity? Life Between Borders: The Nomadic Life of Curators and Artists aims to consider the formation of identity in what has become the norm of a nomadic, migrating lifestyle.
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apexart is a non-profit arts organization in Lower Manhattan, NYC, that was conceived in 1994 to offer opportunities to independent curators and emerging and established artists, as well as to challenge ideas about art, its practice and curation. We realize this mission through exhibitions both in NYC and around the world, an international residency program, a book publishing initiative, as well as public programs and events.
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Nomadic condition is mostly imposed on artists, curators, and writers by economic and political forces. But it is also functions as a road to self-knowledge: by permanently changing the cultural contexts the subject begins to better understand its own subjectivity, its own relationship to the world. The authors of the essays collected in this book explore and demonstrate this ambiguity of nomadism in a sincere and persuasive way. --Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University
At last, a collection of essays from a broad spectrum of authors that takes an unsparing yet balanced look at the mainstream artworld's irresistible ability to turn the lives of the artists and curators who are its protagonists into perpetual-motion machines. Is this nomadic imperative a bad thing? Yes, because it precludes the possibility of any genuine encounter. Is it a good thing? Yes, because in these neo-feudal times of forced mass migration, the free and voluntary cross-pollination of forms and ideas is welcome. --Stephen Wright is an art writer, independent researcher and curator, and professor of the practice of theory at the École européenne supérieure de l'image, in France
Today the transnational flow of artists has raised questions ranging from myths of community, celebration of auratic artistic presence, and global homogenization of culture to risk and what Slajov Zizek considers the nomad's 'traumatic' existence. But it is Jimmie Durham's sly suggestion that nomads exist in their reading practices, which makes Life Between Borders required reading and underscores its connection to apexart's astute series of publications examining global conditions for art production and exhibition. --Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University
At last, a collection of essays from a broad spectrum of authors that takes an unsparing yet balanced look at the mainstream artworld's irresistible ability to turn the lives of the artists and curators who are its protagonists into perpetual-motion machines. Is this nomadic imperative a bad thing? Yes, because it precludes the possibility of any genuine encounter. Is it a good thing? Yes, because in these neo-feudal times of forced mass migration, the free and voluntary cross-pollination of forms and ideas is welcome. --Stephen Wright is an art writer, independent researcher and curator, and professor of the practice of theory at the École européenne supérieure de l'image, in France
Today the transnational flow of artists has raised questions ranging from myths of community, celebration of auratic artistic presence, and global homogenization of culture to risk and what Slajov Zizek considers the nomad's 'traumatic' existence. But it is Jimmie Durham's sly suggestion that nomads exist in their reading practices, which makes Life Between Borders required reading and underscores its connection to apexart's astute series of publications examining global conditions for art production and exhibition. --Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University
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- Publisherapexart
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1933347651
- ISBN 13 9781933347653
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages110
- EditorSteven Rand, Heather Felty
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