Rethinking Transcultural Interactions in Visual Art (Contact Zones, 10)

This book examines the transcultural and global turn in art research as well as in curatorial and artistic practice. Bringing together contributions from scholars, curators, and artists, the volume approaches transculturation as a critical lens for understanding the complex flows of people, objects, and ideas across the globe. The authors examine how knowledge systems are challenged and reconfigured, how plural identities are negotiated within entangled communities, and how alternative historiographic frameworks take shape beyond western paradigms. Attention to material practices highlights the role of objects and artworks as carriers of memory and affective solidarity. In this way, transculturation emerges as both an analytical framework and a transformative practice shaped by movement across borders.

• Transdisciplinary approaches to modern and contemporary visual art
• Includes interviews, photo essays, artworks, and scholarly articles
• Broad outlook from different geographical positions and viewpoints

Gunhild Ravn Borggreen, Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. She is the principal researcher of the project Transcultural Modernism: Artistic Interchange between Denmark and Japan, 1945–1970 (TraM), and has published several articles on transcultural interactions between Danish and Japanese visual art.

Mette Højsgaard, art historian specializing in post-World War II Danish and international art; she is part of the TraM project, where she investigates transcultural relations in Danish-Japanese artistic interactions. She has curated several exhibitions on Danish modernist artists and their international connections.

Kristine Sandal Hansen, art historian with an academic background in philosophy. She has worked as a research assistant for the TraM project. A recent graduate in art history, she investigates power structures and philosophical approaches within the discipline.