The global turn of contemporary art in Brazilian collections
Organized by Goethe-Institut
São Paulo, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, and Forum
Permanente for Art Museums, São Paulo
In 2006 Hans Belting and Peter
Weibel initiated the project Global Art and the Museum
(GAM) (www.globalartmuseum.de) at ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Karlsruhe. It aims to explore the impact of contemporary art’s globalization
on art institutions, art history, and the art market in the last 20
years. The art market, with its new clientele, acts on a global scale,
while art museums operate in an urban or national context where audiences
have local views, and where the narratives of art history, or else of
alternative genealogies differ from mainstream art discourses.
The workshop is intended to
focus on two main questions. Firstly: What is the response to the global
expansion of contemporary art in Brazil today? Does a Brazilian audience
as yet have any experience of a new situation in what we call global
art? Or is the dichotomy between international (Western) art and local
Brazilian art production still prevailing? And secondly: What is the
institutional presence of contemporary? What role do museums
play, as opposed to galleries and private collections? How do museums
deal with the global turn in today’s art in their collection and exhibition
policies? To what extent is contemporary Asian or African art present
in Brazilian collections?
The project GAM distinguishes
world art, in the sense of world art heritage of all ages and countries,
from global art, as being a contemporary phenomenon which only
began to develop some 20 years ago. There are four other aspects of
the topic to be considered as far as museums are concerned: The suppression
of ethnic art, frequently to be observed as a result of a new global
art production; the new museum geography and the agenda of newly founded
contemporary art museums; art history after Modernism (Belting) and
global art history; the de-centralization of the concept of art.
This two-day workshop is introduced
by Hans Belting and Andrea Buddensieg, who provide an overview of the
goals and activities of the project GAM. The statements of Ana Belluzo,
Ana Leticia Fialho, David Moreno Sperling, Fernando Oliva & Marcelo
Rezende, Ivo Mesquita, Jochen Volz, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Martin
Grossmann, Ricardo Basbaum, and Taisa Helena Palhares & Marcelo
Arajo (20 minutes each) are to highlight the speakers’ personal views
and experiences, both institutional and intellectual. The statements
are being discussed by the respondents Afonso Luz, Felipe Chaimovich,
Jens Baumgarten, Marcelo Araújo, and Norval Baitello and followed by
a discussion open to the workshop audience.
It is planned that the results
of the workshop are going to be published by ZKM in English with a possible
co-publication in Portuguese, probably as a co-edition with the Brazilian
Ministry of Culture MinC.
The meeting in Sao Paulo is
the first of four workshops which are to examine the global turn in
contemporary art in different local contexts. The aim is to build up
a body of comparative knowledge that can be discussed and applied in
a cross-cultural perspective.
The São Paulo workshop is
coordinated by Andrea Buddensieg and Hans Belting (ZKM), Joachim Bernauer
(Goethe-Institut São Paulo), Martin Grossmann (ECA-USP, CCSP and Forum
Permanente) and Laymert Garcia dos Santos (Unicamp). It is transmitted
online at http://www.emm.usp.br/vivo-eca.asx
or http://www.emm.usp.br/eca/forumpermanente.
Program
The workshop languages are
German, English and Portuguese.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
09:30 Opening
Joachim Bernauer, Goethe-Institut, and Hans Belting, ZKM Karlsruhe
10:00 Andrea Buddensieg: The project GAM – Global Art and the Museum
10:30 Martin Grossmann: The project Fórum Permanente
11:30 Hans Belting: Introduction to the goals of GAM
Respondent/Moderator: Laymert Garcia dos Santos
14:30 Panel 1: Local counterpoints to the positions of GAM
Ivo Mesquita, Laymert Garcia dos Santos
Respondent: Jens Baumgarten
Moderator: Joachim Bernauer
16:30 Panel 2: Art museums in Brazil
Ana Belluzo, Martin Grossmann
Respondent: Marcelo Araújo
Moderator: Ana Leticia
Fialho
Friday, August 22, 2008
09:30 Panel 3: Ambitions and conflicts: market and artists
Ana Leticia Fialho, Ricardo Basbaum
Respondent: Afonso Luz
Moderator: Laymert Garcia dos Santos
11:30 Panel 4: Actualization / technology / use
David Moreno Sperling, Fernando Oliva & Marcelo Rezende
Respondent: Norval Baitello
Moderator: Martin Grossmann
14:30 Panel 5: Collectivisms of contemporary art in Brazil
Jochen Volz, Taisa Helena Palhares & Marcelo Arajo
Respondent: Felipe Chaimovich
Moderator: Joachim Bernauer
16:30 Final discussion
