GLOBALISM – CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY
Symposium C6
April 26-28, 2007
Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago
http://www.symposiumc6.org
Globalism is radically transforming our world, creating new political instabilities, economic interdependencies, ecological stresses and cultural hybrids. The negative results of globalism have been widely discussed: the loss of cultural and ecological diversity; the consolidation of economic and media power; the rise of violent reactionary and fundamentalist movements.
Conference participants will discuss questions relating to current trends, emerging paradigms, and possible cultural futures in three interrelated thematic areas:
New Capital(s)
Hegemony and Resistance in the Global Cultural Economy
How do shifts in wealth encourage or limit cultural visibility and diversity? Will new cultural centers emerge, offering new possibilities? What are the new models of interventionist cultural practice? Why are new patrons creating alternative structures and processes for cultural experiences?
No Borders Here?
Cultural Hybrids, Nomads, Refugees
What economic, political and cultural imperatives drive the new nomadism? How is technology erasing traditional hierarchies and boundaries of cultural production, distribution and interpretation? How is the restless peripatetic creative class producing new dislocations, networks and communities?
Green World
Art for a Sustainable Ecological Consciousness
What new solutions to the ecological crisis are emerging from collaborations between science, culture and technology? How are green artists, designers and architects using developments in science, genetics and technology? What role does culture play on the brink of environmental catastrophe?
A wide ranging and provocative discussion, the conference will raise new questions, generate lively debate and offer possible answers to how we can anticipate and respond to the challenges and opportunities resulting from the fact that for now, and for the foreseeable future, “the art world is flat.”
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