Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age

"Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age poses fundamental questions and pinpoints topical discussions central to the field of contemporary art studies in the global age. Resulting from a series of conversations that took place at the international conference "Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age" (Barcelona 2013), the volume brings together current debates in cultural and identity-based art histories as a means of expanding the territory of contemporary art into the field of culture. With key contributions by Anna Maria Guasch, Jonathan Harris, Angela Dimitrakaki and T.J. Demos, the essays included here are grouped into four sections corresponding to central debates in global art studies: Archives and Networks; Utopian Globalists; Labour, Woman and Politics; and Art and the Post-Natural Condition. For each topic, a selection of leading scholars and arts practitioners from a range of geographic, disciplinary and institutional contexts have contributed their ideas, arguments, and approaches to contemporary art studies in the global age. Through its engagement with interdisciplinarity and practice-based research, the volume provides important coordinates for current debates in global art, as well as a cartography of the conceptual and methodological intersections that global art studies addresses today."-- Résumé de l'éditeur "Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age poses fundamental questions and pinpoints topical discussions central to the field of contemporary art studies in the global age. Resulting from a series of conversations that took place at the international conference "Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age" (Barcelona 2013), the volume brings together current debates in cultural and identity-based art histories as a means of expanding the territory of contemporary art into the field of culture. With key contributions by Anna Maria Guasch, Jonathan Harris, Angela Dimitrakaki and T.J. Demos, the essays included here are grouped into four sections corresponding to central debates in global art studies: Archives and Networks; Utopian Globalists; Labour, Woman and Politics; and Art and the Post-Natural Condition. For each topic, a selection of leading scholars and arts practitioners from a range of geographic, disciplinary and institutional contexts have contributed their ideas, arguments, and approaches to contemporary art studies in the global age. Through its engagement with interdisciplinarity and practice-based research, the volume provides important coordinates for current debates in global art, as well as a cartography of the conceptual and methodological intersections that global art studies addresses today."-- Résumé de l'éditeur Introduction: The Semantic Codes Of The Global Contemporary / Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer And Nasheli Jiménez Del Val -- Part I: Archives And Networks -- Deconstruction, Relational Aesthetics And Techno-cultural Networks: 1990-2010 / Anna Maria Guasch -- Postcolonial Art: A Living Archive Of Border-crossings And Migrant Matters / Celeste Ianniciello -- Re-performing The Archive: A Feminist Act / El Colectivo -- An Art Of Condensation, A Political Relationship: Archiving The Crisis, Claiming The Future / Elpida Karaba -- Part Ii: The Utopian Globalists -- Utopian Globalists, Modernism And The Arts Of Austerity In The 1970s / Jonathan Harris -- Diy Utopias: The Rebel Urbanism Of Madrid's Acampadasol / Julia Romírez Blanco -- Weltkarten: Panorama / Laura F. Gibellini -- The Ut(r)opian Globalization Of Contemporary Central American Art: Tracing The Pale Of History Or (furtively) Stealing From The Global Pier? / Sergio Villena Fiengo -- Edited By Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer And Nasheli Jiménez Del Val. Includes Bibliographical References. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR PART II CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT PART III CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN PART IV CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN AFTERWORD BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS La publicación es el resultado de la conferencia internacional homónima celebrada en Barcelona en 2013. Recoge debates en torno a las historias del arte basadas en la cultura y la identidad como forma de expansión del territotio de la contemporaneidad en el campo de la cultura