Symposium
Keynote Address
Panel Discussions
Speakers
Papers
Keynote Address
The International Symposium for turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial begins on the evening of Friday 9 March with a keynote address by Havana-based curator, Gerardo Mosquera.
"Walking with the Devil: Notes on Art, Culture and Internationalisation"
Based on my own practical experience as curator, my paper will analyse problems of art and culture in the context of contemporary internationalised art circuits. It will delve in the tensions between cultural homogenisation and the opposite action of new cultural subjects who are diversifying the international art practice. Following this situation, it will discuss new epistemological grounds for artistic discourses.
The dramatic expansion in the creation and circulation of contemporary art in the last twelve years has developed ever increasing globalised art scenes while stimulating new local energy. A multitude of new cultural subjects that, apart from their local activity, circulate internationally, have appeared. However, instead of a global mosaic of distinct artistic practices, what we see is the plural construction of an international art and its language. Therefore, the work of many artists, more than naming, describing, analysing, expressing or building contexts, is made from them within a set of international codes. The challenge for them is to build an international art diversified by a plurality of visions, experiences and imaginaries that will not operate in their differences but from their differences.
Many questions are at stake. Is art turning more rich and complex or is it being simplified by the necessary degree of standardisation that a transcultural, international communication requires? Is difference being communicated and negotiated or just converted into a self-complacent taxonomy? Will the museum go beyond its prevalent space-centred routine to become a moving activity spread all over the globe?
Mosquera was Co-Curator of the 2006 Liverpool Biennial and was Chair of the judging panel for the 2006 Artes Mundi prize, Wales. He is Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and is an Advisor to the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
6.00pm Friday 9 March
Auckland Art Gallery, Main Gallery, main entrance
$10 adult/$8 concession, pre-bookings are essential and seating limited -
Credit card bookings can be made on 307 7100, or in person at the Gallery Shop,
or by email to:
gallery@aucklandartgallery.govt.nz
Panel Discussion:
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 March 1.00 - 3.30pm
Free entry, bookings not required.
Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium. Main Gallery - auditorium
The Symposium will address the following themes:
Saturday 10 March - Displacement examines the turbulent emotions around the movement of people around the world both in the spirit of hope and in the spirit of despair. As travellers take a tourist route, immigrants find new homes and asylum seekers go in search of sanctuary.
Sunday 11 March -Clusters asks, how do we treat the guest: is it with fear or with hope? How do we meet them: with an embrace or a tuned back? What networks can be built - what new clusters formed
Speakers include:
Professor Ien Ang, Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. Professor Ang is an expert on media audiences and is internationally renowned for her work in trans-national and cross-cultural studies, and race and gender studies.
Dr David Craig, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, The University of Auckland. Craig has published widely on globalisation and postcolonial politics and co-convened the Centre's Asian Traffic conference on art, politics and Diaspora. In November 2006 he organised Economies of Culture / Cultures of Economies.
Nova Paul, a film maker and senior lecturer at the School of Art and Design, AUT University. She teaches art theory and moving image studio in the Spatial, Visual Arts and Postgraduate Departments. Paul was one of the three principal coordinators of the Cultural Futures: Place, Ground and Practice in the Asia Pacific New Media Art symposium and is co-editing a book titled PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice.
Ian Wedde, freelance writer and curator based in Wellington. His most recent books are Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks 1992-2004, 2005, Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty, 2005 and a novel, The Viewing Platform, 2006 about cultural tourism. He is currently writing on the New Zealand artist Bill Culbert.
Ruth DeSouza, Coordinator and Senior Research Fellow at AUT University's Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research and Director, Wairua Consulting. DeSouza has a passionate interest in issues relating to Asians, migrants and refugees and is actively involved in community activities related to mental health and to migrants.
Dr Love Chile, Research and Development Programme Leader Community Development and Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies at the Institute of Public Policy AUT University. He works primarily in community development, human services and refugees and migrant developments.
Other speakers will include academics and artists from both New Zealand and overseas.
Papers
Saturday 10th March 1.00 - 3.30
free, no bookings require
Displacement
| Dr David Craig | Antipodean anti-turbulence in art and political economy |
| Ruth DeSouza | Turbulence and emotional space |
| Dr Love Chile | Turbulence: Reflections on Diaspora Arts of Displacement and Resettlement |
| The Long March | Beijing/New Zealand [turbulence artists] |
Sunday 11th March 1.00 - 3.30
free, no bookings
Clusters
Prof. Ien Ang At Home in turbulence
Nova Paul Site Visits
Ian Wedde The Social space of art: Bill Culbert, congeniality and politics
Carlos Capelan Uruguay/Sweden [turbulence artist]
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