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Global Institute:
Experiments in Transnational Education
The Global Institute as part of the 7th Gwangju Biennale
Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions is a two-part
educational program with Session 1 (August 11~August 23,
2008) and Session 2 (September 24~September 27, 2008).
The Global Institute Session 1: Workshops in Seoul
and Gwangju
(August 11~August 23, 2008)
The Session 1, held in collaboration with Korea National
University of Arts, Seoul and Chonnam National University,
Gwangju, is organized into a series of workshops and clinics
within two programs, Open Studio and Arenas and Systems.
In both programs, participants will work with a rich community
of artists, curators, critics, and intellectuals, to examine
the theoretical and historical questions currently being
raised around contemporary art.
Open Studio begins with the interrogation of the current
status of the artist studio and in so doing will raise questions
about where a studio is located in the changing context
of global art practice. At a time when the artist’s
studio has shifted into a veritable factory floor, a kind
of manufactory employing legions of skilled labor, considerations
of artistic production could be seen as moving from the
ethos of small scale production to one of hyper production,
a condition exemplified by the practices of contemporary
artists from Warhol to Murakami, Hirst, Koons, Matthew Barney,
Olafur Eliasson, Ai Weiwei, Zhang Huang. In this series
of seminars and colloqiuia, invited speakers, artists, architects
will consider issues of conditions of production, examining
how artists shift between multivalent platforms of thinking
and making. The meetings will address scales, modes, contexts,
models, and conditions of production, from art academies,
artist residencies, workshops, travel grants, independent
study programs as perhaps part of the global manufactory
of itinerant trajectories. Open Studio considers the studio
as a site of inquiry, experimentation, and elaboration,
a space for meditation on various modes of production.
Arenas and Systems In a year when 11 international
Biennials, Triennials, and the Olympic Quadrennial will
open between June and September in the Asia Pacific region
in 11 cities bidding for global cultural relevance with
the Beijing Olympics sited at the core, it may be possible
to suggest, that we may be witnessing the beginning of the
Asian century. In the same way the 19th century was the
European century and the 20th century was the American century,
there is no doubt, that Asia today represents and incubates
the same forces and energies of modernity of the last two
centuries. Given this scenario, new situations and institutions
are emerging in Asia that elaborate a new and unique deployment
of the politics of spectacle. This emergence requires critical
consideration and reflection. As with Open Studio, Arenas
and Systems will involve various curators, critics, artists,
and thinkers will be conducted in the form of a series of
workshops, seminars, and colloquia to take place as the
exhibition begins in early September.
Lecturers and workshop leaders include: this year’s
Gwangju Biennale’s Artistic Director and curators
(Okwui Enwezor, Ranjit Hoskote, Hyunjin Kim, Claire Tancons,
Abdellah Karroum, Sun Hyen Park, Patrick Flores, Jang Un
Kim), participating artists( Bingyi Huang, Juan Maidagan,
Jin Won Lee, MYDADA, Tania Bruguera and Arte de Conducta,
Karyn Olivier, Jewyo Rhii, etc.), and renowned professors
of Korea National University of Arts and Chonnam National
University (Sunjung Kim, Hyungmin Pai, Suk Won Jang, Soo
Jong Yoon and so on).
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