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When The Periphery Turns Center And The
Center Turns Periphery
curated by Jens Hoffmann (International) |
Presenting work by artists who are coming from places
that directly express the ambivalence of the terms ‘center’
and ‘periphery’ and their relative conditions, this section
of the Prague Bienniale aims to go outside the rather commonplace
fear and uncertainty the dissolution of such categories has created
and proposes to look into the creative potentials this development
might have. When the Periphery Turns Center and the Center Turns Periphery
suggests that we have moved beyond the debates that surround the postcolonial,
the social/cultural diaspora, issues of marginalization, and the Hegelian
dialectic of the master/slave. This is not to say that such issues
have become unimportant — they are still highly significant
and need to be discussed, but as artistic imperatives they have developed
the danger of being limited, didactic, or moribund. This section is
presents an unrestrained mix of artists from around the globe for
whom issues of racial, sexual, political, and social identity are
an optional reference but not necessarily an unalterable doctrine.
With this, notes on the social are implied but never made explicit,
to help us understand that visual art is only a string in the web
of global culture and is interdependent with the sociopolitical developments
within our everyday life.
Artists:
Trisha
Donnelly
Laura Belém
Alexander Gerdel
Natascha Sadr
Haghighian
Federico Herrero
Lansing-Dreiden
Melissa Longenecker
Tim Lee
João Modé
Marc Roeder
Cinthya Soto
Ron Terada
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