Issue #65 Provincialism Perfected: Global Contemporary Art and Uneven Development

Provincialism Perfected: Global Contemporary Art and Uneven Development

David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

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Einat Imber, Continental Drift, 2012. Wood, dirt, rocks, moss, magic sculpt, acrylic paint, tortoises.

Issue #65
May 2015










Notes
1

Terry Smith, “The Provincialism Problem,” Journal of Art Historiography no. 4 (June 2011): 3, .

2

Ibid., 9.

3

Ibid., 5.

4

Miwon Kwon, “Response to ‘Questionnaire on “The Contemporary,”’” October no. 130 (Fall 2009): 13–15; Peter Osborne, Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (London: Verso, 2014), 15–22.

5

James Elkins, “Response to ‘Questionnaire on “The Contemporary,”’” October no. 130 (Fall 2009): 12.

6

For a strong critique of this idea, see Suhail Malik and Andrea Phillips, “The Wrong of Contemporary Art: Aesthetics and Political Indeterminacy” in Reading Rancière: Critical Dissensus, ed. Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp (London: Continuum, 2011), 111–28.

7

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1989).

8

See Okwui Enwezor, “Mega-Exhibitions and the Antinomies of a Transnational Global Forum,” The Biennial Reader, ed. Marieke van Hal, Solveig Ovstebo, Elena Filipovic (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2010), 426-45; Caroline A. Jones, “Biennial Culture: A Longer History,” The Biennial Reader, 66–87.

9

On the contradictory status of “individual freedom” within neoliberal politics, see David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 41–3.

10

For Marx’s critique of meritocracy, see Karl Marx, “Critique of the Gotha Programme,” in Karl Marx: Selected Writings, ed. David McLellan, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).