5th october

MFA lectures

series 1
the world is bigger -and smaller - than you think

art fairs, biennal circuit, composition leading mfa programmes

indicate how contemporary art is now a global phenomenon

it’s now widely recognised that it has efficiently contributed to the construction of economic and
social globalisation since the mid 90s/

- introduction: from the global to -what?

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WHAT GLOBALISM AMOUNTS TO IN CONTEMPORARY ART, BOTH AS AN ART WORLD AND
AS A NETWORK, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS CONDITION. THE ISSUES TO BE
ACCELERATED
THE BORDER CONCEPT IS IN TRANSIT (CHANGING BORDER) - GLOBAL PHENOMENON

HANS BELTING “CONTEMPORARY ART AS GLOBAL ART: A CRITICAL ESTIMATE”

(“THE GLOBAL ART WORLD”)
DOING STUFF INSTEAD OF DOING ART
THE STUFF FORMERLY KNOWN AS “ART”
AUTONOMY OF ART: WESTERN MODERNITY FROM ABOUT THE MID 1700S ART IS NOT
REGULATED OR GOVERNED BY EXTERNAL RULES OR REQUIREMENTS SUCH AS USE,
DESIRE, APPETITE, ETC

AUTONOMY
MID 20S : ADORNO
DISTANCE FROM THE SOCIAL WHOLE BECOMES THE CONDITION FOR ART AS AN
ETHICAL AND PO;LITICAL TASK

NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP TO THE SOCIAL WHOLE

YOU GIVE UP AUTONOMY YOU GIVE UP CRITICALITY

WHEN U STOP MAKING ART AND START MAKING STUFF, THE SENSE OF CRITICALITY HAS
BEEN GIVEN UP

STUFF: DOING THINGS—> PRACTICAL OPERATION: INSTRUMENTAL

ARTWORK IS A SYSTEM ACTOR

YOUR EVERYDAY ART WORLD (LANE RELYEA)

ARTWORK AND ARTIST ARE IN THEMSELVES ELEMENTS IN AN ART SYSTEM

THE STUFFING OF ART

HTTP://DISMAGAZINE.COM
CANT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN OBJECT AND SYSTEM
MEANING IN THE ART IS ON WHAT IT DOES ON THE ART SYSTEM (PRAGMATICS)

RELYEA: NETWORK PARADIGM

BEYOND THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE
AUTONOMY IS GONE
IT S ALL ABOUT THE WHERE AND HOW THAT STUFF ENTERS THE NETWORK
OUR NETWORK PARADIGM IS CALLED: CONTEMPORARY ART

FORGETTING THE ART WORLD - PAMELA M. LEE

- THERE IS NO DISTANCE BETWEEN THE ART WORLD AND THE REST OF THE WORLD
(IN MODERNISM THE ART WORLD WAS DISTINCT OF THE REST OF THE WORLD)

WORD CREATIVITY IS TAKEN AS A COGNATE TO THE MARKET

ARTINESS IS EVERYWHERE
THE LOSING OF ART SPECIFICITY
GLOBALISATION COMPETES WITH ART.

OBJECT AND AGENT OF GLOBALISATION

HANS BELTING: DISTINCTION BETWEEN WORLD ART/CONTEMPORARY ART

ART WORLD : A CATEGORY APPLIED FROM THE WEST TO THE NON WEST (IMPOSITION
FROM THE COLONISERS)

EXPANSION OF GLOBAL ART/CONTEMPORARY ART IS THE CONDITION FOR FORGETTING

THE ART WORLD.
THE ART WORLD IS NOW A CONDITION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART

THE ART WORLD IS “FORGOTTEN” BECAUSE: ART IS NOW GLOBAL, AND INTEGRATED
INTO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD AS GLOBAL

IN CONTEMPORARY ART YOU RE NOT MAKIN ART YOU RE MAKING STUFF (FORMERLY
KNOWN AS ART)

ES MUY ABSTRACTO!!
DESPUES EN EL PUB BUSCAMOS LA CONLUSION REAL

CONTEMPORARY ART UNDOES ART CONVERTS THE ARTWORKD

IN AN INSTANCE OF GLOBALITY

TO THINK OF ART AS EX ART VIA CONTEMPORARY ART

INTERNAL EXTERNAL CONDITIONS TO THE NETWORK

PARADIGM OF CONTEMPORARY ART.

ART ON A GLOBAL SCALE: INDICATES THE LOSS OF CONTEXT

OR FOCUS
ART CONTEXT: NETWORK, CONDITION OF MOVEMENT.

CONTEMPORARY ART: ETHNO - DERACINATION (TAKES THE

ROOTS AWAY), instead focuses on GLOBAL CONDITIONS, it
exists ACCORDING TO THE GLOBAL NETWORK
ETHNICITY IS A ROLE, LIKE GENDER, ETC - THEY ARE
PERFORMATIVE

THE GLOBE AS A NETWORK NOT AS A TERRITORY

THE GLOBAL AS A PLATFORM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
CONTEMPORARY ART’S NETWORK

THE ANTHROPOCENE
HUMAN LIND IS THE NEW GELEOLOGICAL /FORCE
TRANSFORMING THE PLANET BEYOND RECOGNITION
HUMANS ARE A GEOPHYSICAL FORCE THAT OPERATES WITHIN
NATURE.

NOT THE ANTHROPOCENE BUT THE CAPITLOCENE (THE

POLITICAL CONDITIONS)

DONT NATURALISE THE CONDITIONS OF THE CAPITLOCENE

ADDRESS THE CAPITALCENE TROUGH THE ART WORK, BUT IT

CAN ONLY BE THROUGH THE NETWORK
WHAT WOULD BE THE CONTENT OF ITS ACTION (OF THE
ARTWORK) THAT WOULD PRODUCE A NEW MORE PLANETARY
ADEQUATE SUBJECT

———

he is reducing art to a set of relations

a system purely designed by its relationships

art could be anything today

the artworld—> a scene of people doing stuff

network theory -> the only thing that is in the network is what it’s
active in the
bruno latour
network is a tracing of connections
conceptual network —> artworld, its only a network if its being
used
global city article -saskia …
global city

“I DO STUFF”
CONTEMPORARY ART IS A GENRE