The big show.THE BIG SHOW IS A SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS ON GLOBALIZATION. Three separate exhibitions will feature a critical platform for approaching issues of exoticism ex·ot·i·cism n. The quality or condition of being exotic. exoticism the condition of being foreign, striking, or unusual in color and design. — exoticist, n. , political correctness, collective memory, alterity Al`ter´i`ty n. 1. The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. and utopia in a confronting way. In order not to limit globalization to an ideology criticism of Western political and economical institutions, THE BIG SHOW chooses to approach globalization indirectly via three different views. A first way will be historical; two highly specific bodies of work on Patrice Lumumba and Albert Schweitzer will be highlighting a problematic postcolonial mentality. The second exhibition will retrace globalization to the, present as a romantic overvaluation o·ver·val·ue tr.v. o·ver·val·ued, o·ver·val·u·ing, o·ver·val·ues To assign too high a value to: overvalued the painting. of the local, displaying an irreparable traumatic Western memory. Part three will be utopian; concrete artist proposals will be the basis for three-dimensional architectural scale-models. The ever more compelling confrontation with colonial history as a focal instance, but also the evolution from communism to post-communism, are triggering an exoticizing (Western) collective memory. Its means of expression are unequivocal and problematic in the desire for historical repair (as a paternalistic legacy), through the commodification Commodification (or commoditization) is the transformation of what is normally a non-commodity into a commodity, or, in other words, to assign value. As the word commodity has distinct meanings in business and in Marxist theory, commodification of specific forms of alterity, in an "art-festival" atmosphere. THE BIG SHOW appears at a time that is in great need of critical and innovating projects on both Western and non-Western art, their interferences, the modalities of display and discursive translation. In the cultural field in Belgium, the announced reprofiling of the Royal Museum for Central-Africa in Tervuren, and in the political field the research that is being conducted by the Lumumba-Commission are signaling a symbolical basis for change, narrowed down to historicist revisionism re·vi·sion·ism n. 1. Advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine, especially a revision of historical events and movements. 2. . On an inter- national level in the developments towards Documenta 11 among a number of initiatives, a highly speculative debate is taking form, positing alterity, inclusivity and highly romantic notions of the local as sole counternarratives for a specific model of Western exciusionism. THE BIG SHOW is inevitably part of a climate of postcolonial and global cultural research, without fully identifying with it. The series of exhibitions that is being presented, will rather perform an in deep questioning of how the ideas of decolonization decolonization Process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. Decolonization was gradual and peaceful for some British colonies largely settled by expatriates but violent for others, where native rebellions were energized by nationalism. , globalization and representation (both as image production and exhibition model) can be subsumed to a broader debate. THE BIG SHOW is curated by Wim Peeters. THE BIG SHOW is organized by the NIOC NIOC National Iranian Oil Company NIOC Navy Information Operations Command (US Navy) NIOC Naval Information Operations Command (US Navy) NIOC Northern Illinois Orienteering Club in collaboration with the Museum for African Art The Museum for African Art is located in the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens in New York City (USA). Founded in 1984, the museum is "dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture. in New York, Jesus Fuenmayor and Julieta Gonzalez, Caracas. |
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