globali smART

I find myself at a bit of a loss on what to write about art and globalism. It seems today, with the advent of the internet and developments in communications etc, that most things are global, or at least globally available.

I guess what Eleanor Heartney is discussing in Art and Globalism is the use of global issues, concerns, practices, trends etc in art (ha, what a discovery i have made.. ), so in that light i think its best to reference the exhibition we went to see at MCA a few weeks ago.

Louis Bufardeci and Zen Ito both deal with the 'geographical' world in a manner which deconstructs and reconfigures it. Both works look at groups or groupings and organizations, but seem to reshape them into a unified collection of autonomous parts.

Louis Bufardeci in particular looks at global organizations and countries as a whole and reformats them into homogenous images, installations and textiles that refer to global society's and country's inter-relations/connections and the placement of self or nationality among them. The large wall painting makes the effort to standardize each country into what looks to be a basic architectural blue-print of attempted equality, while the images or the opposite wall look to have reorganised the world into a ceaselessly inter-connected sphere.

Zen Ito on the other hand seems to communicate the notion of self or the individual and question what it is that unifies one to another. The mounted textiles of contour-like drawings and collection of 'parts' displayed on a table in the centre of the room seem to represent individual aspects - whether it be of the world or the individual. While the video works, especially the video shown through two-way mirror glass, seems to ask the question of 'where exactly is my placement in this (constructed) world?' Another curious factor in this installation is the aqua coloured walls, this painting of the walls in a loud and almost obtrusive colour leaves the walls as not only a place for mounting works but transforms them into the 'flesh' that holds the fragmented skeleton together - it provides the desire unity.

All in all both works present different aspects of globally familiar concerns/issues and set out to reconfigure, reorganise and assimilate them into some sense of unity.

This is only what i though, im probably wrong. Also feel free to mock my lame title pun..

And sorry this is so late.

Art and Globalism- Mohini Chandra

Mohini Chandra discusses the way in which post-colonial Indian communities in the Pacific have incorporated photography into visual and historical processes, which map the fluidity of their own, increasingly diasporic, cultural identity. She then considers her own role as interpreter, interlocutor and member of global and local cultures as she traverses geographic and temporal distance via internalised 'diasporic' maps of family and personal remembrances.