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In 2001 the House of World Cultures for the first time invites
three renowned international visiting curators from the USA to
come to Berlin: Yuyeon Kim, Okwui Enwezor and Salah Hassan present
international artistic approaches that have so far only received
inadequate attention in Western exhibitions. With their works,
artists from Africa, Asia and the two Americas give a critical
treatment to the existing separation between the periphery and
the centre and call into question the claim to universality of
our western concept of art. In "Translated Acts: Body and Performance Art from East Asia" (9th March - 6th May 2001), Yuyeon Kim investigates new forms of bodily awareness and artistic articulation in the context of increasingly technological societies. In "The Short Century" (17th May - 29th July in the Martin Gropius Building), Okwui Enwezor illuminates the mutual influence between liberation movements and the arts in 20th century Africa. Salah Hassan's project "Unpacking Europe" (14th September - 11th November) questions the cultural self-concept of Europe in view of current migration movements, demographic change and increasing racism. The three exhibitions are international co-productions which, after they have been shown in Berlin, will also be seen in New York (Queens Museum of Art and MOMA/PS1), Chicago (Museum of Contemporary Art), Rotterdam (Boijmans de Boiningen), Seoul and Taipeh. In staging them, the House of World Cultures aims to counter the practice that is still common in Germany of appointing non-native curators for 'other' cultures. The inter-disciplinary and trans-cultural approach of the exhibition projects and the topicality of the subjects show how obsolete the post-colonial subdivision of the (artistic) world into ethnic and geographical categories has now become. Many of the artists invited to Berlin - like the curators themselves - now live outside their countries of origin and act as mediators and stimulants at the meeting point of north and south, east and west. With their exhibitions they are adding the missing chapters to a global history of art in which Europe has lost its role as the leading culture. Michael Thoss, House of World Cultures |
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