Global South Winds: Multipolar Dialogues in Contemporary Art

Take advantage of the Early Bird offer until July 14th!

In the early decades of the 21st century, countries of the Global South experienced significant changes in their political, economic, and cultural realities due to reflections, tensions, and debates that emerged around multiculturalism, interculturality, international relations, and multilateralism in the field of foreign policies. These events, among others, determined international artistic systems and, in turn, influenced curatorial and creative practices from various points in the Global South.

In collaboration with Artishock, Global South Winds: Multipolar Dialogues in Contemporary Art is a program of active and collective research that offers intercultural speculations, debates, circles, and forums of conversation. Participants can develop a research proposal and write an article or essay related to the program’s topics.

The intercultural research program offers debates, conversation circles, conversation forums and intercultural speculations where we will address relevant and current concepts surrounding art ecosystems such as; interculturality, art economies, crises, cultural hegemony, technology, artificial intelligence and future speculation from the perspectives of the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Using the wind as a metaphor, Global South Winds aims to address five types of winds that navigate the world, each of them being an axis of our research from the perspective of the so-called “southern” countries.

Learn about our research axes within the program:

1st Trade Winds | Conversation Forum

The wind blows from the south:

Cultural multipolarity in the artistic systems of the Global South

Just as the trade winds regulate the global climate, this research axis proposes a dialogue about art and its relationship with the geographical context, diasporas, intercultural conflicts and the artistic system, addressing how cultural spaces and their agents function.

Speakers: Chao Jia Xing from China, Megha Ralapati from US-India and a surprise guest

2nd Blizzard | Question Auction

Global South is so cheap:

Geo-economies of the International Art Markets

With the art market being one of the topics to be discussed, and its incorporation into fairs, biennials, and auctions in Global North countries, this blizzard seeks to identify the relevant factors that determine whether a work or exhibition is “within” the global art market.

Speakers: Ana Castella from México, Xuer Laa from China and Memo Martínez from México.

3rd Gusts | Antidebate and Ceiba of Words

Rebel Disobedience:

Curatorial and Artistic Practices Against Cultural Hegemony

This rebellious wind, named “Gusts” in our project, aims to generate an antidebate from anti-colonial and postcolonial perspectives across various latitudes to consider how we address these issues. We aim for a current analysis of curatorial and artistic practices in the Global South by problematizing the aforementioned topics.

Speakers: Jesús Torrivilla from Venezuela, Maya Juracán from Guatemala and Daniela Ortiz from Perú.

Speakers: Dr. Andrew Mulenga from Zambia, Zhang Lifang from China-Sudáfrica, Andrea Bustillos from México. 

5th Breezes | Forum of Future Speculation

Speculations for Future Geographies:

Digital Art, A.I., and Other Futures

“Speculations for Future Geographies” is the final wind of this encounter: breezes. Here, starting from three speculations from different latitudes, we will discuss the present and constantly evolving future. We will also explore the geopolitical contexts where innovation occurs and reflect on who can support accessibility in the use of technology.

Speakers: Juan Covelli from Colombia, Sahej Rahal from India, Echo Can Luo from China, Daniel Daou from Libano-México

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Take advantage of the Early Bird offer until July 14th!

Download the full intercultural program here

For questions and comments, contact us at contacto@multipolar.mx

 

 

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