Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Somewhere Over the Rainbow, 2009
Editorial and Curatorial Project
Contributors : Claire Bishop, Föreningen JA!, Raimi Gbadamosi, Kuratorisk Aktion, Carol Yinghua Lu
Artists : Stefan Constantinescu, Raimi Gbadamosi, Jens Haaning, Adrian Piper, Agneta Strindinger
Guest editor and curator : Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Nadia Mazzoni
Both a magazine and an exhibition, this issue of Swedish anti-racist magazine MANA is a twofold investigation taking into account the importance of today's creative practice in elaborating discourses which negotiate and challenge existing boundaries in the current political climate. The dual sites aspire to examine antiracist thinking and gestures in contemporary art in the spirit of Paul Gilroy and to move away from antiracism’s tarnished vocabulary while retaining much of the hope to which it was tied. This project aims to map out many of the essential shifts and tendencies in reaching collective space that is not conditional to national identity and/or belonging, but rather a symbolic gesture of invitation as described by Anne Dufourmantelle and Jacques Derrida in "Of Hospitality" as "a place originally belonging to neither host nor guest, but to the gesture by which one of them welcomes the other". By no means an attempt at locating a Utopian site, this project is rather a venture into finding the many contact points between groups and communities by challenging some of the existing borders.
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" explores the many meeting points between cultures for (re)negotiating spaces of visibility allowing for both difference and dialogue. The selected theorists and artists examine concepts around curatorial and artistic strategies in today’s global culture, alongside the problems tied to national representation. Fundamental to this issue is the investigation into how the plethora of artistic manifestations are often attempts – without aspiring to definite answers – at understanding the world through an economy of exchange, an eco-system of relationships or an organic pool of dialogues, which are composed of sets of knowledge beyond reductive national boundaries.
This project has been made possible with the kind support of KulturKontakt Nord and Letterstedska Foundation.
Illustration by Michel Ducourneau
Graphic design and layout by Jan Petterson
© Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen
Editorial and Curatorial Project
Contributors : Claire Bishop, Föreningen JA!, Raimi Gbadamosi, Kuratorisk Aktion, Carol Yinghua Lu
Artists : Stefan Constantinescu, Raimi Gbadamosi, Jens Haaning, Adrian Piper, Agneta Strindinger
Guest editor and curator : Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Nadia Mazzoni
Both a magazine and an exhibition, this issue of Swedish anti-racist magazine MANA is a twofold investigation taking into account the importance of today's creative practice in elaborating discourses which negotiate and challenge existing boundaries in the current political climate. The dual sites aspire to examine antiracist thinking and gestures in contemporary art in the spirit of Paul Gilroy and to move away from antiracism’s tarnished vocabulary while retaining much of the hope to which it was tied. This project aims to map out many of the essential shifts and tendencies in reaching collective space that is not conditional to national identity and/or belonging, but rather a symbolic gesture of invitation as described by Anne Dufourmantelle and Jacques Derrida in "Of Hospitality" as "a place originally belonging to neither host nor guest, but to the gesture by which one of them welcomes the other". By no means an attempt at locating a Utopian site, this project is rather a venture into finding the many contact points between groups and communities by challenging some of the existing borders.
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" explores the many meeting points between cultures for (re)negotiating spaces of visibility allowing for both difference and dialogue. The selected theorists and artists examine concepts around curatorial and artistic strategies in today’s global culture, alongside the problems tied to national representation. Fundamental to this issue is the investigation into how the plethora of artistic manifestations are often attempts – without aspiring to definite answers – at understanding the world through an economy of exchange, an eco-system of relationships or an organic pool of dialogues, which are composed of sets of knowledge beyond reductive national boundaries.
This project has been made possible with the kind support of KulturKontakt Nord and Letterstedska Foundation.
Illustration by Michel Ducourneau
Graphic design and layout by Jan Petterson
© Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen