apexart :: Conference Program :: Rio de Janiero

 

Conference 2: “Inside Out: Reassessing International Cultural Influence”
Location: Rio de Janiero
Dates: July 3-9, 2001

 

        

participant region paper topic
Melissa Chiu Australia Asian-Australian artists: Recent Cultural Shifts in Australia
Ana Devic Croatia Reception of Modernism Within the Context of Croation Art Since 1950's
Gridthiya Gaweewong Thailand On Thai Artists and an Issue of Cultural Identity
Fredericke Hansen Switzerland Something Rotten In the State of Denmark? Multiculturalism and Public Funding
Pablo Helguera US/Mexico Programmable Revolutions: A Binational Interpretation of the Modernist Dream
Pitiki Ntuli Republic of South Africa The Global & The Indigenous: Cultural Hegemony & The Re-Investigation of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems
John Roberts England The Failure of Modernization: Globalization and Culture
Jose Roca Colombia Problems of cultural translation: the context of Define "context"
Wojciech Stefanik Poland  
Olesya Turkina Russia Freedom and the West: Shifting Meaning in Post-Soviet Culture
Stephen Wright Canada/France A Dis-operative Turn in Contemporary Art

Moderators:
Steven Rand
Gregory Williams
Warren Niesluchowski
Christopher Ho

Special thanks to:
Hotel Gloria, Agora/Capacete, and Paolo Vivaqua