“The time for postautonomy is now”

 

David Goldenberg (in collaboration with Geraldine Allen)

 

 

Contents

 

Description of the project

Concept

Installation

Performance/talks

Photographic mapping

Installation documentation

 

 

A Project for the
Istanbul Biennial

 

 

The project speculates about a space outside or beyond the
space of a Euro-centric tradition of art.

 

 

The project sought to bring together a number of
propositions to situate the role of a Euro-centric tradition of art in
relationship to the expanded context for art i.e. Globalisation.

 

 

Principal proposition

 

 

If it is not possible to think about the relationship of a
Euro-centric tradition of art to Globalisation then it is necessary to
establish a zone outside or beyond that tradition in order to address and
resolve this relationship.

 

This is equivalent to developing a new model of art, yet no
new model of art has been introduced since the inception of a Euro-centric
tradition.

 

Therefore we have to say this zone is unknown and for that
matter how we understand the attributes of material generated in that zone is
equally unknown.

 

 

 

A framework/template/platform
that is used to generate material for an art work

 

 

• To be installed during the course of the time/frame
  of the exhibition
• Material generated during the course of the
  exhibition
• The set up initiates a series of
  trajectories/processes that can be taken up and used by multiple users,

 

 

All the material generated during
the course of the event constitutes the final work.

 

 

The project

 

 

For the Istanbul Biennial that
set out to examine contemporary art against the backdrop of a global context –
I wanted to address the history of recent international art shows – the
function of international art events to export European art and values to non-European
culture. The constant declared intention for a contemporary European practice
to break with that role and find another role. So far it appears that this new
role has proved elusive.

 

For that reason I proposed a
solution a space outside the existing tradition where it is possible for people
from different cultures to come together to negotiate another model of art.

 

 

I suggested the following work

 

 

A taped off area that I declared
functioned as a zone beyond a Euro-centric tradition of art

 

 

Material generated during the event

 

 

On site

 

Talks

Walks

A new audio/visual work produced by Geraldine Allen

 

 

Off site

 

Online discussions

Website material

 

 

Photographic documentation and sound recordings

 

 

 

 

Ideas for a performance