Telematic art across the North–South divide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11416705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stacey Vorster (0000-0001-8214-3248, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 460-478 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-0046 • E-ISSN: 1992-6049 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02560046.2015.1078540 |
| OpenAlex | W2099969747 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Telematic artworks are often included in the theoretical framework of relational aesthetics for the ways in which they engender active dialogue and exchange. This study is situated within a critique of the claim that relational art is widely accessible in terms of its formal structure and is thus ‘more or less democratic’ (McIntyre 2007: 35). This argument fails to recognise the political aspect of communication. Particularly because telematic artworks are able to cross geo-political divides, they are imagined within a utopian construction of globalisation. However, all globalisation is mediated and thus loaded with pre-existing power relations that are often merely reproduced and reinforced in telematic artworks. This is explored through a critical analysis of a telematic artwork entitled Urbanet: Jhb–Linz by South African artist collaborative Hobbs/Neustetter as well as its location within the exhibition ‘80+1: A Journey Around the World’, which took place in Austria in 2009. While the exhibition tends to reinforce a privileged gaze of the Global South for audiences, Urbanet: Jhb–Linz destabilises the act of looking and being looked at through a series of aesthetic and structural choices. This provides a particular challenge to the form of power that pervades North–South communication
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Exhibition · Globalization · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Situated · Sociology · Telematics · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Engineering · Law · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |