How Latitudes Become Forms

Though Disney might sue us for using their copyrighted phrase, it’s a small world, after all. And getting smaller. This three-month, cross-disciplinary exhibit directs your attention to the growing effect of globalization on art, bringing together 27 visual, new media, film, and performance artists from China, Brazil, South Africa, India and that foreign land called New York. There’s a school of thought that all great innovation in art comes from the collision of cultural modes—the way early jazz mixed Western orchestral music with African styles. Culture shock as a mode of progress has been around since the dawn of civilization, but our modern age has pumped it up in both scope and speed. With so many cultures meeting each other head-on and intermingling ideas, does the word “culture” have the same meaning anymore? Should a nondominant culture try to block outside influence for fear of losing that which makes it unique? And what new genres will eventually be spawned from this brave new world? Latitudes surely won’t have all the answers, but it will certainly help formulate the right questions.
Walker, (612) 375-7622, latitudes.walkerart.org


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