Birgit Hopfener Lecture: Global Art History and the Challenge of Plurality
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Birgit Hopfener, "Global Art History and
the Challenge of Plurality. From Global Conceptualism towards a Pluriversal Conceptual Framework for Contemporary Art"
Mainstream discourse of contemporary art in the global context,
predominantly derived from Euro-American scholarship, has been largely unconcerned with rethinking Euro-American conceptual
frameworks, and not yet sufficiently attended to the plural and transculturally interconnected conceptual and social histories
that constitute contemporary art in the global framework. In 1999, the exhibition Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin,
1950s-1980s that was on show in several venues in the US, took up the challenge of how to engage with the plurality of contemporary
conceptual art by adopting a multi-regional approach. Acknowledging and critically engaging with the exhibition’s seminal
contributions, I take analyses of contemporary Chinese historiographic art as case studies to make the argument that it is
only by further complicating and pluriversalizing the conceptual frameworks for contemporary art in the global context that
we do justice to art’s plurality and work towards “discursive equality” (Parul Dave Mukherji).
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