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Session 3: Glocal:
somewhere between the local and the global
Many contemporary artists reject the idea
of their work as ‘political’, as if such a label prohibits
it from also being poetic. Sonia Boyce rejects this distinction
and discusses how circumstances have conspired to ensure her politicisation.
She reflects on why she increasingly falls back on the old feminist
adage ‘the personal is political’ to consider the question
of the local in relation to the global, and how these two states
intertwine. The paper includes discussion of the concepts of diaspora
(often understood as communities traumatically dispersed, in transit,
or worse still, subsumed and invisible), and nationhood (apparently
opposite to the transitory, requiring stability and locational allegiance),
and what happens when local and global get mixed up.
Speaker: Sonia Boyce, artist
Session 3 Webcasts:
Sonia Boyce 56k (Real Media stream)
Sonia Boyce 256k (Real Media stream)
Session 1-3 Discussion 56k (Real Media stream)
Session 1-3 Discussion 256k (Real Media stream)
Suggested Further Reading
- Gilane Tawadros, Sonia Boyce: Speaking in
Tongues, Kala Press, 1997.
- Mark Crinson ed., Sonia Boyce: Performance,
inIVA, 1998.
- John Roberts, ‘Interview with Sonia Boyce’.
Third Text 1 (1997), pp. 55-64.
- Jean Fisher ed., Global Visions: Towards
a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts, Kala Press/inIVA,
1994.
- Irit Rogoff, Terra Infirma: Geography's
Visual Culture, Routledge, 2000.
- Sarat Maharaj, ‘Dislocutions’ in
Reverberations: Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency in
Trans/cultural Practices, Jan van Eyck Akademie, 2000.
- Also look at The African and Asian Visual Artists'
Archive, based at the University of East London, founded in Bristol
by Eddie Chambers and now run jointly by David A. Bailey and Sonia
Boyce. www.uel.ac.uk/aavaa/
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