« Bonds of Love | Main | Chaka Khan. Free. That's all you need to know. »
Another Expo Opening
"Another Expo strives to transcend the idea of the established ‘Expo’ by rejecting violence and favoring co-existence. There is no “outside” and “inside” and no “foreign country.” There is no distinction between enemy and ally. Instead, Another Expo aspires for an open system. In this exhibition, curator Shinya Watanabe goes back to the purist idea of an ‘Expo’, one that can explore art related contexts and is free from promoting the Nation-State institution." [more after the fold]
Date: Monday, August 15th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: White Box (525 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free
Another Expo is both a political and cultural project. Instituted in 19th-century Europe, ‘Expo’ resulted from the shift of city-states to Nation-States and from feudal economies to market economies. With the formation of Nation-States, the ‘Expo’ effectively shaped a country’s national culture. ‘Expo’ became a powerful tool for promoting versions of citizenship, social membership, and cultural inclusion, as well as what can be characterized as tourist consumerism and urban cosmopolitanism. Eventually however, European modernism and the Nation-State structure led to colonialism and World War. Furthermore, given the current international climate the basis of the ‘Expo’ representing internationalism is outdated and corrupted. Aichi “Love Earth” Expo 2005, currently on exhibit in Japan, has clearly given rise to U.S. Unilateralism, thereby raising issues regarding the meaning of an Expo and a Nation-State in the 21st -century.
Posted by Chris at August 15, 2005 06:00 PM
Email this entry to a friend
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.freenyc.net/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/1612


