FLOWS AND COUNTERFLOWS GLOBALISATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Over the past quarter century, artists have made powerful interventions in debates around globalisation, addressing various dimensio ns of cross-border exchange, from mass migration to the dynamics of translation, and devising new ways of conceptualising them. Marc us Verhagens Flows and Counterflows: Globalisation in Contemporary Art tells the story of those interventions, dwelling in particul ar on projects that draw out both the dangers and the tangible or imaginable benefits of global exchange.