Reassembling Musicality
Abstract
Reassembly, curated by G Douglas Barrett and Petros Touloudi Tinos, Greece 5 July 2017 to 31 October 2017 The free movement of bodies and objects once considered critical for the smooth functioning of contemporary art has appeared, especially since 2017, increasingly uncertain in this era marked by new forms of nationalism, xenophobia, and economic isolationism. Indeed, many artists working in this environment have found it difficult or impossible to cross once unquestionably open borders, or to ship works to and from exhibitions held across a requisitely international stage. As an attempt to respond to this crisis, I, along with Petros Touloudis, curated Reassembly, an exhibition held in the summer of 2017 on the island of Tinos, Greece. The exhibition came out of an annual residency program organized by Touloudis’s Tinos Quarry Platform and was held at the Cultural Foundation of Tinos. Overall, we wanted to ask if there is a critical role for music can play in the field contemporary art, especially as its plagued by new forms of border policing and geopolitical conflict.
Faculty Members
- G Douglas Barrett - Salisbury University gdouglasbarrett@gmail.com
Themes
- Role of music in contemporary art
- Responses to restrictions on movement
- Geopolitical conflicts affecting the art world
- Challenges of contemporary artists
- Impact of nationalism on the arts
Categories
- Social sciences nec
- Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies
- Musicology and ethnomusicology
- Area studies
- Social sciences
- Ethnic studies
- Visual and performing arts
- Social sciences, other
- Visual arts, media studies design, and arts management nec
- Applied linguistics
- Art history, criticism and conservation
- Performing arts
- Visual arts, media studies, and design
- Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies nec
- Dance, drama, theatre arts and stagecraft
- Sociology, general
- Sociology, demography, and population studies
- Sociology, demography, and population studies nec