imort export - wien chapter. kulturtransfers zwischen indien und österreich, deutschland

19.05.2005 - 22.05.2005

Künstlerhaus, Wien / Österreich

New cultural networks mostly follow the routes of trade and the flow of capital. The symposium reflects on the specific mechanisms and interfaces of private and institutional routes of travel and trade, asking questions like: Where are efficient political alliances still possible that go beyond mere aethetic alliances and their turning "the other" into a commodity? What new models of self- imagining arise as culture and identity become the basis für marketing? The topics range from tourism as an old and new "nomadic avant-garde" to the global marketing of goods in the light of cultural differences, and transfers which currently take place in the arts and the fields of cultural theory and activism.... (Programmtext)