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New Geographies Of The Biennial: Networks For The Globalization Of Art, John Zarobell Feb 2021

New Geographies Of The Biennial: Networks For The Globalization Of Art, John Zarobell

International Studies Faculty Publications

In order to explore global biennials of contemporary art, this study provides a geospatial analysis of eleven global biennials to examine where artists are drawn from in these international exhibitions. The project aims to cut across a broad scope of biennials held in multiple regions to examine how artists are circulating in the contemporary world, where they are showing and, most importantly, how biennials are defining international contemporary art in the era of globalization. By mapping a series of biennials held around the globe over several iterations in the 2010s, this study provides unprecedented evidence of the geography of biennial …

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Artistic Research And Everyday Life In The Asian Megacity, John Zarobell Jan 2021

Artistic Research And Everyday Life In The Asian Megacity, John Zarobell

International Studies Faculty Publications

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Freeports And The Hidden Value Of Art, John Zarobell Nov 2020

Freeports And The Hidden Value Of Art, John Zarobell

International Studies Faculty Publications

At first glance, the global art trade—currently valued around $60 billion—is a miniscule piece of global economic production. But due to the unregulated nature of the art market, it serves a key function within the larger network of the accumulation and distribution of capital worldwide. This deregulated market intersects with the oshore domain in freeports, an archipelago of tax-free storage facilities that stretch from Singapore to Geneva to Delaware. The burgeoning of freeports globally suggests that speculation has become a more prominent pattern of art investment, but it also demonstrates that tax avoidance is a goal of such speculators and …

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Report From Oakland: The Art Of Insurrection, Pedro Lange-Churión, John Zarobell Oct 2020

Report From Oakland: The Art Of Insurrection, Pedro Lange-Churión, John Zarobell

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At the end of May, the third month of a shelter-in-place order in the counties of the San Francisco Bay Area, protests erupted daily in Oakland (California) following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. After a spree of early looting, the businesses along Oakland’s main corridors—many still closed to the public today, in November—had boarded up their windows leaving a ready canvas for a host of street artists and muralists to make their mark. The protest works that emerged are both beautiful and politically fraught, exposing some of the most sensitive social and economic divisions in the US. With …

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Making Sense Of Multipolarity: Emerging Powers And Comparative Area Studies, Nora Fisher-Onar Aug 2020

Making Sense Of Multipolarity: Emerging Powers And Comparative Area Studies, Nora Fisher-Onar

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As the West retrenches and new powers emerge, students of international relations are well positioned to address an outstanding question: How to thrive in a multipolar world? The question—and the answers which we bring to bear—resonate beyond geopolitics. This is because the task of living together in diversity is arguably the greatest analytical as well as normative challenge facing world politics more broadly (Fisher-Onar, Pearce, and Keyman 2018).

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The Local And Global Politics Of Contemporary Art, John Zarobell Jan 2017

The Local And Global Politics Of Contemporary Art, John Zarobell

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