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Suhail Malik: From the Global to - What?

MFA FINE ART AND MFA CURATING LECTURES 2015-2016 TERM ONE, SERIES ONE. Conditions are Now Planetary: The Anthropocene The expansion of the Biennial circuit, the proliferation of art fairs, and the composition of the leading MFA programmes clearly indicate how contemporary art is now a global phenomenon. Even if contemporary art does not permeate every place on the planet, it’s now widely recognised that it has efficiently contributed to the construction of economic and social globalisation since the mid-1990s. But even as contemporary art attains this global condition, the very notion of ‘the global’ is itself under pressure. On the one hand, the dream of a ‘flat Earth’ of open and unhindered movement of trade, capital, people, culture and information has run into the obstacles of historical power blocs, regional interests, and the construction of new barriers. On the other hand, responses to climate change and long-term transformations to the planet’s ecology - what is called ‘The Anthropocene’ - require the integration of planetary-scale systems surpassing any historical construction of the totality of the world. Both from below and from above, then, the global no longer works as a conceptual or practical horizon of systemic integration. The problem elaborated by these talks is the following: if contemporary art is a feature of globalisation, yet globalisation is an increasingly inadequate term and discourse for the current and future conditions of the planet, what is art now in fact doing? How can it meet the new conditions? 5 Oct - Suhail Malik (Goldsmiths): Introduction: From the Global to - What? This talk examines what globalism amounts to in contemporary art, both as an ‘art world’ and as a network, and the consequences of this condition. The issues to be elaborated are: What constitutes a world system in contrast to a global system? How is art integrated into these larger configurations? Does it crystallise them and, if so, how? And if globalism has characterised contemporary art for the past thirty years, what happens to art when that condition is superseded? Definite responses to these questions require the identification of specific concepts and practices of world, globe, and planet. Bio: Suhail Malik is CoDirector (Critical Studies) MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths. Publications include On the Necessity of Art’s Exit from Contemporary Art (2016) and ’The Ontology of Finance’ (in Collapse 8, 2015). Co-editor of Genealogies of Speculation (2016), The Flood of Rights (2016), and Realism Materialism Art (2015).