Imagine Everywhere
@ A+D Gallery
619 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 18th
Imagine Everywhere is about the strategies, visions and horizons that artist offer to the forces of globalization. Globalization is a fashionable concept that covers a wide range of distinct political, econommic, and cultural trends. “Globalization” is used in various ways: it may mean free market policies or the Internet revolution, the dominance of western ways of living or a global integration of lifestyles. In each case, Globalization signals cultural change and emergence of new imaginative forms. It refers to fundamental changes in human activity, where experiences of space and time are fundamentally different. In fact, globalization may signal a collapse of geographic borders and sitances, in large part because of the movement of images. Images circulate within cultures and across cultural boundaries. They transmit in various media, including text, image and sound–often all three at once. As image producers, artists confront the challenges of Globalization as they address isssues of representation, history and economic survival. The artworks in Imagine Everywhere work in various ways to champion, contest, interrogate, or reverse the trends marked by “Globalization.” What they have in common is a commitment to new, artistic an imaginative forms of envisioning global community.
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