H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte

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From the City as Cosmopolis to Cosmopolitan Spaces

No. 8 | 2021-01-01
  • Nikos Papastergiadis
    Director de la Unidad de Investigación en Culturas Públicas, con sede en la Universidad de Melbourne, Australia. Es profesor en la Escuela de Cultura y Comunicación de la misma universidad y fundador, junto con Scott McQuire, del grupo de investigación de Estética Espacial. Es Jefe de Proyecto del Proyecto de Enlace del Consejo de Investigación Australiano, “Pantallas Grandes y la Esfera Pública Transnacional”, e Investigador Jefe del Proyecto de Descubrimiento ARC “Pantallas Públicas y la Transformación del Espacio Público”. Se educó en la Universidad de Melbourne y en la Universidad de Cambridge. Entre sus publicaciones se encuentran Modernity as Exile (1993), Dialogues in the Diaspora (1998), The Turbulence of Migration (2000), Metaphor and Tension (2004) Spatial Aesthetics: Art Place and the Everyday (2006), Cosmopolitanism and Culture (2012). También es autor de numerosos ensayos, que han sido traducidos a más de una docena de idiomas y han aparecido en catálogos como las Bienales de Sydney, Liverpool, Estambul, Gwangju, Taipei, Lyon, Salónica y Documenta 13. n.papastergiadis@unimelb.edu.au
https://doi.org/10.25025/hart08.2021.04

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between art and cities, and reflect on the need to imagine new spaces for cosmopolitanism. The author wants to step back and reroute the links between globalization and cosmopolitanism. It will involve not just a clarification of the contrasting orientation between globalization and cosmopolitanism, but also a rethinking of the role of cultural institutions which were once founded to either provide a coherent identity for the cultures within their civic space, or to elevate the city as a repository for the world’s culture. the author will argue that these institutions are increasingly seeing themselves as part of a wider transnational dialogue on cosmopolitanism. This context is a space to rethink the way cultural values are also linked to institutional capacities. Cities and nation-states are mediating forces between the cultural ideals of cosmopolitanism and the ideology of globalization. Cities and nations are not neutral players. They come with their own baggage that includes primordial prejudice and hierarchies of exclusion.

Keywords: City, cosmopolis, globalization, migration

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