TRANS_ considers the transnational movement of people, images and ideas, and provides a space in which to reflect upon the multiple relationships world cultures have to one another. As a result of ever-increasing global exchange, one may begin to view culture as a continually changing and elastic phenomenon – as a process and not a stasis. Following this logic, we see that it is not only the patterns of human migration that inform our dynamic global reality, but also the mass mediation of images and ideas that, in the words of social anthropologist, Arjun Appadurai, allow us the “capacity to aspire” to “possible worlds and imagined selves.” By taking a holistic approach to this issue, the exhibition seeks to address the many broad and complex concerns of transcultural movement including: both the immediate/extended and the public/private effects of the immigrant experience; the popularization and oversimplification of culturally-specific images and practices; and the greater, macrocosmic forces which drive this cross-cultural movement. Juliana Driever
Curator
Queens Library Gallery |
