Invited to speak to the public in Shanghai, Monika Szewczyk treats Adam Szymczyk's text as a ‘living document’. She will read parts of Szymczyk’s proposal to inaugurate a broad discussion on the development of the next documenta.
For hundreds of years cross-cultural exchanges and interactions have influenced and shaped the current Asian narrative that both intertwines and juxtaposes with global history and history of individual countries. In this dialogue, speakers focus on how Asian cultures stick to their unique locality and narrative in the context of overwhelmingly globalized world from the perspective of contemporary art.
Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities features descriptions of exotic and inspiring cityscapes narrated by the explorer Marco Polo to the emperor Kublai Khan, in which the reader can hardly distinguish the plausible from the fictional...
