1st Edition

Along the Indian Highway An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition

By Cathrine Bublatzky Copyright 2020
212 Pages
by Routledge India

212 Pages 16 Color & 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

212 Pages 16 Color & 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012, a significant period for the art world that saw the rise and fall of the national exhibition format. It analyses art exhibition as a mobile "object" and promotes the idea of art as a transcultural product by using participant... Read more

List of Figures. List of Plates. Acknowledgments. Preface by Monica Juneja 1. Along the Indian Highway: An Introduction 2. "Cancel That Flight to Delhi…": Serpentine Gallery, London 2008 3. "Indianness and the Urgency of Transmission...": Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo 2009 4. "There Might be an Indian Background, But the Theme is Global": HEART Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning 2010 5. Transcultural Dissonances in the Contemporary Art World: Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome 2012 6. Indian Highway VI Finally on Its Way to China: Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing 2012 7. Shared Exoticisms or the Limits of the National Exhibition: Some Final Observations

Biography

Cathrine Bublatzky is a visual and media anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany. As a trained photographer she received her Magister in Anthropology with a focus on South Asian History and Visual Anthropology in 2008. In her research and teaching, she investigates contemporary visual practices in the field of art and photography, with a main interest in migration and diasporic studies, citizenship, and urban contexts in South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.