Globalization and Identity - Open Call for Artworks and Art ProjectsGallery Galzenica invites all interested artists to submit art proposalsfor their new exhibition programme entitled Globalization and Identity.Deadline: 15th of June 2008.In the early 1990 s, two major changes were taking place in Croatia:political and territorial independence from ex Yugoslavia and the firstwave of economic globalisation. As you may know, globalisation is theeconomic model that, after the break up of European socialist countries,with the help of the new technologies (the Internet, mobile networksetc.), created new ways of making profit. Two opposite social processeswere the consequence of that: degradation of national economies andproliferation of particular cultural identities.During 1990 s, the countries of Middle and southeaste Europe were insearch of their position on the new map of Europe and thus foundthemselves in a paradox situation of parallel decentralization of economyand nationalization of culture. The more cultural practice seemedtraditional and particular, the more it represented self-identificationmodel for newly formed countries. Although impossible for the globalapplication, the model of so-called traditional culture became the patternapplicable to national culture through various local and group identities.The expansion of local media, equality of dialects, World Music andlifestyle culture are only few of the phenomena that could not existwithout tension between global and national.The 2009 programme of the Gallery Gal enica casts light on questions suchas what the difference between Europe of nations and Europe of regions is.Are these countries, once behind the iron curtain , and their greatnational stories anachronism or last, though unrepresentative evidencethat modernism is an open-end process (Habermas)?Furthermore, is the issue of individual, local or national identity ratheran interest of marketing and profit making than the process of personaland social development? Does globalisation actually encouragefundamentalism, chauvinism and xenophobia? If yes, what are possiblereasons for multiculturalism? Where has the idea of cosmopolitismdisappeared? Is the only choice we have the one between bad and worse?We invite you to send your proposal for participation togalerija.galzenica@globalnet.hr by 15 June 2008.Klaudio Stefancic, a curator and a director of the Gallery Galzenica, andIvana Hanacek, a curator assistant, will carefully review all theproposals. All submitters will be informed about their application by 1July 2008.http://www.galerijagalzenica.info/english.htmlsursa:culturenet