"Global studies : mapping contemporary art and culture is the third volume in the publication series that is part of the project 'GAM-Global art and the museum, ' initiated in 2006 at ZKM/Karlsruhe ... The essays in this volume represent the essence of two conferences held within the framework of this program"--Page 7.

"A ZKIII book"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Global studies: mapping contemporary art and culture / Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg, and Peter Weibel -- The content of the present volume / Jacob Birken -- Versatile collaborations: narratives of Alighiero Boetti's Afghan embroideries / Nicola Müllerschön -- Heritage in stone: a decade of Zimbabwean stone sculpture, 2000-2010 / Jesmael Mataga and Farai M. Chabata -- The development of the utopia art movement through the lens of relationships between artists and the art world / Chrischona Schmidt -- The art market bubble of contemporary Indonesian art: part of a global development? / Irina Vogelsang -- Back to contemporary: one contemporary ambition, many worlds / Carol Yinghua Lu -- Festivalizing performance: snapshots of an alternative circuit / Adele Tan -- Whither the postcolonial? / Anthony Gardner -- Globalization, representation, and post-colonial critique: Austrian documentary film auteurs' take on globalism / Julia T.S. Binter -- The aesthetics of transcultural desire: borderline interventions in Miao Xiaochun's The last judgment in cyberspace and The last judgment in cyberspace--where will I go? / Isabel Seliger -- A transcultural perspective on performativity in Chinese moving-image installations / Birgit Hopfener -- Suddenly modern: traditional Chinese aesthetics in transformation at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games / Ding Ning -- First person plural: manifestos of the 1970s in Southeast Asia / Patrick D. Flores -- Global art history and the "burden of representation" / Monica Juneja -- The display of Indian contemporary art in Western museums and the question of "othering" / Cathrine Bublatzky -- Contemporary musings / Elizabeth Harney -- Indonesian contemporary art in the international arena: representation and its changes / Agung Hujatnika -- Photographs from the Intersections series by David Goldblatt and the question of representation after apartheid / Anne Linden -- Planarity/planetarity: visual art practice as cultural technique and the aesthetics of xenography in Isaac Julien's moving-image art / Rania Gaafar -- Worldmaking: the cosmopolitanization of Dak'Art, the art biennial of Dakar / Thomas Fillitz -- (Re)mapping Luanda: post-war utopias of the Angolan contemporary art scene / Nadine Siegert -- Becoming transnational: insights into the transformations of the contemporary art scene in Nairobi, Kenya / Noémie Jäger -- Frontera--or talking about some limitations of the translation (process) of contemporary art / Daniela Wolf Laboratorio 060.