Beyond Limits

Beyond Limits exhibition at San Diego Art Institute from October 4 to Dec 15 2014

“Beyond Limits” is an exhibition and panel discussion exploring the boundless confluences between art, life, and technology in a post-global society. Showing that the future of the arts lies on a borderless, multidimensional circuit of experimentation, our intent with the notion of a post-global is to bypass all borders that create hierarchies or limit the exchange of ideas, cultures, and social situations, including those of art related approaches and perceptions. The exhibition and panel discussions shown at the San Diego Art Institute is part of an international event of the Post-Global Biennale.

The venues sharing this event include the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, the Museo De La Ciudad in Uruguay, the Petah Tikva Museum in Israel, MareArticum – Baltic Contemporary Art Biennale, National Museum in Szczecin in Poland, Nakanajo Biennale and the Kanaya Art Project, Sojo University and Sojo Gallery in Kunamoto in Japan, and the Kunsthalle Faust in Hanover, Germany.

Inspired by the need to rethink the approach of biennials, the Post-Global Biennale attempts to bypass all national representations to focus on a multinational, multicultural, multi-identity, multimedia, and multi-language-based contemporary art. The first event was instigated by Hotel de Inmigrantes, an encounter of international artists held in Hasselt, Belgium, in the summer of 2012, affiliated with the Manifesta 9. Another event that continued with the same idea was the exhibition and panel discussion at Pavilion 0 (Palazzo Dona), sponsored by the Signum Foundation and the Fundacja Mediations Biennale, which was held paralleled to the Venice Biennale on May 31, 2013.

Some of the questions discussed include

What is the role of art in such a world? Can it be a form of therapy? Can art open us to empathy, co-suffering and to critical thinking as well? Can art help us in better understanding our contemporary world? Can it strengthen our ideas of democracy and civil societies? And last, but not least, can art lead the future? 

FINAL ARTIST LIST

Bank og Rau, Glenda & Jesse Drew, Debby & Larry Kline, JaeWook Lee, Yunmi Her Mei Xian Qiu, Jose Hugo Sanchez, Theis Wendt, Einar & Jamax de la Torre Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Ira Eduardovna, Anibal Catalan, Hector Canonge, Blane de St. Croix, Pablo Helguera, Mary Mattingly, Angela Freiberger, Margaret Noble, Don Porcella, Zachary Royer Scholz, Alex Villar, Marlon Griffith, Adriana Varella, Saul Melman, Charlie Citron, Arun Kumar, Cesar Cornejo, Miho Shimizo and Oyvind Renberg.