AICA International Congress Korea

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"AICA’s XLVII International Congress was hosted this year in Asia for the first time in many years and its debates were always influenced by and made aware of the region’s scale and importance as perhaps the most dynamically changing and promising context for contemporary art in the world. Seoul’s brand new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is just one of many symbols of Asia’s new cultural emergence. Aspects of Nicolas Bourriaud’s Altermodern thesis do seem to be holding water here as we see countries like Korea and Taiwan and of course China proceed confidently to the forefront of global contemporary art fuelled by, and embracing their own heterochronic, other and late modernities."