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European as Other

In this paper, I analysed and connected the concept of the “Other based” European Contemporary art examples and auto- ethnography. I drive Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s thesis of Europe as an Other (Chakravorty Spivak 1999:199) following the application of the Soja model of Thirdspace and Lévi-Strauss’ model of The Savage Mind. I tried to interpret the mobility of cultural meanings and symbols. The central part of my research was the experience of European artists in Asian, American and South American contexts. Using the experience of work in the Tibetan Thangka Painting Studio, Thangde Gatsal in Dharamshala, collaboration with Colombian artists in Bogota and the workshop in the University of Alberta, Canada, I tried to present the possibility of artistic Transatlantic, exchange and cultural diplomacy in general. Treating contemporary art as a phenomenon that goes beyond the interpretation of physical space and as a compound of the real and the imaginary world which, turns it into an experience of the Thirdspace, opens the possibility of interpreting Other as the establishment of a ‘comprehensive simultaneity’, Aleph of the Thirdspace. This approach opens up the possibility of questioning the symbolic language which is present in the artworks of different cultures as an expression of ‘unbroken history" of the experience of space.

other, thirdspace, cultural diplomacy

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