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No Country: An Introduction

Guggenheim Forum:
“Genius Loci”

What is the “spirit of place”? In a new edition of the Guggenheim’s online panel beginning Monday, September 30, artist Bani Abidi, radical cartographer William Rankin, and critic Sukhdev Sandhu will join writer Jeffrey Kastner to discuss the ways in which our routes around the world are determined by memory, desire, and cultural context.


News

  • ­A Conversation with June Yap

    “Online dialogues and contributions are as important to me as artworks,” says June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, South and Southeast Asia. Read her interview with contemporary art website OCULA to learn more about MAP’s goal of inspiring on-screen and in-person debate.

  • New Geopolitical Horizons of Art

    At a conference in Brazil, Joan Young, the Guggenheim’s Director of Curatorial Affairs, expressed her views on the importance of respecting local culture and history while working on an international project like MAP.

  • The Haein Art Project

    From September 27 to November 11, 2013, No Country artist Shilpa Gupta’s site-specific installation 100 Stones is on view at the Haeinsa Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Korea.

  • Norberto Roldan in the Philippine Daily Inquirer

    Examining Roldan’s career in the context of the upcoming MAP exhibition at Asia Society Hong Kong Center, a popular Filipino newspaper hails him as a “leading contemporary artist” from the region.

  • Latin America Curator Appointed

    Pablo León de la Barra was recently selected as Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America. He will identify some of the region’s most innovative artists and works for inclusion in a traveling exhibition scheduled to open in 2014.

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About the Project

The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative fosters cross-cultural interaction between artists, curators, and audiences via educational programs, online activities, and collection building. It focuses on three regions—South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa.


MAP Overview 2:11


Director's Introduction 1:01


Project Overview


Curator's Vision 3:06


Education Programming


MAP: Regarding South and Southeast Asia

Artworks

No Country: An Introduction

No Country’s curator June Yap reveals some of the exhibition’s themes and aims, and discusses a selection of the featured artworks. Artists Truong Tan, Wah Nu and Tun Win Aung, and Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo explain more about the inspirations for and meanings of their contributions.

Programs

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The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is supported by a variety of far-reaching educational and contextual activities, including lectures, panels, performances, films, gallery tours, multimedia mobile tours, and artist-led workshops. These programs and accompanying resource materials will evolve from a dynamic process of exchange among the Guggenheim’s curatorial and education staff, the project curators, the artists, and colleagues from participating institutions. Check this section, Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail for further details and news.