Guggenheim Forum is a continuing series of moderated online discussions catalyzing intelligent conversation on the arts, architecture, and design. Several times each year, experts from a variety of fields inquire into and debate topics related to the museum’s exhibition program.

Each Forum unfolds over the course of one week. During that period, visitors to Guggenheim.org are encouraged to send in comments. Responses will be posted for consideration by the panelists and to contribute to the overall dialogue. A live chat session takes place during each Forum, allowing visitors to communicate directly with our experts in a lively, immediate approach to the subject at hand.

CURRENT FORUM
Genius Loci
September 30–October 4, 2013
This edition of the Guggenheim Forum explores how our perceptions of place are colored by the ways in which we imagine and reimagine it according to our own cultural and personal experiences. How do we negotiate between the representations created by art and the media and our directly observed reality? How have our definitions of the local, the remote, and the exotic changed? With shifting national borders and metropolitan sites marked by rapid development, what new, creative ways are there for locating ourselves?

The Forum, inspired by the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative exhibition No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, will be hosted by writer and Cabinet magazine senior editor Jeffrey Kastner and will include a one-hour live chat. Other participants will include No Country artist Bani Abidi, radical cartographer William Rankin, and writer Sukhdev Sandhu.

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The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is a multi-year crosscultural collaboration in support of art, artists, and curatorial talent from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. It features curatorial residencies, acquisitions for the Guggenheim’s collection, international touring exhibitions, and extensive audience-driven educational programming. Learn more at guggenheim.org/map.

A Cultural Engagement