ABSTRACT
Compilations are a difficult task. Congruence, interconnection and dialogue among contributions are always a challenge in order to develop a corpus instead of just a selection of disentangled texts. ‘Transcultural Circuits’ focuses on how artists and curators conceptualise international events and institutional settings and their tactics to create a ‘truly’ horizontal dialogue that can promote diversity. Rustom Bharucha reflects on the Asian Museum by addressing the relative failure of the Western ‘museum model’ due to scarce maintenance conditions or few available collections. As industrial capitalism becomes a ‘metaculture’ of the West, and modernism is embedded within elements of control, interpretations become subtly limited in both nature and outreach. Non-Western critical discourse owes much of its current information access and collaborative global projects to communication and media technologies.
