In 1993 the New Museum in New York ran a three part exhibition series looking at globalisation. The first exhibition focussed on global migration ('we live in a period of forced migration' according to John Berger), another entitled the "Final Frontier' seemed to focus on the body and biopolitics, and the third "Trade Routes" focussed on international trade and was curated by a team including Sociologist of Globalisation, Saskia Sassen.
The archive, including the exhibition brochure can be found here.
The education room at New Museum has dusted off the archival documentation for display until mid April, having noticed that the discourse is still largely focussed around these themes. While this exhibition was very alive to its contemporaneous surroundings, it is interesting to think what has changed and what new knowledge we have acquired in the course of the past 21 years.
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