Inter/Nationalism: Berlin expo

Sluice magazine
Autumn 2018

Inter/Nationalism

One of the questions Sluice asks on our website in the ‘about’ section is how can we advance emergent discourse via increased interaction on a local, national and international level? This and the other questions are intended to reflect our concerns and maybe those of some of the galleries and projects we work with. When Sluice stages a large scale project – such as our international expo – we are careful to be non-thematic as we strongly feel in a bottom-up cultural sector the participating artists and curators neither need nor welcome top-down thematic interference. In an expo celebrating the breadth of self-organising projects the resultant divergency presented is the point.
However, the Sluice magazine is thematic and this edition is broadly themed around the local vs the international. The artist/curator-led scene is often tied to the local (usually influenced by funding parameters or lack of funding altogether). But there is often an awareness that if the local isn’t positioned within a broader inter/national context that it risks becoming parochial.
This edition is partly informed by our domestic Brexit debates but mostly the arguments found in these pages are broader than Brexit and focus on the importance of solidarity, inclusion and collaboration. Globalisation is often blamed for environmental damage and the erosion of hard-won workers rights and protections. Is there a way to square internationalism with the destructive nature of globalisation? As nationalism rears its head around the world what response does art have?

Contributions by:
Indigo Richards
Tine Louise Kortermand
Ben Coode-Adams
Freddie Robins
Manick Govinda
Stefan Riebel
James Bridle
Simon Lee Dicker
Andrés R. Londoño
John Angel Rodriguez
Jamie Jackson
Alistair Gentry

Dimensions: (h x w) 280 x 210 mm
Extent 80 pp
Paper Type 120gsm

Cover:
Paper Type 250gsm
Perfect Bound

ISSN 9772398839005

Print-run: 500
Published: November 2018