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L'InternationaleL'Internationale is the name of a new transinstitutional organization comprised of five European museums and artists’archives based on the shared use of collections and archives. Contrary to the global hegemonic ambitions of the major contemporary art institutions, L’Internationale proposes a long-term collaboration among museums and archives—each of them with its specific collection focus and history— that intends to give greater visibility to their similarities and differences. This project aims to investigate local-to-local correspondence among cultural institutions, to instigate transnational, plural cultural narratives and, ultimately, to challenge common canons and dominant narratives of art history.The founding partners of L'Internationale are the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; the Július Koller Society, Bratislava; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen (M HKA). Each institution has shown through previous projects that they are repeatedly concerned to negotiate different forms of local knowledge and experience with the central art historical narrative written in one or two western political/economic capitals. This initiative will enable us more effectively to connect our own stories together in new rhizomatic ways and to reconsider internationalism and translocalism as more sensitive measures of art and its relation to society. The concrete aims of L'Internationale are to develop common platforms and methodologies for presentation, education and research dealing with the full range of museological fields including collections, archives, publications, public mediation and conservation. The plan anticipates a long- term cooperation that will concentrate on replacing the institutional spectacle with a sense of persistent presence and would offer our publics regular connections between each specific context. The first step of the long-term collaboration is the two- year project with the title 1957-1986. Art from the Decline of Modernism to the Rise of Globalisation by L’Internationale. |
