Sponsored by Dada Post, Berlin Germany

Dada Post presents Geopraxis: a program of inquiry on the state of art practice of our current era of global society.

Geopraxis is a program initiated to examine the condition and problematic of the phenomenon of globalization, and its impact on art practice. The inquiry seeks to question the efficacy of a new International Style: one which will codify coherent global art practice, as artists attempt to meet new challenges, while seeking ways to further connect their practices in a new strategic infrastructure.

Over the millennia, evolving cultural developments have continuously intervened on the conditions from which artists conceive and manifest their art. The tradition of mimesis, for example, which had been a predominant aspiration in Western art since the ambitions of Greek Naturalism, prevailed until the Industrial Revolution brought forth the camera. The camera's ability to create exact duplications of the representational image was a cataclysmic intervention in the ways that artists would conceive and make art - forever. The creation, transfer and use of knowledge are ongoing and steadily evolving, as history moves on for better and for worse.

Today, we face a similar challenge under the new conditions that have evolved to shape our current era. We have entered a fundamentally new reality. Regarding the development of a global means of production, distribution, and consumption, as ‘art’ continues to refer to such a greater range of practices, it makes sense to consider ‘art’ as a unified practice in terms of being a cultural practice that serves particular interests. How this new global reality defines the new conditions with regards to human relations in terms of Nationalism, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, is all part of a new mix of circumstances that remains as contentious as the old.