Abstract:
Contemporary artworks are primary sources for a better understanding of the most important issues in our current reality. The complexities of cultural interactions are often thematized in pieces of art using the artistic means of code-switching, and where the investigation of these questions is pursued in and with regards to the issues of the broader context, including the built and the urban setting. In this paper I examine some aspects of these questions, with the help of some inspiring examples, through artworks by creators coming from five different parts of the world: hence in the works by Manit Sriwanichpoom, Nandipha Mntambo, Michael Rakowitz, Yinka Shonibare, and Marja Helander. In this way I aim to emphasize the global relevance of these issues, as well as what we can thus learn from and about our own origins, current standpoints, and further possibilities.
Keywords:
cultural interactions, code-switching, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Nandipha Mntambo, Michael Rakowitz, Yinka Shonibare and Marja Helander
How to cite:
Somhegyi, Zoltán. “Cultural Complexities and their Environment: Investigations of Code–Switching in Contemporary Visual Arts.” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 7, no. 2 (2023): 27-35. https://doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2023.0013.
Author:
Zoltán Somhegyi
Department of Art History, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
H-1091 Budapest, Kálvin Square 9, Hungary
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4226-1906
somhegyi.zoltan.gyorgy@kre.hu
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