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Zanny Begg’s “A World of Proximities – Globalisation Timeline”

James David Morgan wrote this post at 1:34 pm on November 12th, 2008.

The 2008 Taipei Biennial opened on September 11th, 2008, and contained a parallel project within the exhibition, One World Where Many Worlds Fit, curated by Oliver Ressler. For this, Zanny Begg produced an 11 meter long wall drawing titled A World of Proximities – Globalisation Timeline. Begg writes:

The exhibition as a whole was centred on globalisation and it fragmentary, political and decentering aspects: the project by Oliver Ressler, within this overall framework, focused on the counter-globalisation movement. For this exhibition Oliver and I exhibited our film What Would It Mean to Win?

Zanny Begg - A World of Proximities - Globalisation Timeline

Zanny Begg - A World of Proximities - Globalisation Timeline - Detail

See also Oliver Ressler’s Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies, previously covered on Groundswell.

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