Global Priority

Co-curated by Grady Gerbracht and Susan Jahoda in 2003, the exhibition Global Priority explores how artists are responding to the currently accelerating hybridization of identities in relation to dispersed international flows of economic and cultural values. The title of the exhibition refers to one of the standard services of the U.S. Postal Service. As such, it invites audiences to think about globalization in relation to multiple, scattered identities bound up with citizenship and locality. It also suggests an interrogation of hegemonic priorities in response to global economic and cultural dispersion.

The exhibition included architecture, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and websites by an international group of individual artists and artist collaboratives.  Essays, as well as documentation of the art works in the exhibition, were published in a catalog which was also published as the July 2003 edition of the journal Rethinking Marxism (volume 15, number 3).

Link to Curators’ Introduction PDF

List of Contributing Artists and Writers

Dennis Adams, Ludovic Burel, Javier Cambre, Rutherford Chang, Mark Dion, Matt Freedman, Cecilia Galiena, Grady Gerbracht, Nancy Hynes,Paul Isenrath, Emily Jacir & Anton Sinkewich, Susan Jahoda, Jesal Kapadia, Nina Katchadourian, William Kentridge, Pia Lindman, Mark Lombardi, Jeorge Macchi, Yahya Madra, Liz Miller, Santu Mofokeng, Anna Novakov, Olu Oguibe, Inhwan Oh, Josh On & Future Farmers,  David Opdyke, Kyong Park, John Peffer, Cesare Pietrousti, Walid Raad, Michael Rakowitz, Trebor Scholz &  Carol Flax, Allan Sekula, Superflex,  Minnette Vari, Alex Villar, Peter Walsh, Lori Waxman,Krzystof Wodiczko, Kumi Yamashita and Y Yeadon.

Herter Art Gallery
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
November 6-December 19, 2003

Traveled to: 
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June 17-August 14, 2004
Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, South Korea, September 18-October 12, 2004