Art History, Arts Administration and Policy

"Notes on Feedback" was published on occasion of the inaugural exhibition opening at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park (University of Chicago, 2013).

Participating Artists:

Terry Adkins, Blanche Bruce, Cecil McDonald, Jr., Alexandria Eregbu, Nyeema Morgan, Abbéy Odunlami, Kamau Patton, Cauleen Smith

Curated by Allison Glenn

Not so long ago, whilst the last bricks of the Berlin Wall were symbolically being chipped and demolished, Francis Fukuyama declared the glorious advent of Western Democracy, mostly known under the – undoubtedly modest – utterance: ‘The End of History’. It did not take long for Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri to get back to this statement: ‘Empire is materialising before our very eyes [...]. Empire is the political subject that effectively regulates [these] global exchanges, the sovereign power that governs the world’. In other words, ‘The Empire strikes Back’. Although arguable, Hardt and Negri had a point when denying the idea of a universal reciprocity – globalisation’s main meme. As Michel Foucault articulated in the opening quote of this paper, a procession of political, economic and cultural dominations might be worth considering, unless one is willing to perceive the world in a point of perfect equanimity after all, globalisation could be approached as the flattening of the g...