- Venue
- Indo - British Exhibition
- Starts
- Friday, July 2, 2010
- Ends
- Monday, October 25, 2010
- Location
- East Midlands
Indo-British Exhibition Des Pardes: The Challenge of the Glocal International Exchange shows proposing to bring together the works of about one hundred artists, half from the East Midlands in the UK and half from Vadodara in India. The artworks must reflect the essence of the theme of Globalisation in the way that the artist has understood it and its effects. The show will open in Britain this summer and then travel to India. The last decade of the 20th century ushered in a world-wide phenomenon called Globalisation. With the weakening of the socialist and communist ideologies in European and Asian giants like the former USSR and China, capitalist economy as a model to follow gained currency. A number of countries such as India opened their doors and foreign goods began flooding these vast markets. Industrial, business, academic and cultural collaborations between countries received encouragement; people traveled more and engaged with people from different socio-cultural backgrounds and traditions. It especially dealt a severe body blow to the so-called developed, ‘first world’ countries in the west, shaking the foundations of the social security/welfare economy that these societies thrived upon. Neither India nor Great Britain has been left untouched by the effects of Globalization. But they have both been touched in different ways indeed.
