Introduction: Making Art Global: A Good Place or a No Place?
1989 was one of the most significant years in the twentieth century. It saw the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the fall of communist governments across Eastern Europe and the invention of the World Wide Web, events that resulted in a new political settlement, a new global economy and the growing collective consciousness that we live with today. In a contemporary art context, the exhibitions ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ in Paris, ‘The Other Story’ in London and the third Bienal de La Habana in Cuba – the latter being the focus of this book – coincidentally opened in that same year.
