RECONSTRUCTION OF OTHERNESS IN THE GLOBALIZATION PROCESS AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

In this study, the effect of post-colonial criticism on the self-orientalist discourse that has changed since the 1980s in non-Western modernities is examined, and its reflections on contemporary art in Turkey are focused. Post-structuralist theories claiming the end of grand narratives and keeping a critical distance from essentialist approaches and post-colonial studies highlighting micro-identities have also found a response in contemporary art production in Turkey, and the issue of "otherness" has been opened to discussion with its different dimensions. In this article, how the discourse of the "other" transformed in the globalization process, how international art organizations function in shaping new perceptions and attitudes towards the other and gaining visibility were examined with qualitative research methods and identity-themed contemporary artworks were analyzed. As a result, the study emphasizes that post-colonial perception conditions the eastern artist to think like an ethnographer, to make a folkloric presentation of the locality or to use a self-orientalist discourse. Thus, it is aimed to open discussion new artistic possibilities of self-expression by transcending an established metalanguage in order to be articulated to the artworld.

Keywords

Feminist art, Postcolonial criticism, Culturalism, Identity, Otherness