3) Thick local partnerships between places like Central Indiana and Haiti, involving organizations, resources, and people in both locations, can improve globalization efforts. Artists have a role in helping places reconnect and re-create with a sense of beauty

1. Why Globalization Fails
without Engaged Art
John Clark
www.provocate.org

2. Responses to the Haitian quake show
the good that globalization can achieve
 Intense images were
piped into our homes
 Half of Indiana
households have
donated money to
Haitian relief
 Teams of Hoosier
disaster experts left
immediately to sift
through the rubble

3. But the intense, immediate,
empathetic response could be…
… Poorly informed
… Short-lived and ephemeral
… Inadequate for re-creating Haiti
… A missed opportunity for us to be part of something
special

4. Art can balance intense
experience with sustained
engagement
 Works of art can grab our
attention
 Great works reward
repeated experiences
 Artists can contribute much
more than just fundraisers

5. Art possesses a unique
convening power
It can draw us out of
the virtual world into
real spaces (like this)
where we can meet as
social beings

6. Art can give us something
important to talk about…
… after we have come together

7. Poets like Voltaire provide
descriptions of problems …
Descriptions that are more true…
…more real than mere facts

8. Artists capture cultural
contexts that give us meaning
Twins
Seven-
Seven,
Healing
Abiku
Children,
at IMA

9. Novelists can diagnose the
root causes of social problems
More insightfully than
sociologists & theologians…
…by combining the wisest
insights from both

10. Today’s globo-musicians
pioneer a new language
Busting genres, drawing from the best of the world’s music, creating
something new, something better than any one tradition could
produce on its own

11. So what gets in the way?
Globalization has been hijacked by the rhetoric
of commerce and naked self-interest
Infinite distractions
How long can the Haitian crisis
monopolize our attention?
Disconnected bubbles
A hundred Indianapolis
churches had partners &
teams in Haiti before the
quake … hardly any of them
knew each other

12. We can do globalization better
with thick local-to-local
partnerships
Central Indiana
Churches with a hundred
Haitian partners
Teams from IU-Med School,
Marian University Nursing
School, Timmy Foundation
Resources from Purdue, IU,
IUPUI, etc.
Haiti
5,000 Haitians live in Central
Indiana
Indiana University has USA’s
only Creole Institute
Internationally renowned
Hoosier-Haitian fashion
designer Beny Martin

13. Globalization needs artists to
work well for humans
 Help Haiti re-create itself with a sense of
beauty and humane purpose
 Hoosier artists discover new styles, new
themes, new collaborations
 Be part of something unique, be part of
something worth being creative

14. If we’re going to do something,
Why not do something great?

15. www.provocate.org