Of Biennials and Biennalists: Venice, Documenta, Münster  

Oleh:

Tang, Jeannine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 24 no. 7 (Dec. 2007), page 247-260.
Topik: art ¦ biennials ¦ city ¦ exhibition ¦ post-colonial
Fulltext: 247.pdf (431.92KB)

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Biennials are a broad category of large-scale, high-budget exhibition, recurring at a minimum rate of two years apart. This piece is concerned with the values that biennials and biennialists disclose. It will argue that artists gain recognition from biennials and that the state uses biennials as prestigious events in a competitive geo-political game – typically via strategies of regional co-identification and crossmarketing. It will go on to show how the recent Documenta and Münster biennials were conceived to revitalize their cities’ cultural heritage. However, it will also suggest that biennials can suffer from forms of curation weighted by both post-colonial representation and established cultural hierarchies, and that given their often smooth integration into the flows of capital, may benefit from old tactics such as ‘defamiliarization’ and analyses of the forms of representation that art exhibitions enact.

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