Biennial anxiety: amid growing questions about the purpose of large-scale international shows, the recent Gwangju and Busan Biennales underscored the limitations as well as the strengths of such projects.(REPORT FROM KOREA I)
From: Art in America
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Date: 5/1/2005
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Author: Heartney, Eleanor
The Gwangju Biennale
With an estimated 200-plus international biennials vying for public attention, an exotic location and a roster of globally distributed artists are no longer enough to guarantee art-world notice. Increasingly, it seems that an international show also requires a rhetorical flourish or a promise to explode the conventional biennial formula. In 2003, Venice offered a Dictatorship of the Viewer. The next edition of the Istanbul Biennial will present that city as ...
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