The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon

OPEN 16 THE ART BIENNIAL AS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON
Strategies in Neo-Political Times

Editors: Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis
Paperback | Illustrated (b/w) | 120 pages | 17 x 24 cm
Design: Thomas Buxó and Klaartje van Eijk
English edition ISBN 978-90-5662-667-9 | € 28.50
Dutch edition ISBN 978-90-5662-666-2 | € 28.5

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OPEN 16, states that there is not only a boom in international art biennials, but they are also increasingly deployed for developing and marketing cities and regions. In order to compensate for this, political issues are more and more often put on the agenda. Can biennials really represent an alternative political voice? This extra anniversary issue of OPEN contains a number of lectures delivered at the debate on this issue in October 2008 in connection with the first Brussels Biennial. Together with supplementary texts, a ‘reader’ has been created in which the biennial as a global phenomenon is analysed and approached not only in terms of an art theoretical discourse or cura torial practice, but also on the basis of more sociological and politico-philosophical points of view.

With contributions by:
Pascal Gielen, who analyses the problematic sides of the art biennial as a global phenomenon. Michel Hardt questions the role of the artist in disseminating communality. Chantal Mouffe reveals how artistic practices can break through existing power structures. Thierry de Duve wants to restore the aesthetic values to the viewing of art in a globalized world and according to Boris Groys, the biennial, just like the installation, creates a space t hat serves as a model for a new political world order. Simon Sheikh employs the notion of ‘politics of transition’ in order to escape neoliberal ideology. Brian Holmes focuses on the striking concept of the Sixth Biennial of Taipei. Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova explain their own contribution to the Brussels Biennial and Irit Rogoff’s project ‘Geo-Cultures’ examines the biennial as a site where local knowledge is exchanged with conditions elsewhere.


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