The opening of New Zealand's exhibition at the
2003 Venice Biennale
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Session 6: The
Rise and Rise of the Biennial
Over the last 20 years a number of new biennials
have been established and the older biennials have, by all accounts,
played an increasingly important role in sanctioning tendencies,
entrenching reputations and directing debate in the art world. This
trend has not always been well received. Some criticise the biennials
on curatorial grounds, maintaining that they are too large and multivalent
to offer a coherent experience, while others argue that they are
a force for homogenisation – that they pay lip-service to
site-specificity and inclusiveness while showing broadly the same
band of well-travelled artists. In his presentation, Verhagen suggests
that the biennial is now crucial to the functioning of various other
art world institutions, such as the museum and art fair, and that
the diversity of its exhibits is a reflection not of a willed and
consistent embrace of different practices but of the diversity of
demand in a market system.
Speaker: Marcus Verhagen, art historian and critic
Session 6 Webcasts:
Marcus Verhagen 56k (Real Media stream)
Marcus Verhagen 256k (Real Media stream)
Session 4-6 Discussion 56k (Real Media stream)
Session 4-6 Discussion 256k (Real Media stream)
Suggested Further Reading
- Okwui Enwezor, 'Mega-Exhibitions and the Antinomies
of a Transnational Global Form', MJ - Manifesta Journal,
no.2, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, pp.6-31.
- Carlos Basualdo, 'The Unstable Institution',
MJ - Manifesta Journal, no.2, Winter 2003/Spring 2004,
pp.50-61.
- James Meyer et al, 'Global Tendencies; Globalism
and the Large Scale Exhibition', Artforum, Nov. 2003,
pp.152-63, 206, 212.
- Pamela M. Lee, 'Boundary Issues; The Art World
Under the Sign of Globalism', Artforum, Nov. 2003, pp.164-67.
- Claire Doherty, 'Location, Location', Art
Monthly, no.281, Nov. 2004, pp.7-10.
- Niru Ratnam, 'Art and Globalisation', in Gill
Perry and Paul Wood eds., Themes in Contemporary Art,
New Haven and London, 2004, pp.276-313.
- Joost Smiers, Arts Under Pressure; Promoting
Cultural Diversity in the Age of Globalisation, London and
New York, 2003.
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