Pan-European Encounters at the Venice Biennale (Leaflet)
7 Jun 2007
People:
Terry Adams, David Adjaye, John Akomfrah, Jonah Albert, David Bailey, Adelaide Bannerman, Chris Burton, Alicia Campbell, Yasmin Canvin, Hilary Carty, Gus Casely-Hayford, Paul Domela, Lina Džuverović, Tim Eastop, Ekow Eshun, Kodwo Eshun, Michael Forbes, Cheryl Gallagher, Thelma Golden, Simon Grosspietsch, Gina Ha-Gorlin, Qian Jing, Harjeet Kaur, Esen Kaya, Melanie Keen, Shama Khanna, Atsuko Kikuchi, Yu Yeon Kim, Sally Lai, Axel Lapp, Sook-Kyung Lee, Kwong Lee, Melanie Lenz, Cedar Lewisohn, Catherine Lucktaylor, Courtney J Martin, Eva McGovern, Syra Miah, Yvette Mutumba, Simon Njami, Joanne Peters, Paul Purgas, Juan Sebastian Ramirez, Jacques Rancière, Sara Raza, Anjalika Sagar, Sherman Mern Tat Sam, Edgar Schmitz, John Sealey, Zineb Sedira, Samenua Sesher, Shamita Sharmacharja, Mariam Sharp, Deborah Smith, Robert Storr, Ellie Stout, Claire Summerfield, Gilane Tawadros, Mark Waugh, Julia Waugh, Tania Wilmer, Jen Wu. View 57 more
Location:
Venice
People:
Terry Adams, David Adjaye, John Akomfrah, Jonah Albert, David Bailey, Adelaide Bannerman, Chris Burton, Alicia Campbell, Yasmin Canvin, Hilary Carty, Gus Casely-Hayford, Paul Domela, Lina Džuverović, Tim Eastop, Ekow Eshun, Kodwo Eshun, Michael Forbes, Cheryl Gallagher, Thelma Golden, Simon Grosspietsch, Gina Ha-Gorlin, Qian Jing, Harjeet Kaur, Esen Kaya, Melanie Keen, Shama Khanna, Atsuko Kikuchi, Yu Yeon Kim, Sally Lai, Axel Lapp, Sook-Kyung Lee, Kwong Lee, Melanie Lenz, Cedar Lewisohn, Catherine Lucktaylor, Courtney J Martin, Eva McGovern, Syra Miah, Yvette Mutumba, Simon Njami, Joanne Peters, Paul Purgas, Juan Sebastian Ramirez, Jacques Rancière, Sara Raza, Anjalika Sagar, Sherman Mern Tat Sam, Edgar Schmitz, John Sealey, Zineb Sedira, Samenua Sesher, Shamita Sharmacharja, Mariam Sharp, Deborah Smith, Robert Storr, Ellie Stout, Claire Summerfield, Gilane Tawadros, Mark Waugh, Julia Waugh, Tania Wilmer, Jen Wu. View 57 more
Location:
Venice
Pan-European Encounters was the first major gathering of international curators, writers, artists and critics at the Venice Biennale to discuss and explore the changing idea of identity and the diaspora in the 21st century.
The symposium provided a necessary platform for a critical discussion about the changing nature of representation within an increasingly globalised cultural context. It posed essential questions about the economies of exhibition, urbanisation and regeneration. It also considered the international infra-structural developments necessary to nurture and sustain a more representative and culturally diverse professional ecology for the visual arts.
Its point of departure for the programme was an essay by Jacques Derrida on the future after Apartheid, and asked: Where are we now? What spectres haunt this scene in the year that South Africa exhibits, for the first time, as guests in the Italian Pavilion and Britain celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery Act?
‘Nothing is delivered here in the present, nothing that would be presentable – only, in tomorrow’s rear view mirror, the late, ultimate racism, the last of many.’ – Jacques Derrida 1983: Racism’s Last Word