Dates:
20 Sep 2008
People:
Artists Anonymous, David Bailey, Paul Domela, Lina Džuverović, Axel Lapp, Jiyoon Lee, Cedar Lewisohn, Paul O'Neill, Polly Staple, Michael M. Thoss.
Location:
A Foundation Liverpool
European Biennial Network and ICF collaborated to present a symposium during Liverpool Biennial 2008.
PROGRAMME
Panel One
Between Biennials: Short-term effect or long-term results?
Is it appropriate on the opening day of Liverpool Biennial to look at the long-term results of biennials? Or is the primary role of biennials to provide a short-term injection into the bloodstream of art and city. Can they do both? Since the expansion and proliferation of biennials in the 1990s, can we now begin to detect accumulative benefits within their local arts ecologies? If so, why does criticism focus mainly upon the reception of authored curatorial strategies in an ever-expanding global art world?
This debate brings a number of European biennials together to focus the spotlight behind the scene and looks at different approaches of biennials to connect curatorial models with the cultural infrastructure in their cities. An expert panel of invited international curators, artists, commissioners and writers will represent those responsible for the organisation of the biennials. Chaired by Paul O’Neill, Research Fellow Situations, University of the West of England, with Kerstin Bergendal, artist, and author of Kunstplan Trekoner; Paul Domela, Programme Director Liverpool Biennial; Annie Fletcher, curator van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Bige Örer, Director Istanbul Biennial; Jack Persekian, Artistic Director Sharjah Biennial; Renate Wagner, Berlin Biennale; Augustine Zenakos, founder and co-director Athens Biennial; and others.
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Panel Two
Raising the Curtain: a conversation in two parts
We all experience artworks at different velocities and much has been said about the need for artworks to engage us in both the spectacular flash of first impact and the slow retinal aftershocks of perception. This vertiginous moment is perhaps most precarious within the context of the international biennial when as the curtain rises the accumulation of ideas is exposed and the work becomes a spectacle in an international melee of artworks. Hosted by David A. Bailey, Director of ICF and Senior Curator at Autograph, with contributions from Lina Dzuverovic, Curator of Nordic Biennial 2009, co-founder and Director of Electra; Cedar Lewisohn, Curator of Tate Modern Street Art and Tate Triennial, Michael M. Thoss, Director of the Allianz Cultural Foundation; Axel Lapp, Contributing Editor Art Review, publisher and curator; Liyoon Lee, Director of SUUM and Curator of Fantasy Studio Project; Polly Staple, Editor-at-Large Frieze; and Artists Anonymous.
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People:
Artists Anonymous, David Bailey, Paul Domela, Lina Džuverović, Axel Lapp, Jiyoon Lee, Cedar Lewisohn, Paul O'Neill, Polly Staple, Michael M. Thoss.
European Biennial Network and ICF collaborated to present a symposium during Liverpool Biennial 2008.
PROGRAMME
Panel One
Between Biennials: Short-term effect or long-term results?
Is it appropriate on the opening day of Liverpool Biennial to look at the long-term results of biennials? Or is the primary role of biennials to provide a short-term injection into the bloodstream of art and city. Can they do both? Since the expansion and proliferation of biennials in the 1990s, can we now begin to detect accumulative benefits within their local arts ecologies? If so, why does criticism focus mainly upon the reception of authored curatorial strategies in an ever-expanding global art world?
This debate brings a number of European biennials together to focus the spotlight behind the scene and looks at different approaches of biennials to connect curatorial models with the cultural infrastructure in their cities. An expert panel of invited international curators, artists, commissioners and writers will represent those responsible for the organisation of the biennials. Chaired by Paul O’Neill, Research Fellow Situations, University of the West of England, with Kerstin Bergendal, artist, and author of Kunstplan Trekoner; Paul Domela, Programme Director Liverpool Biennial; Annie Fletcher, curator van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Bige Örer, Director Istanbul Biennial; Jack Persekian, Artistic Director Sharjah Biennial; Renate Wagner, Berlin Biennale; Augustine Zenakos, founder and co-director Athens Biennial; and others.
Watch Event Recording
Panel Two
Raising the Curtain: a conversation in two parts
We all experience artworks at different velocities and much has been said about the need for artworks to engage us in both the spectacular flash of first impact and the slow retinal aftershocks of perception. This vertiginous moment is perhaps most precarious within the context of the international biennial when as the curtain rises the accumulation of ideas is exposed and the work becomes a spectacle in an international melee of artworks. Hosted by David A. Bailey, Director of ICF and Senior Curator at Autograph, with contributions from Lina Dzuverovic, Curator of Nordic Biennial 2009, co-founder and Director of Electra; Cedar Lewisohn, Curator of Tate Modern Street Art and Tate Triennial, Michael M. Thoss, Director of the Allianz Cultural Foundation; Axel Lapp, Contributing Editor Art Review, publisher and curator; Liyoon Lee, Director of SUUM and Curator of Fantasy Studio Project; Polly Staple, Editor-at-Large Frieze; and Artists Anonymous.
Watch Event Recording Dates:
20 Sep 2008
Location:
A Foundation Liverpool
