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Lorenzo Fusi tells Kate Brundrett about his aspirations for Liverpool Biennial 2010
Liverpool Biennial has appointed Lorenzo Fusi as curator for the International, the lead exhibition of the Liverpool Biennial festival of contemporary art. He will be working on the development of the programme for the next festival – the UK’s Biennial - which takes place in 2010.
Welcome to Liverpool and your new position as International Curator for Liverpool Biennial. What, do you think, won you the post of International Curator? I think there is a time and a place for things to happen. When I applied for this post, my private life and career in Italy seemed to have come to a dead end. I felt I had to diversely challenge my skills as a curator and place myself in a different context in order to verify where I was standing as a human being and rethink my role as a cultural operator. I was not afraid to dedicate myself entirely to a new project or move here on a permanent basis (at least for the two years to come). Unlike many globe-trotter curators who organise shows from the seat of an aircraft and who like to wear many different shoes at once, I made clear that I would have committed to the Liverpool Biennial full time, dedicating and devolving all my energies to it. I like to think that my working history in the public realm and commissioning art in the not-for-profit sector won me this position. My availability to reside here and desire to have a first hand experience of the city were surely a bonus. What are the main aims for the...
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