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Research papers
Biennials and city-wide events
Edited by Jeanine Griffin and Steve Dutton, looks at the issue of local versus global with reference to the ever increasing number of biennials and city-wide exhibition projects taking place around the world. Includes essays by John Byrne, Neil Mulholland and Jan Verwoert.
Airport Art: New Internationalism or Global Franchise?
Airport art, as I now like to call it, is the major problem facing biennales, biennials and art festivals today. Read on…
Feature, Research papers December 2007
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Research papers December 2007
Forget the National: Perform the International in the key of the Local (and vice versa)!
Rather than asking what a biennial represents, it may be worthwhile to shift the emphasis of the question and examine how it represents. That is: How is it experienced? Read on…
Feature, Research papers December 2007
Not Only Implausible, But Also Discretionary: Scepticism in the Age of Format Wars
Despite common parlance, globalisation is not a synonym for contemporary neoliberal capitalism; it is rather an historical process of cultural drift and metamorphosis. Read on…
Feature, Research papers December 2007
Something, like nothing, happens anywhere1
There are now over 200 contemporary art biennials across the globe, compared with four or five or twenty years ago. Read on…
Feature, Research papers December 2007
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