Jimini Hignett
Official Invitation (scribble-down letters!) / Photo by Timothy Greathouse
Media-Savvy
Coined ‘The Royal Drag’ by the SOHO-news, Topo Grajeda & Jimini Hignett’s wedding performance planned to challenge Charles and Di’s monopoly of prime-time news on July 29th 1981, was a wonderful combination of art and media-savvy. Performing in New York in the early 80’s under the name ‘Christians from Outer Space’, Topo and Jimini topped their usual aim of having their name appear in the local listings each week – performing at off-off-Broadway locations on the Lower East Side and on the sidewalks midtown – with this cross-dressed version of the Royal knot-tying making onto the Channel-7 news. More »
Anna Hoetjes
Per.cep.tion
n.
1. The process, act, or faculty of perceiving.
2. The effect or product of perceiving.
3. Psychology
a. Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.
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Patricia Sousa
Sois Belle Et Vote (‘Be Pretty and Vote’ ) was a sentence used for a political advertising campaign that took place in Lebanon in 2009 by the occasion of the parliamentary elections.
Together with this sentence the billboards showed an image of
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Julio Pastor
In 1983, the French newspaper Libération invited Sophie Calle to publish a series of 28 articles. Having recently found on the street the address book of a man called Pierre Baudry, Sophie Calle photocopied the content and afterwards
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Lauren Alexander
Nayruz Holdings
A fictitious holdings company, created by Jordanian artist, Oraib Toukan. The company proposes to auction off the Middle East in the year 2012,
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Eva Olthof
De Volkskrant, Wednesday 3th of February 2010
Port au Prince Haïti, 25th of January 2010, photo Tomas Bravo/Reuters
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Global Biennial Association
The GLOBAL BIENNIAL ASSOCIATION was started in 2009, by a group of international exhibition makers and art-historians who have been involved in the growing global rise of the art biennial phenomenon. The GBA has it’s main headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but is active all over the world. We take on a fresh, young and critical approach towards the global art world, creating new, ambitious and successful formats.
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Alfredo Cramerotti & Fay Nicolson
• Why use and explore media platforms as an artist or curator?
• What is the relationship between (mass) media and art in the past and present, and what are the possible future scenarios?
• Can media platforms renegotiate a relationship between art and the locality in a Biennale model?
Through operating as a roving biennial Manifesta must each time address and negotiate a different context with specific geographical, historical and political structures. In this way, Manifesta offers its curators the opportunity, and the challenge, to engage with local, global and networked communities using a variety of platforms and approaches.
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Eva Olthof
Photographic essay: some thoughts and photos on tracing the invisible and making it visible. Which tools were used and what does this picture have to do with a volcano?
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Jimini Hignett
Embedded in this short clip from the story of Adam and Eve, as told by my homeless collaborator, Barbara, are a number of key elements, More »
To the students of DAI, Enschedé
Master Course / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
Manifesta7, 2008
From: Barbara Visser
www.barbaravisser.net
A new brief
Amsterdam, December 17, 2009
Dear students,
In response to the invitation by Manifesta and the Dutch Art Institute to participate in the Platform for (un)solicited Research and Advice, I am writing you this letter. More »
Patrícia Sousa
“(…) From such formulated platforms we can relate to other spaces and spheres indicating that biennials are not predominantly to be seen as utopias, but rather as heterotopias, capable of maintaining several contradictory representations within a single space.”
Simon Sheikh
in ‘Marks of Distinction, Vectors of Possibility’
It is clear that biennials, triennials, art fairs, as art events are, undoubtedly, part of an
economic system dominated by structures of power that seek not only to brand a new
place or event but also to contribute for the legitimization of a particular art world and its
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Julio Pastor
A few days ago, I sat in front of my laptop and placed my fingers over the keyboard with the intention of writing my opinion in relation to biennials. It was only then that I thought:
“How can I take a stand in relation to the biennial phenomenon taking into account that my personal experience on visiting these events comes down to… one?”
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