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The conference is open to the public on Saturday and Sunday. Entrance fee 20/15 DM.
Saturday, 5. August 11 Uhr
11:00 Speech Yongwoo Lee
11:30 Panel 1: What our village needs now...: The Biennial as locational factor.
12:30 Speech Paula Latos-Valier
12:45 Panel 2: Insights: The influence of Biennials to the local cultural situation.
14:00 Lunch Break
15:00 Panel 3: Outlooks: Shanghai, Havana, Berlin and Istanbul 2000/2001.
15:30 Speech Alfredo Jaar
15:45 Panel 4: The artist in the global concert: The world as a studio?
16:45 Break
17:30 Speech Saskia Bos
17:45 Panel 5: The exhibition as global blockbuster: The ethic of curating.
19:00 Panel 6: Who will be supported? The rising conflict of the supporting institutions and the need of an comprehensive politic.
20:00 End of the panels
Sunday, 6. August
10:30 Lectures by Okwui Enwezor and Marius Babias
12:00 Round table discussion: Lyon or Werkleitz, Venice or Istanbul - Where is the future of Biennials?
14:00 End
Participants (20.7.00):
Marius Babias, Berlin, Critic
René Block, Berlin / Kassel, Artistic Director Kunsthalle Museum Fridericianum
Saskia Bos, Amsterdam, Curator Berlin Biennale 2001
Candice Breitz, South Africa / New York, artist
Yang Chen Chaos, Peking, Freelance Curator
David Elliott, Stockholm, Director Moderna Museet
Deborah Ely, Sydney Program Manager Visual Arts and Crafts, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts
Okwui Enwezor, Nigeria / New York, Artistic Director Documenta11
Fulya Erdemci, Istanbul, Istanbul Biennale
Hedwig Fijen, Rotterdam, Organisation Manifesta
Yuko Hasegawa, Tokio, Curator Istanbul Biennale 2001
Nelson Herrera Isla, Havanna, Director Havanna Biennale
Manray Hsu, Taipeh, Curator Taipeh Biennale 2000
Alfredo Jaar, Chile / New York, Artist
Christian Jankowski, Berlin, Artist
Gülsün Karamustafa, Istanbul, Artist
Chan-Dong Kim, Seoul, Team Director for the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation Art Center
Corinna Koch, Werkleitz, Curator, Werkleitz Biennale 2000
Sanne Kofod Olsen, Copenhagen, Curator DCA Foundation
Luis Lama Lima, President, Lima Biennale
Paula Latos-Valier, Sydney, General Manager Sydney Biennale
Yong Woo Lee, Seoul, Curator
Jean-Hubert Martin, Paris / Düsseldorf, Curator Biennale de Lyon 2000
Christiane Mennicke, Werkleitz, curator Werkleitz Biennale
Thomas Michelon, Cologne, Chargé de mission, AFAA - Bureau des Arts Plastiques en Allemagne
Thomas Munz, Werkleitz, Organisation Werkleitz Biennale
Adriano Pedrosa, São Paulo, Associate Curator, São Paulo Biennale
Zhang Qing, Shanghai, Vice Director Shanghai Biennale Office
Thierry Raspail, Lyon, Joint Artistic Director Biennale de Lyon
Rémi Sagna, Dakar, Sécrétaire Général Biennale Dakar
Rudolf Schmitz, Frankfurt, Critic
Marketta Seppälä, Oslo, FRAME
Breda Skrjanec, Ljubljana, Curator Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Art
Liliana Stepancic, Ljubljana, Director International Centre of Graphic Arts
Fritz Stolberg, Frankfurt / London, London Biennale
Igor Zabel, Ljubljana, Organisation Manifesta 3
Ursula Zeller, Stuttgart, IFA
Kassel. The number of contemporary art biennials is steadily increasing - a survey of the whole spectrum has become virtually impossible. With the exhibition "Song of the Earth" and the conference "Biennials in Dialogue", the Artistic Director of the Kunsthalle Museum Fridericianum René Block aims to create this lost overview and initiate a long overdue communication between the various biennials.
While the exhibition "Song of the Earth" focuses on the world's eight most important biennials - symbolically represented through a selection of artists from the respective countries -, the international conference "Biennials in Dialogue" (3-6 August 2000) allows the institutional widening and discursive deepening of global dialogue.
The great number of new biennials in particular, makes the networking between institutions increasingly important. Held in the Documenta-Halle in the German town of Kassel, this international conference offers curators and directors of contemporary art biennials world-wide the opportunity to meet in more intimate circles to exchange experiences and discuss their approaches and aims. There will be over thirty participants including Thierry Raspail (Lyon Biennial), Saskia Bos (Berlin Biennial), Madeleine Grynsztejn (Carnegie International Pittsburgh), Fulya Erdemci and Yuko Hasegawa (Istanbul Biennial), Yong Woo Lee and You Yeong Kim (Kwangju Biennial), Zhang Quin (Shanghai Biennial), Yulin Lee (Taipeh Biennial), Paula Latos-Valier (Sydney Biennial), Nelson Herrera Isla and Lilian Llanes (Havanna Biennial), Rémi Sagna (Dakar Biennial), Clive Kellner (Johannesburg Biennial) and Okwui Enwezor (Documenta11).
To guarantee a high level of efficiency, the conference begins with internal meetings. Saturday though is entirely dedicated to the public. Those interested can participate in simultaneously translated presentations and panel discussions on the subject. To be expected are, among other things, first insights into the conception of the next biennials in Havanna, Berlin and Istanbul. After the continuation of the public panel discussion, the conference will finish on Sunday with an equally open public round-table debate. The expectation is that it will also conclude as a prelude to further biennial-conferences.
The conference is co-organised by the Museum Fridericianum and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Stuttgart) with support from the Kulturabteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes (Berlin), the Hessische Kulturstiftung (Wiesbaden), the Australia Council (Sydney), the Corean Culture and Arts Foundation (Seoul), the AFAA - Bureau des Arts Plastiques in Germany and Arts International (New York).
Participation charges for the part of the conference open to the public (Saturday August 5, 11am - 9pm and Sunday August 6, 10am - 3pm) are DM 20.00/ DM 15.00 reductions (including admission to the exhibition "Song of the Earth").
Place: Documenta-Halle, Du-Ry-Straße, 34117 Kassel (entrance Friedrichplatz).
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