Any Future for Biennials? Panel discussion. The many canceled large-scale international exhibitions of the past year raise serious questions about the viability of such spectacular events. At the same time, travel restrictions and localized lockdowns may recall a time when such venues for cultural and artistic exchange held a crucial utopian promise.
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LIAF 2017: The Henningsvær Charter
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The Global Work of Art Book Launch
Wednesday 4 October 2017, 6 – 8 pm
Biennial Foundation Advisory Board Member, Professor Caroline A. Jones presents her latest book The Global Work of Art: World’s Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience, newly published by The University of Chicago Press. Introduction by Rafal Niemojewski, Director of the Biennial Foundation. Followed by drinks reception.
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The Biennial Factor: Impacting the Context
Friday 31 March 2017, 1pm
Talk featuring: Douglas Fogle, Independent Curator and Writer, Los Angeles; Rafal Niemojewski, Director, Biennial Foundation, New York; Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Partner, OMA/AMO, Rotterdam; moderated by Stefano Baia Curioni, Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University, Milan.
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Alternative Art School Fair: a new initiative by Paris Biennale
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OSLO PILOT symposium: The Giver, the Guest and the Ghost
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Transnational Art Festivals and Exhibitions in 1990s Southeast Asia
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Contour Biennale 8 Preview Event
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Thursday, 20 October 2016
7:30-9:00 pm
Free and open to the public
CP Projects Space at the MA Curatorial Practice program, the School of Visual Arts is pleased to present The Biennials Explosion: An Argument, a Conversation, a Downpour of Questions, featuring three of the leading experts in the field: Terry Smith, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Pittsburgh; Carolee Thea, author of On Curating and On Curating 2; and Rafal Niemojewski, director of the Biennial Foundation.
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