Reflections on the 59th Venice Biennale. Part 2: Delirium in the Giardini, Exhaustion in the Arsenale
by Henrietta Landells
In this bubbling forth of a kind of collective unconscious, Venice seemed renewed to me as a potent setting for the Biennale ritual gathering. Both the new commissions (alchemy on demand?) and the rediscovery of already-existing webs of knowledge and practice perhaps more easily take on a kind of ‘global’ existential resonance, when re-contextualised and re-purposed here. At the least, they suggest new alternative futures remain available, via these alternative pasts-within-the-present.
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Glasgow international is currently inviting applications for the role of Festival Director, to lead the festival through the next edition that will take place Friday, June 7–Sunday, June 23, 2024. Interviews are provisionally scheduled for the week beginning 15th August.
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The Seoul Museum of Art is pleased to announce its open call for the position of artistic director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale.
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Reflections on the 59th Venice Biennale. Part 1: Alchemical visions, suspended in milk
by Henrietta Landells
Amidst the disorientation that follows our re-emergence from an extended period of isolation and uncertainty, curator Cecilia Alemani presents Milk of Dreams, a large-scale matriarchal gathering bringing the work of over 200 contemporary artists from 58 countries to Venice, together with works by a selection of historical female artists from the 19th century onwards.
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BIENALSUR 2023 invites artists and curators from all over the world to submit their works and/or curatorial research projects to be included in the programme of its fourth edition.
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