Modes of Representation of the São Paulo Biennial: the passage from artistic internationalism to cultural globalisation
by Vinicius Spricigo
This new book presents part of the results of the PhD research undertaken in the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo that studied three São Paulo Biennial editions, the ones that took place in 1998, 2006, and 2008. On focus are the transformations occurred in curatorial practices and in the institutional sphere of art. The author analyses the São Paulo Biennial political and cultural project to understand the changes on the modes of representation adopted in its recent editions. Based on his role as associated curator of the Fórum Permanente (2006 to 2008), Spricigo, questions curatorial practices by offering conceptual support for a critical debate on cultural mediation in the context of globalised contemporary art exhibitions.
About the author:
Vinicius Spricigo is member of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for cultural semiotics and media theory (CISC). He was Fórum Permanente´s Associate Editor between 2006 and 2008. As part of his doctoral degree at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo, he was a visiting research fellow at the Royal College of Art London-2007) and GAM – Global Art and the Museum (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe-2009). Among his publications with emphasis on issues of contemporary art exhibitions, globalization and postcolonialism are: Changes in Strategies of (Re)presentation at the São Paulo Biennial. In: Marieke van Hal; Solveig Ovstebo; Elena Filipovic. (Org.). The Biennial Reader: Anthology of essays on the global phenomena of biennials, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010.
Spricigo, Vinicius.
1st Edition, 2011, 212 p.
- Softcover, ISBN: 978-85-7715-21
- 27,00 Reais (Brazil)
Editora Hedra