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The Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics calls for Papers.

The upcoming issue of Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics will discuss the political future of the contemporary art biennial. How can biennials become experimental «sites» to rethink the relationship between art and politics, without lending themselves too easily to the confines of the contemporary art market and neoliberal political geography? While biennials have been criticized for subjecting themselves to urban/ regional marketing strategies, they have also been defended as valuable places for the formation of new alliances among art scenes of the ‘periphery’, that are today steadily changing the global art map.
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As the world’s only biennale dedicated exclusively to the themes of urbanism and urbanization, the UABB(SZ) [Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture has cultivated strong alliances internationally, in the process becoming a global event of significance.

Okwui Enwezor appointed Director of Venice Biennale 2015.

Crash Pad by Andreas Angelidakis is the first commissioned work of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. The room installation opens on January 25, 2014, as a preliminary statement of the 8th Berlin Biennale.

Whitstable Biennale announced that the winners of its 2014 Open Submission Award are Louisa Martin and Rachel Reupke.

4th International Canakkale Biennial, Turkey, will be held between 27 September and 2 November 2014.

55 biennale internazionale arte Venezia 2013 – See the works of all artists published in ARTEXT online on ISSUU.

This year’s open call seeks active correspondents for the March Meeting 2014.

Austrian curators Georg Schöllhammer and Hedwig Saxenhuber will lead the preparations for the Second Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art – ARSENALE 2014.

Closed on Sunday November 24th, the 55th International Art Exhibition – Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), the Biennale Arte 2013 has reached over 475.000 visitors.

Questions of identity have generally been associated with a sense of belonging; of belonging to a nation, a community or even an ideology. But, what does it mean to belong?

For the next issue Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics welcomes reviews of biennials worldwide as well as essays and interviews that address these questions through a high variety of possible angles.