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World Biennial Forum No 2

How to Make Biennials in Contemporary Times

26-30 November, 2014
Auditório Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil

Directed by: Charles Esche, Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente, Luiza Proença, Oren Sagiv, and Benjamin Seroussi.

Hosted by the 31st Bienal de São Paulo

WBF No 2 includes the voices of curators and researchers who are looking at the
changes within the landscape and ecology of the biennial at the present time.

Guest of Honor: Ivo Mesquita

Keynote Speech: Peter Osborne

Speakers: Martin Grossmann, Lucy Steeds, Anthony Gardner, Fernando Oliva, Moacir dos Anjos, Reem Fadda, Marina Fokidis, Fabio Cypriano, Ana Paula Cohen, Ivo Mesquita, Anne Szefer Karlsen, David Teh, Manuela Moscoso, Ana Magalhães, Övül Durmusoglu, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and Cayo Honorato.

Respondents: Koyo Kouoh, Azar Mahmoudian, Combiz Mousavi Aghdam, Patrick Mudekereza, Yvette Mutumba, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Eva Scharrer, Alya Sebti, and Suzana Sousa.

Opening: November, 26
Discussions & workshops: November 27, 28
Visit to 31st Bienal: November 29
Visit to other venues in SP: November 30

Free entrance
Registration via the website
www.worldbiennialforum.org
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The aim of the WRO 2015 Biennale is to give exposure to new media art experiments, individual explorations and approaches investigating the potential of art both to affect and to reflect emerging issues in culture.

Whorled Explorations, the second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale curated by Jitish Kallat and featuring 94 artists, will open on December 12 across eight venues in Kochi, Kerala, India.

The World Biennial Forum No 2 will look at the biennial from the point of view of the southern hemisphere. It will concentrate above all on recent biennials, and in what has come to be termed the ‘Global South’, occasionally taking a broader perspective to investigate how we have arrived here.

For the duration of the 31st Bienal de São Paulo, ‘How to (…) things that don’t exist’, Afterall is allowing free access to a selection of Afterall journal articles on or by ‘participants’ of the exhibition.

In the Spanish Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale Commissioner Martí Manen will present a group show.

Berlin based Christian Jankowski has been appointed Chief Curator of Manifesta 11, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will be hosted in Zurich, Switzerland in 2016.