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The 7th Gwangju Biennale is not simply to make an exhibition about exhibitions

2008-09-02 18:08:17来源：gb

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Bringing together a range of activities produced across the span of nearly eighteen months, the exhibition will serve as hosting site, incorporating into its sequence of galleries and sites activities ranging from performances, readings, film screenings, music, dance, theater, to exhibitions initiated within that period of time. From the obscure to the mainstream, from the local to the transnational, these activities can be understood as a chain of traveling cultural worlds and idioms, a network of incommensurable experiments in global culture within the contemporary calendar. Whether originating from a shopping mall, a folk theater, a makeshift display in a neighborhood, alternative gallery systems, non-profit institutions, local cultural centers, or the commercial gallery circuit, art fairs, museums, festivals, and a wide array of exhibition systems and spaces, the biennale’s task is to illuminate the intermediary space that governs the mechanisms for the assembly of the multifarious positions of each given work. Using the notion of the space of encounter, the biennale hopes to explore models of cultural exchange, setting up a soft, porous line between context and practice, form and medium, artist and system, institution and locality.

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