As producers, Performa has developed a flexible and responsive production process allowing for exceptional variety in scope and scale to premiere the final work in the context of a world -
class biennial.
Not exact matches
In a provocative article titled «The Curious Case of Contemporary Ink Painting» (Art Journal, Fall 2010), art historian Joan Kee has recently suggested that despite being chosen to represent South Korea in international
biennials in the 1960s, Suh and other Mungnimhoe painters were marginalized in their own country by being
classed as «ink painters» rather than as contemporary artists.
November 1 - 21, 2011 Performa Institute, a platform of 30
biennial artist - led
classes with Elmgreen & Dragset, Ragnar Kjartansson, Guy Maddin, Antonio Manuel, Mai - Thu Perret, Michael Portnoy, Serkan Ozkaya, Anton Vidokle Liam Gillick, Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler, Julieta Aranda, Carlos Motta and Raphael Zarka, among others, with Performa curators Defne Ayas and Dougal Phillips
The foregrounding of installation, film and performance, mixed with the presence of names familiar from western
biennial circuits points to one thing: the
class of curators who have become associated with
biennials, and with criss - crossing the globe.
Lastly, Venice, the site of frequent study trips, summer
classes, and international
biennials, served as the European outpost and final destination of the exhibition.
Jens Hoffmann, the deputy director of New York's Jewish Museum and a curator of many
biennials himself, shared the following story: While he was teaching a curating
class at Goldsmiths College in London a few years ago, one of his students asked him what Documenta was.
Publication of her three - part series, «Culture
Class; Art, Creativity, Urbanism,» based on the Third
biennial Hermes lecture that she gave in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, in 2010, was recently completed in the e-flux Journal, followed by «From Gentrification to Occupation: The Artistic Mode of Revolution.»
It is modeled after art events held in the same city every two years, known as
biennials, that occur in such far - flung world -
class cities as Venice and Sydney, Shanghai and Sao Paulo.
A
biennial exhibition featuring the works of students who have taken a
class or workshop in our studios over the last two years.
«The idea behind the
biennial is to showcase what is happening in contemporary art at this time,» said Mr. Thayer, who teaches undergraduate and graduate studio art
classes at CCNY.