The last biennial, which curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders used as an
opportunity to showcase the ways in which artists were embracing a hybridized approach to their mediums in order to invent new directions forward, was an
enormous critical
success — raising the stakes
for this year's curators, the themselves - hybridized trio of former Tate Modern film curator Stuart Comer (now at MoMA), Art Institute of Chicago professor and artist Michelle Grabner, and ICA Philadelphia curator and WhiteWalls editor Anthony Elms.