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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Venice biennale"”.
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Looking South African: tracing the relationship between national pavilion and nation in South Africa s history at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale, structured around national pavilions, is the world's oldest, largest and most prestigious biennial event for national art participation. South Africa has participated since 1950, and this has engendered thought-provoking, ever-changing debates about what constitutes artistic …
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Resistivity in Contemporary Art Biennials: A Synchronic Analysis
… of contemporary art biennials starts with the Venice Biennale. Taking the Venice Biennale as the biennial template, form, and medium, for universalizing biennial history is clearly problematic, and the concept of "biennials of resistance," as proposed by curator Ranjit Hoskote, has become an …
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Curating Contemporary Japanese Art: Exhibition Catalogue Production for Hidden Landscapes: Yasuaki Onishi and Invisible Space
… Asia have been featured in exhibitions from the Venice Biennale to the Whitney Biennale, and are becoming ever more present on the Western art stage. Meanwhile, curatorial practice, once focused on the <em>care </em>of objects, is shifting to encompass a wider range of creative activity. Curators …
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Gestures and Acclamations: some assembly required Contextualising curating and exhibtion practices in Southeast Asia for Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong
… prominence of large scale art fairs as well as 'biennale' style exhibitions. Taking Southeast Asia as the context for studying curatorial practice based in but not exclusive to the region, my doctoral research has worked with the notion of the museum as a colonial remnant; the 'biennale' as an …
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The floating marketplace of San Juan Bay
… and the Teatro del Mondo, designed for the 1979 Venice Biennale by Aldo Rossi. in both cases, the arrivals and departures of these buildings were events that shed an exciting new perspective on their respective cities. As they moved to and from their destinations, the travels of these floating …
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Modernity, nationalism and global marginalisation: representing the nation in contemporary Taiwanese art exhibitions
… Biennial in 1992, and the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice from 1995 until 2009. Its focus lies on the transformation of the museum space and the status of the work of art. Several threads of questions run through this thesis: an attempt to analyse and illuminate the specific modernity and its …
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Nyau Philosophy: Contemporary Art and the Problematic of the Gift – a Panegyric
… my installation Sanguinetti Breakout Area at the Venice Biennale 2015. The panegyric is what has united the theoretical and practice components of my research into one on-going inquiry into the problematic of the gift within everyday life.
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Continuous Curatorial Conversations : An Exploration of the Role of Conversation within the Writing of a Supplementary History of the Curatorial
… Lowndes. Sites of fieldwork include: the 54th Venice Biennale; Manifesta 8, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art; and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012. Through these projects and related recordings it unpicks the norms and possibilities of what and when one can record on …
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The Contestation of the European Nation-state by curators and artists participating in La Biennale di Venezia and documenta.
… the evolution of two prominent international biennale exhibitions, La Biennale di Venezia and documenta, investigating the historical foundations of these biennales and their evolving political significance in relation to the European nation-state. The dissertation then investigates five …