by Jon Lackman | 12 April 2010 | Journals
In a recent issue of Open (n. 16) devoted to “The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon,” Jorinde Seijdel writes
… the art biennial, which was originally an instrument within a politics of nation-states, is increasingly deployed for developing and marketing cities and regions. In order to compensate for this, biennials often put political issues onto their artist agenda … [but] can biennials really represent an alternative political voice in these neo-political times?
The issue’s contributors include Pascal Gielen, Michael Hardt, Chantal Mouffe, Thierry de Duve, Boris Groys, Simon Sheikh, Brian Holmes, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova, and Irit Rogoff.
