Biennials: The Exhibitions We Love to Hate by Rafal Niemojewski
This first book in the series New Directions in Contemporary Art, Biennials examines one of the most signi ficant recent transitions in the contemporary-art world: the proliferation of large-scale international recurrent survey shows of contemporary art, commonly referred to as contemporary biennials. Since the mid-1980s biennials have been instrumental in shaping curating as an autonomous practice. They have also been responsible for substantially reconfi guring the art world and disrupting the existing value chain of the art market, which now relies on biennials as much as it does on major museums’ acquisitions and exhibitions.
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Slow Spatial Reader, Chronicles od Radical Affection
Thirty contributing individuals and collectives from 24 different countries meet within its pages to share philosophical and disciplinary perspectives from creative fields such as architecture, sculpture, installation, dramaturgy, and performance, among other areas of research into spatial dynamics and/or spatial politics. Their essay-contributions chronicle projects and processes that amplify tangible and intangible qualities of spatial experience: reaching into the cracks of the body, probing the fuzzy borders of atmospheres, and extending out across both geographical and epistemological coordinates. This volume anchors an assemblage of voices, propositions, and stories that both celebrate and reckon with the spaces and paces of our complex, interdependent world – sharing strategies of “radical affection” through which to build a more caring, connected, and resilient future.
Price: €26.00
