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6th Sharjah Biennial
Press release, received from Peter Lewis, 21 January 2003
Sharjah Biennial 6 will represent 117 artists from 25 countries,
as a questioning of the relations that constitute the global
sphere that artists now are introjected into. Curators Hoor
Al Qasimi (UAE) and Peter Lewis (Goldsmiths College) have worked
with a number of other international curators including Britta
Schmitz, (Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin), to select works for the
Biennial. The new Expo Centre will host, with the Sharjah Museum
of Art, works of installation, video and photography in a survey
of contemporary practices, that have looked at the developments
in the UAE and Arab world (recent survey 5/UAE at Ludwig Forum
for International Art, Aachen, and of the work of curators and
writers since Documenta X & XI, and Tamass, artist/theorists
such as Tony Chaker and Jalal Toufic). The curators have selected
works that as neither model nor exception, articulate the multiple,
yet general discourses between aesthetic and politics in terms
of both a diversification and co-inciding of representations
and insurgencies. In the generalised terms of the postmodern
/ post-colonial conditions that are interrogated, also in view
of recent 9/11 consequences, the Biennial aims to address the
unheimlich 'peace', as part of its 'folly', showing the works
of a socially immersive aesthetic in post-autonomous contexts
emerging between cultural slippages of human artifice and discursive
agency.
Opening simultaneoulsy at Expo Centre Sharjah, and at the Museum
of Art, on April 8th until May 8th, the event breaks the mould
of previous Biennials in representing new practices. More attention
is given to the specificities of realising artists' projects.
A retrospective of works by Eduardo Chillida is organised in
conjunction by Dr. Dorothea Van de Koelen. The catalogue 590
pages, colour in two volumes, one commemorative, with also a
short guide, will be written in Arabic and English and commissions
essays from writers from UAE, Beirut, from Europe and USA, Japan
to name a few. Prizes at $50,000. Guest Jurists Prof. Meg Cranston
(Otis) and Prof. Janis Jefferies (Goldsmiths) join the symposium
"Changing Horizons: New Aesthetic Practice "organised
by critic Talal Moualla.
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