Where art worlds meet
Text of Talk at the International Symposium Where art worlds meet: multiple modernities and the global salon, December 9-12, 2005, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Campo Santo Stefano, Venezia
with Giandomenico Romanelli, Robert Storr, Bruno S. Frey, Ackbar Abbas, Anna Cestelli Guidi, Beatriz Colomina, Lynne Cooke, Jean-Hubert Martin, Angela Vettese, Daniel [...]
The Pavilion of Turkey
Arts Asia Pacific, May 2007
This year’s Venice Biennale artistic director, Robert Storr has broken with convention by inviting special pavilions into his curated exhibition, an African Contemporary Art Pavilion and a Turkey Pavilion. ArtAsiaPacific asked Turkey Pavilion commissioner Vasif Kortun, of Istanbul’s Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, to discuss his plans.
ARTASIAPACIFIC: What will you [...]
The Other Side of the Water
ACME MAGAZINE. VOLUME 1 NO 3
I would not call this a conspiracy. It is much more like a dream coming true. To chase the Muslims out of Europe is the European dream. To cleanse Europe of “the Turks” was the dying thought of the greatest figure of Enlightenment: “It is not enough to humiliate them, [...]
Venice Biennale
LOADING: Una nave pirata per immaginare la Biennale di Venezia del terzo millenio, 2008
A Corsair for a Concept for the Biennale in the Third Century 1895-2007, An Ideas Forum for Reformingthe Venice Biennale, Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice
Transcript of contribution to the Forum
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I don’t come with a prescription for the Biennale.
I listened to the [...]
Istanbul Biennial
Poliester, Vol.5, #16, Fall 1996
Big Biennials issue
A safe way to discuss a biennial is to base the argument on the biennial’s origins in the late nineteenth-century Venice model and world fairs. In this case, the (arbitrary) division of the exhibition according to countries becomes a no-win approach. The Venice pavilion approach where the exhibitions are [...]