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TB10 is reconsidering the biennial format through a number of structural proposals. Although we have no curatorial master plan to scream from the rooftops, a potential leitmotif is the question of what is distinctive of biennials today. What are the conditions of production a biennial creates, what can you do with a biennial that you cannot do with anything else.
Some working premises are as follows
• TB08 Revisited: Avoiding the usual tabula rasa, TB10 will build on ideas and projects from previous Taipei Biennials. For example, a number of TB 2008 artists are invited to critically revisit their previous contributions.
• Two More Years: Artists first approached for TB10 were involved in a wider curatorial discussion. This resulted in a transfiguration of TB10 into a two year process, leading to a series of smaller exhibitions 2012. The process will be sustained by an academic framework that is currently being finalized, ideally resulting in sustainable art-pedagogical infrastructure. Our partner is the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, a venue which actually began as a commissioned artwork by Jun Yang for TB 2008.
• The Show: is deliberately restricted to 23 featured artists. Among the 37 artworks, nearly half are new commissions, many more are ambitious adaptations of older work. Much of the work is process-oriented, and a third is collaborative in some manner, with some 50 further artists being included via such collaborations.
• Sputniks: Three critical companions are invited to consistently produce unsparing feedback, also amounting to interventions during TB10. The exercise hopes to upend the polarity of the corrupt intellectual vs innocent autonomy.
• September Events: The ambitious events program will kick off before the exhibition, offering a more composite timeline than usual.
• Artist Cinema: The screening program includes 35 films by 31 artists. The artist-designed cinema contraption offers the viewing conditions of a movie theatre.
• Lecture Theater: Actors and actresses enact essays written by art critics and scholar. A performative effect and translational gaps are added to the original text for the local audience.
• Taipei Art Spaces: Eights Taipei venues have articulated various levels of collaboration. These are neither parallel programs nor curated contributions, but unpredictable interfaces adopting different savors and criteria from case to case.
(Press release)
Artists Can Altay , Chang Yun-han, Chris Evans , Shahab Fotouhi , Mario García Torres , Christian Jankowski , Jao Chia-en , Silvia Kolbowski , Pak Sheung-chuen , Olivia Plender , Michael Portnoy , Allan Sekula , Larry Shao , Shi Jin-hua , Hito Steyerl , Wang Ya-hui , Claude Wampler , Wong Wai-yin , Carey Young , Lara Almárcegui, Burak Delier , Irwin , Superflex
