Biennial Boom - Paloma Checa-Gismero

Biennial Boom

Making Contemporary Art Global
Buch | Hardcover
328 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2628-0 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that prompted these exhibitions to become the global art world’s defining events at the end of the twentieth century. Returning to the early post-Cold War years, Checa-Gismero examines the early iterations of three well-known biennials at the borders of North Atlantic liberalism: the Bienal de La Habana, inSITE, and Manifesta. She draws on archival and oral history fieldwork in Cuba, Mexico, the US/Mexico borderlands, and the Netherlands, showing how these biennials reflected a post-Cold War optimism for a pacified world by which artistic and knowledge production would help mend social, political, and cultural divisions. Checa-Gismero argues that, in reflecting this optimism, biennials facilitated the conversion of subaltern aesthetic genealogies into forms that were legible to a nascent cosmopolitan global elite—all under the pretense of cultural exchange. By outlining how early biennials set the basis for what is now recognized as “global contemporary art,” Checa-Gismero intervenes in previous accounts of the contemporary art world in order to better understand how it became the exclusionary, rarified institution of today.

Paloma Checa-Gismero is Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Biennial Conversions at the Borders of Liberalism: An Introduction  1
Part 1. Anticolonial Collaboration in the Bienal de la Habana’s Early Iterations, Havana, 1984–1991  29
1. Polyphonic Internationalism  29
2. Curating the Third World  53
3. An Aesthetics of Production  72
Part 2. Cosmopolitan Dreams at the US-Mexico Borderlands in inSITE94 and INSITE97: San Diego and Tijuana, 1994–1997
4. Sovereignty Claims over the Borderlands  99
5. Fears of Provincialism and the Desire to Be Global  123
6. Globalizing Mexican Art  146
Part 3. Art for a Unified Europe: Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, 1996
7. Manifesta: Placenta Europa  173
8. Curating Conflict  193
9. The Art of Belonging 217
Epilogue  241
Notes  253
Bibliography  285
Index  301

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 48 illustrations, including 16 page color insert
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 703 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-4780-2628-6 / 1478026286
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-2628-0 / 9781478026280
Zustand Neuware
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