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The Biennale of Sydney has put out an advance brochure that contains the two equations: art + beauty + empathy = power power – beauty – empathy = tyranny Anyone with a primary school understanding of mathematics knows that if
From John Kelly… Having arrived in Australia from Europe we book our accommodation online. Wotif.com finds us in a hotel in Kent Street Sydney. As with many of Sydney’s boutique hotels the foyer is dominated by a large decorative Australian
From Bonny Dot Cassidy… The 2008 Biennale of Sydney Cockatoo Island “branch” has now exceeded its anticipated visitation by 5,000 people, and we should expect that figure to continue climbing through August. Sidling over the waves toward the Island, my
Following on from her exhibition preview Isobel Johnston returns with this report on the Biennale, for real… This year’s Biennale of Sydney is a demonstrably rigorous curated exhibition involving 180 artists over several physical locations and online. Not that didacticism
Cloud Canyons is probably one of David Medalla’s most well known works, a seminal piece in kinetic sculpture…
Too much history? Not enough? Rory Dufficy contemplates the inclusion – and exclusion – of particular historical works in this year’s Biennale of Sydney… The much criticized decision by Biennale curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to include works from the backrooms of
The Art Life‘s special on The Biennale of Sydney goes to air on ABC1 on Tuesday July 22 at 10pm. We feature a number of interviews but due to the constraints of the documentary’s 27 minute duration those conversations have
From Ian Houston… Adrian Piper, Black Box/ White Box The idea of the political in art is at once inevitable and tedious. The risk of proselytizing, the banal, the tautological and the difficulties of a cynical audience familiar with many
We’re feeling much better now. The past week has been one long marathon of Biennale openings, media events and chit chats with artists. Our involvement has of course been purely professional. We are working on an Art Life Biennale TV
From Isobel Johnston… The 16th Biennale of Sydney opens in a just a few weeks ’Revolutions – forms that turn’, connecting past and present work. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev will bring together ‘constellations’ and encounters rather than juxtapositions- in clusters of artists.