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2nd General Assembly – Conversation program

Christine Tohme – Director, Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts and Home works, Khalil Rabah – Artist and Director, Riwaq Biennale

Moderated by Tarek Abou el Fetouh – Independent Curator

Keynote Lecture – Salah Hassan “Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: Is Afropolitan the Answer?”

Salah Hassan is the Goldwin Smith Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM), and Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History and Visual Culture in the Africana Studies and Research Center, and the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University. Salah M. Hassan is the Director of The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE.

Introduction by Hoor Al Qasimi – President, Sharjah Art Foundation, Opening words by Tarek Abou el Fetouh – Independent Curator

Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of Gwangju Biennale: ‘Sweet Due – after 1980 A series of lectures by Chilean public artist, Alfredo Jaar and London-based Serpentine Art Gallery chairman, Hans Urich Obrist

Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of Gwangju Biennale Sweet dew- since 1980 Venue: [Gasigi Hall], Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall

Title: The Ground Breakers

International Symposium & Public Lecture Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of Gwangju Biennale Sweet dew- since 1980.

Venue: [Gasigi Hall], Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall

Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of Gwangju Biennale Sweet dew- since 1980

Speaker: Jean de LOISY ( Palais de Tokyo Director, Paris) Topic: Art and Social Change (Arts & Social Change) Hongik hongmungwan Garam Hall (4B)

Panel discussion: “Institutional Critique—How to be Self-Critical in Biennial Work”

Galit Eilat – Co-Curator, 31st Bienal de São Paulo, Hedwig Fijen – Director, Manifesta – The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Geeta Kapur – art critic and curator, Ahmet Öğüt – artist, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev – writer, art historian and curator

How can biennials serve as instruments to open up cultural debates? Can they encourage plurality of diverse opinions and support the right to freedom of artistic expression? How do international/local as well as sources of funding influence the decisions about biennials? Is it the right time to be self-critical and incorporate institutional critique into the current debates?

Moderated by Bige Örer, Director, Istanbul Biennale

First IBA General Assembly: Conference “Why Biennial? Why Associate?” held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Dates: 10th – 13th July, 2014

Keynote lecture: “Why Biennial?” Maria Hlavajova, Artistic Director BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and FORMER WEST

Introduction: Gabriele Horn and Marieke Van Hal

First IBA General Assembly: Conference “Why Biennial? Why Associate?” held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Dates: 10th – 13th July, 2014

During the First IBA General Assembly, new members of the association had the opportunity to give a quick introduction of themselves and the institutions they represented. This included individual, institutional and associate members.

Panel discussion: “Biennial Writing—Re-assessing Art History”

Speakers: Bruce Altshuler, Director, Museum Studies Program, New York University, Nicolas Bourriaud, Director, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts/Curator, Taipei Biennial 2014, Juan A. Gaitán, Curator, 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires

How do biennials as ephemeral exhibitions take their part in art history? What kinds of histories of the biennials are visible and readable? Is a new reading of art history based on perennial exhibitions possible? Are biennials as a format of the display of art exhausted or is it possible to think about different potentials?

Moderator: Koyo Kouoh, Founding Director, RAW Material Company

First IBA General Assembly: Conference “Why Biennial? Why Associate?” held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Dates: 10th – 13th July, 2014

Keynote lecture: “Why Associate?”

Bartomeu Marí, President, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art/ Director, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art

Introduction: Marieke Van Hal and Yongwoo Lee

First IBA General Assembly: Conference “Why Biennial? Why Associate?” held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Dates: 10th – 13th July, 2014

nterview by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Moon Kyung Won & Chun Jun Ho

The World Biennial Forum (WBF) No1: Shifting Gravity serves as a forum for exchange, providing an opportunity for critical reflection upon the fact that over one hundred and fifty to two hundred biennials for art and related disciplines are currently being organized all over the world.