This is the catalogue of the second edition of the Johannesburg Biennale in 1997, entitled 'Trade Routes: History and Geography', under the direction of artistic director Okwui Enwezor. 

'Trade Routes: History and Geography is sited around the axial vector of economic globalisation. It is an attempt to elaborate the full measure of its debates, particularly those that rise out of the analysis of modernity as a circulatory system of exchange and site of translation, as transnational/cultural transactions that do not always arrive in neatly tied packages, as the South African-born British critic, Sarat Maharaj wonderfully put it. In this manner, all journeys are not only incomplete, they form part of the vast ways the world is encountered and translated. This project then comes at a time when the entire notion of history is being constantly questioned and revisited. Hence, the elaboration of the debates in which the Biennale is necessarily enmeshed, could be seen as a kind of open network involving different levels of cultural significations, translations, transcriptions, phenomenological and social encounters, mobility of ideas, contestations of political methodologies, etc.' - from Enwezor's introductory essay featured in the publication.

In total six exhibitions took place during the Biennale. The project ceased one month before the originally planned date due to the lack of funding from the city of Johannesburg. This second edition is also the last one of the Johannesburg Biennale.

Includes general essays, and curatorial essays for each exhibitions. Artists' biographies also included.

Please note that only Asian artists participating in the Biennale are listed.
Alternative title

2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997

Access level

Onsite

Location code
EX.SOA.JBB.1997
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

1997

No of pages

412

ISBN / ISSN

0620215224

No of copies

1

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Introduction

Introduction: Travel Notes: Living, Working, and Travelling in a Restless World - Okwui ENWEZOR

Essays

The Electronic Bottle: Dreaming of Global Art and Geographic Innocence - Francesco BONAMI

The Work of Art in the Time of War Destruction - Predrag FINCI

The Work Between Us - Jean FISHER

For the Transcultural Record - Paul GILROY

Leeward Slipface - Ashraf JAMAL

Cultural Production in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Clive KELLNER

Walking the Tightrope - David KOLOANE

Conflict - Sharing - Consensus - Complicity - and Back Again - Vasif KORTUN

By what Right are you a Foreigner? - Julia KRISTEVA

Contingency Plans - Hannah LE ROUX

Forsaken Geographies: Cyberspace and the New World 'Other' - Olu OGUIBE

The Pale and Beyond: Rethinking Art in a Reconstructed Society - Ivor POWELL

Whose City is it? Globalisation and the Formation of New Claims - SASSEN Saskia

Exhibitions

'Alternating Currents': Around Precarious Discursive Constructions - Octavio ZAYA

Graft - Colin RICHARDS

Important and Exportant - Gerardo MOSQUERA

Life's Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s - Kellie JONES

Hong Kong Etc. - HOU Hanru, 侯瀚如

Transversions - KIM Yuyeon, 김유연

Encounters: Film and Narrative Forms of Globalisation - Mahen BONETTI, Don WEBSTER

Museum on the Move: The Robert Walser Museum as a Migratory Museum - Hans Ulrich OBRIST

Trade Routes: History + Geography
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