'Farewell to Post-Colonialism' is the theme of this edition of the Guangzhou Triennial. The theme calls for the renovation of the theoretical interface of contemporary art, in order to depart from its all pervasive socio-political discourse in an endeavour to work together with artists and critics to discover new modes of thinking and fresh analytical tools for today's world.
The curators hope this Triennial will be a process of discovery, and not just the fulfilling of preconceived ideas. Instead of claiming what this Triennial 'is', the curators wish to find out what it should not be. This Triennial may be understood as a locus of questions for the international art world, starting with an Exercise in Negation and a Questionnaire about art. It is the aim of the Triennial to uncover, with the help of artists and thinkers, elements of the paradoxical reality veiled by contemporary cultural discourse, to make contact with realms that slip through the cracks of well-worn concepts such as class, gender, tribe and hybridity.
Images of works in the catalogue are accompanied by artist biographies and brief descriptions of works.
The curators hope this Triennial will be a process of discovery, and not just the fulfilling of preconceived ideas. Instead of claiming what this Triennial 'is', the curators wish to find out what it should not be. This Triennial may be understood as a locus of questions for the international art world, starting with an Exercise in Negation and a Questionnaire about art. It is the aim of the Triennial to uncover, with the help of artists and thinkers, elements of the paradoxical reality veiled by contemporary cultural discourse, to make contact with realms that slip through the cracks of well-worn concepts such as class, gender, tribe and hybridity.
Images of works in the catalogue are accompanied by artist biographies and brief descriptions of works.
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Onsite
Location code
EX.CHN.GZT.2008
Language
Chinese - Simplified,
English
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Publication/Creation date
2008
No of pages
620
ISBN / ISSN
9787810837699
No of copies
1
Content type
catalogue
Chapter headings
Forums in Motion
Observations and Presentiments on 'After Post-Colonialism' - GAO Shiming, 高士明
Sublimated with Mineral Fury: prelim notes on sounding Pandemonium Asia - Sarat MAHARAJ
Chinese Modernity and Threshold of the Moment - CHANG Tsongzung Johnson, 張頌仁
The Third Guangzhou Triennial: Farewell to Post-Colonialism, 第三屆廣州三年展: 與後殖民說再見
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