Under the title 'Annual Report', the 7th Gwangju Biennale assembles the diverse activities and practices of contemporary art without any particular theme. It comprises a series of selected traveling exhibitions invited to use the biennale as a destination, a stop on the touring itinerary in the global exhibition network. By inviting exhibitions to the biennale, the aim is not simply to make an exhibition about exhibitions or to debate the principles of curatorial culture. Rather, exhibitions are understood here as fundamental expressions of cultural and intellectual practice, and as such have gone beyond being understood as a form of reflection or forum of debate for art.

The Biennale is designed around three components, 'On the Road', 'Position Papers', and 'Insertions'.  'On the Road' is a report on recent exhibitions that have occurred or exhibited elsewhere between 2007-2008. 'Position Papers' is a platform dedicated to the curatorial proposals and experiments in exhibition making by emerging curators. 'Insertions' takes on the format of a limited series of new projects commissioned specifically for the biennale. As said by Hyunjin Kim, 'Through this composition, we pursue the continuous diversification and the new potentiality of the key elements of contemporary art - exhibition, curator, artist, artwork. Also, by breaking away from a particular exhibition theme, we avoid homogeneity in the search for, a stratified discourse and distinctive, complicated, heterogeneous, and layered aesthetic languages and attitudes.'

The present catalogue includes essays by the Artistic Director of the Biennale Okwui Enwezor, Co-Curators Hyunjin Kim and Ranjit Hoskote, and Position Papers Curators Patrick D. Flores, Kim Jangun, Abdellah Karroum, Park Sunghyen and Claire Tancons.
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Onsite

Location code
EX.KOR.GWB.2007
Language

English, 

Korean

Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

512

ISBN / ISSN

9788493584474

No of copies

2

Content type

catalogue, 

report

Chapter headings

The Politics of Spectacle - Okwui ENWEZOR

Scales of Elaboration - Ranjit HOSKOTE

Annual Report: Tenacious Work for the Potentiality of the Present - KIM Hyunjin, b. 1958, 김현진

Turns in Tropics: Artist-Curator - Patrick D. FLORES

Expedition 7: Patries Relatives - Abdellah KARROUM

On Jouissance for those without places to return - KIM Jangun, 김장운

Bokdukbang Project - PARK Sunghyen

Spring - Claire TANCONS

The 7th Gwangju Biennale: Annual Report - A Year in Exhibitions
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The 7th Gwangju Biennale: Annual Report - A Year in Exhibitions