The theme of this edition of Kyoto Biennale is Slowness - Creating 'Slowness' within 'Speed'. Hiroshi Yoshioka was invited by the Kyoto Art Center to be the director of the biennale. According to Yoshioka, slowness is a label created by a world which is dominated by speed. Slow life or slow food, as a kind of fashion, is nothing but a way of compenstating, in a system supported by speed. Slowness in this sense is nothing but a luxury product made possible by the global industry based on high-speed information technology. It is the aim of the biennale to investigate the meaning of speed for each individual human being and to question this system of high-speed technology. Slowness does not necessarily oppose speed or deny progress, it should rather serves to remove this obsession. The slowness of light suggests the possibility to use our high-speed technology for being slow, for living at our own pace. Images of works are accompanied by individual texts. Also included in the catalogue are proceedings of the symposiums and documentations of other related programs.