Program World Biennial Forum N°2
How to Make Biennials in Contemporary Times

Directed by:
 Charles Esche, Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente, Luiza Proença, Oren Sagiv, and Benjamin Seroussi.

26 – 30 November, 2014
Auditório Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil

Wednesday, November 26

19h30 – Welcoming

Keynote Address
Contemporaneity and the Biennial Form
Peter Osborne

Thursday, November 27

10 a.m. – 1 p.m – Workshops on Biennial Practice
Moderators: Charles Esche, Pablo Lafuente, Nuria Enguita Mayo and Galit Eilat

 

3 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. – Session
Once Again, as If for the First Time: archives, biennial memory and the balance between continuity and reinvention

Anthony Gardner
Fabio Cypriano
Fernando Oliva
Moderator: Martin Grossmann

 

6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. – Session
Works and Their Changing Places: the interpretation of artworks and their relations to space and time

Lucy Steeds
Marina Fokidis
Övül Durmusoglu
Moderator: Moacir dos Anjos

Friday, November 28

10 a.m. – 1 p.m. – Workshops on Biennial Practice
Moderators: Charles Esche, Pablo Lafuente, Nuria Enguita Mayo and Galit Eilat

 

3 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. – Session
No More Imagined Communities: creating new biennials beyond national art competitions and neoliberal city marketing

Anne Szefer Karlsen
David Teh
Manuela Moscoso
Moderator: Ana Paula Cohen

 

6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. – Session
Popularity without Populism: education, ideology and exchange

Reem Fadda
Elvira Dyangani Ose
Cayo Honorato
Moderator: Ana Magalhães

9 p.m. – Closing address
Ivo Mesquita

Saturday, November 29

10 a.m. – 11 a.m. – Introduction by the curators to the 31st Bienal de São Paulo. Location: Biennial Pavilion.

11 a.m. – 5 p.m. – Visit to the 31st Bienal de São Paulo

Sunday, November 30

10 a.m. – ……….- Visit to Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and other cultural venues in Sao Pãulo