Project BIENNALE : THE INTRODUCTION
Project Biennale grew out of conversations, concerns, interests and inquiries developed through discussions, seminars and meetings established across three groups of postgraduate curating students from Chelsea College of Art, the University of Essex, and Sheffield Hallam University. The project began with no conception: there were no plans, no strategies and no aims for any specific outcome. The topic and title developed over five months of meetings and debate. However, through this process we understood that the demanding problem of the purpose and place of curatorial authorship was made exemplary when viewed through the lens of ‘biennale culture’.
Project BIENNALE: THE OVERVIEW
History of Project BIENNALE was a 3 part process.
PREVIEW – LAUNCH – REVIEW
You can now see the whole exhibition process with new added pages on the right side of this website.
PREVIEW – 1 NIGHT STAND – March – Wimbledon Gallery, London
LAUNCH – VENICE BIENNIAL 2009 – JUNE – ITALY
REVIEW – 2 DAYS, Symposium, Sheffield book Launch, Opening/Closing Party and Press Conference – june, SIAD GALLERY, SHEFFIELD
PROJECT BIENNALE REVIEW OVERVIEW
PROJECT BIENNALE would like to say thank you to the speakers – Michael Corris, Penny McCarthy & Nathaniel Pitt – who attended the PROJECT BIENNALE REVIEW SYMPOSIUM on Wednesday.
Thursday:
BOOK LAUNCH, SHEFFIELD.
OPENING CLOSING PARTY EVENT
PRESS CONFERENCE
PROJECT BIENNALE REVIEW PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE 30.05.09 – for Immediate release
*project BIENNALE: Review*
Wednesday 10th & Thursday 11th June 2009.
SIAD Gallery, Furnival Building
Sheffield Hallam University
153 Arundel Street
Sheffield S1 2NU
A series of live events exploring themes that have developed out of project BIENNALE will be held at SIAD Gallery.
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Project BIENNALE is a critical investigation into the peripheral activities that extend and support the experience of the phenomenon that is biennale culture. The review is a staging of a series of encounters that explore and develop the experiential nature of the supplementary events surrounding the contemporary art biennale.
Central to the project is a collaborative publication containing contributions by MA curating students from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of Essex, and Sheffield Hallam University, plus invited curators from around the UK. The publication is an anthology of writing and visual projects that reflect on current issues surrounding international biennale exhibitions and was launched at the Venice Biennale on 4th June. The event was part of the UK contribution to the world’s premier contemporary arts festival.
*All of the following events are free and open to the public.*
Wednesday 10th June DAY 1:
6-8pm: Symposium, with invited speakers Michael Corris, Penny McCarthy and Sean Ashton
Thursday 11th June DAY 2:
2-4pm: Book Launch including extended projects and readings
4-5pm: Opening/ Closing party
5-6pm: Press conference
*For further information and to book places please email: pippa_lennox@hotmail.com
Or call: 07916143779*
*www.projectbiennale.tk*
lana MULLEN, regina SHIN, bryan ECCLESHALL, rachael BAUM, the HUT PROJECT, kirsten COOKE, dale HOLMES, martyn CASHMORE, goesta DIERCKS, james STEVENS, harriet DAVIES, becky SHAW, ann HAREZLAK, sayoko NAKAHARA, ingrid SWENSON, teresa GLEADOWE, yan GEAT CHENG, mafalda SUSIN, jeni WALWIN, marion COUTTS, helena COPSEY, fiona SHIPWRIGHT, bruce HAINES, alex RICH, luiza HOLUB, sue-na GAY, sarah SMIZZ, taylor LE FÍN, paul O’NEILL, natalie MORTIMER, hamja AHSAN, jeffrey charles henry PEACOCK, maxa ZOLLER, pippa LENNOX, amanda BEECH, jaspar JOSEPH-LESTER matthew POOLE
*project BIENNALE is supported by Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London; Department of Art History & Theory, University of Essex; and, Sheffield Hallam University.*
PROJECT BIENNALE BOOK LAUNCH IN VENICE, VENICE BIENNAIL 2009
PROJECT BIENNALE WILL BE IN REVIEW AT SHEFFIELD, SIAD GALLERY on the 10-11th June. So that’s your time to get a FREE book – LIMITED EDITION.
check it here:
A taster/preview of the book before Launch
Top secret preview of the book. So shhhhhhhhhh 😉
Please make sure you come and get a copy at Venice or the SIAD Gallery Review, sheffield.
PROJECT BIENNALE: BOOK LAUNCH VENICE
PRESS RELEASE
Project BIENNALE
Book launch
Thursday 4th June 2009
4pm-5.30pm
St. George’s Anglican Church
Campo San Vio
Dorsudoro, Venice
[Nr. Academia Bridge south-side]
NB. The publication will also be available at this address from 12noon-5pm daily on Friday 5th & Saturday 6th June, 2009.
For further information please call: +44 (0)7918 171 086
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PROJECT BIENNALE is an anthology of critical writing and visual projects that reflect on current political issues surrounding international biennale exhibitions.
The book contains contributions by MA curating students from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of Essex, and Sheffield Hallam University, plus invited curators from around the UK.
Contributors:
lana MULLEN, regina SHIN, bryan ECCLESHALL, rachael BAUM, the HUT PROJECT, kirsten COOKE,
dale HOLMES, martyn CASHMORE, goesta DIERCKS, james STEVENS, harriet DAVIES, becky SHAW, ann HAREZLAK, sayoko NAKAHARA, ingrid SWENSON, teresa GLEADOWE, yan GEAT CHENG,
mafalda SUSIN, jeni WALWIN, marion COUTTS, helena COPSEY, fiona SHIPWRIGHT, bruce HAINES, alex RICH, luiza HOLUB, sue-na GAY, sarah SMIZZ, taylor LE FÍN, paul O’NEILL, natalie MORTIMER, hamja AHSAN, jeffrey charles henry PEACOCK, maxa ZOLLER, pippa LENNOX
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- amanda BEECH Course Director, MA Critical Writing & Curatorial Practice, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London
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jaspar JOSEPH-LESTER Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University
matthew POOLE Course Director, MA Gallery Studies & Critical Curating, University of Essex
A two-day symposium to discuss themes developed by this project will be held at SIAD Gallery
Furnival Building, Sheffield Hallam University on Wednesday 10th & Thursday 11th June.
For further information and to book places please email: J.Joseph-Lester@shu.ac.uk
This publication and the launch event is supported by Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London; Department of Art History & Theory, University of Essex; and, Sheffield Hallam University.
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