Chaos: The age confusion. International Biennial for Contemporary Art. The icons produced with common meanings and messages in this process are the patterns of art, political life, religion, culture and subculture. Curated by Zsolt Petranyi
Chaos: The age confusion
Artists: Erik Binder/Eduard Constantin/Janos Fodor/El Perro/Rainer
Ganahl/Katia Lombardi/Agent Mc/Sebastian Moldovan/Pedro Motta/Ioana
Nemes/Ilona Ne'meth/Tatsumi Orimoto/Dan Perjovschi/Catalin Rulea/Janek
Simon/Attila Stark/Aya Tzukioka/Wang Qingsong
Opening: May 25, 2006, 19.00 hours, Skateboard Park Herastrau.
Agent MC performance and launch of a limited edition of skateboard plates draw by
Dan Perjovschi.
“The icons produced with common meanings and messages in this process are the
patterns of art, political life, religion, culture and subculture. The common
adoption of the meaning of these units gives the basis of any visual language. From
the perspective of our approach to the question of confusion, the change of the role
of icons plays an important part in the sense of chaos. The signs of a politically
and ideologically conducted world in any kind of totalitarian system could play with
the visuals by segregating the ideological from the commercial, and moreover by
separating the local use of symbols from their global sources and essential
meanings. Democracy as a system opens up all of the possible uses of visual
messages, which leads to parallel appearances of very different patterns. The
reading of these differences is open to intellectuals up to the point where the
symbols are no longer a part of the self expression of local or global - less known
- subcultures.
The long
history of the function of this practice of communities creating and using images
is without doubt, just as the quantity of the used images increases with global
culture, linked to the possibility for greater access to these languages, something
that becomes more and more difficult." (Extras from Zsolt Petranyi, “Chaos: The age
of confusion", Pavilion no.9/reader BB2)
PAVILION LECTURE SERIES
Marina Grzinic, “Queer in Photography"
Rainer Ganahl, “My Misery with Marx, or How I become an Artist"
Zsolt Petranyi, “Chaos: The age of Confusion"
Details on http://www.bucharestbiennale.org
Texts by: Zsolt Petrany, Jean Baudrillard, Cristina Bucica, Alexander R. Galloway,
Marina Grzinic, Razvan Ion, Alexandra Jivan, Douglas Kellner, Suzana Milevska,
Ronald F. King, Cosmin Gabriel Marian, Tincuta Parv, Lia Perjovschi, Eugen Radescu,
Raqs Media Collective, Marko Stamencovic, Sefik Seki Tatlic, Michel Tournier.
Venues:
Venues:
Museum of Geology
Museum of Literature
Botanical Garden
National Dance
Center
South Shop
Test Point
Skeateboard Park Herastrau
Audi Art Room