A Discourse on Biennials. Book launch
A Discourse on Biennials. The Gwangju Biennale Foundation is pleased to invite you to the launch of the book Shifting Gravity at Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice. This book, published by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Hatje Cantz, presents the issues, discourses, and practices that have been evolving over the past 20 years with the development of biennials around the globe. The primary focus of these essays is the idea of biennials as a rare institutional ground for presenting experimental and radical discourses on sociopolitical phenomena through contemporary art. In addition, the main essays examine and critique the issue of how biennials have connected themselves to the branding of their host cities.