Bienale Finale

23rd March 2022The Library of the FutureAfterall, Anthony Gardner, Berlin Biennale, Brook Andrew, Front Triennial, Sydney Biennale, Toronto Biennial, Venice Biennale, Whitney BiennialMinus Plato

TAKE THE PRESSURE OF THE MACHINE OF THE BIENALE’S [SIC] AND GIVE OVER TO A DIFFERENT PROCESS. TOO MUCH INSTITIONALISATION. STOP. ALLOW THE DIFFERENCE. BE CONFUSED. IT’S HEALTHY. – Brook Andrew and Anthony Gardner ‘NIRIN WURRUNMARRA’ in ‘Art and its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public’ (Afterall, 2021), pp. 68-79. Sydney March 12 to […]

Storm the Blockades of An American City

10th January 2022The Library of the FutureAd Minoliti, Admin, Adult Kindergarten, Alex Jovanovich, Allan Sekula, Barbara Bloom, Cheng Ran, Court King, Cui Jie, Dale Goode, Eric Baudelaire, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Fred Moten, Front 2018, Front International, Front Triennial, GenderFail, Harrell Fletcher, Jan van der Ploeg, Jessica Vaughn, Juan Araujo, Katrín Sigurðardóttir, Kerry James Marshall, Kris Paulsen, Lane Relyea, Liu Shiyan, Lo Smith, Luisa Lambri, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Marlon de Azambuja, Mary Reid Kelley, Meghana Karnik, Michael Rakowitz, Michelle Grabner, Naeem Mohaiemen, Patrick Kelley, Sean Connelly, Sharbreon Plummer, Sky Hopinka, Stefano Harney, Stephen Willats, TITLE RBD, Visible Collective, Walter Price, William E. Jones, Yinka ShonibareMinus Plato

When he visited An American City, the inaugural FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in September 2018, my librarian attended an evening reception for the launch of the second volume of the exhibition catalog at an event at the Cleveland Public Library amid Yinka Shonibare’s The American Library, a both dazzling and sobering installation […]