held at the J.W.Goethe Univ. Frankfurt am Main on the 28th of Nov. 2011 Downloads: MS Power Point
Art Centers in Asia
When western media talk about the asian art market, they usually mention China when talking about freedom of speech (Ai Wei Wei) or talk about Shanghai and Hongkong and the growing artmarket. But every art event has it's history and context. Patrick Flores and Kuroda Raiji identify 1980 as a year that changed the look on art in Asia. Flores considers as a 'key-event' of that year -that could be considered as meanigfull as 1968 in the West- the massacre during May 1980 in Gwangju, Korea. This event created an awareness that is -in opinion of Flores- still beeing reflected in the Gwangju Biennale.Regional Biennales and new Art Centers in Asia - Similarities between the APT and the FT (Part1)
Text 1: Caroline Turner: Cultural Transformations in the Asia-Pacific - The Asia-Pacific-Triennial and the Fukuoka-Triennale comparedThere is a dynamic shift in the exhibition practice of contemporary art in the Asian region: the concept of a recurring, international exhibition, the Triennale/ Biennale has been especially embraced in the region in the last decades (earliest Triennales/Biennales in Asia: The Indian Triennale, in New Delhi, founded in 1986, The Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh, founded in 1981)
What is “Asia-Pacific-Culture”?
- Problematic term, because there is no cultural homogeneity in the region.
- In the 1990s: rising significance of interregional groupings through political and economic issues.
- “Asia has been a form of discourse”, a construct to counterpoint the “West” or ”Europe”.
The Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan) | The Asia-Pacific-Triennial (Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia) |
- Founded in 1999 (every 5 years), before called Asian Art Show, which began already in 1979/1980 - geographicaly “located at the frontier of Asia” in the northern hemisphere | played a role during wartime - Japan does not consider itself completely an Asian country | has an ambivalent relationship to Asia-Pacific - Museum based exhibition - Audience-centred and artist-driven exhibition - Triennale in a provincial city, but considered a “natural gateway” to Asia | - Founded in 1993 (every 3 years) - geographicaly “located at the frontier of Asia” but to the south through its history of white colonialism | does not see itself completely as an Asian country/ ambivalent relationships - Museum based exhibition - Audience-centred and artist-driven exhibition - Triennal in provincial city, but “natural gateway” to Asia |
