Art Criticism & Curatorial Practices in Marginal Contexts - Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), January 2006

SUMMARY

 Session one : Venise and Kassel as a possible goal

Ramon Tio Bellido, More or Less Slow for Non-Western in Some Big Shows
Zoran Eric, Globalization and Art Exhibitions
Sajid Rizvi, African in Britain, Britain in Africa and Beyond
Elisabeth Wolde Giorgis, Ethiopian Art in a Changing World

 Session two : Cairo/ Alexandria/ Dakar/ Gwangju/ Havana/ Istanbul/ São Paulo/ Manifesta and back

Henry Meyric Hughes, Geopolitical Contexts for Setting on New Biennales
Meskerem Assegued, Contemporary Art and Artists, Curators, Critics, Art Historians and Audiences
Niilofur Farrukh, An Agenda of Conscience
Bassam El-Baroni, Remodeling required : Official Biennales in Egypt and International Biennale Culture
Ahu Antmen, Istanbul’s International Biennial : The City as Context – or Confinement ?
Khaled Hafez, Over Two Decades of Cairo Biennale : Uniqueness, Life Cycle and Effect on Current Contemporary Local Art Practice

 Session three : Knocking on an Alien’s Door

Stephen Wright, Whose Door ? Whose Alien ?
Mutheu Mbondo, About the Kuona Trust’s Activities
Sacha Craddock, Art School Palestine
Doreen Sibanda, Art Criticism and Curatorial Practice : the Southern African Experience
Storm Janse van Rensburg, Strategies for Contemporary Practice in a Developing Context : The Young Artists’ Project

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