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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gardner, Anthony
• Green, Charles

Titel

1989: Asian Biennialization

Ist Teil von

• Biennials, Triennials, and documenta, 2016, p.109-143

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter considers the Fukuoka Asian Art Show in Fukuoka, Japan, and the Asia‐Pacific Triennial (or APT) in Brisbane, Australia, to show the entwined nature of two key narratives in contemporary art. First is the ascending arc of biennial cultures in Asia during the 1990s, which was also the decade of neoliberal expansionism. Second, as this arc ascended, Asian biennial curators replaced the previous division of tradition versus modernity with a focus on the transformation of tradition by globalization. Thus, on the emergence of contemporary art that, because of the degree of its independence from North America and Western Europe, was now not to be described by terms like hybrid or postcolonial but by the idea of Asian contemporary art. A simple definition of contemporary art would have meant that Asian art biennials would have featured the selection of locally celebrated, contemporary exponents of heritage arts and crafts.