Emergency Biennale in Czechnya

curator of the biennale: Evelyne Jouanno
curator on Polish side: Małgorzata Grygielewicz

Emergency Biennale in Chechnya was conceived and organized by independent Paris and San Francisco-based curator Evelyne Jouanno as an echo to the 1st Moscow Biennial and as a reaction to the destruction of a people and culture.

Drawing attention to the plight of Chechnya and more broadly to human and social emergencies in the context of “ambivalent globalization” while also questioning the phenomenon and proliferation of international Biennials, the Emergency Biennale in Chechnya opened on February 23 rd , 2005 in different locations in the city of Grozny, and simultaneously in Paris, at the Palais de Tokyo.

More than sixty international artists, established and emerging, provided one artwork and its duplicate – created to fit into suitcases – clandestinely sent to Chechnya and shipped to different cities in the world for mirror exhibitions.

After Paris, the touring part of the exhibit moved on to Brussels, Bolzano, Milan, Riga, Tallinn, Vancouver, Puebla, Istanbul, and now to San Francisco and now in Bialystok. In each location new artists are invited, conferences organized, and additional suitcases readied to be sent to Chechnya.
Conference accompanying the biennale will be held on 14 March at 2 pm. During a panel discussion, with the participation of Paweł Mościcki and Mirosław Miniszewski , an issue of a place of an emigrant in the contemporary philosophical thought relating to the philosophy of J. Derridy, G. Agambena and H Arendt, will be bring up for discussion. Evelyne Jouanno, the curator of the project, will tell the history of EBC. Anda Rottenberg will talk about the role and the function of biennale and the institutionalization of art in contemporary world. Malika Abdulvakhabova will present the situation of Chechen immigrants in Poland.

ARTISTS:
Adel Abdessemed, A Constructed World, Dennis Adams, Hüseyin Alptekin, Maria-Thereza Alves, Francis Alÿs, Aija Apse, Maja Bajevic, Ruth Barabash, Rebecca Belmore, Lindsay Benedict, Dalida Maria Benfield, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Aija Bley, Sylvie Blocher, Blue Noses, Mark Boswell & Anton Kozlov, Marc Boucherot, Véronique Boudier, Hernain Bravo, Kristians Brekte, Mathieu Briand, Hank Bull, Santiago Caicedo, Cao Fei, Banu Cennetoğlu, Raimond Chaves, Chen Shaoxiong, Paolo Chiasera, Magali Claude, José Luis Cortés S., Jeff Derksen, Jimmie Durham, Al Fadhil, Seamus Farrell, Daniel Faust, Carlos Franklin, Fu Jie, Adriana García Galán, Ghazel, Roya Ghiasy, Kaspars Goba, Babak Golkar, Mārtiņš Grauds, Yves Grenet, Gu Dexin, Andris Grinbergs, Daniel Guzmán, Jens Haaning, Han Myung-Ok, Antonia Hirsch, IN[ ]EX, Alfredo Jaar, Uldis Jancis, Edgars Jurjāns, Elīna Kalniņa, Rose Khor, Kolkoz, Koo Jeong-A, Roman Korovin, Linards Kulless & Una Meiberga, Neeme Külm, Gabriel Kuri, Surasi Kusolwong, Tony Labat, Marco Laimre, Sally Lee, Raimonds Līcītis, HH Lim, Armin Linke, Ken Lum, Juan Pablo Macias, Marko Mäetamm, Ives Maes, Gilda Mantilla, Trin Minh Ha, Julio Morales, Isaac Munoz & Leonardo Marz, Oda Projesi, Jüri Ojaver, Lucy Orta, Damián Ortega, Gionata Gesi Ozmo, Ahmet Öğüt, Adrian Paci, Alexandre Perigot, Emmanuelle Rapin, David Renaud, Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen, Römer & Römer, Julian Rosefeldt, Gatis Rozenfelds, Mo Salemy, Jayce Salloum, Krišs Salmanis, Juan Esteban Sandoval, Santomatteo, Sarkis, Zineb Sedira, Shen Yuan, Nedko Solakov, Allan de Souza, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Bert Theis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Steven Tong, Sergio de la Torre, Enzo Umbaca, Anton Vidokle, Cesare Viel, Luca Vitone, Wang Du, Florence Wang, Hans Winkler, Jenifer Wofford, Sislej Xhafa, Yan Lei, Yang Fudong, Yang Jie Chang, Zheng Guogu, Zhu Jia, Aiva Zurina. Specjalny udział Alighiero Boetti (project – Francis Alÿs), Lindsay Benedict, Dalida Maria Benfield, Rose Khor, Tony Labat, Julio Morales, Allan de Souza, Sergio de la Torre, Trin Minh-Ha, Jenifer Wofford.

Artists from Poland: Janek Simon, Anna Rajkowska, Marta Deskur, Katarzyna Kozyra, Hubert Czerepok, Zbigniew Libera

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