Sharjah International Art Biennial 6

8. April bis 8. Mai 2003, V.A.E.

The Sharjah International Art Biennial has grown rapidly in stature since it first appeared on the world Biennial stage in 1993. Sharjah was the obvious choice to host such an event.

Sharjah International Biennial 6 will represent 117 artists from 25 countries, as a questioning of the relations that constitute the global sphere of cultural agency. Curators Hoor Al Qasimi (UAE) and Peter Lewis (Goldsmiths College) have worked with a number of other international curators to select works for the Biennial.

The curators have selected works that articulate the multiple, yet general discourses between aesthetics and politics in terms of both a diversification and co-inciding of representations and insurgencies. In the generalised terms of the post-modern/post-colonial conditions that are interrogated, also in view of recent 9/11 consequences, the Biennial aims to address this aesthetic, specifically at an urgent time now.

The Biennial is showing the works in dialogical contexts, as emerging between these dangerous slippages. Opening simultaneously at Sharjah Expo Centre, and at the Museums of Art, on April 8th it will run until May 8th, 2003. The event breaks the mould of previous Biennials in representing alternative practices. More attention is given to realising artists' projects.

(Text by the Biennial Office)

 

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