The biennial reader [ Texto impreso] / edited by Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal, Solveig Ovstebo.

En el suplemento: The Bergen Biennial Conference which was held September 17-20, 2009, in Bergen, Norway.

Foreword / Solveig Ovstebo (p. 9) ; "Biennialogy" / Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal, and Solveig Øvstebø (p. 12) -- HISTORIES, PRECEDENTS AND ORIGINS: "The Crystalline Veil and the Phallomorphic Imaginary" (2001) / Donald Preziosi (p. 32) ; "Crystal Palace Exhibitions" (2004) / Marian Pastor Roces (p. 50) ; "The Historical Origins of the Biennial" / Caroline A. Jones (p. 66) ; "Venice or Havana: A Polemic on the Genesis of the Contemporary Biennial" / Rafal Niemojewski (p. 88) ; "The Invention of the Dakar Biennial" (2009) / Yacouba Konaté (p. 106) -- WHAT IS A BIENNIAL? POTENTIALS, FUNCTIONS AND IDEALS: "The Unstable Institution" (2003) / Carlos Basualdo (p. 130) ; "The Biennial in 1968" (1969) / Lawrence Alloway (p. 136) ; "Marks of Distinction, Vectors of Possibility: Questions for the Biennial" (2009) / Simon Sheikh (p. 150) ; "Biennials as Structures for the Writing of Art History: The Asian Perspective" / John Clark (p. 164) ; "The Curious Case of Biennial Art" / Jan Verwoert (p. 184) ; "The Havana Biennial: A Concrete 'Utopia'" / Gerardo Mosquera (p. 198) -- THE CURATORIAL: "Exhibition of an Exhibition" (1972) and "Where Are the Artists?" (2004) / Daniel Buren (p. 210) ; "The Curator's Moment: Trends in the Field of International Contemporary Art Exhibitions" (1998) / Michael Brenson (p. 222) ; "The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse" (2007) / Paul O'Neill (p. 240) ; "Questions of Authorship in Biennial Curating" / Federica Martini & Vittoria Martini (p. 260) ; "On Curatorial Responsibility" / Raqs Media Collective (p. 276) -- RETHINKING BIENNIALS: MODELS AND FORMATS: "How to Biennial: A Consideration of the Biennial in Relation to the Art Institution" / Maria Hlavajova (p. 292) ; "Biennials of Resistance: Reflections on the Seventh Gwangju Biennial" / Ranjit Hoskote (p. 306) ; "The Global White Cube" (2005) / Elena Filipovic (p. 322) ; "Changes in Strategies of (Re)presentation at the São Paulo Biennial" / Vinicius Spricigo (p. 346) ; "Talking and Thinking about Biennials: The Potential of Discursivity" / Bruce W. Ferguson and Milena M. Hoegsberg (p. 360) -- POLITICS OF A GLOBAL ART WORLD -- "The Global Art World, Inc.: On the Globalization of Contemporary Art" (2004) / Charlotte Bydler (p. 378) ; "Arrivederci, Venice: The Third World Biennials" (1993) / Thomas McEvilley (p. 406) ; "The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism" (1992) / Gerardo Mosquera (p. 416) ; "Mega-Exhibitions and the Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form" (2004) / Okwui Enwezor (p. 426) ; "The Globalization of the False: A Response to Okwui Enwezor" (2004) / George Baker (p. 446) ; "The Impact of the Two Johannesburg Biennials on the Formation of a 'New South African Art'" (1999) / Sabine Marschall (p. 454) ; "Hegemonic Shifts and the Politics of Biennialization: The Case of Documenta" (2008) / Oliver Marchart (p. 466)

[v. 2]: Foreword by the City of Bergen (p. 5) ; Introduction / Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal, and Solveig Ovstebo (p. 6) -- REVIEWS OF THE BERGEN BIENNIAL CONFERENCE: HISTORY -- "The Era of the Histories of Biennials Has Begun" / Vrttoria Martini (p. 9) ; "Towards the Unknown: A Debate with Sarat Maharaj and Carlos Basualdo" / Vinicius Spricigo (p. 14) ; "The Cage of the Contemporary: On 'Late Style' and Biennials" / Marit Paasche (p. 19) -- PRACTICE -- "On Biennial Practice: The Global Megacity and Biennial Memory" / Ina Blom (p. 23) ; "How to Run a Biennial (with an Eye to Critical Regionalism)" / Monika Szewczyk (p. 27) ; "On the Method and Location, Not to Mention the Timing, of a Possible Manifestation" / Tommy Olsson (p. 33) -- FUTURE -- "Biennials as Platforms for Social Exchange" / Nikos Papastergiadis and Meredith Martin (p. 37)

"Born as a vehicle for national propaganda, the art biennial today has become an outsize phenomenon mobilizing not only artists, curators and gallerists but sponsors, celebrities and politicians, commanding huge press attention and deciding the careers of artists worldwide. For a city to host a biennial today has colossal ramifications. This anthology on the art biennial gathers previously published seminal texts from around the world alongside commissioned contributions from the leading scholars, curators, critics and thinkers today--among them Carlos Basualdo, Daniel Buren, John Clark, Okwui Enwezor, Bruce Ferguson, Milena Hoegsberg, Ranjit Hoskote, Caroline A. Jones, Jakouba Konaté, Gerardo Mosquera and Rafal Niemojewski. Tracing the genealogy of the standard exhibition format--including biennials but also other recurrent exhibitions such as triennials and quadrennials--and examining some of the most famous examples of the twentieth and twenty-first century, from the Venice Biennale to the Johannesburg Biennial and the Havana Bienal to Documenta and the Asian biennials, this reader explores the artistic, theoretical, political and other ambitions of such large-scale exhibition projects. It is certain to be a vital resource for scholars, students, curators, artists and critics alike." (http://www.artbook.com/9783775726108.html)