MP1 the first mattia paganelli biennale from 10-12-2006 to 28-02-2006
FAQs
I want to put my foot in my mouth
On my other leg I will jump about in the main square.
I will steal what is offered for free
I will reject any gift
I have decided to occupy a position so powerful nobody thought of defending
it, since nobody imagined it could be invaded.
In this new age of war, spaces for conflict are desperately needed
(and the very right to disagree needs to be conquered)
I hope someone will scream "the Jester is Naked!"
Tupperware Politics (controlling the container):
It's
an open question?
the opening question?
opening a question?
(Delirious? It's exactly what I am after!)
Whitney
Havana
Sao Paolo
Sevilla
Porto Alegre
Ushuaia
Kassel
Venezia
Athene
Istambul
Berlin
Shanghai
Gwangju
Sharjah
Singapore
Busan
Praga
Echigo-Tsumari
Yokoama
Fukouka
Sidney
Manifesta
Why a Biennale must always be the periodic geographic selection or a thematic landscape, with the usual aims of information, diffusion, and projection into success?
A biennale only of my work
A biennale of artists relevant for me (only by memory, no research allowed)
A biennale of the meaningful moments of my life
A biennale of the people I met
A biennale of my ideas
A biennale of my shoes
A biennale of my desires
A biennale of my diseases
A biennale of all diseases
A biennale of my failures
A biennale of the failures that affected me
A biennale of your responses
A biennale of our promises
A biennale of our failures
Or a World Cup Biennale?
Instead of endless overlapping exhibitions, make local, regional,
and global selection shows; then award the price to… well,
the 'best'.
Or would this take too long and the best would become the past by
the end of the process? Does anyone like the idea of delayed success?
What actually recurs every two years?
My trips to Venice?
My (failing) relationships?
The purchase of a new pair of trainers?
There is a major logic jam here: Biennials refer to geography, to a
place in space: Taipei, Cairo, Werklietz, Gothenburg, they all mean:
every two years HERE. Especially in reference to each other; and even
more so now that there are biennials for every thinkable place (Liverpool,
Luanda, Johannesburg, Lima, British Triennial, and even the homeless
itinerant Manifesta). Variations in the period do not matter.
Pick a place, add a theme, and apply any editing criterion.
Is it periodical sampling?
a time stamp, a threshold? beyond which…
The rhythm of progress?
A monitoring system to keep us constantly informed?
Returning rounds where the famous snake eats itself? Or is it a dog
biting its tail?
Are we afraid art would not still be there, if we did not control it every two years?
