Harry
CibbuanoBiennale Of Sydney
June 8th 2006 09:00
Category: Festivals & Shows
Often, in my varied research, I may pick up a newspaper (be it The Sydney Morning Herald, mX or Honi Soit) and have a flick through the scores of popular events that are often written about. Sometimes I get ideas from them, other times I’ve posted up things well before the multimillion dollar publications can manage to scrawl a few words on this or that event. The Biennale Of Sydney (THE International Festival of Contemporary Art) was something I had found a few weeks ago and had though, 'now THAT looks really cool' and I decided then while looking at the website and reading about its history, that I would post up something on the day the exhibition opened to spread the word...
Now I'm often a little naïve. Actually, you could go as far to say I'm downright ignorant about some major things. Nothing twigged in my mind when I read "Biennale Of Sydney - THE INTERATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART". So the past few days while looking around for things, I really have been a little surprised that I've seen it advertised absolutely everywhere - on the news, in the papers, even on some random Sydney magazine I have only ever seen twice before that I found (all three times I’ve seen it) on the train. Now it looks like I just follow along behind mass media and parrot what they think is a good event to go and check out.
I can assure you this is not the case! Contemporary Art here in Australia is vastly underappreciated, and we need, especially in such a massive cultural centre that Sydney should be, events like The Biennale Of Sydney.
The theme for the Biennale this year is Zones of Contact and includes almost 90 artists from 44 countries bringing contemporary art to 16 venues across the Sydney area. No-one (and in particular, me) could quite describe this years concept like the people behind it. This is what the website has to say:
"Zones of Contact' is about the spaces in which people live in and move between, the spatial dimensions of cities, settlements, territories, the land and home. The work refers to the temporal dimensions of those spaces, the body, everyday life, places in which people encounter one another and other cultures and sense of self and their histories. "
Awesome. Sorted. Now the majority of the displays are at being shown at Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art so if you really want to get into it, go there. There is a whole lot more information on events and times that's all on the Biennale Of Sydney website, you should go and check it out! The festival runs from today (the 8th of June) until the 27th of August.
Now I'm often a little naïve. Actually, you could go as far to say I'm downright ignorant about some major things. Nothing twigged in my mind when I read "Biennale Of Sydney - THE INTERATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART". So the past few days while looking around for things, I really have been a little surprised that I've seen it advertised absolutely everywhere - on the news, in the papers, even on some random Sydney magazine I have only ever seen twice before that I found (all three times I’ve seen it) on the train. Now it looks like I just follow along behind mass media and parrot what they think is a good event to go and check out.
I can assure you this is not the case! Contemporary Art here in Australia is vastly underappreciated, and we need, especially in such a massive cultural centre that Sydney should be, events like The Biennale Of Sydney.
The theme for the Biennale this year is Zones of Contact and includes almost 90 artists from 44 countries bringing contemporary art to 16 venues across the Sydney area. No-one (and in particular, me) could quite describe this years concept like the people behind it. This is what the website has to say:
"Zones of Contact' is about the spaces in which people live in and move between, the spatial dimensions of cities, settlements, territories, the land and home. The work refers to the temporal dimensions of those spaces, the body, everyday life, places in which people encounter one another and other cultures and sense of self and their histories. "
Awesome. Sorted. Now the majority of the displays are at being shown at Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art so if you really want to get into it, go there. There is a whole lot more information on events and times that's all on the Biennale Of Sydney website, you should go and check it out! The festival runs from today (the 8th of June) until the 27th of August.
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