Art Peryahan at The London Biennale Manila Pollination
- windangaesthetics
- Sep 15, 2016
- 2 min read
The London Biennale project was founded in 1997 by David Medalla, an internationally-acclaimed Filipino conceptual artist based in London, with Internation Coordinator Adam Nankervis, who assigns the theme for each year’s biennale. The event aims to challenge and transform the notion of the art world ‘biennale’ as a large state or corporate-sponsored event with artists selected by curators based on their geographical location, citizenship, nationality, race and ethnicity by throwing open borders and encouraging a more intimate and community-based dialogue between the artists and audiences. Over the years, the London Biennale has expanded with simultaneous satellite events taking place in Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Berlin, New York, Boston and Las Vegas..” The inter-linked inter-twined-themes of LONDON BIENNALE 2016 are ' SYNCHRONISATIONS - SYNCOPATIONS ', relating the visual arts to music and dance, to space and time. There will be various exhibitions and live events in different venues in Rome throughout the month of May 2016. Throughout the succeeding month of June 2016 there will more exhibitions and events in London, England. There will be more LONDON BIENNALE POLLINATIONS in other places this year 2016. 2016 London Biennale Manila Pollination explores built, temporary, and imagined architecture for sharing culture and inter-connectedness. Seeding the 2016 London Biennale in Manila, artists engage the borrowed concepts of adaptive re-use and repurposing from architectural frameworks to reflect on the various facets of creative practices of hybrid identities within the milieu of transformations of abandoned industrial spaces to alternative and often cultural centers around the world. Built, relocated, and provisional structures/spaces will serve as venues for these conversations and exchanges. 2016 London Biennale Manila Pollination spurs dialogues on syncopations of the permanent and synchronizations of the displaced through built and imaginary structures. The 2016 London Biennale Manila Pollination is also a satellite space for interactions with other cultures within the nomadic, polymeric Transart Triennial 2016. Focusing on “The Imperceptible Self”, the Triennale is “…driven by questions of how the peripatetic, nomadic states of contemporary existence negotiate ‘thresholds of sustainability’ via ideas of the subject-in-becoming; ego-less identities; otherness; collective horizons and the spaces in between.” The Transart Triennale 2016 cross germinates with 2016LBMP, which plays host to such queries and more, spurs dialogues on syncopations of the permanent and synchronizations of the displaced through built and imaginary structures.
Video footages of the two-day event
