{"id":128,"date":"2015-12-20T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T17:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatorlab2015.wordpress.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2016-08-15T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:19:02","slug":"gibca-goteborg-international-biennial-for-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/2015\/12\/20\/gibca-goteborg-international-biennial-for-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"GIBCA (G\u00f6teborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the way to Gothenburg<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Presentation by GIBCA Director, Elvira Dyangani Osi<\/b><\/p>\n

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Visit to Skogen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Performance by Isabel Lewis,\u00a0\u2018An Occasion\u2019, in Tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsf\u00f6reningen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listening to a dinner conversation at HoW (House of Words)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lunch at HoW with Loulou Cherinet<\/b><\/p>\n

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GIBCA- The Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art is one of the leading biennials in the Nordic region, seeking to create a dialogue with the city through art, employing site-specific techniques alongside the readily available art spaces in the city. \u2018A Story within a Story\u2019 was the title of the 2015 Biennial and invited visitors to imagine history as an open work that is incomplete and constantly renewed. With a host of Swedish and international artists spread out over four main venues and CuratorLab in town for just the weekend, it meant that there was no time to adopt a slow pace. Reflections on the Biennale could be discussed at a later date and reviewed and committed to memory with the aid of the exhibition catalogue. After a three-hour train journey, a quick trot to our hotel rooms and an even quicker and much-needed cup of coffee was immediately followed by our first engagement- a visit to the GIBCA\u2019s inauguration in G\u00f6teborg Konsthall, an exhibition questioning various institutional structures such as the museum, the archive and the canon. Next door, at Hasselblad Centre, a range of photographic and video works showcased personal approaches and archival strategies that raised questions larger than the sum of the individual pieces. Despite the intensity of the first day, some energy in the fuel reserves was saved for the opening party at Folk which continued until\u2026.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The following day, another jam-packed scheduled ensued, incorporating a mixture of Biennial and non-Biennial related activities. First up a visit to Skogan, an artist-run platform for the performing arts. A little later, we made a brief visit to Isabel Lewis’ \u2018An Occasion\u2019 in Tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsf\u00f6reningen, a large 19th century glasshouse in which visitors entered a dramaturgy involving music, dance and spoken word. Unfortunately our timetable didn’t allow for a lengthy meditative and sensory experience in the deckchairs and we soon had to haul ourselves away to the next appointment. \u00a0A short tram ride out of town took us to R\u00f6da Sten, a red-bricked boiler house turned konsthall, dwarfed by its positioning beside the harbour entrance under the lofty \u00c4lvsborg bridge. The works on display at R\u00f6da Sten Konsthall embodied a more narrative and sociopolitical nature investigating ideas of documentation and moments of collective history. Attached to the konsthall, the pavilion House of Words (HoW) designed by architect Santiago Cirugeda, provided a site for a roundtable discussion on the topic of ‘postcolony’.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the following day, it was our day to form the roundtable. We returned to HoW to make lunch with artist Loulou Cherinet and to chat with GIBCA curator Elvira Dyangani Ose. On a grey, wet and blustery day in Gothenburg, a communally-made soup bolstered our spirits with the pause allowing for discussion on the Biennial, before we returned north to Stockholm that afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the way to Gothenburg \u00a0 Presentation by GIBCA Director, Elvira Dyangani Osi Visit to Skogen Performance by Isabel Lewis,\u00a0\u2018An Occasion\u2019, in Tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsf\u00f6reningen Listening to a dinner conversation at HoW (House of Words) \u00a0 Lunch at HoW with Loulou Cherinet \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 GIBCA- The Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art is one of the leading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edu.konstfack.se\/curatorlab2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}