Taipei Anti-Biennial

Months before the 2010 Taipei Biennial opened on Sept. 7 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, one of the organizers, the Taiwanese curator and artist Hongjohn Lin, promised an “anti-biennial biennial.” He and co-curator Tirdad Zolghadr, a professor at Bard College and curator of the first United Arab Emirates pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, had chosen to abstain from the arms race of escalating budgets and expansive artist rosters. Instead, they invited 24 artists (a paltry number by most biennial standards), left the exhibition untitled and invited an additional eight artists from the 2008 Taipei Biennial to return and create art that critiques their previous work, the earlier exhibition and the institution of the Taipei Biennial … Read More