Moderated by Ute Meta Bauer (Founding Director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU), the panel Curating in the Age of Crises features Sammy Baloji (visual artist and co-founder of the Lubumbashi Biennale), Lucrezia Cippitelli (scholar, curator), Enrique Rivera (Director, Biennial of Media Arts of Santiago), Christine Tohme (Founding Director, Ashkal Alwan) and Tirdad Zolghadr (Associate Curator, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Artistic Director, Sommerakademie Paul Klee).
In this session, the panelists—art practitioners based in major global cities, including Santiago, Lubumbashi, Ramallah and Beirut—reflect on their experiences in curating engaging biennials. They explore current political, environmental, economic and social crises around the world and debate what it means to produce art in such challenging times. Everywhere one looks these days, crises with global implications, one after the other, are becoming the norm. What resources can biennials bring to bear in these complex times? What durational projects can address the different forms of crisis?
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