August through September 2006
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The First Biennial Celebration of Contemporary Art will represent and generate understanding of the current situation with respect to curator activities in the field of contemporary art, as well as theoretical reflections on the meaning of contemporary art as it is expressed in St. Petersburg.
The project is unique in its endeavor to conceive of and reveal the impact that artistic curators have on the formation of contemporary artistic life in the city of St. Petersburg. The will of the curator appears to provide a conceptual basis for artistic expression, in visual art and in other media, and it is important to explore and understand the role of artistic curators. Especially, during this time of transition when it seems that contemporary culture is experiencing a major paradigm shift. Curators of art are implicitly in the position of initiating, organizing and influencing the artistic process, in ways which differ fundamentally from traditional forms and which ultimately shape the artist’s presence in the work.
The main goal of this First Biennial Celebration is to establish the space for an on-going dialogue regarding contemporary artistic life in St. Petersburg—a space that corresponds with the latest trends and developments in the field of contemporary art worldwide. The Biennial Celebration intends to unite in a single experimental project artists, researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians in the field of contemporary art. As well as representatives of existing institutions, independent authors and researchers, adherents of the worldview of classical art, and apologists for non-classical art and different ways of interpreting contemporary trends and developments.
The program of the First Biennial Celebration will be a series of interrelated artistic and learned happenings.
The scholarly component will include open lectures, presentations of curator projects, and seminars aimed in which the vital problems of contemporary artistic and cultural development will be discussed.
The artistic component of the Biennial Celebration will include concurrently conducted competitive and non-competitive programs.
Priority will be given to the exposition of practical and theoretical research in the realm of visual arts and synthetic forms of artistic expression (painting, sculpture, drawing, art-design, mixed-media art: including experiential artwork, performance, installation, object art, land-art, video- and media-art). top of page
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