11th Gwangju Biennale
2. 9. – 6. 11. 2016
Korea

Fellows

The GB11 Biennale Fellows consist of roughly one hundred small- and medium-scale art organizations across the world whose work makes important contributions to the art of today, yet remains under the radar. Biennale Fellows will continue doing the important work they normally do, without GB11 being involved in their activities.
These organizations often function as the research and development department of the art world, generating new ideas, supporting artists to allow them to experiment and cultivate their practices, shaping new curatorial and educational methods, and fostering active relationships to their field as well as to their physical, social, and political environments. Yet the significance of their works for a wider art and social ecology has not been acknowledged enough.

To All the Contributing Factors

The Forum entitled To All the Contributing Factoris, consists of three days of activities dedicated to questions of value, continuity, and scale through the lens of the art organizational practices of the so-called Biennale Fellows, around 100 small and mid-size “differential” art organizations from various parts of the world, and imagining acts in common. Representatives from about 80 of the Fellows will participate in the Forum.



The Forum will take place at several locations, including the Gwangju Biennale Hall, 518 Archives, Gwangju International Center, Mite-Ugro, and May Mother's House.

Curated by Binna Choi and Maria Lind.
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Clark House Initiative, Mumbay

self-presentation:

Clark House Initiative is a curatorial collaborative and a union of artists based in Bombay. It was established in 2010 by Zasha Colah and Sumesh Sharma as a curatorial collaborative and artist union concerned with ideas of freedom. Strategies of equality have informed their work, while experiments in rereading of histories, and concerns of representation and visibility, are ways to imagine alternative economies and freedom. Clark House Initiative intends to actively recall political and artistic figures into contemporaneity, and to question the recent rise of fascism in India based on exaggerated rumors of economic prosperity and nationalist pride. Membership arises from the basic tenets of humanism—friendship, anti-racism, sexual freedom, anti-homophobia, anti-Islamophobia, feminism, secularism, and understanding the project of modernism as an economic and political reality outside the Occident. We draw from the Black Panther Party, Dalit Panthers, Fluxus group, Richard Wright, John Cage, A.A. Raiba, Joseph Beuys, Frantz Fanon, B.R. Ambedkar, Namdeo Dhasal, Cheikh Anta Diop, Nil Yalter, Jean Bhownagary, and Krishna Reddy. Seventeen artists run the union, which gathers many more and is based across many seas. Saviya Lopes is the youngest member of the union, and the most radical in thought and life.

website
clarkhouseinitiative.org