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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Para Site, Hong Kong

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Founded in early 1996 as an artist-run space, Para Site was Hong Kong's first exhibition-making institution of contemporary art and a crucial self-organized structure within the city’s civil society during the uncertain period preceding its handover to Mainland China. Throughout the years, Para Site has grown into a contemporary art center engaged in a wide array of activities and collaborations with other art institutions, museums, and academic structures in Hong Kong and the international landscape. In early 2015, Para Site moved to greatly increased premises in North Point/Quarry Bay. Throughout its history, Para Site's activities have included a range of different formats, including P/S magazine (1997–2006), a bilingual publication, Hong Kong's first visual arts magazine and a central platform for the development of art writing and of a discursive scene in the city, and the Curatorial Training Programme (2007–10). Since 2012, Para Site has been running an International Art Residency Programme and has been organizing an annual international conference. This is accompanied, starting from 2015, by a new educational format aimed at training young curators and other art professionals. Para Site is financially supported by the Springboard Grant under the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The content of this activity does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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