Over 70 artists, critics and researchers from Russia and aborad will participate in the 6th Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art from September 22 to October 1.
The ten-day forum HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER? A VIEW FROM CITY IN THE HEART OF EURASIA ISLAND to be held in the Central pavilion of the ENEA (aka VDNKh) will become the main project of the 6th Moscow Bienniale.
Participants will try to bridge modern art and social perceptions of it by creating a system where art and the audience will interact directly. In quest of the answer to questions "How to interact?", "How to live together?" and How to use new opportunities in the future?" participants of the program will reconsider the borders of our present-day ideas about art.
Interactive communication establishes tides that promote development of awareness in the society. Specially for this purpose the MediaMachine section will be created at the biennial. It will take a separate hall of the First Pavilion at the ENEA to record and process all the goings-on of the event for its further reconsideration. Photographers, cameramen and editors will work here.
For ten days, from 2 pm to 10 pm daily from September 22 to October 1, 2015, the Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art will turn into an open venue replete with creative energy, works of art and their authors. The extensive program of the forum provides space for both preplanned actions and creative impromptus.
The leading thinkers of the present will take part in daily discussions. Rem Koolhaas (architect), Saskia Sassen (sociologist), Ulrike Guérot (political scientist), Mariana Mazzucato (economist), Eyal and Ines Weizman (architecture theorists), Ackbar Abbas (professor of comparative literature), Evgeny Gontmakher (economist), Yanis Varoufakis (economist) and Pascal Gielen (sociologist, art theorist) will agree about solution to the question How to live together?
The artists Babi Badalov, Sergey Bratkov, Els Dietvorst, Honoré d’O, Fabrice Hyber, Elena Kholkina, Li Mu, Augustas Serapinas, Luc Tuymans, Peter Wächtler, Anastasiya Yarovenko, Qiu Zhijie and Constantin Zvezdochotov will create their works right in the venue stage.
The program also includes everyday performances by Saâdane Afif, Ricardo Brey, Vaast Colson, Gabriel Lester, Leon Kahane, Alevtina Kakhidze, Andrey Kuzkin, Taus Makhacheva, Mian Mian, David Polzin and Suchan Kinoshita, u/n multitude and Anton Vidokle. At the same time open meetings with Burak Arikan, Simon Denny and Maya Van Leemput will give a chance to to artists, critics and visitors to plunge together into modern art and communicate and share.
Birdhead, Ives Maes, Otto Snoek and Maarten Vanden Abeele will create series of photos about Moscow in the course of the biennial. A rich video program highlighting one of the artists every day will be made by Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham, Keren Cytter, Ieva Epnere, Evgeny Granilshchikov, Nastio Mosquito, Chan-Kyong Park, Jon Rafman, Meggy Rustamova and Lu Yang.
Author: Vera Ivanova