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International biennials: Meaningful showcases for art in the age of globalization or bloated boondoggles for advancing curatorial agendas? In November Artforum looks at the über-exhibition today. Art historian James Meyer moderates our roundtable as Francesco Bonami, Catherine David, Okwui Enwezor, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Martha Rosler, and Yinka Shonibare weigh in on the phenomenon of the global exhibition.
"My early experience at Documenta showed me that these exhibitions have something in common with childbirth. No matter how often youre warned, you can never be prepared for the enormity of the labor." -Martha Rosler
Also in November: Since the late '60s, Polish Conceptualist Edward Krasinski's horizontal line of blue tape has passed over gallery and studio walls, linking everything hanging on them while giving the impression of continuing forever. Art historian Blake Stimson examines an ongoing gesture that links a half century of proto-Conceptual and Conceptual art while "aiming to subsume world to ego and ego to world."
"I do not know whether it is art. But for sure it is Scotch blue, width 19 mm, length unknown." -Edward Krasinsky
From a reimagined Paris subway station to a park for imported monuments to a video meditation on Copacabana, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's "filmic experiments" employ cinema as a way of opening a space for dreaming inside the everyday. Artforum contributing editor Daniel Birnbaum considers the artist's "active production of emptiness."
Plus: Pepe Karmel remembers Kirk Varnedoe, Daniel Pinchbeck goes to Burning Man, David Rimanelli reviews Bruce Hainley and John Waters, and Amy Sillman chooses her Top Ten.
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10/31/03 
