India's Biennale Effect: A Politics of Contemporary Art

Description

India s Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. However, there have been few sustained and critical studies of these events as specific sites of production and reception of contemporary art. This book, engaging with the Kochi Biennale, provides detailed examination of what the editors term as the biennale effect a layered contestation of place, economics, art and politics. It presents a close reading of the unique context of the biennale as well as sets out a broader critical framework for understanding global contemporary art and its effects. Replete with illustrations, this book will serve as an important and rare resource for scholars and researchers of contemporary art, art history, visual cultures, and media studies." Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS List of illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction PART I Is art enough? 1 The Indian biennale effect 2 The making of the Indian artscape 3 ‘The Biennale was not the issue’: an interview with Riyas Komu 4 The cultural politics of ‘Whorled Explorations’ PART II Making work 5 Making a biennale: Art Interrupted 6 Curation as dialogue: Jitish Kallat in conversation 7 Painterly explorations and the social gestus of contemporary art 8 End of empire PART III Beyond the event 9 ‘A people’s biennale’: a democracy of visual culture? 10 Towards a new art education 11 Regional effects: the rise of large-scale art events in South Asia Index