Emergency Biennale, World Tour Stop 10

PLAySPACE Presents: Emergency Biennale
World Tour Stop 10: San Francisco
January 25–February 9

PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco campus
Opening reception: Fri., Jan. 25, 6–9 pm
Gallery hours: Mon., Tues., Fri., and Sat., noon–3 pm
Talk with curator Evelyne Jouanno and the artists: Fri., Feb. 8, 6 pm
Artists
Adel Abdessemed, A Constructed World, Dennis Adams, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Maria-Thereza Alves, Francis Alÿs, Aija Apse, Maja Bajevic, Ruth Barabash, Rebecca Belmore, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Aija Bley, Sylvie Blocher, Blue Noses, Mark Boswell & Anton Kozlov, Marc Boucherot, Véronique Boudier, Hernain Bravo, Kristians Brekte, Mathieu Briand, Hank Bull, Santiago Caicedo, Cao Fei, Jota Castro, Banu Cennetoğlu, Raimond Chaves, Chen Shaoxiong, Paolo Chiasera, Magali Claude, José Luis Cortés S., Jeff Derksen, Jimmie Durham, Al Fadhil, Seamus Farrell, Daniel Faust, Carlos Franklin, Fu Jie, Adriana García Galán, Ghazel, Roya Ghiasy, Kaspars Goba, Babak Golkar, Martinš Grauds, Yves Grenet, Gu Dexin, Andris Grinbergs, Daniel Guzmán, Jens Haaning, Han Myung-Ok, Antonia Hirsch, IN[ ]EX, Alfredo Jaar, Uldis Jancis, Edgars Jurjans, Elina Kalnina, Kolkoz, Koo Jeong-A, Roman Korovin, Linards Kulless & Una Meiberga, Neeme Külm, Gabriel Kuri, Surasi Kusolwong, Marco Laimre, Sally Lee, Raimonds Licitis, HH Lim, Armin Linke, Ken Lum, Juan Pablo Macias, Marko Mäetamm, Ives Maes, Gilda Mantilla, Isaac Munoz & Leonardo Marz, Oda Projesi, Jüri Ojaver, Lucy Orta, Damián Ortega, Gionata Gesi Ozmo, Ahmet Öğüt, Adrian Paci, Alexandre Périgot, Emmanuelle Rapin, David Renaud, Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen, Römer & Römer, Julian Rosefeldt, Gatis Rozenfelds, Mo Salemy, Jayce Salloum, Krišs Salmanis, Juan Esteban Sandoval, Santomatteo, Sarkis, Zineb Sedira, Shen Yuan, Nedko Solakov, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Bert Theis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Steven Tong, Enzo Umbaca, Anton Vidokle, Cesare Viel, Luca Vitone, Wang Du, Florence Wang, Hans Winkler, Sislej Xhafa, Yan Lei, Yang Fudong, Yang Jie Chang, Zheng Guogu, Zhu Jia, Aiva Zurina.

The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya was conceived and organized in 2005 as an echo to the 1st Moscow Biennial and as a reaction to the destruction of a people and culture. Drawing attention to the plight of Chechnya and more broadly to human and social emergencies in the context of "ambivalent globalization" while also questioning the phenomenon and proliferation of international biennials, The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya opened on February 23, 2005, in different clandestine locations in the city of Grozny and simultaneously in Paris, at the Palais de Tokyo. More than 60 international artists, established and emerging, provided one artwork and its duplicate—created to fit into suitcases—which have been shipped to different cities in the world for mirror exhibitions. After Paris, the touring part of the exhibition moved on to Brussels, Bolzano, Milan, Riga, Tallinn, Vancouver, Puebla, Istanbul, and now to San Francisco. This is the first presentation of the exhibition in the United States.

http://www.emergency-biennale.org/