Montreal Biennale: an Exhibition for Uncertain Times
20 November 2014, at 4:00
Concordia University, EV-3.719
Ursula Biemann, still taken from Deep Weather, 2013
Peggy Gale
Co-curator of BNLMTL 2014
and curator of Tout le temps/Every
Time (Biennale de Montréal, 2000)
Alice Ming Wai Jim
Professor, Department of Art History, Concordia University
The international art world is a context of increasing mobility and communication. The centre-periphery model appears to be yielding to emerging artistic modes. International exhibitions play a key part in that transformation by allowing new cities, and their networks, to rise to prominence.
In this respect, how should the transformed 2014 edition of the Montreal Biennale be understood? What curatorial strategies were used to mark this renewal, this nouveau départ? What sort of future lies behind the event’s title: L’avenir (looking forward)?
Peggy Gale, co-curator of BNLMTL 2014 and curator of Tout le temps/Every Time (Biennale de Montréal, 2000), discusses the themes and conditions of the biennale with Alice Ming Wai Jim, associate professor of art history at Concordia University.
