{"id":556,"date":"2012-07-16T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=556"},"modified":"2020-08-16T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T04:34:16","slug":"sydney-biennale-2012-all-our-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/16\/sydney-biennale-2012-all-our-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Biennale 2012 : All our Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had better describe this year’s Sydney Biennale as less exciting, safe, and familiar. Or I could have been spoiled by a spectacle. There\u00a0is one work that elicits\u00a0my exclamation: Hylozoic Series<\/em> by Philip Beesley. This snow crystal\u00a0forest was\u00a0breathing\u00a0and emitting colourful light of life when I was browsing\u00a0through the work.<\/p>\n

Having a glass of wine\u00a0over the gorgeous view of Sydney harbour on the top hill of Cockatoo island, I\u00a0contemplated\u00a0the theme of the Biennale: All\u00a0our Relations. Yes, all artworks appear to be\u00a0knotted through stiches, embroidery and weaving. And what else? There\u00a0are collaborations and participations\u00a0in the artworks. However this broad concept of ‘relation’ in arts seems to be ambiguous and subtle to be presented for viewers\/participants. With the similiar attempt, the French curator, Nicholas\u00a0Bourriaud developed the term, ‘Relational Aesthetics’ through the book with the same name (1998) and\u00a0<\/em>the exhibition, Traffic<\/em> (1996). Are we, as audiences, too picky? I need to think further.<\/p>\n

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Philip Beesley ‘Hylozoic Series’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ewa Partum : Installation Metapoetry \u201cA la recherche du temps perdu\u201d according to Marcel Proust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lyndal Jones ‘ Rehearsing catastrophe : The ark in Sydney’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nina Canell and Robin Watkins ‘And so entangled in their neighbour’s boughs’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fujiko Nakaya ‘Living Chasm’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Erin Manning ‘Folds to Infinity’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cecilia Vicuna ‘Quipu that remembers nothing’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tiffany Singh ‘Knock on the sky Listen to the sound’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I had better describe this year’s Sydney Biennale as less exciting, safe, and familiar. Or I could have been spoiled by a spectacle. There\u00a0is one work that elicits\u00a0my exclamation: Hylozoic Series by Philip Beesley. This snow crystal\u00a0forest was\u00a0breathing\u00a0and emitting colourful light of life when I was browsing\u00a0through the work. Having a glass of wine\u00a0over the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,111,18,112,109],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}