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RSS Feeds`It`s hard not to panic` - Istanbul Biennial targets waste, greed, garbage and gorgons
(The Guardian Culture News)

 
 

18 september 2019 11:22:49

 
`It`s hard not to panic` - Istanbul Biennial targets waste, greed, garbage and gorgons
(The Guardian Culture News)
 


The art festival is spotlighting our tragic impact on the planet. Thank goodness for the lighter moments - such as James Baldwin walking, talking and smoking by the Bosphorus Japanese arrowroot blankets the Alabama countryside, strangling the trees and fields. An endless tyre dump stretches to the horizon. Plastic waste accumulates in the oceans, forming a seventh continent. In fact, the agglomeration of plastic waste floating about in the Pacific is sometimes referred to as the Seventh Continent. An indictment of the way we live, the ever-growing garbage patch is testament to our wastefulness, heedlessness and greed. The Seventh Continent also provides the title for curator Nicolas Bourriaud´s exhibition for the 16th Istanbul Biennial. The biennial is itself another kind of accumulation, and one that is itself not without its own material and ecological cost, its own political ramifications.There is too much going on in this uneven and at times impenetrable exhibition, in which what counts as waste and what is worth keeping, or looking at, is a constant question. It is always so, beyond that we live in a time of disaster. As it is, the biennial was almost sunk before it opened. Little more than a month ago, it was discovered that the primary venue - the Haliç shipyard, in the old imperial arsenal of the Ottoman empire in the Golden Horn harbour - could no longer be used. The site itself was polluted by asbestos. Biennials are not immune to the things they describe. Continue reading...


 
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