[txt] 2009 Lyon Biennial introduction
The 2009 Lyon Biennial inaugurates a second trilogy, focused on history. What is the situation regarding the transmission – the kinship, even – of the art forms and skills, the aesthetics and thinking now emanating from the most distant corners of the planet? These factors signal the end of Western artistic hegemony – yet without detriment to its criteria – as art reaches us from places that never knew the explosion of Western modernity. History and all the diversity and density of its recent manifestations: these are the stakes in the 2009 Biennial, under the curatorship of Catherine David.links The European Biennial Network: Manifesta 7 - 19 July – 2 November 2008 5th Liverpool Biennial - 20 September – 30 November 2008 Periferic 8 (Iasi - Romania) - 3 – 18 October 2008 53rd Venice Biennial - 7 June – 22 November 2009 2nd Athens Biennial- 15 June – 4 October 2009 11th International Istanbul Biennial - 12 September – 8 November 2009 10th Lyon Biennial - 16 September 2009 – 3 January 2010 5th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art - autumn 2009 6th Berlin biennial - spring 2010 video Asia by Robin Cantrell - vimeo.com [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/1543743]
