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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Southampton
The Indian biennale effect: the Kochi/Murziris Biennale 2012
Research content/process:
This sole-authored 3000-word journal article, which includes photographs by the author of the 2012 Biennale, reflects on the historic precedents of the rejection and collapse of the original Indian Triennale launched in 1969 considered through a critical historical and political lens of the rise of the global biennale and issues of globalisation’s effects on the internationalisation of contemporary art from outside of the west. The Kochi/Murziris Biennale was inaugurated in December 2012 in India and is the first international art Biennale to be launched in India and a significant new event in the international art calendar including not only major established and upcoming Indian contemporary artists but also high profile artists and curators from outside India. The combination of text and image generates new critical insights, and indicates photography's capacity to act as a form of knowledge production in its own right.
