Disorient - Softcover

Fiona Tan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3868280685 ISBN 13: 9783868280685

Publisher: KEHRER VERLAG, 2009

Synopsis

Fiona Tan has been selected as the 2009 entry for the Venice Biennale by famed curator Saskia Boss. Tan has been working on a new site-specific audio-visual installation which refers to Venice's historical role as a global power before the new routes to Asia diluted its role as a major port. The localised perspective of the artwork is sure to garner much attention at this year's 53rd Biennale di Venezia.

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About the Author

Fiona Tan's (b. 1966 in Indonesia) installations and films are the result of her ongoing investigation into representation and the role of images and portraits in contemporary culture. Saskia Bos is curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale and Dean of the School of Art at The Cooper Union, New York. Formerly director of the De Appel centre for contemporary art in Amsterdam, she curated many large-scale exhibitions like the 2nd Berlin Biennale, the 1988 Venice Biennale (co-curator of Aperto). Grenville is senior curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He has organized many group exhibitions and was the founding editor of the YYZ Books: Critical Works series, and is a former Toronto editor of Parachute magazine. Doris von Drathen is an art historian and critic specialized in monographic essays and books. She was guest professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Architectural Association in London, and Cornell University Ithaca; she is currently teaching at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris.Her monographic studies include books on Rebecca Horn, Pat Steir, Rui Chafes and Jannis Kounellis.

Edition details

• Publisher: KEHRER VERLAG
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3868280685
• ISBN 13: 9783868280685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Mondriaan Foundation