>From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: FLUXLIST: Fwd: Please help us to save the Johannesburg
>Biennial!!!!!!! (fwd)
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:19:29 -0700
>
>
> >>> Assunto: Please help us to save the Johannesburg Biennial!!!!!!!
> >>>
> >>> Dear Colleagues!
> >>>
> >>> When Ivo Mesquita was recently fired from the Sao Paulo Bienal
> >>> for no apparent reason it was the efforts of the global art
> >>> community that made the bureaucrats realise the consequences
> >>> and reconsider their decision.
> >>> There is sadly a precedent that few are aware of and even
> >>> fewer speak of. In 1997 following the international acclaim
> >>> and success of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, artistic director
> >>> Okwui Enwezor and key members of his team were fired
> >>> without reason, in addition to which the Johannesburg City
> >>> council decided to close the exhibition a month earlier than
> >>> had been scheduled. As a result of the efforts of a few
> >>> individuals the exhibition managed to stay open as scheduled
> >>> but the biennial has not survived.
> >>>
> >>> More than 3 years has since passed and every effort to begin the
> >>> process that would culminate in the third Johannesburg Biennial
> >>> has failed. As it stands there will never be another Johannesburg
> >>> Biennial ever again.
> >>> Neither the Johannesburg City Council nor the National
> >>> Government's Department of Arts and Culture have given any
> >>> reasons for this cancellation. Key amongst the reasons inferred
> >>> is that the Biennial is not perceived as being important to
> >>> either South Africa or to the international art community.
> >>>
> >>> You can make a difference! If the South African government is
> >>> made aware of the important role this exhibition plays in life
> >>> of every Africa artist as well as the significance it has for
> >>> the international art community it will have no option but
> >>> to change its policy. If the Johannesburg City Council is made
> >>> to realise how this single exhibition has changed the lives and
> >>> careers of so many key South African artists, both black and white,
> >>> then perhaps they would change the minds as to its vital importance.
> >>> As it stands the politicians are listening to the voices of a
> >>> few individuals in whose interests its lies that the exhibition
> >>> remain canceled forever. Such an important exhibition should not
> >>> get caught up in personal politics and hidden agendas.
> >>>
> >>> Please add your name to the list below and email it to Brigitte
> >>> Mabandla, the deputy minister of arts and culture
> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> asking that the Johannesburg Biennial be reinstated. If the
> >>> South African government is made aware of the importance this
> >>> exhibition they will have no option but to begin the process
> >>> once again. Please now do for Johannesburg, for South Africa
> >>> and for the entire African continent what you have done for
> >>> Sao Paulo:
> >>>
> >>> PLEASE HELP THE JOHANNESBURG BIENNIAL TO SURVIVE BY
> >>> ADDING YOUR NAME AND TITLE TO THIS LIST AND
> >>> PASS IT ALONG TO YOUR COLLEAGUES.
> >>> ONCE IT REACHES 50 NAMES PLEASE SEND IT ON TO:
> >>>
> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> or fax it to
> >>> +27-21- 455 6241:2:3:4:5:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Valeria Piccoli, Assistant Curator, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo
> >>> 2. Veronica Cordeiro, Curatorial Assistant, XXV Bienal de Sao
> >>> Paulo
> >>> 3. Ana Paula Cohen, Curatorial Assistant, XXV Bienal de Sao
> >>> Paulo
> >>> 4. Carla Zaccagnini, Artist, Curatorial Assistant, XXV Bienal
> >>> de Sao Paulo
> >>> 5. Adriano Pedrosa, Associate Curator, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo
> >>> 6. Ivo Mesquita, Chief Curator, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo
> >>> 7. Martin Grossmann, Vice Director Museu de Arte
> >>> Contemporanea-USP
> >>> 8. In�s Raphaelian, S�o Paulo, Artist, Independent Curator
> >>> 9. Regina Silveira, S�o Paulo, Artist
> >>> 10-Nazareth Pacheco , S�o Paulo, Artist
> >>> 11. Izabel Murat Burbridge, S�o Paulo, Translator
> >>> 12. Monique STUPAR, directeur artistique Poiiters France
> >>> 13. Paulo Herkenhoff, Adjunct Curator, The Museum of Modern Art,
> >>> New York
> >>> 13. Gerardo Mosquera, Adjunct Curator, New Museum of Contemporary
> >>> Art, New York
> >>> 14. Horacio Safons, Secretario Regional AICA para Am�rica Latina
> >>> y el Caribe
> >>> 15. Marimar Benitez, Chancellor Escuela de Artes Plasticas, San
> >>> Juan, PR
> >>> 16. Haydee Venegas, Vice President AICA. San Juan, Puerto Rico
> >>> 17.Ana Rosa Rivera Marrero, Visual Artist. San Juan, PR
> >>> 18. Stefano Pasquini, Artist, Critic, Curator, New York, NY
> >>> 19. Simon Will, Artist, Berlin Germany
> >> 20. Phil Collins artist, Belfast, Northern Ireland
> > 21. Tamas St.Auby, superintendent of IPUT, Geneva, CH - Budapest, H
>22. P.K. Harris, Visual Artist, Pacific Grove, California
23. Devon Paulson, Artist, Los Angeles, California
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