Bucharest, Romania
Mission Title: Bucharest Biennale 3
Mission By: Stefano Arrighi, Francesco Corona
Mission Finished on Date: 23-05-2008
SCRIPT
- Go to Bucharest Biennale.
- Interview one of the curator’s have them explain the exhibition, and why maps and mapping are so important now, especially in regards to creativity.
- Tape the Biennale both inside and out, making sure to get good coverage of the buildings, the streets, and the art work.
- Tell a story about the Biennale. Create a narrative arc. Use the question as jumping off point, but show everything on tape,y our reactions to and understanding of the Biennale. Perhaps, you might think about how you are mapping it for yourself.
TRAVEL BAG
How do we know that we are not living in a grand map, doing its best to represent a reality we don’t recognize?
The above question is one formulated by the curators of the 3rd Bucharest Biennial, Jan-Erik Lundström and Johan Sjöström. By asking this question, they are already beginning to reflect on the success of their own , move, interact.
The current Biennale manifests itself in three ways: a center to study contemporary practices in cartography, an exhibition looking at the history of the map in visual arts, and thirdly, a show of contemporary artists who are using mapping in their practice. The Biennale focuses on the geographical turn in contemporary creativity and the current practices of representation. Promoting cartographic literacy, imagining the map as a problematic, unpredictable, productive, and liberating instrument, the Biennale has invited mapmakers, cartographers, navigators, mapreaders, guides, maptravelers, mapprogrammers, mapdevotees, mapdestroyers of all kinds and, of course, artists.
Biennials have become nearly ubiquitous, but the curator’s of this installment of Bucharest Biennale are connecting the Biennale to space in way that reflects current trends in who we are, and how we're thinking about human interactions with and within space, whether creative or geographic, imaginative or real. Make note that reading maps and mapping is not always literal, but often associative, questioning, assertive, poetic.
