Mapping Exhibition Networks: Current Histories of Biennales

Description

This project surveys exhibition networks, by focusing on biennials of contemporary art. Our data corpus, extracted from diverse online sources and archives, includes information on exhibition makers (artists, curatorial teams, institutions, galleries and funding bodies...), discourses (curatorial statements, press reviews...), and exhibited objects (artworks, installations...). On the basis of this data, we use network analysis and visualization, as well as discourse analysis in order to explore entangled histories of biennials and to delve into broader issues of connectivity in the art world. Our latest focus concerns the circulations of artists between the so-called ‘biennials of the South’ and western European and North American venues from the end of the Cold War to the present.