The Gwangju Biennale, Asia’s most prestigious recurring arts festival, has announced the artists participating in its 2024 show, which opens on September 7 in the South Korean city.
The exhibition is this time curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French curator known for theorizing the relational aesthetic style of the 1990s. As is typical of Bourriaud’s exhibitions, his Gwangju Biennale comes with an ambitious framework that sees sound as a means of structuring life as we know it.
Its title is “Pansori, the soundscape of the 21st century”, the 17th century. which refers to a 20th century Korean music genre. “In Korean,” the announcement for the biennial states, “pansori literally means “noise of the public place”, and could now also be translated as “voice of the subaltern”, a possible reference to the field of subaltern studies, which has been crucial for scholars to understand the postcolonial colony in South Asia.
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Bourriaud’s description of the show promises a multiverse, “a soundscape for a saturated space,” a focus on climate change and wider nature. In addition to the works of art on display, an opera will also be performed as the opening of the show.
The full list of artists is below.
Saâdane Afif
Haseeb Ahmed
Deniz Aktas
Noel W. Anderson
Andrius Arutiunia
Kevin Beasley
Wendimagegn Belete
Bianca Bondi
Dora Budor
Peter Buggenhout
Angela Bulloch
Alex Cerveny
Cheng Xinhao
Choi Haneyl
Gaëlle Choisne
Anna Conway
Binta Diaw
John Dowell
Hayden Dunham
Liam Gillick
Loris Gréaud
Matthias Groebel
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Marguerite Humeau
Agata Ingarden
Hye Joo Jun
Jun Hyoung-san
Kim Hyeong Suk
Jai Kim
Young Eun Kim
Dominique Knowles
Agnieszka Kurant
Hyewon Kwon
Netta Laufer
Brianna Leatherbury
Yein Lee
Oswaldo Macia
Mira Man
Cynthia Marcelle
Vladislav Markov
Beautiful Mendes
Myriam Mihindou
Dear Mr
Saadia Mirza
David Noonan
Katja Novitskova
Joseph Ntjam
Emeka Ogboh
Frida Orupabo
Lydia Ourahmane
Mimi Park
Philippe Parreno
Amol K. Patil
Harrison Pearce
Lucy Raven
Tabita Rezaire
Marina Rheingantz
Marina Rosenfeld
Max Hooper Schneider
Franck Scurti
quick shon
Jura Shust
Marianna Simnett
Sofia Skidan
Anastasia Sosunova
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Sung Tieu
Julian Abraham “Togar”
Undo Lab
Yuyan Wang
Amber Wellman
Carried by Williams
Phillip Zach
