THE CONTINENT UPSIDE DOWN
DISCOURSES AND IMPOSSIBILITIES OF THE CEARÁ AMÉRICA BIENNIAL
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https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2024.11.9337Abstract
The ambitions of the 1st Ceará América Biennial, which opened in December 2002, were not small: to invert the logic of North-South subordination within the continent; to found an international event in a geography far from the major centers of the art system; to combat the pejorative regionalist sense associated with Latin American production; to expand local cultural spaces and broaden the audience attentive to contemporary art. The biennial was dedicated to the production of the "three Americas", under the sign of the American post-9/11 era and a new chapter in global imperialism. This text discusses the curatorial project, the discourses outlined by the contrast between the coast and the interior, seeking to make distinct temporalities explicit from the city's geography. To improve our analysis, we have chosen to present the context of the event, its reception by national critics and the political and economic conditions for the show not to go ahead.
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