Sonica / Antwerp Biennale for Contemporary Art

13/01/2019

ICONAS / Peter Lemmens & Kris Van Dessel / 2019

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A starter package for a new biennale, artworks included.

05/01/2019

The Sonica catalogue will be available during the finissage (January 12)

30/10/2018

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29/10/2018

29/10/2018

"Critical practices do not contribute to the counter-hegemonic struggle by deserting the institutional terrain but by engaging with it, with the aim of fostering dissent and creating a multiplicity of agonistic spaces where the dominant consensus is challenged and where new modes of identification are made available. […] There exists a great variety of ways of bringing about agonistic spaces, and they can emerge both inside and outside institutions. […] such an approach challenges the view that institutions cannot be transformed and that resistances can only develop and be successful outside them, and it encourages a diversity of interventions, inside and outside the traditional world of art."
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— Chantal Mouffe
Institutes As Sites Of Agonistic Intervention,
Institutional Attitudes - Instituting Art in A Flat World,
Pascal Gielen (ed.),
Valiz, Amsterdam 2013, p. 68

29/10/2018

In 2001, ‘Casino’ was announced as the first quadriennale of Ghent. The exhibition came and went, a catalogue was made. There was, however, never a second edition. Following a discussion if such a curtailed event can be called a quadriennale, the thinking exercise rose on requirements and consequences.
Without trying to seek out a rigorous definition or a cynical position, a new biennale is scheduled with a minimalistic approach. The least possible artists to make up a group exhibition, non-intrusive artworks distributed over the city's districts, an existing shuttle service for mobility, a basic catalogue. Sonica is articulated as a one-time event thinking about a deliberate downgrade. The event not as an assimilating structure, but as an en route playlist while traversing the city.

26/10/2018

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