1. Dan Graham and Atelier Bow-Wow’s powers combined!

Seeing these two (well three really) people work together on their tour of Sydney is one of those moments that only a Biennale could create. More

Day 78: Breaking News?

Only 5 days to go and I just received the following from the BoS, “Liam Gillick has decided to transform the lecture format of a public conference into a series of personal discussions with the audience over email and/or the telephone. If you would like to be included in Gillick’s new project of individual talks, I encourage you to authorise the Biennale to send the artist your name and direct contact information, if you have not already done so.”

Gillick was previously scheduled to actually meet the public, including drinking sessions at the pub, in a series of lectures called Relations of Equivalence: Three Potential Endings. More

Not sure how active Yoko is with her NY/Sydney phone calls. To let you know I spoke to her on Saturday August 23rd 08. Weird experience but very exciting. It was definitely her! wish I had had something insightful to say….but we did talk about Tokyo….
Diane

p.s. by the way, Cockatoo Island is FANTASTIC..and as my 5 year old says “do we have to see william Kentridge AGAIN…!”

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Tracey Moffat’s collaboration with Gary Hillberg, REVOLUTION, 2008 made for this Biennale is one of the most engaging works at the MCA. Although León Ferrari’s, La civilización occidental y cristiana / Western Christian Civilization, 1965 (Jesus nailed to a airplane cross) and Maurizio Cattelan’s, Novecento,1997 (stuffed dead horse) * have both received a lot the media attention, however it was works like Moffat’s and Hillberg’s which really stood out. *Brackets my addition More