"Biennals are the art world's GPS and, to remain faithful to my metaphor, the satellites in a GPS system are also quite far removed from the centre. Biennals, triennals, documenta; they all help us navigate through a difficult art scene. An art scene that - since the world becomes steadily smaller, with seemingly shorter distances between the centre and the periphery, and between continents and cultures - becomes more and more facetted and complex. The art world has a rhizomatic structure; a network, where different quality criteria exist: There is no single answer but many, and here lies both the interesting and the challenging. Biennals help us see the big picture; significan trends, the most important. They help us classify."
- Jørgen Blitzner

Source: Blitzner. 2009. "Survey" p. 36-38. In Localised, edited by Anne Szefer Karlsen, Morten Kvamme, Arne Skaug Olsen. Bergen: Ctr+Z Publishing.
Note: Translated from Norwegian by Gillian Carson
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  1. Ellen Ringstad15. september 2009 kl. 13:49

    This text was written in the event of the Bergen Biennal Conference in September of 2009, where the main question of the conference is "if it's interesting to [the] local setting [the city of Bergen] to adapt to the biennal format, or whether whether a new format should be created to prove global participation" and adresses how a Bergen biennal could be relevant internationally.

    Blitzner compares a possible biennal in Bergen to Kassel and documenta: "Kassel is also no metropolis; about the same size as Bergen, perhaps a little smaller. Nevertheless it's an object of a whole art world's attention and one of the most important participants in a continual process of canonization" (quote extracted from the same text)

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