Symposium: Contemporary Art Biennials–Our Hegemonic Machines in Times of Emergency (Discursive Programme 9th Bucharest Biennale)
Biennials are each in their own way a complex constellation of different economical and geopolitical, and representational cultural aspects within its own power relations. With all their underlying deficiencies (canonical, hegemonic, colonialist, hot money-funded, politically influenced, hierarchical), biennials tend to establish international discourse, at best, rooted in local cultural specificities and contexts