Colombo Arts Biennale 2014 |
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UZ Arts Director Neil Butler has once again been invited to work alongside founding Director Annoushka Hempel at the forthcoming Colombo Art Biennale (CAB) in 2014. He will be supporting the international development of the festival. "Making History" will be the third biennale to be presented in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 31st January to 9th February 2014. The Biennale’s theme, ‘Making History’, is a provocation exploring the artistic adventure of making history. It enquires into the contemporary aesthetic experience, from historical, present and future points of view, to reveal a possible reality of making history as part of an art historical trajectory.
Images from CAB 2012. Photo: Hashitha Liyanage Anoli Perera, from the CAB 2014 Artistic Advisory Board, says, “History is inescapable. As human beings, our bodies are inscribed with connotations that in many ways defy temporality, and in our modernity, refers to parallel representations of cultures, events, moments and emotions. Our bodies are historically marked, while emotionally ‘present’ with a desire to invent the future. Do we make history or does history makes us what we are today? This is a question often asked, and an answer to this could take us on a deep and nuanced exploration of the implications of history on the human being as well as the human condition.” Artists for CAB 2014 include many of Sri Lanka’s most recognized established and emerging artists, as well as artists from China, USA, Britain, Italy, Austria, Scotland, France, Sweden, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Qatar and Iran, all of whom will be presenting works working towards the this year’s theme ‘Making History’. CAB is already the largest contemporary art event in Sri Lanka and aims to become a significant hub for visual arts in the South Asia region. |
