So they should make their comments for their own. You see what I mean.
BRANCO FRANCESCHI: Maybe we focus too much on the negative aspects of
the biennials and also trying to make biennials of any other sort of mega events that
are produced today, to keep them outside of the rest of the context. I mean we are in
the society of spectacle and why should the production or presentation of art be
something else? It is almost impossible. I’m not defending the biennials, I believe it
is just the fact, that they actually cannot be anything else than what they are now at
the moment. Fortunately or unfortunately. When I read the “After All” topic of this
Continental Breakfast Meeting, I was thinking “Well I didn’t plan to go to see all
these exhibitions but eventually I went to see.” Also I was involved with the Croatian
national pavillion for the Venice Biennale so I had this experience. I went to see
Documenta, Münster Sculpture Project and then at the end I came to Istanbul and
not out of politeness, but for the Istanbul Biennial.
Manifestation can have a rather obvious purpose, I believe that no matter all the
problems, all these insider things that you are more familiar with than we can be,
but for two days spent in Istanbul I might say that, I have rarely -if never- seen an
exhibiton that was visited by such young audience, the audience that actually reacted
to the artworks. To the compliment to my colleague curator who did it I found myself
and I’m really saturated like all the professionals with the visual materials that we
are seeing, I found exciting works. I was really happy that my visit to Istanbul
happened when you have this other exhibition at Istanbul Modern that gave me
possibility to grasp the concept, an almost utopian strategy of the Istanbul Biennial
especially with the first two ones curated by B.Madra. The way how it was clear in its
beautiful pragmatic strategy, that the biennial should serve to bring contemporary
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kendileri için yapmal›lar. Dedicurrency1imi anl›yorsunuz herhalde.
BRANCO FRANCESCHI: Belki de bienallerin olumsuz yönleri üzerinde
gerecurrency1inden fazla odaklan›yoruz ve bacurrency1lam›n kalan›n›n d›fl›nda tutmak için bienalleri,
günümüzde üretilen baflka tür devasa gösterilerden biri haline getirmeye
çal›fl›yoruz. fiunu demek istiyorum, gösteri toplumunun bir parças›y›z ve o zaman
sanat›n üretimi veya sunumu neden baflka bir fley olsun ki? Bu neredeyse olanaks›z.
Bienalleri savunmuyorum, sadece onlar›n aslen flu an olduklar›ndan baflka bir fley
olamayacaklar›n›n bir gerçek olducurrency1una inan›yorum. ‹yi ki ya da ne yaz›k ki! Bu
Kontinental Kahvalt› toplant›s›n›n “Her fleyden sonra” adl› konusunu okuducurrency1um
zaman, “Asl›nda ben bütün bu sergileri görmeyi planlam›yordum ama sonuçta
görmek üzere gittim.” diye düflünüyordum. Ayn› zamanda Venedik Bienali’nin H›rvat
ulusal pavyonu ile ilgili çal›fl›yordum, dolay›s›yla bu deneyime sahiptim. Documenta,
Münster Heykel Projesi’ni görmeye gittim ve sonunda da ‹stanbul’a geldim ve
nezaket icab› decurrency1il, ‹stanbul Bienali için.
Gösterinin oldukça belirgin bir amac› olabilir. Ben inan›yorum ki, sorunlar ne olursa
olsun, hepinizin -bizim bilebilececurrency1imizden daha fazla bildicurrency1iniz- bu iflin iç yüzüne dair
fleyler vard›r. ‹stanbul’da geçirdicurrency1im iki günle ilgili olarak flunu söyleyebilirim ki,
hayat›mda hiç decurrency1ilse de, çok ender olarak bu kadar genç izleyici taraf›ndan ziyaret
edilen bir sergi gördüm, bunlar sanat yap›tlar›na tepkiler veren izleyiciler. Kendimi,
bunu yapan meslekdafl›m küratörü överken buldum, ve gördücurrency1ümüz görsel
malzemelerle, tüm dicurrency1er profesyoneller gibi gerçekten de doygunlucurrency1a ulaflt›m,
heyecan verici ifller buldum. ‹stanbul ziyaretimin ‹stanbul Modern’de süren dicurrency1er
sergiyle çak›flmas›na gerçekten çok sevindim, bu bana kavram› anlama olanacurrency1›
verdi. ‹stanbul Bienali’nin neredeyse ütopik bir stratejisi varm›fl, özellikle
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