Anthony Gardner: “Biennales on the Edge, or, A View of Biennales from Southern Perspectives”
In the second of this term’s graduate seminars Anthony Gardner will speak on “Biennales on the Edge, or, A View of Biennales from Southern Perspectives”
Anthony Gardner is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow through the Australian Research Council, working with Prof Charles Green on a history of biennales, triennales and other large-scale exhibitions around the world since the early 1950s. Prior to beginning this project in 2011, Anthony taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, City University London, the Royal College of Art, London, and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, the University of New South Wales, in 2009, and was the Andrew Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art from 2010 to 2011.
In 2009, he was an International Fellow at the Global Art and the Museum project, funded by the Thyssen Foundation and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in 2011 was an International Fellow at the New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania, working on the Getty-funded programme “Romanian Art 1945-2000”. He writes extensively on postcolonialism, postsocialism and curatorial histories, with essays most recently in Third Text, Postcolonial Studies, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art and the books Global Studies: Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture (ed. Hans Belting et al) and The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art (ed. Jaynie Anderson). His current book projects include the monograph Mega-Exhibitions: Biennales, Triennales and Documentas (with Charles Green), the anthology Mapping South on south-south cultural relations, and Politically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art’s Critiques of Democracy, a study of European installation art in relation to postsocialist political philosophy.
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