SHAUN GLADWELL IN CODE SHARE, CAC
16 Jan 2009
CODE SHARE: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists
January 16–March 8, 2009
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (CAC)
curated by Simon Rees
CODE SHARE takes its name from the commercial airline practice of sharing passengers, services, landing rights, and technical resources – based upon partnership agreements. Often travellers book a flight upon one airline and arrive at the gate to find the plane and its staff is wearing the livery of a different partner airline – and serving food and drink associated with another national culture when we were looking forward to a specific set of flavours or the taste of ‘home’! This might come as a pleasant surprise for the adventurous traveller but disappoint that flyer wanting to relax to familiar sounds and flavours two hours ahead of touching down.
The Code Share exhibition is mirroring this productive partnership strategy – and flying the best of international art to Vilnius. The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) has established partnerships with ten international biennale exhibitions – large-scale international festivals of national prominence exhibitions -– on four continents. In dialogue with the artistic directors and curators of those exhibitions the CAC will invite leading participating artists from Africa, America, Asia, Australia [and Europe] to Vilnius to produce work for Code Share. In this way, during the 2009 Festival year, Vilnius will become a global hub or terminus for the exposition of global art. Code share will be the first exhibition at the CAC to include contemporary art from Africa, and will also be the first occasion for which contemporary artists have travelled from Asia to Vilnius for an exhibition.
The participating biennales are: in Africa the Sharjah Biennial (UAE) and Dak’Art (Senegal); in Australia the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the Biennale of Sydney; in America the Whitney Biennale of American Art (NY) and SITE Santa Fe; in Asia the Singapore Biennale and the Taipei Biennial; and in Europe the Istanbul Biennale and the Liverpool Biennial.
The artists invited to Vilnius, are: Edgar Arceneaux (US, Whitney), Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan (PI, Adelaide), Nadiah Bamadhaj (MY, Singapore), Matthew Brannon (US, Whitney), Matthew Buckingham (US, Liverpool), Yu Cheng-ta (TP, Taipei), Wong Hoy-Cheong (MY, Istanbul), Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn (US, Whitney), Annika Eriksson (SE, Dakar), Shaun Gladwell (AU, Sydney), Emre Huner (TK, Istanbul), Jesper Just (DK, Liverpool), Jane Lee (SI, Singapore), Scott Lyall (CA, Site Santa Fe), Darius Miksys (LT, Sydney), Grace Ndiritu (UK, Dakar), Sherman Ong (MY, Singapore), Kate Rohde (AU, Adelaide), Raeda Saadeh (IL, Sharjah), and Bright Ugochukwu Eke (NG, Sharjah)
Since April 2008 collaborators and participating artists have been travelling to Vilnius for the purpose of research, and to deliver talks about their work as an element of the project’s extensive public programs, that includes: artist’s talks, curator’s talks, an international film screening program (February–April, 2009), and an international conference to be held in March 2009. Curator’s talks by Henriette Huldisch & Shamim M. Momin from the Whitney will be held in October 2008, assistant director of the Liverpool Biennial, Paul Domela, will speak in November, and Felicity Fenner director of the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian art will speak in December.
Full details about the exhibition, participating artists, and calendar of special events will be available from a special website launching in September 2008 www.codeshare.lt and on the CAC website www.cac.lt
January 16–March 8, 2009
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (CAC)
curated by Simon Rees
CODE SHARE takes its name from the commercial airline practice of sharing passengers, services, landing rights, and technical resources – based upon partnership agreements. Often travellers book a flight upon one airline and arrive at the gate to find the plane and its staff is wearing the livery of a different partner airline – and serving food and drink associated with another national culture when we were looking forward to a specific set of flavours or the taste of ‘home’! This might come as a pleasant surprise for the adventurous traveller but disappoint that flyer wanting to relax to familiar sounds and flavours two hours ahead of touching down.
The Code Share exhibition is mirroring this productive partnership strategy – and flying the best of international art to Vilnius. The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) has established partnerships with ten international biennale exhibitions – large-scale international festivals of national prominence exhibitions -– on four continents. In dialogue with the artistic directors and curators of those exhibitions the CAC will invite leading participating artists from Africa, America, Asia, Australia [and Europe] to Vilnius to produce work for Code Share. In this way, during the 2009 Festival year, Vilnius will become a global hub or terminus for the exposition of global art. Code share will be the first exhibition at the CAC to include contemporary art from Africa, and will also be the first occasion for which contemporary artists have travelled from Asia to Vilnius for an exhibition.
The participating biennales are: in Africa the Sharjah Biennial (UAE) and Dak’Art (Senegal); in Australia the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the Biennale of Sydney; in America the Whitney Biennale of American Art (NY) and SITE Santa Fe; in Asia the Singapore Biennale and the Taipei Biennial; and in Europe the Istanbul Biennale and the Liverpool Biennial.
The artists invited to Vilnius, are: Edgar Arceneaux (US, Whitney), Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan (PI, Adelaide), Nadiah Bamadhaj (MY, Singapore), Matthew Brannon (US, Whitney), Matthew Buckingham (US, Liverpool), Yu Cheng-ta (TP, Taipei), Wong Hoy-Cheong (MY, Istanbul), Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn (US, Whitney), Annika Eriksson (SE, Dakar), Shaun Gladwell (AU, Sydney), Emre Huner (TK, Istanbul), Jesper Just (DK, Liverpool), Jane Lee (SI, Singapore), Scott Lyall (CA, Site Santa Fe), Darius Miksys (LT, Sydney), Grace Ndiritu (UK, Dakar), Sherman Ong (MY, Singapore), Kate Rohde (AU, Adelaide), Raeda Saadeh (IL, Sharjah), and Bright Ugochukwu Eke (NG, Sharjah)
Since April 2008 collaborators and participating artists have been travelling to Vilnius for the purpose of research, and to deliver talks about their work as an element of the project’s extensive public programs, that includes: artist’s talks, curator’s talks, an international film screening program (February–April, 2009), and an international conference to be held in March 2009. Curator’s talks by Henriette Huldisch & Shamim M. Momin from the Whitney will be held in October 2008, assistant director of the Liverpool Biennial, Paul Domela, will speak in November, and Felicity Fenner director of the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian art will speak in December.
Full details about the exhibition, participating artists, and calendar of special events will be available from a special website launching in September 2008 www.codeshare.lt and on the CAC website www.cac.lt
