metabiennial
"We didn't care about the official show, we just wanted to use it for our own purposes."
Participants:

TheFreeBiennial
WhitneyBiennial.com
WhitneyBiennial.org
WhitneyBiennial
Bienniale.net
Biennial.net (For Sale!)
educational-sticker.com
FreeManifesta
BruecBiennial.com
René Joseph

 
Invitation:

'Tis the season to host your own biennial show, because virtual "space" is free, and beating the "what is real/who own's what?" conceptual dead horse is just too easy to pass up!

To participate, just link a bunch of sites you like, call the project "biennial something-or-other" (I myself am partial to "BritneyBiennial," but of course it's your show), and send me your URL! It's mind-numbingly simple. You can either ask the participants whether they want to be involved, OR NOT! By not asking (as I have not done with the above participants), you raise the supa-fresh issue of copyright. Werd.

Or, better yet, compile your own meta-list of other lists, and send me the URL of your meta-list (thus make your site the new MetaBiennial site, and turning this site into the MetaMetaBiennial site. I may have to change my logo!)

Or, better yet, add this meta-list to your own meta-meta-list and don't send me any URL at all (thus making your site a MetaMetaBiennial site, and leaving this site to remain the aptly named MetaBiennial site).

Whichever you choose, don't forget to call yourself a "curator" (this is very important), and email your URL out to a bunch of people (also very important). If you can marshal a fleet of virtual vehicles and incorporate them into your virtual show, all the better! Or create a "Virtual U-Haul" rental site of your own and make a virtual e-killing out of this virtual craze.

 
F.A.Q.

Q: Do you consider the MetaBiennial site art?
A: Sure, why not?

Q: Do you consider the MetaBiennial site conceptual art?
A: Sure, why not?

Q: Do you consider the MetaBiennial site good conceptual art?
A: What is "good?" Your even asking that question proves that you missed the whole point.
Q: But don't you think that...
A: Shhh!

Q: Do you consider the MetaBiennial site good art?
A: No.

Q: Do you consider the MetaBiennial site art criticism?
A: Sure, why not?

Q: Do you consider the MetaBiennial site conceptual art criticism?
A: Do you mean "criticism of conceptual art," or "art criticism that is itself conceptual"?
Q: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
A: Please!
Q: Am I right?

Q: Do you consider the MetaBiennial site good conceptual art criticism?
A: Don't go there, girlfriend.

Q: Do you consider the MetaBiennial site good art criticism?
A: You hurt my feelings by even asking that question.

Q: Why should I participate in this project?
A: San Dimas High School Football Rules!

Q: Will we ever escape this circuitous, self-reflexive dialogue with the art institutions themselves and start making art again about something other than whether or not the art is or isn't in a gallery?
A: I'm sorry, but your time is up.

 
Lo-Res Printable Invitation:

meta.pdf
meta.pdf (69k)

 
Curated By:

Curt Cloninger
lab404.com
playdamage.org
www.neuralust.com/~curt