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Lookup NU author(s): Richard Grayson
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Other details: Curator of 2002 Sydney Biennale: (The World May Be) Fantastic. International Group Exhibition focussing on practices using 'fictions, narratives, invented methadologies hypotheses, subjective belief systems modellings fakes and experiments as a means to make works". Funded by Australia Council, City of Sydney, Transfield, Participating Governments $3,200,000, Catalogue 248 pages ISBN 0 9580403 0 3, containing authored essay 'Grasshopper Worlds" . Reviewed Art in America, Art Forum, Art Monthly Australia and 27 others. Considered a groundbreaking project in defining alternative new curatorial themes and approaches "A lively intellectually rigorous alternative to the sociologically instructive identlty based concerns defined by curators such as Okwai Enwezor" Michael Duncan, Self Contained Worlds Art in America (Feature) Oct 2002. Although "There is a link between Grayson's fragmentary register and Enwezor's criticism of the frameworks of Western Art" "Modern Art: A Critical introduction" Pam Meecham and Julie Seldo. Routledge 2005. ISBN 0-415-28194-6. It was also one of the most successful with 245,000 visitors
Artist(s): Grayson RM
Publication type: Exhibition
Publication status: Published
Year: 2002
Number of Pieces: over 400 works
Print publication date: 15/05/2002
Venue: Museum of Modern Art
Location: Sydney
Source Publication Date: 2002-05-15
Media of Output: Curated exhibition of works in various media
Notes: Also exhibited at Art Gallery New South Wales, Artspace, Object Galleries, City Exhibition Space, Customs House, Government House, Sydney Opera House, and Outdoor Venues (all venues in Sydney).
