6TH GWANGJU BIENNALE 2006
08 Sep - 11 Nov 2006
Fever Variations
8 September – 11 November 2006
Director: Hong-hee Kim
Chief Curator: Wu Hung
Curators: Shaheen Merali, Binhui Huangfui, Jacquelynn Bass, Baek Ji-suk, Cristina Ricupero, Chris Gilbert & Cira Pascual
Participating Countries : 127 Artists from 31 Countries
Artist : 127
Škart, 16Beaver, Lida Abdul, Aporrea.org, Aru, Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, Thomas Bayrle, Samta Benyahia, Michael Beutler, Monica Bonvicini, Dove Bradshaw, Chieh-Jen Chen, Jung Hwa Choi, Min Hwa Choi, Copenhagen Free University (Henriette Heise & J, Dario Azzellini, Dias & Riedweg, Heri Dono, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, FLUXUS, Flying City, Meshac Gaba, Gimhongsok, Grupo Alavío, Kyungah Ham, David Hammons, Thomas Allen Harris, Lei Hong, Seok-man Hong, Laura Horelli, Indymedia Bolivia, Jens Haaning & Superflex, Kiheoun Jeong & Siyon Jin, JNP, Michael Joo, Jitish Kallat, Akio/ Mashimo Kamisato, Sato Takehisa/ Shibata, Jong-ku Kim, Myoung Joon Kim, Sang Yeon Kim, Sun K Kwak, Dinh Q. Le, Jong Sang Lee, Sukyung Lee, Ufan Lee, Min-ouk Lim, Shu-min Lin, Armin Linke, Lize Mogel, Susan Meiselas, mixrice, Rei Naito, Deimantas Narkevicius, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Melik Ohanian, Paola Yacoub Michel Lasserre, Jean-Marc Pelletier, Vong Phaophanit, Zhijie Qiu, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Julika Rudelius, Runa Islam, Hiroshi Senju, Bruno Serralongue, Raqib Shaw, Yuan Shen, Ji-cheol Shin, Chiharu Shiota, Sean Snyder, Bong Chae Son, Dong Song, Sang-hee Song, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Jennifer Tee, Sissel Tolaas, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Lonnie Van Brummelen, Erik Van Lieshout, Sitthiket Vasan, Suzann Victor, Chris Welsby, In-kie Whang, Bing Xu, Miwa Yanagi, Akram Zaatari, Dali Zhang, Huan Zhang, Liu Zheng
Asia is changing. Asia is constantly moving and expanding with no definitive form of identity. It is not the fantasy in the minds of the West; the fantasy of New Asia is born from the mobile and dynamic Asia. "Fever," the keyword of the 2006 Gwangju Biennale, is derived from the Latin for "heat", but culturally or poetically, it means a hot trend or phenomenon. The intention was to reorganize and reinterpret contemporary art from the perspective of Asia ́s new energy of change and its dynamic vision that is spreading like a fever. The Artistic Director was Kim Hong-hee, Wu Hung was Chief Curator of The First Chapter and Kim Sang-yun was the Chief Programmer of The Third Sector.