The 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. Biennale Reader

The main exhibition and public programme of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts was accompanied by the Biennale Reader. This publication aims to critically unpack, while coming to terms with, the complexities of the emancipatory overtone of the Biennale’s title From the void came gifts of the cosmos. The book consists of new and republished texts and other experimental contributions from a diverse group of authors including curators, architecture historians, critics, artists, and theorists. The authors engage the three correlative registers in the title of the biennale: void, gifts and cosmos. What have these terms meant historically? And what do they mean in the context of the emancipatory politics of our century? The contributors engage these concerns from symbolic and concrete perspectives. There is no overarching structure to the montage of voices in this book. At best, this could be seen as a conversation between authors who may know of each other’s work but are not in any direct conversation with each other. Yet, the issues they address resonate in one way or another, echo, diverge, contest, and complement each other with even broader consequences.