Gwangju Biennale: the backstage

Chris Wiley's first daily report from behind the installation's front lines of the Gwangju Biennale (September 3rd – November 7th) curated by Massimiliano Gioni. Skype interview by Angelique Campens.

Chris Wiley is an artist, writer and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Currently, he is living in the Food & Tour Business Hotel in Gwangju, South Korea where he is working to install the 2010 Gwangju Biennale, on which he has served as an assistant curator, research associate, and member of the catalogue's editorial think tank. For Domus, he will be sending daily photographic dispatches from behind the installation's front lines.


Installer working on Peter Fischli & David Weiss' Visible World. The screen behind awaits a projection of Peter Roehr's films.

Franz Gerstch
Newly installed self-portrait by Franz Gerstch, being inspected by curator Cecilia Alemani.

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Kokdu A collection of traditional Korean funerary dolls, known as Kokdu, and an elaborately carved wooden funeral bier, which the dolls traditionally adorned, protected under plastic.

Tehching Hsieh
Tehching Hsieh inspecting the inside of the time clock used in his One Year Performance 1980-1981

Tehching Hsieh Installer locking Tehching Hsieh's time clock for his One Year Performance 1980-1981

Carl Andre
Installers working on placing Carl Andre's War and Rumors of War in front of Gu Dexin's work 2009–05–02.

Carl Andre
Wooden blocks waiting to be installed as a part of Carl Andre's War and Rumors of War, arranged in front of admissions photographs from the Khmer Rouge's infamous Tuol Sleng Prison in Cambodia.

Teddy Bear project
Installation view of Canadian collector Ydessa Hendeles' Teddy Bear project, which is a collection of over 3,000 framed images of people with teddy bears. All of the gallery walls and the staircases were shipped over from Canada, and installation has taken more than a month.


Zang Enli
Zang Enli's wall painting installation that replicates the interior of his old apartment, with the furniture and fixtures represented in shadowy outline.

Paul McCarthy
A crated figure from Paul McCarthy's Garden Dead Man.

Paul McCarthy
A second crated figure from Paul McCarthy's Garden Dead Man.

Paul McCarthy
Hauser and Wirth's head preparator inspecting a figure from Paul McCarthy's Garden Dead Man.

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