Previous page: The Artists’ and Supporters’ Party in the Turbine Hall at Cockatoo Island during Opening Week This page (clockwise from left) Opening week celebrations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Joan Jonas Reading Dante, 2008 Performance for the 16th Biennale of Sydney at the Cell Block Theatre, National Art School Courtesy the artist; Yvon Lambert, Paris and New York; and Wilkinson Gallery, London Christoph Büchel No Future, 2008 Installation view of the 16th Biennale of Sydney at the Museum of Contemporary Art Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Zurich, London with the support of MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania. Musical equipment supplied by Drum City, Willoughby Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev leads a preview tour at Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay
‘Meticulously curated, insightful, rigorously researched, the Biennale is unequivocably dedicated to investigation and remarkably free of pomposity.’ Jo Bertini, Australian Art Review
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