Sunday, September 19, 2010

Q & A: RICHARD RHODES CURATOR OF TIMELAND: 2010 ALBERTA BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Amy Fung: From the Timeland catalogue, the voice you assume is very much about being an outsider coming in, traveling to this land, and really decentering the center of the art world, which is basically Toronto in Canada.

Richard Rhodes: I don’t believe in centres anymore. I believe technology decenters everything. There are still centres that have everything and that people still aspire to, like the Toronto art scene for instance, it aspires to New York, London, or Berlin, but that’s pathetically self-colonized . . .


First published in Galleries West Fall 2010. Click through the title to read in full.

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