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PLAySPACE Presents: Emergency Biennale
World Tour Stop 10: San Francisco
January 25–February 9

PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco campus
Opening reception: Fri., Jan. 25, 6–9 pm
Gallery hours: Mon., Tues., Fri., and Sat., noon–3 pm
Talk with curator Evelyne Jouanno and the artists: Fri., Feb. 8, 6 pm
For more info, including a complete list of participating artists and event sponsors, visit the Emergency Biennale website and read the press release.

The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya was conceived and organized in 2005 as an echo to the 1st Moscow Biennial and as a reaction to the destruction of a people and culture. Drawing attention to the plight of Chechnya and more broadly to human and social emergencies in the context of "ambivalent globalization" while also questioning the phenomenon and proliferation of international biennials, The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya opened on February 23, 2005, in different clandestine locations in the city of Grozny and simultaneously in Paris, at the Palais de Tokyo. More than 60 international artists, established and emerging, provided one artwork and its duplicate—created to fit into suitcases—which have been shipped to different cities in the world for mirror exhibitions. After Paris, the touring part of the exhibition moved on to Brussels, Bolzano, Milan, Riga, Tallinn, Vancouver, Puebla, Istanbul, and now to San Francisco. This is the first presentation of the exhibition in the United States.

The Emergency Biennale of Chechnya World Tour Stop 10: San Francisco is made possible by the support of the Global Commons Foundation, PLAySPACE, the CCA Wattis Institute, haudenschildGarage, and the Walter and McBean Galleries at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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