With biennale fatigue a real art world affliction, and a certain level of thematic exhaustion surrounding the global themes biennale exhibitions are expected to consider as platforms within the art world’s international network, what do biennials actually do? Or rather, what is it that we want them to do? Jeebesh Bagchi, Co-Founder, Raqs Media Collective, New Delhi; Alisa Prudnikova, Commissioner and Director, Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg; Marco Roso, DIS Collective, New York, and Co-curator, 9th Berlin Biennale; Hou Hanru (侯瀚如), Artistic Director, MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, and Curator, 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen Moderator: Qinyi Lim (林沁怡), Independent Curator and Writer, Singapore Date: Friday, March 24, 2017, 2pm to 3pm Filmed on site at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2017

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