The arts calendar has once more swung around with the 17th Biennale of Sydney running from 12 May to the 1st of August 2010. Like many contemporary art festivals increasingly it's the main platform for new media using film, photographic images, computer graphics and modern sculpture to constitute the bulk of mainly large installation works. For the 17th Biennale, 'spectacle' is often a better description than 'art' for the what the general public discover at the various sites. Spread across Cockatoo Island, MCA, the Art Gallery of NSW, Pier 2/3 and Artspace the Biennale offers a variety of spaces as well as works to view. Some visually impacting works by Russian consortium AES+F, Cai Guo-Qiang, Dale Frank, Shen Shaomin contrast with some truly odd films by Amal Kenawy and Katarzyna Kozyra to name a few.
What can one say about it all ? Its free so that's a blessing in itself.
