Editing - Gila Walker

The Taipei Biennial 2016 was inaugurated on September 9, 2016 with the opening of its exhibition Gestures and archives of the present, genealogies of the future, curated by Corinne Diserens, that ran for five months at Taipei Fine Arts Museum as the main venue. Engaging “performing the archives, performing the architecture, performing the retrospective” with the invention of narratives, and embracing artistic trans-disciplinary experimentations and a web of historical resonances or coincidences, the biennial’s five-month long program interweaved exhibitions, performances, screenings, symposiums, conferences, and workshops.
Gestures and archives of the present, genealogies of the future explored new notions of gesture, translation, appropriation, genealogy, heterogeneity, subjectivization, the intolerable, and the pleasurable to foster the invention of an unpredictable common, at a time of universal privatization of the human and nonhuman Earth, and deprivation of the world’s “commons.”
It also probed the museum’s catalytic role in navigating between knowledge systems in societal configurations that take into consideration cultural paradigm shifts. Treating the biennial as a matrix, an organic whole with its various forms, intensities, rhythms, and traces, it proposed reflexive images in relation to artistic productions and practices of thought with a firm grip on historical conditions and realities, which play along with or resist realities to come, or whose advent is impossible.

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Taipei Biennial 2022, You and I Don't Live on the Same Planet, exhibition catalogue and guidebook (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2022)

Correspondence (2012–ongoing), a collection of letters written by Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen to curator Marta Kuzma

Taipei Biennial 2016/2017, Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future, exhibition catalogue and guidebook (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2017)

Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, The Arrow of Time: Notes from a Russian Journey 1989-1990, Corinne Diserens, Eva Fabbris editors (Milan: Humboldt Books, 2017)

Ernst Beyeler, A Passion for Art: Interviews by Christophe Mory with a preface by Sam Keller (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2011)

Alexandre Chemetoff. Visits. Town and Territory – Architecture in Dialogue (Birkhäuser, 2009)

Roland Groenenboom ed., Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix (Museion Bolzano, LiFE St. Nazaire, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Colonia, 2008)

Jean-Charles Massera, The New Shorter Jean de la Ciotat Contemporary Art Dictionary (Mudam Luxembourg online, 2008)

Agnieszka Kurant, Raimundas Malasauskas, Unknown Unknown (Sternberg Press, 2008)

Alfred Pacquemont et al, Jean Dubuffet : Les Dernières Années (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1991)

Gila Walker, Lisa Davidson-Petty, Catherine Eyquem eds., The Louvre (Guides Bleus, Hachette, 1991)

René Lalique: Bijoux de verre, with English translations edited by Gila Walker (Musée des Arts decoratifs/Reunion des musees nationaux, 1991)