We live in a visual society. Although the life of our social relations and the alienation effect, but it is the most basic conditions of our existence as one. We are perceived through the landscape to the world and each other, it is a logic of market capitalism dominated by images of shape and that the system, market capitalism that we have known so often, the ability to imagine and reflect the guiding ideology of consumerism "One-dimensional model of" development. This is also the power of our established system of "security" under the self-identity and social order of the current situation. As part of our contemporary art and cultural events of the main types,

Biennial of Contemporary Art there is no doubt that this trend is the ultimate form of expression.
However, in spite of globalization, or "global empire" (Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt) era, the landscape of society no longer has any "external" (outside), but with the "no external" critical situation intervention and often subversive communication is a must. It is in this intervention, the contemporary art and culture to regain strength and as a critical channel to imagine the social role of the proposition in order to win a better future. If the landscape has been imposed on a community can not overcome the social, economic and political order, as well as intellectual, artistic and cultural structure,

New arts and cultural point of view and the new strategy has become an absolute need for urgent and permanent. To enable the world to accommodate its future, efforts must be made to different views and alternative solutions emerged.

As opposed to a static theory, simplify the theory and the control of the established order, they should be diversified, complex and constantly changing, it should be to accommodate a wide range of uncertainties and potential. Daily life or routine (le quotidien) there is no doubt that the areas most open and most effective space, as a result of "alternative globalization" (alter-globalisation) - the international community for building a new bottom-up and more just world arising from social action, and the trend of independent initiative - a person can live in a more creative imagination and new ideas and images,

Can be active in promoting social mobilization in order to attract more freedom and common interests. As Michel (Michel de Certeau) 30 years ago pointed out, the objects of our daily behavior and practice patterns of differential games (jeux) to use for everyday life - everyday (le quotidien) or normal - the (re) create, we continue to communicate with the established order can gain new freedom. In fact, we are witnessing the emergence of a new order, this new order will allow the exchange of human and economic, social and political activities of the international structure of power to break through the one-dimensional system.

We are faced with increasingly complex world of skeletons and cells, vertical and horizontal, remote and adjacent to the organization and reconstruction of the model cycle. Argent Appadurai (Arjun Appadurai) has said that globalization is a grass-roots (grass-root globalisation) process. Changes in the daily life of the practice or their re-creation of this new order is to establish the most critical factor. This is access to the development of contemporary art and the new relevance of the content of the most inspiring. In an era of globalization, contemporary art is only the people around the world are facing the phenomenon of a landscape still far from enough.

More important is to prove that the various regions from around the world of artists and arts organizations are increasingly share a common understanding and strategies for daily life through the intervention of the Kingdom to carry out their own re-creation. There are more and more artists are ordinary things magically into novel form, meaning and purpose, and innovative collective mobilization has been taken to a more democratic practice of the arts, as well as its social function of cutting-edge structure.

They are today the world's arts and culture scene of the core. International Biennial, such as the use of the most effective tool for intensive display and promotion of these pioneering spirit, truly innovative and relevant practice of contemporary art will be able to get more attention, this will help us to create a new era The real public space.

After 20 years of existence and development, Lyon Biennial is currently facing major challenges of self-transformation. Exploration in the joint efforts of the international art scene and to show a new trend, in the ordinary into the strange and unique things, or on the diversity, complexity and interaction of a number of new expressions, Biennale itself will be access to a new vitality. This is also a response to the current crisis the whole world ... ... the best prescription

Landscape of everyday life will enable a variety of landscape and the daily life of a fundamental change in all aspects!

Invited Chinese artists
Li MingWe
Born in 1964, China Taiwan
To live and work in the United States in New York and Berkeley
Through and around the world people, places and institutions, Li MingWe in the exchange of personal experience to create devices based on the works of art. These on-going interactive behavior by the private story of the composition of memory and fortuitous event, in the Li MingWe entries into the daily life reveals the most diverse and the most eye-catching side.
Lin Michael
Born in Tokyo in 1964
Living and working in Taipei, Shanghai and Paris
Lin Michael decorative with its large and well-known device, which works mainly as a potential meeting place for design. He will work on display at the current Biennale "other day" (What a Difference a Day Made), this device combines music, video and performance factors in a Shanghai store in the synthesis of a commodity very precise time-space capsule (time capsule). These products after finishing artists, categorized and archived, with its clear formal framework for the quality of the components are placed in a wooden box in the exhibition.
Ling YiLing
Born in 1964 in Guangzhou, China
Living and working in New York and Guangzhou
Ling YiLing its intervention on the urban space into public view. In a well-known works, he will be a brick wall a piece of land to move to the other side of the city, across the road, places and squares - blocking traffic rarely has aroused a great deal of doubt. At this Biennale, he will display a new street performance art work "day" (One Day), revealed the rapid changes in contemporary Chinese urban society, the absurdity of human relationships.
Liu QingYuan
Born in 1972 in Chongqing, China
Living and working in Guangzhou, China
Liu QingYuan used technology created woodcuts. Description of his work from the traditional image of Chinese culture, but it means that with irony. Yah he is and with the idea for the current Biennale installation works "is just the city Only City" ( "Only" is the "Lyon" to disrupt the formation of the vocabulary). This work is a truly contemporary urban metaphor: a great eye for up to 20 meters, the convergence of Lyon, by living artists in Beijing and Guangzhou cities in the relevant factors.
Tsang Kinwah
Born in 1976, Guangdong, China
Currently living and working in Hong Kong
According to Tsang Kinwah William Morris wallpaper (William Morris) of the elaborate style of decorative arts, will be organized into alphabetical poetic text style. Hailed as free, like the flower show has a glossary trivial, and the exquisite rendering of the theme decisively different.
Huang You
Born in 1954, Xiamen, China
Currently living and working in Paris
Huang You integration of new media, able to skillfully manage the impact of the East and the West. At this Biennale, he will re-installation works "golden head" (Tête d'Or) (2004), this works in Lyon in 2004 for the Museum of Contemporary Art's "inside and outside" (Le Moine et le Démon) exhibition design. It is a copy of the Song Dynasty pavilion, located in the exhibition hall on the roof of a nearby gold at the first park (Tête d'Or Park), outside the brush full金漆. "Golden Head" relates to an urban rumor: It is said that a Jewish settler in 1853, had a golden head of Christ buried in the park.
Xiao ZheGang
Born in 1965 in Tokyo, Japan
Now living and working in Tokyo
Jin HongXi
Was born in 1964 in Seoul, Korea
Would also like to live and work
Beijing literally means "northern capital"; Nanjing is "the capital of the South", and Tokyo is the "capital of the East." This left a Xijing - "the capital of the West", that is, who decided to Xijing built. Through the video player, as well as hosting the Olympic Games in Beijing held Xijing Olympic Games projects, their ultimate goal is to Xijing as a full-fledged city, into the virtual world of Google. At the current Biennale, they will push the construction of Xijing to the next stage - to become an independent country.
Yang JieChang
Born in 1956 in Foshan in China
Are living and working in Paris and Heidelberg
Yang JieChang is one of the main focus of "In the contemporary context of the framework and the use of traditional Chinese painting and aesthetic ideas." His works - whether it's painting, collage, multimedia installations, performances, sculpture, or in situ devices - will be Taoism, deconstruction strategy, he held the Red Guards on deviant attitudes and more importantly, as a transnational Rangers of the powerful combination of personal experience, all of these factors so that he possess the ability of this fusion.
Invited artists:
Adel Abdesemed
Bani Abidi
Maria Thereza Alves
Fikret Atay
Bik Van Der Pol
Pedro Cabrita Reis
Sophie Dejode &
Bertrand Lac ombe
Jimmie Durham
Latifa Echakhch
Mounir Fatmi
Dora Garcia
Shilpa Gupta
Ha Za Vu Zu
HeHe
Oliver Hering
Takahiro Iwasa ki
KU SWIDANANTO AKA JOMPET
Leopold Kesler
Ian Kiaer
Lee Mingwei
Mark Lewis
Michael Lin
Lin Yilin
Liu Qingyuan
Barry McGee
Robert Milin
Carlos Motta
Wangechi Mutu
Eko Nugroho
Adrian Paci
Dan Perjovschi
Société Réaliste
Oliver Resler
Pedro Reyes
Rigo 23
Sarkis
Katerina Seda
Sarah Sze
Tsang Kinwah
UN NOUS
Eulàlia Valdosera
Agnès Varda
Wong Hoy Cheong
Huang Yongping
Xijing Men
YANG Jiechang
Ya ngjiang Group
L'école du maga Sin
(As of June 1, 2009 list)

2009-6-27