Prospect.1 Biennial Selects Eighty-One Artists

03.11.08 - Dan Cameron, director and curator of the Prospect.1 Biennial in New Orleans, has announced the names of the eighty-one artists selected to participate in the inaugural edition of Prospect.1, which is being billed as the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, on view from November 1, 2008, through January 18, 2009. Prospect.1 had been conceived to help reinvigorate the city, a historic regional artistic center, and to redevelop it as a cultural destination following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Hailing from thirty-six countries and five continents, the artists selected include Allora and Calzadilla, Cao Fei, Isaac Julien, Cai Guo-Qiang, Wangechi Mutu, Amy Sillman, Pierre et Gilles, and Fred Tomaselli. Mark Bradford will create a wooden ark utilizing the shell of a destroyed house and other discarded scraps of wood from the Lower Ninth Ward. Navin Rawanchaikul will present his New Orleans I Love Taxi Project, in which he will interview taxi drivers and weave their tales into a comic-book story that he will produce and print, then distribute in city taxis during the biennial.

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