The editorial board of Pass includes İKSV Contemporary Art Projects and Istanbul Biennial Director Bige Örer, and curator Başak Şenova. Örer also serves as the Executive Board member of the Association.

International Biennial Association announced the release of the inaugural issue of its journal, Pass. This annual publication aims to bear witness to the critical and experimental role of contemporary art biennials around the world and also to serve as a tool for learning, debate and advocacy while shaping the public profile of biennials.

Pass presents diverse approaches and divergent perspectives on biennials as institutions, curatorial endeavours and public projects. It examines the biennial as an actively evolving form that mobilizes relationships between artists, sites and audience on varied scales and in different contexts.

Launched in 2018 as a public programme of the International Biennial Association, Pass was originally proposed and confirmed at the IBA’s 3rd General Assembly in Milan, Italy. This new programme was conceptualised and produced by Editorial Board of IBA – Artistic Director of Tate St Ives Anne Barlow, Executive and Artistic Director of La Biennale de Montréal Sylvie Fortin, Istanbul Biennial and İKSV’s Contemporary Art Projects Director Bige Orer and curator Basak Senova – with support from the membership of the association.

The development of Pass reflects the biennial field’s shared and acutely perceived need: a self-determined platform to consciously examine the biennial as an active, critical and evolving form, and a forum to define our own measures of accountability.

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