[spectre] Tirana Bienale/Episode 2

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SWEET TABOOS / (EPISODE 2)



TO LOSE WITHOUT BEING A LOSER /

PERDERE SENZA ESSERE PERDENTI

Edited by Roberto Pinto

20th September ö 10th November 2005

Kompleksi Goldi Tirana





Following the official opening of TIRANABIENNALE3 with TEMPTATIONS, 
the first of the five Sweet Taboos episodes, curated by Edi Muka and 
Gezim Qendro, the 20th September 2005, TO LOSE WITHOUT BEING A LOSER 
inaugurates at Kompleksi Goldi in Tirana, edited by Roberto Pinto.



If in TEMPTATIONS, artists like Olafur Eliasson, Phil Collins, Pal 
Hollender, Ingrid Mwangi and Armando Lulaj worked on exploring the 
relationship between taboos and the notion of power, in the second 
episode, TO LOSE WITHOUT BEING A LOSER, Roberto Pinto invites us to 
reflect on the theme of losing as a modern taboo. Thus, the loosing 
is intended not as the incapacity of winning as much as an 
alternative way of considering the world.



ãWe all know ö writes the curator ö that he who always wins, does not 
know it is possible to lose, he does not see suffering or hardship, 
and in any case, when he sees them, he considers them to be 
inevitable. According to a purely Darwinian model, he even considers 
them as just and natural consequences.ä



These are presuppositions around which the second episode, TB3 
articulates. The artists consider the inconsistencies of the single 
global model, face social and political problems, both questioning 
the weaker points as well as re-discussing the stable points.

TO LOSE WITHOUT BEING A LOSER includes sculptures, installations, 
projections and sound projects by: Maja Bajevic, Rebecca Belmore, 
Tania Bruguera, Carlos Garaicoa, Jota Castro, Minerva Cuevas, Jimmie 
Durham, Ghazel, Edi Hila, Emily Jacir, Margherita Morgantin, Ingrid 
Mwangi, Lucy Orta, Cesare Pietroiusti, Stefano Romano, Nedko Solakov, 
Enzo Umbaca.



Roberto Pinto is an independent curator, he lives ad works in Milan. 
He has been the chief editor of Flash Art and is now the curator of 
the Fondazione Ratti in Como. He has organised and curated various 
exhibitions, among which: Arte all'Arte (2000), Transform (2001), 
Dimensione Follia (2004), Spazi Atti (2004) he was also one of the 
curators of the 5th Biennale in Gwangju (2004). He is presently a 
lecturer in History of Contemporary Art at the University of Trento.








PROGRAM



EPISODE 1 [TEMPTATIONS]

Edited by: Edi Muka, G‘zim Q‘ndro

Exhibition area: Kompleksi "Goldi"

10th September



<http://www.tiranabiennale.net/episode_2.htm>EPISODE 2 
<http://www.tiranabiennale.net/episode_2.htm>[TO LOSE WITHOUT BEING A 
LOOSER]

Edited by:  Roberto Pinto

Exhibition area: Kompleksi "Goldi"

20th September



<http://www.tiranabiennale.net/episode_3.htm>EPISODE 3 [DEMOCRACIES]

Edited by:  Zdenka Badovinac

Exhibition area: "National Gallery"

30th September



<http://www.tiranabiennale.net/episode_4.htm>EPISODE 4 [BITTERSWEET]

Edited by:  Joa Ljungberg

Exhibition area: Kompleksi "Goldi"

14th October



<http://www.tiranabiennale.net/episode_5.htm>EPISODE 5 [GO INSIDE]

Edited by:  Hanru Hou

Exhibition area: The National Gallery of Arts

28th October







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