136 Previews: Worlding Adventures

YIN-JU CHEN, Somewhere Beyond Right And Wrong, There is a Garden. I Will Meet You There, 2023, still from single-channel video, 1080p, stereo sound. Courtesy the artist.

14th Shanghai Biennale
Cosmos Cinema
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Nov 9–Mar 31, 2024

The 14th Shanghai Biennale, “Cosmos Cinema,” is led by e-flux cofounder Anton Vidokle with a curatorial team of Zairong Xiang, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis. Located at the Power Station of Art, “Cosmos Cinema” creates a spacetime continuum across past and future to explore the intrinsic relationship between life on Earth and the universe, connecting ancient Chinese philosophy and artistic engagements with cosmology. Featuring more than 80 artists, the Biennale attempts to reposition Shanghai’s cosmopolitan history within East Asia, coinciding with China’s ambition to turn the city into a hub for the development of space technologies.

**JEN LIU**, *The Land at the Bottom of the Sea*, 2023, 4K video with two-channel audio, with HD exhibition copy. Courtesy of the artist and Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam.

13th Taipei Biennial
Small World
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Nov 18–Mar 24, 2024

The 13th Taipei Biennial, “Small World,” curated by Freya Chou, Brian Kuan Wood, and Reem Shadid, examines the daily tensions of living amid the ever-changing algorithms of contemporary society. The theme presents both the comfort and risks of post-pandemic life, questioning our spatial and temporal conditions and evoking new poetics and sensual experiences. Featuring more than 50 local and international artists and musicians, the Biennial aims to transform the museum into a space of cinematic experiences, live performances, and gatherings. Among the new productions are Pio Abad’s research into Lanyu island and Jen Liu’s video about a network of female labor activists.

**WIT PIMKANCHANAPONG**, *Paddling Mekong River*, 2019, digital photograph, 4032 × 3024 pixels. Courtesy the artist.

Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023
The Open World
Multiple locations, Chiang Rai
Dec 9–Apr 30, 2024

For its third edition, the 2023 Thailand Biennale takes place in the northern region around Chiang Rai. “The Open World” draws inspiration from the giant Buddha in Wat Pa Sak and uses the context of Chiang Rai’s micro-histories to examine traditions, beliefs, geopolitics, and ecology through local-to-local perspectives. Led by artistic directors Rirkrit Tiravanija and Gridthiya Gaweewong, the festival engages with histories of the Golden Triangle area bordering Laos and Myanmar. Participants span the “Mekong to the Amazon and beyond,” with Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul and nonprofit Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture to Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, Balinese mixed-media painter Citra Sasmita, and Shan artist Sawangwongse Yawnghwe.