This book focuses upon the socially interventionist and activist agendas of contemporary art biennials during and in response to the current economic crisis.

1. Introduction: Biennials, Politics, Resistance

2. Histories, Values and Subjectivities

3. The Biennial-Form, Social Visions and Curatorial Authorship

4. Gaps between Words and Deeds, Social Movements and Legitimacy Crisis

5. 7th Berlin Biennale: Enacting Dissent, Forget Fear and Occupy

6. 3rd Athens Biennale: Reflective Indeterminacy, MONODROME and the Failure of the Nation

7. Conclusion: On Being Contemporary

Panos Kompatsiaris is Assistant Professor of Art and Media at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. He holds a PhD in art theory from the University of Edinburgh (2015) and has contributed to journals and edited volumes with texts on art and media theory, ethnography and cultural studies.